General Debate 29 August 2019

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Maggie Pie

Be honest – had anybody heard the word ‘Prorogue’ before last night?
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August 29, 2019 8:01am
- sooty
  
  Weren’t they some singers years ago?
  
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  August 29, 2019 8:25am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    No, silly! Your thinking of the ‘Pogues’ 🙂
    
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    August 29, 2019 8:52am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      Writing with the Prime Ministers pronounaction Maggie . . .
      
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      August 29, 2019 9:22am
- kiwitoffee
  
  Er, yes.
  
  I think Charles I prorogued Parliament prior to the English Civil War.
  
  I hope things turn out better for Boris.
  
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  August 29, 2019 8:44am
- James Stephenson
  
  Yes, of course!
  
  (It was debated during the leadership election a couple of weeks ago, specifically being part of Dominic Raab’s plans).
  
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  August 29, 2019 8:44am
- peterwn
  
  Yes. In 1975 in Australia the Governor General (the Queen’s representative) gave Prime Minister Gough Whitlam the boot and installed the Opposition Leader as interim PM (who got the key appropriation bills passed) and subsequently prorogued Parliament pending fresh elections. Things were running extremely hot in Canberra at the time. I may be wrong with some detail.
  
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  August 29, 2019 8:47am
- kowtow
  
  Any good Ulsterman would have heard of it.
  
  London did it to Stormont.
  
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  August 29, 2019 8:59am
- Maggie Pie
  
  My partner was wondering if Liz only agreed to it so as to take some of the heat off Andrew?
  
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  August 29, 2019 9:17am
- Biscuit
  
  Yep, Maggie.
  
  Me iz liturit!
  
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  August 29, 2019 9:25am
- chaos
  
  Isn’t that when some old lady sticks her finger up the opposition stopping them from blocking what the people democratically voted to do?
  
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  August 29, 2019 9:41am
- igm
  
  Can our PTPM get her tongue around this one?
  
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  August 29, 2019 10:17am
- John Warren
  
  I had, Maggie, but then I do read some strange books.
  
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  August 29, 2019 2:35pm
hullkiwi

JAG is now claiming Treasury officials are unprofessional and don’t know what they are talking about. All because they have calculated and reported that her EV fee-bate scheme will an expensive exercise that will achieve very little. Oh dear….greenwashing is expensive, who would have guessed?
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August 29, 2019 8:09am
- sooty
  
  The stupid in her, thinks that she does!
  
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  August 29, 2019 8:26am
- G152
  
  I can see an example of civil disobedience coming here.
  Insulting those who do the spade work to write and implement laws is not clever
  
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  August 29, 2019 8:27am
- oldgolfer
  
  I have a feeling JAG will not be on Treasury Xmas card list any more, not that she would have been anyway.
  I think, to borrow a motoring analogy, JAG is stuck in second, the incline is sucking power out of the engine and she has no idea how re-start on a hill when it stalls.
  
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  August 29, 2019 8:28am
  - softail 1450
    
    Oldgolfer, It would be the ultimate torture procedure to be tied to a table with match sticks keeping your eyes open and being forced to watch Genter and Jacinda for hours on end on television,broken occasionally by an hour of Kim Hill
    on the radio.
    This procedure would be relieved only once every 24 hours by 2 hours of soothing waterboarding……
    
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    August 29, 2019 9:10am
  - Right of way is Way of Right
    
    Or, in a way JAG might understand, her EV has about 50km of range left, but the nearest charging station is 80km away, and she can’t get Treasury to spring for a 30km long extension cord!
    
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    August 29, 2019 9:10am
    - peterwn
      
      It would have to be very thick as well as long – Ohm’s Law gets you in the end.
      
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      August 29, 2019 10:15am
      - sooty
        
        Thick. That’ll suit Jag then!
        
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        August 29, 2019 11:15am
  - igm
    
    Just another leeching list lefty.
    
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    August 29, 2019 10:18am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    The COL has been preferring MBIE from the outset.
    
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    August 29, 2019 12:12pm
  - srylands
    
    Treasury would be well acquainted with the “shoot the messenger” reaction. Gerry Brownlee was always tearing into Treasury for any adverse reporting on the Christchurch rebuild.
    
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/290969/brownlee-shrugs-off-'trite'-treasury-report-on-christchurch
    
    And, the Opposition at the time said that Treasury was always right!
    
    “Labour Party leader Andrew Little has called Mr Brownlee arrogant for dismissing the report.
    
    Treasury produced “considered reports” that provided options to ministers, he said.
    
    “It is totally wrong and arrogant in my view for a minister of Gerry Brownlee’s seniority to be dismissing that work in the way that he has.”
    
    How times change 🙂
    
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    August 29, 2019 1:06pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Shrill economically illiterate zealot talks out her arse making recommendations that worsen rather than improve things, ~~nobody~~ everybody saw that coming.
  
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  August 29, 2019 8:55am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Genter is as thick as two short planks, same as AOC.
  The difference between a billion dollars and a trillion dollars is 3 zeros, and seeing as zeros have no value there is no extra cost – AOC.
  No shit, she actually said that
  
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  August 29, 2019 9:20am
  - Joely Doe
    
    While I do not disagree with the sentiment…
    No, she did not say that.
    http://www.snopes.com
    
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    August 29, 2019 10:07am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Snopes? Hahahaha
      
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      August 29, 2019 10:53am
  - tf78
    
    Steve, funnily enough my mother always used to joke about money saying ‘it’s only a matter of naughts’.
    
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    August 29, 2019 10:12am
- Biscuit
  
  At least Treasury know what letterhead to use, JAG.
  
  And are happy for the public to see what they write…
  
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  August 29, 2019 9:27am
- srylands
  
  The thing that worries me about these expensive and ineffective policies is that the impact accumulates. After 20, 30 years of doing this stuff, you have hundreds of poor policies which drag the country down. Then you need a painful reset as we saw in the 1984 – 1993 period.
  
  I think one problem is that with the passage of time, we have politicians who were children in the 1980s, and so have no first hand memory of the pain of major fiscal and micro-economic reform.
  
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  August 29, 2019 12:58pm
  - Nigel Kearney
    
    The impact accumulates because the allegedly centre-right party does not shrink the size of government at the same rate as the centre-left party increases it.
    
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    August 29, 2019 1:26pm
    - srylands
      
      Yes. For example AFAIK National has not committed to abolishing the tertiary fees free policy. Why not?
      
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      August 29, 2019 1:34pm
- Kiwi Dave
  
  I sympathise fully with JAG’s reasoning here. This morning our senior citizens’ gym class finished with a few minutes of line dancing and I, whose dancing skill level is significantly below clumsy foot shuffling, noticed that everyone else was out of step with me. If only the others could get it right!
  
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  August 29, 2019 2:40pm
Yvette

Race Relations Commissioner proposes land swap to solve Ihumātao
The new Race Relations Commissioner is rejecting the idea he didn’t need to visit Ihumātao because it’s not a race issue.
Meng Foon visited the site today and is calling on Jacinda Ardern to do the same.
He told Andrew Dickens he visited the site to learn …
Fong says he has come up with his idea to resolve the dispute: a land swap. [1]

• NewstalkZB need to get Mr Foon’s name right, or he may tick them off for racism.

• But at the same time –
Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern: As I said in the House yesterday, I’m not going to enter into speculation around negotiations between Kīngitanga and mana whenua. They are the parties around the table. We should respect the process that they’re involved in. That’s what this Government is going to do. – Hansard, yesterday [2]

However – The new Race Relations Commissioner is rejecting the idea he didn’t need to visit Ihumātao because it’s not a race issue.
“I just wanna make sure that the conversation is safe, transparent, there’s no racism involved, and that is the key offer that we are actually there for.” [1]

Does that confirm that same race exchanges can be racist, or just insulting. And how much is intergenerational factors a conflict?
Although Pania says she is not involved, but not why.

• However Mr Foon has a solution too “he has come up with” – a land swap – but fails to say where swapped land would come from and who is paying for it?
A Maori land swap, or Crown land? And will it allow what Fletchers plan for the land they currently privately own?

• And at what price or value? – somewhere around the $19 million, as records show Fletchers paid for Ihumatao, or the $38 million Auckland Council recently said it is now worth?

And how is that difference resolved – since Pania wants it as historic parkland or back in farm production (presumably a cheaper land function), and Fletchers want housing land (seems about twice the financial value)

• And if Fletchers shouldn’t build on it, for Pania’s reasons, should anybody build on it – ever.
If Fletchers forego it, should it not be transferred with a covenant that it never have homes built on it?

• But surely the Race Relations Commissioner or his office is present to check what people may say or write, or how they may otherwise act – their conduct in reaching a solution, not what that solution is?

[1] https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/heather-du-plessis-allan-drive/audio/meng-foon-race-relations-commissioner-proposes-land-swap-to-solve-ihumatao/
[2] https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/hansard-debates/rhr/combined/HansDeb_20190828_20190828_08
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August 29, 2019 8:10am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Meng is going to be a loose cannon..
  Hahahaha.
  The CoL has no idea what they’ve got on their hands.
  
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  August 29, 2019 8:27am
  - kowtow
    
    Should be fired …..
    
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    August 29, 2019 9:00am
- sooty
  
  Have the people behind Pania started coming out from hiding behind her skirts.
  Are they too ugly to be seen as the face of this protest!
  
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  August 29, 2019 8:30am
- Tony Stuart
  
  What about the 70-odd houses that were going to be built for mana whenua by Fletcher’s as part of the deal? Or is Jacinda Ardern going to get Kingitanga to broker a deal for them as well?
  
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  August 29, 2019 8:38am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Ardern is going to dip into petty cash to spring for 70 family sized tents, her generosity knows no bounds.
    
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    August 29, 2019 8:57am
  - chaos
    
    Fletchers will be hired by the new owners to develop the land more than likely, haha.
    
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    August 29, 2019 9:30am
- Chris R
  
  I may be wrong but I recently saw extensive plans for further developing Auckland Airport. One of the proposals is a further runway to operate at right-angles to the existing one and it seems to be close to where this land is. Is there another deal in the “air” whereby the alleged “owners” plan to sell the land to the Airport company for a big sum? If I’m right the historical sentimental rubbish is merely a front.
  
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  August 29, 2019 8:51am
  - reubee
    
    The additional runway will be parallel to the existing runway. Have a look around https://corporate.aucklandairport.co.nz/airport-of-the-future/our-vision to see details
    
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    August 29, 2019 2:04pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  How can anyone consider swapping land they do not have any lawful rights over.
  
  The Race Relations Conciliator (new) is out of his tree. There are no other parties. Ardern has interfered in legal relationships.
  Is our PM now Sovereign too that all her flakey thoughts are to become orders?
  
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  August 29, 2019 9:13am
mandk

Remainers in the UK are bleating about Boris Johnson’s ‘constitutional outrage’.

However, the only outrage is that the Remainers, including the Speaker of the House have worked so hard to subvert the will of the British people.

They are traitorous.
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August 29, 2019 8:12am
- tas
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  I really don’t understand this viewpoint.
  Why does only the 2016 Brexit referendum count as the will of the people? Parliament (elected in 2017) doesn’t count, and a second referendum to clarify the will of the people is unacceptable. Is it that you only believe in democracy when it agrees with you?
  
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  August 29, 2019 8:27am
  - James Stephenson
    
    It’s not only the the referendum. All parties went into the last GE promising to uphold the result of the referendum.
    
    It’s clear that the British people voted for a meaningful exit from the EU, which means that freedom of movement is gone, and membership of the customs union (and therefore the ability to negotiate independent trade deals is gone).
    
    The retainers know this, and their strategy, ably executed by May, has always been to take a WTO-terms exit off the table thus removing the result that the EU fear most and fatally undermining the UK negotiating position. This would make delivering a deal acceptable to the people impossible and so creating the conditions for another referendum – despite all and sundry promising that that vote was a “once in a generation” done deal.
    
    I’d also observe that anti-EU feeling has hardened in the Brexit camp due to the actions of these fifth columnists and the arrogance of Tusk, Juncker et al.
    
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    August 29, 2019 8:54am
    - tas
      
      It’s clear that the British people voted for a meaningful exit from the EU, which means that freedom of movement is gone, and membership of the customs union (and therefore the ability to negotiate independent trade deals is gone).
      
      Did they? I think the problem with the 2016 referendum is that it wasn’t clear what Brexit meant. So I think it’s very dubious to now say that the people voted for this or that kind of Brexit and assert that it’s absolutely beyond question that they support whatever the government is delivering.
      
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      August 29, 2019 9:31am
      - All_on_Red
        
        Yes, because we all know that the Brexit people are just small town folk who are so thick they couldn’t work it out
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        They knew, Tas they knew. It was about reclaiming their Sovereignty.
        
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        August 29, 2019 10:32am
      - James Stephenson
        
        I’m English. I voted for Brexit and I knew exactly what I was voting for.
        
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        August 29, 2019 11:25am
      - kloyd0306
        
        Maybe the 1975 referendum wasn’t clear either, that’s why it was rejected.
        
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        August 29, 2019 12:45pm
      - david
        
        By that token Tas, The absolute minority that voted for MMP were mislead and ignorant and would welcome a return to FPP.
        Welcome to the Dark Side
        
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        August 29, 2019 3:41pm
  - Simon
    
    “Why does only the 2016 Brexit referendum count as the will of the people? ”
    
    Because:
    
    The referendum on Thursday, 23rd June is your chance to decide if we should remain in or leave the European Union.
    The Government believes it is in the best interests of the UK to remain in the EU.
    This is the way to protect jobs, provide security, and strengthen the UK’s economy for every family in this country – a clear path into the future, in contrast to the uncertainty of leaving.
    
    This is your decision. The Government will implement what you decide.
    
    https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/517014/EU_referendum_leaflet_large_print.pdf
    
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    August 29, 2019 8:59am
    - tas
      
      Do you not think the will of the people can change with time?
      
      Well, there was a referendum in 1975 about joining the EU (or EEC as it was known then). The UK overwhelmingly voted yes.
      
      The 2016 referendum was already the second referendum. So why is a second referendum allowed but a third not?
      
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      August 29, 2019 9:21am
      - mandk
        
        A third referendum?
        
        Why not? But only after the result of the second referendum has been honoured.
        
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        August 29, 2019 10:11am
      - rockape
        
        Bit like MMP here.
        
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        August 29, 2019 10:20am
      - toby1845
        
        Actually, the two referenda were different, and cannot be linked. The first was to decide whether to join an economic union- the EEC.
        
        The second was to decide whether to leave a political union that the British people had never decided to join – the EU.
        
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        August 29, 2019 10:33am
      - slightlyrighty
        
        The EEC in 1975 is a vastly different beast from the EU of 2016. The brief for the organisation has transcended the Economic and encroached on matters of National Sovereignty.
        
        There is a reason why Norway, for example, has twice voted in referenda to not join the EU, whilst retaining advantages of the EEC.
        
        You know, Norway. That socialist paradise that the left keep going on about?
        
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        August 29, 2019 10:34am
      - kloyd0306
        
        To use your own argument:
        I think the problem with the 1975 referendum is that it wasn’t clear what joining the EU meant.
        The left want it both ways.
        
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        August 29, 2019 12:22pm
  - Local Miller
    
    This is a great idea (not). Let’s have a referendum every few years to find out how people currently feel about BREXIT and change our policy based on that.
    In case you didn’t realise, the idea of a referendum is to determine what people want, and then for parliament to take action based on the will of the people. In 2016 the people said EXIT, a lot of politicians have obstructed not facilitated implementing the will of the people. This is not democracy. Neither is claiming that people have changed their minds and a new referendum should be called. If you do this, you will never be able to draw a line in the sand and make a decision.
    
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    August 29, 2019 9:03am
    - hookerphil
      
      Just like Treaty Settlements.
      
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      August 29, 2019 9:33am
    - tas
      
      There was a referendum in 1975. Surely, by your logic, the 2016 referendum should never have been allowed. The people voted 67%-33% in favour of joining the EEC, end of story.
      
      Have you considered that the will of the people changes with time. That’s why we hold parliamentary elections every few years. If the will of the people never changed, we should just appoint MPs for life.
      
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      August 29, 2019 9:34am
      - hullkiwi
        
        But the EEC in 1975 l was a different beast to the EU of 1990 and 2016. Given the authority the EU has, is it not right for the British people to express how they want to be governed.
        
        Further, both Labour and the Tories promised a referendum over the 2009 treaty. Both reneged. Trusting British politicians is hazardous.
        
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        August 29, 2019 7:06pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Wasn’t the ‘will of the people’ made clear in the first Referendum?
    Isn’t an Election for your local MP somewhat different to the question of leaving the EU?
    To you, does Democracy mean having the same question confirmed in several Referenda? Surely one is enough.
    
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    August 29, 2019 9:06am
    - tas
      
      Yes, in 1975 the UK voted to join the EEC. The will of the people is clear.
      
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      August 29, 2019 9:35am
      - marcw
        
        The trouble is that the EEC have left the UK in the last 20 or so years – creating a megamonster in the form of the European Union. The UK was subjugated against it’s will, and well beyond what was agreed to in 1975 – a trading common market. Not the socialist dictatorship of the current EU model.
        
        The UK have had enough, and want their country back.
        
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        August 29, 2019 10:14am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Pretty dangerous precedent to say “fuck you” to referendum result and demand another referendum to give the result desired by a minority of voters.
    
    Brexit support has always been divided between London/media/elites/scotland remainer and rest of UK brexiteers, so don’t pay too much attention to what the media are saying, they are not with the people on this.
    
    Boris is following the polling on this. Majority want follow through on brexit by any means at this point.
    
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    August 29, 2019 9:06am
    - tas
      
      How would “another referendum … give the result desired by a minority of voters”? Surely, if the public truly wanted Brexit, they would again vote for it.
      
      What are Brexiteers afraid of?
      
      I really struggle to follow this contorted reasoning that a referendum would be anti-democratic.
      
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      August 29, 2019 9:25am
      - All_on_Red
        
        I take it your ‘yes’ is to all three questions. The last yes is interesting though.
        Looks like you don,t like democracy when it’s the answer you don’t agree with.
        But true about the joining question.
        And 44 years later there’s been a review.
        Let’s review exiting the EU in another 44 years.
        Does that work for you?
        
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        August 29, 2019 10:36am
      - All_on_Red
        
        Oops. Meant to post the above reply further up.
        
        ‘What are brexiteers afraid of?’
        That’s not the point. It was a binding referendum, so they should keep their word.
        
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        August 29, 2019 10:39am
      - septic skeptic
        
        I think the plan is – another referendum but don’t put “leave” on the ballot paper.
        
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        August 29, 2019 6:16pm
    - hullkiwi
      
      The EU and its supports have form on that score
      
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      August 29, 2019 7:10pm
  - mandk
    
    Think about it this way, if the result had been 52:48 remain, the remainers would have said ‘it’s been decided – the people have had their say and we must respect their will’.
    
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    August 29, 2019 10:08am
  - tas
    
    Based on the strength of the reaction to my comment, I think I’ve hit a nerve. Brexiteers really only support the “will of the people” when it goes their way.
    
    Brexiteers are scared of another referendum, because opinion polls clearly show that a majority of the population no longer want Brexit. Maybe the polls are wrong, but I think it’s clear that the real reason Brexiteers oppose a second referendum is that they worry the will of the people will no longer agree with them. If they truly believed the public was behind them, they would happily let the public say so.
    
    Rather than admit that they are afraid of losing another referendum, they disingenuously insist that the will of the people cannot be revised. This is logically inconsistent because the 2016 referendum was already revisiting the outcome of the 1975 referendum.
    
    A lot of water has gone under the bridge since 2016. And, while I’m sure some people in 2016 wanted a hard no-deal Brexit, I doubt that’s what the majority voted for. A lot of people feel duped — enough to swing the narrow outcome, I bet.
    
    I think there should be a second referendum so that the will of the people can be clarified — what kind of Brexit do they want. That would be the democratic way to do it. Of course, it might be that the will of the people no longer agrees with what Brexiteers want, so they won’t allow it.
    
    Thankfully I am watching this slow-motion train wreck from afar. I’m not affected by Brexit, although some of my friends are. I pity those having to deal with this insanity.
    
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    August 29, 2019 8:36pm
hullkiwi

Boris, is out to wrong foot opponents of Brexit. Good on him! It is about time the hired interests of lobbyists had their platform taken away from them and the democratic choice of the British people implemented.
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August 29, 2019 8:12am
Happychappy

So the Police Union think Simon Bridges is playing Politics by not supporting the Government on new gun laws.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/397686/police-association-says-national-playing-politics-with-gun-laws
I have always respected the Police and the way they carry out the law until this year, but when your Police Commissioner steps in to shut down comment on some of the things the PM’S partner has alleged to have done and the way it has affected peoples right over the ownership of guns I myself will never go out of my way to dob someone in for a crime unless they change their way.
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August 29, 2019 8:14am
- igm
  
  They lost all credibility when the top cop shut down comments on Jethro, seems to be helping hiding things under the carpet such as Turei’s benefit fraud, pissed off all gun owners, but not touched gangs or mosques where there must be large caches of arms, allows LTGTS, bearded werdos and wimps into the force . . . it goes on and on!
  
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  August 29, 2019 8:30am
  - MCos
    
    “mosques where there must be large caches of arms,“
    Do you believe every line of bullshit some wild eyed conspiracy theorist has ever dreamed up?
    
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    August 29, 2019 12:07pm
    - MCos
      
      When I was a kid the scaremongers whispered all the Catholic Churches in NZ had large caches of arms waiting for the call from the IRA to attack the local Protestants.
      
      It was a bit like a baby sucking it’s thumb. Try and stop the habit and there’d be screams & yells.
      One day the baby think ‘What the fuck am I doing this for?’
      
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      August 29, 2019 1:22pm
      - Jack5
        
        When were you a kid, MCos? Was it in New Zealand?
        
        I’m an aged Kiwi, and I never heard any suggestion that Catholics might be storing arms in churches.
        
        There was prejudice – both ways – but it manifested itself in those days in opinions about intermarriage between Catholics and Protestants.
        
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        August 29, 2019 5:46pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        During the “Troubles”, the Catholics in NZ were either trying to get the Pill off their Protestant mates…
        or busy lobbying Parliament about Divorce laws, Abortion Laws, or taxpayer funding of their schools.
        They weren’t plotting attacks on Prods.
        
        That was 100 years before…
        https://nzhistory.govt.nz/violence-breaks-out-between-irish-catholics-and-protestant-orangemen
        
        https://teara.govt.nz/en/ethnic-and-religious-intolerance/page-7
        
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        August 29, 2019 6:56pm
- G152
  
  So far these ‘police’ appear to have not done their job re the labor sex attacks (plural).
  Yet commentators have been taken to court within hours of ‘committing road offenses
  
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  August 29, 2019 8:32am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  You would think a Police Union spokesperson would be concerned with the welfare of his union members.. not undertaking pot-shots at Opposition politicians.
  Or have the NZ police become partisan and decided to take a place in party politics.
  
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  August 29, 2019 8:33am
  - Tall Man
    
    I think it funny that the police boss doesn’t think it right that a politician politicises an issue… as does the same police boss.
    
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    August 29, 2019 8:44am
  - peterwn
    
    Well, Greg O’Connor retired from his Police Union job (and from the Police at the same time – he had leave of absence to do the Union job) and promptly stood for Labour. He only got in because Peter Dunne saw the writing on the wall and pulled the plug on his candidacy just before the election.
    
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    August 29, 2019 8:53am
    - Tony Stuart
      
      Indeed peterwn. Brett Hudson had to make a belated change in 2017 from campaigning for the party vote to actually campaigning to win the seat. I am confident that O’Connor will be a one-term Ohariu MP, and know that Hudson has been in full campaign mode since the 2017 election.
      
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      August 29, 2019 9:09am
    - igm
      
      He may be looking for his old job again . . . Ohariu will give him the arse card like Tauranga did to Peters when he staged a comeback.
      
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      August 29, 2019 9:13am
      - Biscuit
        
        I’m not exactly sure why Ohariu elected O’Connor.
        
        Or, indeed, why O’Connor imagined he should be an MP.
        
        He looks like a duck out of water in the House and has achieved two-thirds of sweet stuff all for his constituents.
        
        Dunne was way better a rep for the joint…
        
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        August 29, 2019 9:33am
      - MCos
        
        Maybe Dunne was the bees knees, but he was on the verge of losing his seat according to peterwn above.
        I don’t live in his former patch, but just maybe he wasn’t all you cracked him up to be towards the end of his thirty three years representing the area.
        
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        August 29, 2019 1:11pm
      - Nigel Kearney
        
        I’m in Ohariu. Brett Hudson was going to be there anyway. Whether he won or not, the National caucus would not change. By electing O’Connor, firstly you have an extra local MP which can be useful, and secondly if O’Connor lost Labour would have added a list MP who was almost guaranteed to be worse. O’Connor’s win almost kept Mallard out which would have been fantastic.
        
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        August 29, 2019 1:37pm
  - Tony Stuart
    
    I don’t believe that the Police Association necessarily speaks for the rank and file Police Officer. Let’s not forget that behind the fancy “Association” title, it’s simply another trade union.
    
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    August 29, 2019 9:07am
    - igm
      
      The integrity of police has totally collapsed in the last 18 months. Saw a little Asian cop take a left turn a few days ago after a rough looking BF Falcon screamed through red traffic lights . . . he definitely did not want to stop it. A few year ago these dumbarses would have been chased, cuffed, locked up and ended up before a tough old beak who would have given them a real sentence. Thanks Little, you who went squeaking to the police like a scolded cur when someone made a threat against you.
      
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      August 29, 2019 11:15am
      - stephieboy
        
        igm, there is the opportunity to dob him in through the Police Community Watch Programme.
        
        Why not give it try?
        
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        August 29, 2019 2:38pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        What’s the number Steph
        I’d like to report offensive behaviour by an old male at St Luke’s Mall!
        
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        August 29, 2019 3:56pm
- kowtow
  
  There’s a lot being taken for granted by the police.
  Times are changing and people concerned.
  
  ‘National Party police spokesperson Brett Hudson says he would find it “deeply troubling” if police were regularly breath-testing people in their homes without getting proper consent.
  Dunedin barrister Marie Taylor-Cyphers said some police officers in the city have been turning up to people’s houses, sometimes hours after they got home, and breath testing them.’
  
  https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/dunedin-police-reputation-risk-over-breath-testing
  
  Anyone concerned about citizens’ rights and state over reach need to read this.
  
  “The police usually on the stand, when I’m cross-examining them, will concede that in fact the breath test did take place in the lounge and that their evidence on paper is wrong. But in my experience that is not sufficient for the judge to find not guilty.”
  
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/394734/police-breath-testing-inside-people-s-homes-dunedin-lawyer-says
  
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  August 29, 2019 9:13am
- Martin Williams
  
  Let us not forget it was a ‘law abiding citizen (of Australia)’ who perpetrated the Christchurch massacre!
  
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  August 29, 2019 9:16am
  - sooty
    
    Yes he killed a lot in a short time, but the bros achieve the same result. It just takes longer, but that’s allright!
    
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    August 29, 2019 10:28am
  - The King
    
    Hey Martin.
    
    Nobody cares.
    
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    August 29, 2019 11:48am
    - Tony Stuart
      
      Actually TK, I care. One of the children killed in the Christchurch terrorist attack was known to my wife and I as our business supported them. The family is devastated. So I care, a lot.
      
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      August 29, 2019 12:49pm
Maggie Pie

QUESTION OF THE DAY.
Should dentists in New Zealand be allowed to perform Orthodontics without having the specialist qualifications?

According to my partner, 99% of Dentists carrying out these procedures here, have received their training at either Mumbai or New Delhi Dental Colleges.
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August 29, 2019 8:15am
- Tall Man
  
  Not correct Maggie.
  
  We have a few dentists in the family and even more in our social circle.. obviously, and only those who have undertaken extra training post grad undertake some of the “extras” normally performed by an orthodontist.
  
  Dentists qualified at Otago are regarded as some of the most competent dental graduates in the world, those in Oz and other nearby countries…. not so much.
  
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  August 29, 2019 8:47am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Dentists qualified at Otago are regarded as some of the most competent dental graduates in the world by themselves?
    
    By making it as elitist and expensive as it is ($3-500/hour), dental care in NZ is actually worse on average than if it were done by cheaper/less skilled dentists as so many cannot afford it.
    
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    August 29, 2019 9:09am
    - Tall Man
      
      Sorry, I missed your point there.
      
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      August 29, 2019 8:57pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    My understanding is that Dentists receive 80 hours of orthodontic training as part of their course, whereas a qualified Orthodonist is required to complete 5000 hours.
    
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    August 29, 2019 9:41am
    - Tall Man
      
      Possibly but those dentists that are “qualified” spend many hours post grad.. which as a nurse I am sure you are well aware of young Maggie 😉
      
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      August 29, 2019 8:59pm
- projectman
  
  Here’s an alternative:
  
  A Scot phones a dentist to inquire about the cost for a tooth extraction.
  
  “£85 for an extraction, sir,” the dentist replied.
  
  “£85!? Huv ye no’ got anythin’ cheaper?”
  
  “That’s the normal charge,” said the dentist.
  
  “Whit aboot if ye didnae use any anaesthetic?”
  
  “That’s unusual, sir, but I could do it and knock off £15.”
  
  “Whit aboot if ye used one of your dentist trainees and still without anaesthetic?”
  
  “I can’t guarantee their professionalism and it’ll be painful. But the price could drop to £40.”
  
  “How aboot if ye make it a trainin’ session, ave yer student do the extraction, with the other students watchin’ and learnin’?”
  
  “It’ll be good for the students”, mulled the dentist. “I’ll charge you £5, then, but it’s going to be very traumatic.”
  
  “Och, now yer talkin’, laddie! It’s a deal. Can ye confirm an appointment for the wife next Tuesday then?”
  
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  August 29, 2019 10:49am
  - Tall Man
    
    Ed Zachary……
    
    I for one want the best in my gob… not the cheapest.
    
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    August 29, 2019 9:00pm
hullkiwi

Not only have we got Jacinda and friends playing fast and loose with the Treaty settlements, but we have the ToW Tribunal producing decisions that will create further division by exaggerating Maori’s sphere of influence in governance of NZ. Wonderful, not!
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August 29, 2019 8:17am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Yep, when our waterways are handed back to iwi, I suspect we will all be paying a hell of a lot more for our water.
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/397702/government-told-act-on-waitangi-tribunal-s-findings-on-freshwater-degradation
  It is calling for the Crown to recognise Māori proprietary rights, allocate freshwater to hapū and iwi, and set up a national freshwater co-governance body.
  
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  August 29, 2019 8:38am
  - Yvette
    
    Maggie, will the whole country soon need to pay Ngai Tahu some levy, royalty or fee for the energy – the wairua – removed from the waters of Mata-au, the Clutha River?
    And as New Zealand vehicular fleet undergoes Genter-change to electric – at a rate of 10% change requiring the equivalent of 3.25 Benmore dams – how much of a financial problem will this become if 16% of the population can hold the other 84% to ransom. And won’t Auckland’s light rail to their airport be electric? And the Hamilton to Auckland bullet train?
    Solar power produces so little in the Land of the Long White Cloud and wind power is just as useless.
    
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    August 29, 2019 9:20am
    - sooty
      
      Will they make rain water off the roof illegal?
      
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      August 29, 2019 10:30am
  - rouppe
    
    The thing that confused me is that Maori are claiming the water as a single “Maori” entity, and want people to pay for using it.
    
    How did this work before colonisation? They were not one entity, they were disparate tribes, killing each other, enslaving each other, all sorts…
    
    Did tribes downstream of another tribe “tax” the upstream tribe for using “their” water?
    
    Nope.
    
    So how can they claim that right now?
    
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    August 29, 2019 10:30am
  - Sacha
    
    As far as I’m concerned (and I’m not altogether joking) they can come and take the water lying around my property right now, as it is completely surplus to my requirements. I could use a few drains to channel it down to the river –
    
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    August 29, 2019 10:35am
    - Jack5
      
      Maori claims to own water that falls on the country are resented, but there seems to have been little opposition to Maori claims – successful – to own part of the wireless spectrum.
      
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      August 29, 2019 5:54pm
      - tf78
        
        Jack5 seeing the wireless spectrum is a feasible as Greta Thunberg being able to see CO2.
        
        I would like Maori who want to charge us for water go down to ‘their’ rivers with ‘their’ buckets to collect ‘their’ daily water needs. Otherwise we can charge them billions for the use of OUR water pipes which WE have paid for out of OUR TAXES and OUR RATES.
        
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        August 29, 2019 7:27pm
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Did anyone hear the interview between Hosking and some Maori guy. I though Hosking was going to burst a valve. All credit to him he remained polite. But if that is the thinking we have to deal with, I would like to suggest we have a problem, and it is not that small indeed. Listen here, but do make sure you have no guns or anything you can hurl at something nearby…. https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/mike-hosking-breakfast/audio/maanu-paul-maori-leader-calls-for-radical-overhaul-of-water-management/
    
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    August 29, 2019 7:31pm
Akarak

More good planning by the CoL. Free lunches for children in an initial 30 school trial. Only one factor left to resolve…haven’t worked out how they will do it yet. Another fail?
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August 29, 2019 8:17am
- sooty
  
  Easy! Just go and see the local fish and chip shop! They will deliver as well!
  If you have got any questions, just ask Cindy!
  
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  August 29, 2019 8:37am
  - sooty
    
    Will every school be required to install a commercial kitchen?
    
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    August 29, 2019 8:40am
    - marcw
      
      Absolutely – to not do so would incur the wrath of MBIE and the local council shiny bum clipboard wielders. Then there will be the licensing of all the food preparation staff, serving staff and their subsequent unionising. It’s a gold mine for bureaucracy – a never filled hole for taxpayer and ratepayer slaves.
      
      All because parents are no longer responsible for their children – in spite of the obscene amounts of benefits and hand outs those hard working slaves already provide.
      
      Another form of child abuse.
      
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      August 29, 2019 10:24am
    - Sacha
      
      Just imagine the waste – kids being notorious for not wanting to eat the healthy packed lunches their parents provide.
      Teachers will have fun trying to boss other people’s kids into eating what’s good for them, lol. They’ll want another pay increase.
      
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      August 29, 2019 10:38am
      - tf78
        
        Sacha, easy you just have a free tuck shop at school and the kids use a voucher.
        
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        August 29, 2019 7:29pm
    - burt
      
      Three commercial kitchens possibly 4.
      
      One that is Vegan, one Halal, one Kosher and one that serves food to people who aren’t scared of sky fairies.
      
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      August 29, 2019 11:46am
    - burt
      
      Oh, and a nut free kitchen, a gluten free kitchen and a kitchen that eliminates nightshade foods.
      
      It’s almost like we might be better off as a society if parents took responsibility for feeding their children.
      
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      August 29, 2019 11:48am
      - stephieboy
        
        burt , the good old days of mutton chops, peas and mash?
        
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        August 29, 2019 12:03pm
      - burt
        
        No, I’m not trying to tell people what they should and shouldn’t feed their children.
        
        School lunches should have bacon sandwiches available – discuss.
        
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        August 29, 2019 2:40pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Yep, they’ve got money to splash on free school lunches, but they’re cutting back on essential surgeries.
  I recently had a cataract operation and was subsequently told by my eye specialist that I only made it by a few days before they raised the points needed for the operation.
  There is now doubt whether I will ever qualify for the second one and people are going to essentially be blind before they qualify for cataracts.
  Wasn’t happening under National.
  
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  August 29, 2019 8:43am
  - jcuk
    
    I had one eye done at DPH and understood that was the limit so I went private for the other.
    Tough if you do not have the income or savings to pay for that second one…. it is hell with one good and one crok eye believe me.
    
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    August 29, 2019 9:01am
  - Jules99
    
    My dad is having to pay – he can’t read the paper anymore and the wait list is so long his quality of life is affected. Fortunately he has savings he can dig into.
    
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    August 29, 2019 9:52am
    - burt
      
      If we were a 3rd world country the operation would be $45, but because we have a world class health system it costs $5,000 and you need to wait for 4 years.
      
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      August 29, 2019 12:18pm
  - chaos
    
    Yeah and it isn’t just cataract, it is knees, hips, etc. this govt will find out what this means in the next election when people denied their operation vote
    
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    August 29, 2019 11:28am
  - theoldbloke
    
    Its cheaper to fly to a medical tourist destination (ie Singapore/Bangkok) have the cataract op done by a qualified professional using the latest equipment. AND have a weeks holiday than it is to have cataract done privately in NZ.
    
    I had both mine done in Phnom Penh, Cambodia by a very skilled Eye guy who spoke perfect english(His daughter is married to a Kiwi)
    
    700 USD each eye for a standard lens. More for bifocals.
    
    So maybe the gummint could use overseas aid budget to fund overseas eye cataract ops.
    
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    August 29, 2019 12:02pm
- chaos
  
  It’s pretty easy to do, give the parents instructions on how to make a sandwich, then the parent can provide their child their own free lunch. Then progress to teaching the parent how to give said child breakfast and dinner.
  
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  August 29, 2019 9:00am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  How about we dock the benefits of parents who’s kids show up to school without lunch. There’s a social fucking contract in place here when we provide people money to look after their kids.
  
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  August 29, 2019 9:12am
  - Nigel Kearney
    
    Take away the kids and the benefit. Kids go to someone who will actually care for them, without the kids the parents have no excuse for not getting a job, and taxpayers save heaps. Everyone wins.
    
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    August 29, 2019 1:45pm
    - tf78
      
      Nigel, I have a vision in future that the gummint will build very large boarding schools and keep the children for indoctrination (in the name of child care). They can use the saved benefit money which would give them billions.
      
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      August 29, 2019 7:35pm
- Jules99
  
  There are schools already doing some good stuff, with partnerships with local bakeries etc providing healthy food, funded directly by parents – ie. not giving the kids cash which is spent at the dairy on the way to school. Cost isn’t always the issue, it can be time (both parents at work) and other resources.
  
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  August 29, 2019 9:54am
  - Ruawai
    
    My kids have always made their own lunches, it takes 5 minutes to make a sandwich and throw a biscuit and piece of fruit in a lunch box. Cost is very little, time is very little and children learn a life skill.
    
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    August 29, 2019 10:12am
    - Biscuit
      
      Ruawai, I must say I DISapprove of throwing biscuits thingie!
      
      Us Biscuits are sensitive souls…
      
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      August 29, 2019 10:41am
    - david
      
      You can hear the Food Police already…. “But there is no protein in the lunches that kids do bring so we know better than even the bestest parents”
      
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      August 31, 2019 11:40am
  - theoldbloke
    
    Local bakeries???
    So you mean giving them loads of carbs. ie Bread/buns/cakes/rolls
    
    Or do you mean meat pies!!! That would be good
    
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    August 29, 2019 12:07pm
    - sooty
      
      Yum, pies!
      Providing you get there first before Meghan, should be sweet next week she’s otherwise occupied!
      
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      August 29, 2019 4:24pm
- Tricati
  
  I thought the increase in WFF, $70 to families at last budget, minimum wage increases and other benefits increases was aimed at helping families. If so, why are the tax-payers now covering free lunches
  
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  August 29, 2019 10:49am
- The King
  
  I can’t decide which is worse Marxists starving children or feeding them.
  
  Ill pass on letting this psycho occupation government feed my kids.
  
  Imagine letting a government feed your kids soy and msg’s.
  
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  August 29, 2019 11:54am
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NEW ZEALAND: What are Kiwi homebuilders learning from United States production builders … such as DR Horton … and how do the prices and build times currently compare ? …

Kiwis’ obsession for building bespoke houses is costing them a fortune | OPINION Julien Leys, CE of the NZ Building Industry Federation | Stuff.co.nz

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/opinion-analysis/115294644/kiwis-obsession-for-building-bespoke-can-lead-to-higher-building-costs
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Is it really more expensive to build new in New Zealand? | Chris Hutching Stuff.co.nz

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/114779557/is-it-really-more-expensive-to-build-new-in-new-zealand
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The ‘New Zealand Dream’ is still alive … Wendell Cox … New Geography
( noting the important Westpac Bank Dwelling Preference Survey)

http://www.newgeography.com/content/006327-the-new-zealand-dream-still-alive
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Why a millennial housing boom is coming (U.S report) … Yahoo New Zealand

https://nz.news.yahoo.com/why-a-millennial-housing-boom-is-coming-174448027.html
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How D.R. Horton, late in the cycle, lifted home closings 13%: ‘It’s all about price’ | Commentary | Mitchell Schnurman | Dallas News

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2019/08/04/dr-horton-lifts-home-closings-13-late-cycle-price

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… But take some comfort in the latest results from D.R. Horton, the nation’s largest homebuilder. On Wednesday, the Arlington company reported that home closings soared 13% in the latest quarter, extending a streak of double-digit gains that started in 2012.

Horton is on pace to close almost 57,000 homes this fiscal year, finally topping its previous peak in 2006, just before the housing crash.

Its stock price has roared back, too. Horton’s market value tops $17 billion, up from $2.9 billion eight years ago. And last week, the company’s board authorized $1 billion in stock buybacks. …

One key to its run: Horton has ramped up construction of lower-priced homes, appealing to first-time buyers and empty-nesters looking for more affordable options. …

… “The demand is there, if you can position and drive a price that they can buy,” Auld said.

Horton has a deep supply of land — 300,000 lots either owned or controlled. And it operates in 87 markets in 29 states. … read more via hyperlink above …

Horton’s edge on price
Average selling price for select builders’ homes in second quarter of 2019, in thousands:
D.R. Horton
$294
KB Home
$368
NVR Inc.
$372
Meritage
$382
Hovnanian
$406
Lennar
$408
PulteGroup
$430
M.D.C. Holdings
$484
Toll Brothers
$826

D R HORTON – AMERICA’S LARGEST HOMEBUILDER

https://www.drhorton.com/

[Mod: One or two links is acceptable Hugh, but six is excessive]
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- Hugh Pavletich
  
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  … AUSTRALIA … CONSTRUCTION SECTOR TANKING …
  
  Construction recession deepens and spreads across all sectors – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
  
  https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-28/construction-work-done-q2-2019/11455886
  
  Key points:
  
  • Construction work has fallen 11pc over the past twelve months and, in terms of value, it has retreated to levels reported at the start of 2017
  
  • Home building has fallen for four consecutive quarters to be down 10pc over the year
  
  • The “ugly” result is expected to have a material impact on second quarter GDP, slicing around 0.4ppt off growth … read more via hyperlink above …
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  Home-building shrinks, economists cut GDP forecasts … Australian Financial Review
  
  https://www.afr.com/property/residential/home-building-shrinks-at-fastest-pace-in-19-years-20190828-p52ljj
  
  [Mod: No need for Google searches Hugh; you’re underestimating the ability of those who visit Kiwiblog]
  
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  August 29, 2019 8:43am
  - Garbageman
    
    [Mod: One or two links is acceptable Hugh, but six is excessive]
    Don’t be to harsh on Hugh he has been up for hours copying & pasting from news sources so he can share his all important work on his blog with his multitude of viewers eagerly awaiting his latest proclamations & where taking up half a page with line breaks & links is perfectly acceptable of course he wouldn’t do that on other blogs that would be rude annoying and taking a host for granted especially if the topic & links are essentially the same day after day, you wouldn’t be that parasite would you Hugh ?
    
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    August 29, 2019 9:43am
    - Swifty
      
      Yes, yes he would.
      
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      August 29, 2019 10:14am
- Hugh Pavletich
  
  Mod: Many thanks for your advice !
  
  In this particular case the 6 were necessary … but I sure will do my best to keep them around the 2 to 3.
  
  With the revamped KiwiBuild announcement by Housing Minister Woods imminent, it is important from the D R Horton figures, that the public know what pricing affordable new housing should be.
  
  I think we have listened to more than enough b – s from the government on matters KiwiBuild about their view of ‘affordable’ !
  
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  August 29, 2019 9:05am
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    ANZ Business Outlook Survey says there’s ‘nothing good to say’ about business confidence as it hits the lowest level in over 11 years while increasing numbers of firms intend to reduce staff numbers … David Hargreabes … Interest Co NZ
    
    https://www.interest.co.nz/business/101436/anz-business-outlook-survey-says-theres-nothing-good-say-about-business-confidence
    
    Overall business confidence as measured by ANZ’s Business Outlook Survey has plunged to its lowest level since April 2008.
    
    The ANZ economists have summed it up neatly with their headline for the latest release, which simply says: “Business confidence: Nothing good to say about it”
    
    And there isn’t.
    
    The so-called ‘headline’ business confidence fell another 8 points to -52% in the August ANZ Business Outlook, the lowest since April 2008. … read more via hyperlink above …
    
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    August 29, 2019 1:33pm
sooty

It’s thursday today. Will PM part time Cindy be at work today?
If she is not, which kindy in the land will she visit?
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August 29, 2019 8:24am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  No, she doesn’t do Thursdays, and she will be in Rotorua launching the free school lunches program.
  
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  August 29, 2019 8:45am
  - Akarak
    
    She’s already been informed that this proposal will be a logistical nightmare. Given that this is just another sandwich with no filling from the CoL how did they arrive at a cost of $45m?
    
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    August 29, 2019 10:20am
- chaos
  
  Can you point out a prime minister in the past decade or such that goes on Thursday’s. Clark didn’t, key didn’t. The leader of the opposition doesn’t and when in opposition Peters and the greens leader weren’t there on Thursday either.
  
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  August 29, 2019 9:01am
  - Biscuit
    
    Agreed, chaos.
    
    Jass has her faults, but she is doing nothing on Thursdays that many of her predecessors – English, Key, Clark – haven’t done.
    
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    August 29, 2019 9:36am
- igm
  
  Time she took part in kindy elecution, I hear two-year-olds with superior enunciation.
  
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  August 29, 2019 10:24am
secondcumming

Here’s a tip for all those people I hear complaining about *McDonalds* new fiber-based straws…..

Take the lid off and drink it like a fuckin Grown Up.
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August 29, 2019 8:33am
- chaos
  
  But then people will have to take off the plastic lid and realise there is a plastic lid on them, next thing there will be a call to ban plastic lids, shit we will end up having to take the drink home in our hands without a cup.
  
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  August 29, 2019 9:03am
  - Ruawai
    
    Have a glass of water from the tap at home, free, no plastic used and better for you.
    
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    August 29, 2019 10:14am
    - chaos
      
      Depends where you live on the quality of drinking water in NZ and what the pipes delivering your water were made out. I remember this story, people had to drink that water for close to 6 months while it was being fixed, but likely drunk it much longer until it was found
      
      https://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/99621490/temuka-asbestos-in-water-supply-revelations-disappoint-school-principal
      
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      August 29, 2019 11:25am
    - burt
      
      There’s always an aunty who thinks she has the right to control other peoples lives – today it’s you. Thanks.
      
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      August 29, 2019 11:43am
  - LTA1955
    
    Sippy cup syndrome effects most snowflakes, like Grace Jones opined – “from the nipple to the bottle never satisfied.”
    
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    August 29, 2019 2:53pm
- The King
  
  Yeah complain about a fiber straw as you eat the most cancerous processed food known to man.
  
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  August 29, 2019 11:56am
Scott

Watching CNN this morning as I’m away from my regular TV and the only alternative is Al Jazeera. But honestly it’s tough to take more than 10 minutes!

They just hate Pres Trump and he is their only topic. They’ve moved off Trump /Russia because that was a hoax. Now they’re onto Trump /Puerto Rico and how he is personally responsible for the loss of 3000 lives because of his incompetent handling of the last hurricane disaster to befall the island. Imagine that? Trump personally let 3000 people die!?
The level of wrong reporting and opinion making is just breath taking.

https://amgreatness.com/2019/08/26/our-tawdry-untrustworthy-fourth-estate/
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August 29, 2019 8:40am
- stephieboy
  
  scott, what makes you think that Fox , Breitbart , Gateway pundit are more trustworthy?
  
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  August 29, 2019 12:05pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    They’re right and are accurate more often.More people watch them too. A lot more.
    It’s a bit rich you talking about credibility. You get proved wrong ALL the time.
    
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    August 29, 2019 12:31pm
    - stephieboy
      
      All of Red, again the credibility of Fox, Breitbart etc
      
      Examples?
      
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      August 29, 2019 2:29pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        How’s this for an example about you?
        PERVWATCH
        A division of Groperwatch
        Today we look at one of Kiwiblogs Creeps.
        Yes, it’s STEPHIEBOY who has had Strikes for linking to porn sites on KB and constantly harasses women.
        Who has such a lack of judgement.
        Yes, it’s STEPHIEBOY.
        
        ‘19,565 COMMENTS
        stephieboy
        Yesterday I was at the Robert Harris cafe St Lukes Megacentre , Mt Albert enjoying a cappuccino. I noticed next door three Muslim women enjoying their lattes with their children . Two of these honeypots .were wearing their Nijabs with stylish jeans and blouses . The other in more typical kiwi informal attire?
        Thumb up 7 Thumb down 36REPLY REPORTAUGUST 21, 2016 8:51AM’
        
        ‘Honeypots’!!!
        And this;
        Jack 5, recently i was at St Luke’s shopping mall and I saw a Muslim lady dressed in traditional apparel accompanied by her two beautiful young daughters dressed in modern western tight jeans and blouses , revealing lovely supple body proportions , including small but ample breasts .
        Thumb up 1 Thumb down 16REPLY REPORTDECEMBER 3, 2015 2:26
        
        Ewwwww. Delete your account perv.
        
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        August 29, 2019 3:18pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Stephieboy will be appalled at this story: Scott Morrison wants Iraqi-born convicted child sex offender kicked out of the country
        
        On Tuesday, 30-year-old Iraqi-born Mohammad Hassan Al Bayati was sentenced for the sexual assault of a three-year-old girl in December 2016. He was working as a security guard at the Homebush DFO shopping centre in western Sydney, when he took the girl away from the centre’s playground while her mother was Christmas shopping. Security camera vision shows Al Bayati taking the girl into an area without surveillance, where he assaulted her.
        …
        He came to Australia by boat from Iraq in 2011, and was given a permanent protection visa to stay.
        
        Disgusting. Shopping malls should be a safe space for young girls – not a place for fiddlers and perverts.
        
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        August 29, 2019 6:15pm
  - Scott
    
    Stephieboy – sure Fox has its idealogues, think Sean Hannity. However they have news people who are straight down the middle such as Brett Bauer. And people who are very centrist, like Shephard Smith.
    
    Contrast that with CNN who have all Trump haters all the time.
    
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    August 29, 2019 1:44pm
lastmanstanding

How Labour and the Greens must dream of being able to govern the “Chinese Way”.

So much easier winning hearts and minds at the edn of a barrel of a gun.

No more having to answer or in most cases avoid asking pesky citizens questions.

No more having to justify action.

And best of all being able to “disappear” Lastmanstanding and citizens like him to “Re-education Camps”.
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August 29, 2019 8:51am
- sooty
  
  Just think of the benefit of lots of body organs for transplants!
  
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  August 29, 2019 10:38am
chaos

I’m pretty sure every year in winter we see the same thing happen, hospitals over crowded, people asked to only come if it is an emergency and not something the gp can deal with. Also pretty sure pretend doctor Clark after two years as the pretend minister of health it’s time you realise this is not the previous governments issues or fault, but yours. The cost of living has gone up under your govt more people are struggling to afford the gp again. Also as well as the normal flu I’m guessing some hospitals have the measles outbreak in Auckland to deal with as well. But alas, underfunding pretend doctor Clark, that is your problem, not the previous government. And while we are on it why are people being told pretend doctor Clark that the points have been risen for operations because there is no money to do the amount of elective operations that were carried out prior to your government.

“Overcrowding in emergency departments has sparked a “dangerous” trend of paramedics being told to keep patients waiting in ambulances for up to two hours, a top emergency doctor says.

Experts warn it’s putting patients at risk and ties up ambulances needed for other callouts.

The Health Minister confirmed to the Herald he was aware of the problem at some of the country’s busiest hospitals, and blamed it on underfunding from the last Government.”

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12262408
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August 29, 2019 8:54am
- hookerphil
  
  Apparently the South Canterbury Health Board is the only one operating within its budget in New Zealand.
  Have just been advised that my check up that was due 3 months ago is delayed because they are running 3 months behind and no indication can yet be given when the appointment may be made.
  One way to keep within budget. Don’t schedule anything.
  
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  August 29, 2019 9:43am
  - chaos
    
    Nope, it’s not. It was until they realised they owe $5 million in holiday pay. Imagine how much other health boards owe in holiday pay.
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/114483960/holiday-back-pay-deficit-looms-for-south-canterbury-district-health-board
    
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    August 29, 2019 11:08am
  - skyblue
    
    Not measurable either after targets were taken away.
    
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    August 29, 2019 12:29pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    good time to invest in private health care providers – they will be getting a lot more work.
    
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    August 29, 2019 1:58pm
    - chaos
      
      Especially when dhb’s send public patients to have their op done privately on the public purse to clear up backlogs
      
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      August 29, 2019 2:22pm
Inandout

I had to smile that CNN Mike was interviewing (or trying to) a woman at the port where Co2 Greta was landing in her plastic and fibre boat. The shouting from the school kids almost made the interview a farce.
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August 29, 2019 8:55am
- chaos
  
  of course the media won’t report on the crew getting off their plane to sail the boat back, nor will they report on her and the current crew getting on a plane to fly home. I wonder if they will report on the fact that she has done nothing because those planes flew anyway.
  
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  August 29, 2019 9:36am
  - Inandout
    
    chaos, Fox pick up on these things, much to the chagrin of the MSM. It is said that CNN spend 95% of their Trump air time being anti. Even cooking shows are attracting more viewers.
    
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    August 29, 2019 10:08am
    - stephieboy
      
      Inandout, examples of Fox picking up those things?
      
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      August 29, 2019 10:38am
      - All_on_Red
        
        Here you go
        https://www.fox44news.com/news/sailing-team-to-fly-2-crew-to-us-to-bring-thunberg-boat-back/
        
        I realise your stupid question was more about being a pointless troll than anything else but who can resist the opportunity to show you up AGAIN
        LOL
        
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        August 29, 2019 12:49pm
      - stephieboy
        
        All on Red ; fFox and your self suggest that they should instead use these?,
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coracle
        
        “Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.”
        
        ― Aldous Huxley,
        
        LOL!
        
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        August 29, 2019 2:44pm
    - chaos
      
      Thanks all on red, I actually found it using something called google. Weird huh.
      
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      August 29, 2019 1:16pm
Maggie Pie

My partners not sure KDC’s doing himself any favors?

https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1166675577794727936
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August 29, 2019 9:00am
Tony Stuart

NZTA has put out an update on the Whirokino Trestle and Manawatu River bridge replacement, which is proceeding really well.

It’s worth remembering that this important work was promised by National in 2014, and because construction work had started prior to the 2017 General Election, will be completed. That’s in stark contrast to all the other much-needed roading projects that the Labour-Green-NZF government has put on the back-burner.

https://www.nzta.govt.nz/projects/whirokino-trestle-and-manawatu-river-bridge/
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August 29, 2019 9:13am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Quite correct Tony, but it’s a shame the new bridge was not future-proofed by being designed with four lanes.
  It will have to be duplicated within 15 years.
  
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  August 29, 2019 9:19am
Odakyu-sen

Sport, politics and pragmatism.
The Japanese high school boys’ baseball team that will visit South Korea for a series of matches will wear plain white polo shirts this year.
Last year, the shirts bore the name “JAPAN” and the Japanese flag, but this year they are plain white.
The Japanese authorities know that if any local Koreans were to be “triggered” and asaulted one of the boys, then the Japanese authorities would be held to be responsible by the parents. So they have no choice but to try to give the boys a low profile.
The Japanese school boys will learn a valuable lesson about realpolitik.
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August 29, 2019 9:23am
- stephieboy
  
  “The Japanese school boys will learn a valuable lesson about realpolitik” ??
  
  More the denial by officials and citizens regarding the 50c years occupation of Korea ( abiiter legacy) and WW2 war crimes!
  
  https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21226068
  
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  August 29, 2019 10:33am
Happychappy

Why would anyone especially in Parliament listen to his reasoning for automatic licenses to be given to those that want to open on overseas sporting events like world cups. Clayton Mitchell has been in news for all the wrong reasons with antics as a licencee and surely as a MP is the wrong person to be leading the conversation.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/08/mp-calls-for-pubs-to-open-year-round-for-big-sporting-events.html
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August 29, 2019 9:24am
- chaos
  
  I had a bit of a laugh the other day. In a short period of time the govt announced they will pass the bill allowing alcohol to be served to those watching the rugby World Cup, then little warns that a alcohol review is on the cards
  
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  August 29, 2019 11:04am
- Paulus
  
  Clayton Mitchell is a former Publican in Mt Maunganui (with a strip club /brothel alongside his pub).
  
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  August 29, 2019 2:04pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Clayton Mitchell is a complete tosser.
    You’ve only got to watch his body language in Parliament.
    
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    August 29, 2019 9:21pm
rouppe

Watching Mindhunters on netflix.

I didn’t know Charles Manson was a published singer. And his material is on Spotify!
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August 29, 2019 9:33am
- dubya
  
  Mindhunter is a great series.
  
  Manson’s real target on the night of the Tate murders was Terry Melcher, a music producer who he blamed for his failed music career. Melcher was also the son of Doris Day.
  
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  August 29, 2019 10:52am
- The King
  
  Did you know Manson never killed anyone.
  
  True story.
  
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  August 29, 2019 11:58am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    No, he just manipulated others into doing his dirty work.
    
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    August 29, 2019 12:52pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Great program, no unrealistically hostile or stupid characters. Lots of layers to stories and characters. Modern classic.
  
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  August 29, 2019 1:55pm
Yvette

Ardern’s initial statement on Ihumatao –
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has vowed that no building will take place at Ihumātao while the government and other parties try to broker a solution.
Speaking at Auckland Airport this evening [departing for Tuvalu], the Prime Minister said the government wanted to find a peaceful solution to the Imuhatao stand-off.
She spoke after meeting with local iwi, Fletchers, and the Auckland City Council.
Earlier this week, Ms Ardern said the government would not intervene in the issue.
“Ultimately we are falling on the side of the local iwi [who support the housing development] and their position. They are not the ones leading the protest here and so if we come in over the top, it really would be undermining the local iwi in this case,” she said on Wednesday.
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/rnz/pm-blocks-building-ihumatao

A more recent statement, at Tūrangawaewae, on Ihumatao – [having returned from Tuvalu]
“On issues like Ihumātao, the difficult issues, the hard issues, we will be there, we are there in those conversations,” Ardern said.
“I speak directly to myself here. I’ve learned that sometimes, leadership means recognising when you need to create space for others. To let grievance be heard. To hear different ideas. To where these different ideas may compete.
“But to allow the space of others to find by Māori for Māori. I will be there for those hard conversations. I am there. But I’ll also recognise when the seat at the head of the table isn’t necessarily me.
“Those conversations I know will continue. I know we will continue to have leadership by Kiingitanga as we have always had and you can guarantee that we will work there alongside, that we will bind together, that we will hold fast, that we will hold firm.”
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/08/we-will-be-there-jacinda-ardern-speaks-out-on-ihumatao.html

‘Fleecing’ – trying to pull the wool over the public’s eyes

[Tuvalu didn’t improve anything – even although Ardern threatened journalists with excommunication if they raised Ihumatao while she was there]
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August 29, 2019 9:37am
- Brian Marshall
  
  No one can actually translate that into a sensible coherent statement. She is off her rocker and the media who do not report her ramblings are either mad themselves, or believe that the emperor is wearing the finest cloth.
  
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  August 29, 2019 2:38pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I speak directly to myself here. I’ve learned that sometimes, leadership means recognising when you need to create space for others.
    
    Speaking for myself here, one is reminded of Binder – the Leader of the climbing expedition on Rum Doodle.
    https://www.amazon.com/Ascent-Rum-Doodle-Vintage-Classics/dp/0099530384
    
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    August 29, 2019 3:48pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  Ardern by her ignorance may stir up latent Maori tribal relationships. Utu is still alive. Memories of the past likewise. Conquest both yielded land to the conqueror and and a thirst for revenge to the conquered.
  
  There were only 7 tribes that landed in NZ. They are not one nation but different. None of them can actually prove where they came from.
  
  The Kingitanga is not recognised by all tribes and is potentially highly divisive. There are other Paramount chiefs of similar rank.
  
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  August 29, 2019 6:07pm
Maggy Wassilieff

WOW, KB is buzzing today…
so much to read… (Looooooong breakfast).
Better go out to tackle some weeds…
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August 29, 2019 9:41am
Maggie Pie

6 – 9 = Hoskings
9 – 12 = Williams
12 – 3 = Plunket
3 – 6 = Bridge

The one I feel really sorry for is HDPA. She runs a good show – its those dipshitz on before her that lose the listeners.
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August 29, 2019 10:11am
- alloytoo
  
  True.
  
  Comeback Andrew Dickins all is forgiven
  
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  August 29, 2019 10:21am
- Tricati
  
  Concur with your listening selection Maggie – I also heard Paul Henry may be making a come-back. Maybe some of the woke MSM are learning the hard (financial) way that screeching constant outrage, playing the victim, and promoting a shallow PM, just doesn’t pay the bills
  
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  August 29, 2019 10:53am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Yep – PH will be docking ‘Olive’ here in December. Word at the Marina is Paul will be hosting his own show to replace the dismal/mindless Project on 3. Rumored to be on a mil p.a. contract.
    Please God its true!!
    
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    August 29, 2019 1:49pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Who is Hoskings? Is he related to Keys?
  
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  August 29, 2019 11:13am
- Poppa
  
  How anyone could listen to ZB during the day I have no idea. It is basically crap.
  
  HDPA is doing a good job actually I agree
  
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  August 29, 2019 11:22am
- kloyd0306
  
  Yet to see the listeners’ numbers for ZB’s 9 to 12 slot.
  Am guessing they have tanked.
  Any marketing student would try to retain the Hosking crowd but not ZB’s experts.
  
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  August 29, 2019 12:37pm
  - tf78
    
    I was dreading Kerre taking over from Leighton, but she has totally got into the swing of things and tells you exactly what she thinks about “that woman” being our part time PM. I enjoy her show more each day – give her a go. (I couldn’t stand her when she was on with Mark Dye).
    
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    August 29, 2019 7:55pm
- rouppe
  
  Isn’t HDPA the one that illegally used someone else’s firearms licence to order a .22 from Gun City?
  
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  August 29, 2019 1:59pm
  - Brian Marshall
    
    Yes.
    
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    August 29, 2019 2:49pm
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  She isnt a patch on Larry. Too much of a shock jock, and it’s pretty clear that she doesn’t really have any principles, so she just goes with whatever will get people outraged.
  
  Still don’t know why she wasn’t prosecuted for faking a firearms license and forging a police officers name to illegally purchase a gun a few years back, particularly now she is terribly keen on laws to prevent people illegally accessing firearms.
  
  Fortunately Magic has got a good slate of presenters. My listening is exactly the same as yours Maggie, turn off Hoskings at 9 and over to Williams. Plunket whenever he isn’t on holiday (or tinder dating?) is good, and Bridge is turning out to be excellent.
  
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  August 29, 2019 2:40pm
- Inandout
  
  Where is Plunket?
  
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  August 29, 2019 4:00pm
JibberJabber

About time NZ politicians grew a spine.
The Aussies don`t fuck around, pedo security guard to have his visa cancelled .
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-29/pm-wants-convicted-sex-offender-out-of-the-country/11459392

He came to Australia by boat from Iraq in 2011, and was given a permanent protection visa to stay.

Here Drug dealers and Fat c@#ts that lie on their applications are feted like celebrities.
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August 29, 2019 11:36am
Maggy Wassilieff

https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/order-paper-questions/list-of-oral-questions/oral-questions-29-august-2019/
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August 29, 2019 11:42am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Q8 will be interesting. Watch Nash dodge the bullet (pun intended)
  
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  August 29, 2019 11:57am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

I know of someone who talks like this. Waffles on and on without saying anything. Wonder who it is?
https://newsvideo.su/video/11340810
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August 29, 2019 11:51am
- Inandout
  
  [mod: DPF has been clear that this kind of appearance-based attack on a person or persons is not permitted.]
  
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  August 29, 2019 12:23pm
- softail 1450
  
  Steve Otto, shes “hoping to have a child some day”,
  given that this creature AOC has only just for the 1st time seen a “demon” living in her sink (a waste disposal),and realized that veggies grow in a garden I’m going to volunteer to show her the rudimentary 1st steps to accomplish her 1st child,because she is obviously thick it will probably take many lessons but I’m willing to take one for the team…….
  
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  August 29, 2019 1:30pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Lots of people want to screw her brains out, but when they get there they find out someone already did that
    
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    August 29, 2019 2:07pm
Chuck Bird

I had thought the trial of the alleged Labour Youth Camp sexual offender on 2 Sept. This had been on Wikipedia but is no longer there.

I hope there has not been a backroom deal made with suppression orders made.

I am making inquiries to the MSM. Has anyone heard anything?
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August 29, 2019 12:12pm
- Batman
  
  Given it is within a week they probably have pulled that reference on wiki as the exact date, time, and venue may change as they schedule the next week of court.
  
  On Monday we will probably wake up tomorrow a bit of attention to it, even though the names and details are supressed to protect the victims.
  
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  August 29, 2019 12:22pm
Happychappy

It looks like the Government are looking into the likelyhood of whether they can merge Radio New Zealand with TV One as the TV Station is losing money and revenue.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/115366089/tvnz-reports-drop-in-profit-as-speculation-hangs-over-governments-intentions
This will just another excuse for Labour to corrupt another Government identity to the Labour way.
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August 29, 2019 12:24pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Not much luv for TVNZ being showing in the Stuff comments
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/115366089/tvnz-reports-drop-in-profit-as-speculation-hangs-over-governments-intentions#comments
  
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  August 29, 2019 1:41pm
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    They removed my comment!
    
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    August 29, 2019 3:24pm
RightNow

Mrs RightNow (aka mrs. Right all the time) pointed out our gas bottles have increased from $108 to $129 each since 2017.
Wonder why…
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August 29, 2019 12:32pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Because you are a dirty earth-raping fossil fuel burner who makes Gaia cry. Oh and Cindy needed a few column inches on her European tour so killed off oil and gas industry.
  
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  August 29, 2019 1:51pm
  - RightNow
    
    Yeah I guess I am, may as well upgrade the car to a V8.
    
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    August 29, 2019 5:55pm
- kowtow
  
  Impossible , we’re told there’s no inflation!
  
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  August 29, 2019 2:52pm
chaos

12 months Joke home detention for rape. Got to wonder about our justice system

“A North Shore teenager who admitted raping two schoolgirls and violating another – while they were too drunk to stop him – has been sentenced to 12 months’ home detention on the basis of his age and previous good character.

The sentence has outraged victim advocates and those who know the teen, saying it sends a dangerous and “awful” message to other young men.”

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12262976
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August 29, 2019 1:07pm
- burt
  
  Dude should have joined the Labour Party.
  
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  August 29, 2019 1:35pm
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    Clearly only an average sportsman too, only a medium level career ahead of him!
    
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    August 29, 2019 2:42pm
Maggy Wassilieff

What the heck os going on at NIWA?

Last week they warned NZ was going to be hit with a drastic polar storm (should have hit today)

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/08/sudden-stratospheric-warming-forecaster-rubbishes-predictions-nz-will-be-hit-by-polar-blast.html

Earlier in the month they predicted another devastating storm……that just turned out to be a bit of winter weather.

Over the next week, the Antarctic Oscillation or Southern Annular Mode (SAM) – which measures the strength of the “polar vortex”, the ring of westerly winds which encircle the Antarctic – is forecast to plunge to its lowest level since April 1990.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/114605297/heavy-snow-warnings-issued-for-south-islands-east-coast

Might be better if NIWA stopped with its alarmism and left weather forecasting up to the Met Office.
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August 29, 2019 1:37pm
- Humble Capitalist
  
  Their models were wrong apparently
  
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  August 29, 2019 2:34pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Oh Look…
    It’s back on again
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/115384287/rare-weather-heads-towards-new-zealand
    
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    August 29, 2019 4:00pm
surfing

Interesting that raping 2 girls and sexually abusing another is not even worthy of jail time. . .

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12262976

The judge must have a soft spot for rapists.

Or, maybe it is because of this…
“talented up-and-coming sports star”
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August 29, 2019 1:39pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  And remember we had already been told that:
  
  force was involved in the rapes
  and the offender was considerably larger than the girls
  
  The judge noted the teenager had used force in both attacks, despite both girls clearly telling him “no”.
  
  The judge described both girls as vulnerable and “physically much smaller” than their attacker.
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/114926932/teenager-got-off-very-lightly-after-admitting-sex-attacks-on-two-girls
  
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  August 29, 2019 2:06pm
  - Happychappy
    
    Has Andrew Little down graded Rape as a not such a serious offence now or have Judges only have to follow their felz nowadays to find what penalty they think the offense warrants.
    
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    August 29, 2019 4:52pm
- Tall Man
  
  Don’t be a prick, he’s been “marching” against climate change.. or is that for climate change.. or is that because of climate change… oh fuckit… He’s not a deviant, he’s just a very naughty boy…..
  
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  August 29, 2019 9:11pm
John Warren

I see Ardern is back to doing what she does least worst, visiting schools, hugging kids, and giving them free lunches.

Someone should tell Ardern, if not the kids, that there’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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August 29, 2019 2:37pm
- greybeard
  
  I heard her interview with Andrew Dickens:
  she knows no idea of the scheme at all. \
  She never will.
  
  She had absolutely no grasp of the details e.g cost per day per school pupil. ( Dickens had to tell her it would be 90c / meal / pupil. )
  
  The whole thing is obviously a vote-grabber for a failing Labour-led “govt”.
  
  It also has the unintended consequence of further removing any responsibility for their own kids welfare from many unsuitable parents.
  
  ( less money on kids lunches = more money for P, coke & booze for the parents ).
  
  What a crock !.
  
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  August 29, 2019 6:39pm
- tf78
  
  I hope Jacinda isn’t the ‘measles’ spreader!
  
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  August 29, 2019 8:03pm
Happychappy

Has Jacinda seen the writing on the wall a year out from the election so is prepared to just spend willy nilly to make sure National will have very little money to spend. 21000 free lunches for schools in Rotorua and Hawkes Bay.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=12263121
This is ridiculous very soon they will supply parents housemaids to make sure their uniforms are clean and ironed, what the fuck gives Parents the right to breed kids if they are not prey to feed them.Jacinda is total joke.
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August 29, 2019 4:34pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Housemaids? Yeah, there’s an idea. Get’s more people off the unemployment list – no cost to the parents, just Govt money.
  Oh wait, that would be NET TAXPAYER’S money
  
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  August 29, 2019 4:55pm
- Humble Capitalist
  
  It can cost less than $1 to make breakfast (weet bix $0.09 each) with half a doz weet bix with some milk and fruit (tinned fruit is cheap). Or 4 weet bix and 2 slices of toast.
  It is also cheap to make lunch – a couple of sandwiches can be easily made for under a dollar (loaf of bread $1.50), a piece of fruit and a muesli bar. Its not much more than $2.
  When something a parent really wants for themself (eg mobile phone) costs $10 a week they will usually find a way to pay it. I wonder how many parents that ‘cant afford’ to feed their kids lunch everyday also have selfish ‘needs’ or habits or buy wasteful crap in the shopping.
  Also wonder how they get fed in the 12 weeks of school holidays?
  Some people just dont want to take responsibilty for anything. Feeding my kids is my no.1 responsibility and I would sacrifice anything to do so.
  
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  August 29, 2019 5:09pm
- rangitoto
  
  If they provide food in schools then they should cut benefits to pay for it.
  
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  August 29, 2019 8:07pm
Jack5

An hour or so of NZ economics on video …

Why NZ’s immigration policy has been making the country worse off, economist Michael Reddell spells out in a video organised by the Opportunities Party.

Reddell, of Croaking Cassandra blog fame, points out that NZ’s rate of immigration in the developed world is matched only by that of Israel, which has an open door to world Jewish people.

In NZ exports as a share of the economy are falling, and Australia’s economy has outpaced New Zealand. He sees the economy as becoming increasingly “inward oriented”.

Among the points that Reddell focuses on are that many of the skills of the supposedly high-skilled migrants to NZ are on average not more skilled than the average New Zealander.

Many of the migrants to NZ classed as higher skilled have occupations that “no-one thinks of as having advanced skills”. Examples: big numbers of migrants are retail managers, cafe managers, rest-home assistants and nurses, and dairy farm workers.

“You have to get down to about no. 20 on the list before you say, ‘That’s a recognised highly skilled occupation’.”

He blames immigration policy for the outflow of skilled New Zealanders to Australia.

Riddell argues that, because NZ’s economy is so heavily dependent on natural resources, increasing our population makes us worse off.

The pressure on infrastructure from the rising population puts pressure on interest rates, keeping up the kiwi dollar, making it harder to build export-based industries.

The topic kicks off seriously after around 4min 30sec.

It’s good to see the man behind Croaking Cassandra, a blog name Riddell explains comes from Keynes.

https://youtu.be/Q7gypBpOz9g
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August 29, 2019 5:20pm
- MCos
  
  ‘keeping up the kiwi dollar’
  I’d hate to think how much lower he thinks the dollar should plunge.
  
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  August 30, 2019 12:49am
Maggy Wassilieff

Min of Health Warning

Do not Travel to Auckland unless you have had a measles vaccination.

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/those-not-vaccinated-measles-should-stay-away-auckland-outbreak-increases-ministry-health-warns

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/397737/auckland-measles-outbreak-prompts-travel-warning
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August 29, 2019 6:14pm
- chaos
  
  It’s Auckland, who wants to travel there anyway?
  
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  August 29, 2019 6:32pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    It’s the ones escaping from Auckland that should worry the rest of us.
    
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    August 29, 2019 8:17pm
    - chaos
      
      when the diseased ones travel far enough south we’ll close the Cook Strait and declare our independence from the North Island. Maybe we’ll build a wall to just to be safe
      
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      August 29, 2019 8:23pm
mortis

Once again National shows why they deserve to lose the next election. Right now their strategy seems to be steal the policy of a potential coalition partner and alienate middle NZ at the same time. Can’t they just push for a sporting exemption to the new firearms law and point out how sport shooters already enjoy the registration and security requirements in this latest legislation?
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August 29, 2019 6:39pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Or just say we will get the guns off the gangs and leave legal sporting shooters alone.
  
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  August 29, 2019 8:15pm
  - MCos
    
    ‘get the guns off the gangs’
    
    Various wannabe PMs have promised to cracked down on the gangs for the last fifty years.
    It all changes when they become government, or more precisely nothing changes.
    In the case of hardman Muldoon he joined the other side!
    
    My theory is that dangerous though they may be, organised they’re better than a disorganised rabble.
    
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    August 30, 2019 12:42am
    - stephieboy
      
      Goes back to Norm Kirk with his promise to fix the Bikie Gangs ( no Maori Gangs as such back then)
      
      Misunderstood good guys or a real blight?
      
      “..Norm Kirk threatened to take bikes off bikies before the ’72 election. He didn’t, but it got him elected. Politicians have learned that sort of rhetoric delivers their drug of choice, which is votes.” The rhetoric from the opposition benches, he says, is altogether more difficult when they get into power…’
      
      https://www.newsie.co.nz/news/118451-misunderstood-good-guys-or-real-blight.html
      
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      August 30, 2019 1:51pm
Nostradamus

‘Flight shame’ goes long-haul as climate activist Greta Thunberg arrives in New York

Greta Thunberg the 16-year-old climate activist arrived in New York Harbour on Wednesday morning after a fifteen-day and 5000km voyage on a sailboat. The young Swede arrives in time for the UN’s Climate Summit in New York, where she will be taking part.

Shouldn’t she be at school?
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August 29, 2019 6:50pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  All she is doing is fuelling the ‘climate change’ bullshit to another level while all the sheepie media clamber on.
  
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  August 29, 2019 8:17pm
- Tall Man
  
  Autistic…. Can’t be taught…………
  
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  August 29, 2019 9:06pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Anyone seen any mention in our MSM of how NZ had donated $1.6M to a corrupt UN agency this year…and only now has suspended payment?
https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/New-Zealand-suspends-funding-to-UN-aid-agency-for-Palestinians-599902

https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2019/08/28/new-zealand-latest-country-to-halt-funding-to-un-palestinian-agency-over-corruption-scandal/
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August 29, 2019 7:08pm
- chaos
  
  oh look, we can change some of the article around and it is still true
  
  “New Zealand is the latest country to suspend funding to the NZ Labour Party after a leaked internal report alleged corruption, sexual misconduct, antisemitism, and mismanagement at their highest levels. ”
  
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  August 29, 2019 7:15pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Damn you’re good.
    
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    August 29, 2019 9:05pm
Hugh Pavletich

Trade war drives ‘innocent’ Asian nations towards recession – BBC News

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49403710

Rising fears about the health of the global economy have prompted talk of recession, spreading anxiety about jobs and growth.

The US-China trade war is casting a shadow over the world economy and warning signs of a looming downturn have flashed on financial markets.

Recession poses no immediate threat to the biggest economies in Asia, although they are slowing down. Yet some smaller economies in the region – including Hong Kong and Singapore – are definitely at risk. … read more via hyperlink above …
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August 29, 2019 7:40pm
- Hugh Pavletich
  
  China Makes Unexpected Concession: Will Hold Off On Trade Retaliation, US Visit Discussed … Zerohedge
  
  https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-29/china-makes-unexpected-concession-will-hold-trade-retaliation-us-visit-discussed
  
  With Beijing rapidly running out of US imports to slap tariffs on, the Chinese government indicated on Thursday that it wouldn’t immediately retaliate against the latest US tariff escalation announced by President Trump a week ago, Bloomberg reports. … read more via hyperlink above …
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  China Indicates It Won’t Retaliate Now on New U.S. Tariffs … Bloomberg
  
  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-29/china-indicates-it-won-t-retaliate-against-newest-u-s-tariffs?srnd=premium
  
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  August 29, 2019 11:23pm
- fernglas
  
  Not just Asian nations, Hugh. Those a bit further south-east as well.
  
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  August 30, 2019 2:47am
F E Smith

So, that goal of planting 100 million trees each year for 10 years? Well, Ethiopia has just planted 350 million in 12 hours!

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/29/africa/ethiopia-plants-350-million-trees-intl-hnk/index.html

(Apologies for posting a link from the rapidly failing Clinton News Network, from memory the 15th most watched cable channel on the television in the USA. That said, their online presence seems to be going ok at present. Still horribly biased, though.)
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