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Tony Stuart

What’s the cut-off point for home value in order to be able to get an exemption to serve your MIQ term at home? Is $3m the benchmark?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300218643/covid19-sport-stars-family-do-miq-at-3m-auckland-home-after-complaining-about-hotel

PS: My intention in posting this was to highlight the Herald’s breathless reporting of the $3M home aspect, not whether or not there was merit is the family isolating in their home. Stuff was just as bad, but that’s hardly surprising.
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December 2, 2019 8:06am
- New Zealander
  
  Tom Abercrombie’s wife.
  
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  February 2, 2021 8:13am
- Tall Man
  
  Nothing to do with value I think Tony, more a case of who you know and what party you loudly support.
  
  I mean there’s obviously some “wiggle” room in the rules 😉
  
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  February 2, 2021 8:20am
  - Bobba Fret
    
    I see what you did there! Very clever.
    
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    February 2, 2021 10:29am
- Cinematic
  
  Why is the value of their property even vaguely relevant? Gutter journalists.
  
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  February 2, 2021 8:20am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  Anyone who is willing and able to pay for the security themselves should be able to do this. It also frees up a slot for someone else.
  
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  February 2, 2021 8:26am
  - Mike
    
    Seems pretty sensible, doesn’t it?
    
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    February 2, 2021 8:30am
  - Tall Man
    
    You assume they are paying. Why?
    
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    February 2, 2021 8:31am
  - Albert_Ross
    
    Absolutely. I have never been able to understand why it is seen as morally superior to take at the expense of other people, what you could afford to pay for yourself.
    
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    February 2, 2021 8:42am
    - rouppe
      
      They didn’t pay for the additional 24×7 security required for them to stay at home
      
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      February 2, 2021 9:08am
      - Albert_Ross
        
        Then they should, as should everybody in MIQ and everybody who wants and is able to arrange for similarly effective and supervised isolation in circumstances that they prefer.
        
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        February 2, 2021 10:09am
- Maggie Pie
  
  You’re right of course Tony – why anyone given the chance, would want to spend any extra time in Mt Roskill is beyond me.
  
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  February 2, 2021 8:35am
  - sooty
    
    Depends on how much of a whingy, whiney voice you have and how much you donate to the labour party!
    
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    February 2, 2021 8:42am
- Frank the tank
  
  More to the story than meets the eye. A fair guess would be that this ‘sports star’ is in the PM’s circle of friends. Of course the 2 feckless journalists fail to ask questions like who pays for this and why is all information suppressed about who this is.
  
  All animals are equal just some are more equal than others
  
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  February 2, 2021 8:44am
- cmm
  
  The biggest problem here is not scientific or medical. It is social.
  
  If people need to do isolation then it really does not matter where they do it so long as they are isolated from others. Indeed from a scientific/medical point of view doing it in a facility cooped up with others breathing the same air is probably the worst possible option.
  
  Why not allow people to go sailing for 2 weeks? Stay in a bach? Go fishing/hunting away from others?
  
  The real problem here is entitlement. This breeds a feeling that this is unfair and that leads to problems with compliance from others which undermines the quarantines and results in cross-cohort shagging etc.
  
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  February 2, 2021 9:23am
- MCos
  
  If this article is to be taken at face value what happened here is a rare occurrence and why the we’re allowed to isolate at home was to do with
  “Some of her children are high-needs, it is understood.”
  Kids may be autistic or whatever, or confined to a wheelchair, who knows, I don’t.
  Personally I think if they’re responsible people what does it matter if they stay at home. They’ll know if they fuck it up they fuck it up for everyone.
  
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  February 2, 2021 9:40am
  - Sacha
    
    I tend to agree with you MCos. It would be much easier to manage high-need family members in their own home where presumably there would be the requisite facilities.
    And didn’t we all do home isolation for a month last year?
    I don’t see why there should be any need for security – I think a sign on the gate would be pretty effective.
    
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    February 2, 2021 6:20pm
New Zealander

REST IN PEACE
New Zealand National Party
14 May 1936 – 1 February 2021
After 84 years (47 as New Zealand’s governing party), and a short illness from wokeness and virtue-signalling, the National Party gave in to the pressure and decided they would stand in race-based Maori seats in order to appease calls that the party is “racist”.

A funeral was held yesterday at Wellington’s Basin Reserve. In lieu of flowers please send your campaign donations to local government candidates who will stand against Maori wards.
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February 2, 2021 8:04am
- Tall Man
  
  The electorates exist at the moment.
  
  Please explain what “moral” stand is achieved by ignoring them?
  
  I can tell you what is achieved by ignoring them, defeat. Don’t conservative maori deserve an option?
  
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  February 2, 2021 9:02am
  - New Zealander
    
    Conservative Maori should probably be smart enough to work out they don’t need to be on the Maori roll.
    
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    February 2, 2021 9:14am
    - Libertarians are right
      
      But that doesn’t mean they don’t tune in to Maori electorate politics. Why give the Left 100% of the access to those voters. We saw what happened last year when Labour had all the air time.
      
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      February 2, 2021 11:04am
      - curry4me
        
        Libertarians are right: So they can be more easily be de-legitimized, and got rid of.
        
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        February 2, 2021 1:48pm
  - Nukuleka
    
    Tall Man, is it coincidental that immediately after National announces it will give in to the apartheid electoral system we have by standing candidates in Maori seats the government feels emboldened to get rid of the right of citizens to participate in referenda on the establishment of Maori wards at local government level? National now have not a leg to stand on should they now attempt to criticise such blatant racism. The government and media will call them out on the blatant hypocrisy that it would be. Well done National!
    
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    February 2, 2021 9:19am
    - Tall Man
      
      Nuke, I would think that decision was made long ago by the maori caucus, just kept under wraps by ardern to avoid alienating dopey voters.
      
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      February 2, 2021 12:09pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Yep,
        it has been signalled for months…and is one of the reasons Nanaia Mahuta retained Local Government.
        
        https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/430010/mahuta-vows-to-clear-obstacles-to-creating-maori-council-wards
        
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        February 2, 2021 1:01pm
  - Libertarians are right
    
    It’s not about winning the Maori seats, it’s about having airtime to talk to Maori about Maori issues. Not all Maori are on the Maori rolls, but that doesn’t mean they ignore the discussions being made by their local Maori MPs.
    
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    February 2, 2021 9:38am
  - alloytoo
    
    You can’t fix things unless you win.
    
    It’s about bloody time the right realizes that.
    
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    February 2, 2021 10:06am
- DRHILL
  
  Does that mean National will finally run in council elections as well (you know, like Labour, The Greens and NZ First do?)
  
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  February 2, 2021 9:37am
- Southtop2
  
  They will RIP because they are blissfully unaware that they are Labour Lite.
  
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  February 2, 2021 10:14am
- Wayne Mapp
  
  What an absurd statement. The aberration is National not standing in the Maori seats from 2005 to 2020, which is 15 years of the the 84 years.
  A major party should stand in all the parliamentary seats that exist in New Zealand. The failure to do so over the last 15 years has progressively reduced the number of party votes for National in the Maori seats.
  There is zero chance that these seats will be abolished in the next 50 years. To all intents and purposes they are a permanent feature of our parliamentary democracy. National railing against them was pointless.
  
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  February 2, 2021 10:16am
  - BananaLlama
    
    At 25% of the vote i think National should be more worried about becoming a minor party instead of going to war with their own supporters over undemocratic values.
    
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    February 2, 2021 10:27am
    - Wayne Mapp
      
      How many supporters would be of the view that National has gone to war with them because it is standing in the Maori seats? Not many I imagine. In any event what about the gain from the change.
      
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      February 2, 2021 12:41pm
      - Batman
        
        It’s a tiny group who would probably vote National anyway.
        
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        February 2, 2021 12:57pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @Batman
        
        There is rapidly growing Maori middle-class with business acumen.
        
        National does itself no favours by failing to engage with these folk.
        
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        February 2, 2021 1:08pm
      - BananaLlama
        
        Well, it’s your election to lose. If you think supporting race based separatism will get you into the high forties then that is your call.
        I would remind you that Brash brought National back from the dead with his one law for all and that Key ran a campaign on Kiwi not Iwi and won the election.
        What’s changed?
        
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        February 2, 2021 1:24pm
  - Don Beckett
    
    Yes, I always thought it was stupid not to stand in them – those 7 seats could be the difference of being in government, and growing roots on the opposition benches.
    
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    February 2, 2021 10:48am
    - Ian Boag
      
      Umm no. MMP and party vote and all that.
      
      It would be different if the Maori party had National’s backing and won some electorate seats. They wouldn’t be coming out of National’s party vote pile.
      
      The question is whether not being there has a negative effect on Nat’s party vote in these electorates. I really don’t know, but OTOH it is hard to imagine that their absence helps their party vote.
      
      Go figure
      
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      February 2, 2021 4:23pm
  - New Zealander
    
    The only absurdity is the confused centrism of National acting like Labour-lite when they have nobody even remotely popular or relatable as Jacinda Ardern. National’s greatest ever boost in polling came after the Orewa Speech. Now National are in a worse state of affairs than they were in 2002 and they don’t even have “one law for all” to revert to. National will be lucky to get 20% at the next election.
    
    Weren’t you Don Brash’s “Political Correctness Eradicator”?
    
    “A person, an institution or a government is politically correct when they cease to represent the interests of the majority and become focused on the cares and concerns of minority sector groups.”
    
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    February 2, 2021 12:19pm
    - Batman
      
      You massively overestimate how many people actually think like you.
      
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      February 2, 2021 12:58pm
      - New Zealander
        
        I think you’d be rather surprised then. Isn’t it only two council districts that have found a majority of voters to enfranchise Maori wards? That would seem like quite the minority.
        
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        February 2, 2021 1:16pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  To ignore them in the present ignorant activist climate is to allow opportunity for others to cease them.
  
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  February 2, 2021 12:33pm
Kiwi_in_Paris

Huge increase in over 80s deaths in the UK after they started rolling out the Pfizer vaccine, and the flu as we know it has disappeared according to WHO statistics:

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

UK Column news are a highly credible news source who broadcast Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
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February 2, 2021 8:04am
- JackRabbit
  
  This is the “predicted second wave” all “caused” by the new Covid-19 “variant.” This “second wave” will justify a bigger push on vaccination and more vaccinations will lead to more deaths.
  
  The same could happen here. “News” of the second variant will push vaccinations here and people will start dying, confirming wisdom of pushing vaccinations, and resulting in high exaltation of Cindy for having acted “just in time”.
  
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  February 2, 2021 9:51am
  - krazykiwi
    
    Second variant? There are now more the 458,000 submissions to an international SAR-Cov-2 gene sequencing database, and even the NTY claims “Researchers have recorded thousands of tiny modifications in the genetic material of the coronavirus as it has hopscotched across the world.”.
    
    Like Ardern said, it’s just like the flu: A seasonal, mutating virus, and we’ll need to learn to live with it.
    
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    February 2, 2021 12:54pm
- Master Mariner
  
  “Posted yesterday but took too long for acceptance?”
  
  Mean while this is how Singapore secured vaccines.
  
  https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/health/how-singapore-picked-its-covid-19-vaccines
  
  Right person in the right job asking the right questions and finally following up with the right actions.
  Hymmm, Wonder where we went wrong here.//
  
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  February 2, 2021 5:03pm
Jack5

With the enforcement of political apartheid in our local body politics, it’s time for passive resistance.

We definitely do NOT want to emulate South African Blacks who dealt brutally with their defectors with an old, petrol-laced tyre around the neck ready for a smoker to pass by.

In a more civilised way, we are surely entitled to have a term for the smug, Leftist white elitists who back apartheid-style representation in our local bodies.

An idea for those of us sick of the push to rename New Zealand “Aotearoa”.

We could call a liberal white enthusiastically pushing Maori language and custom as an “ay-oh” for the “Ao” in “Aotearoa”.

Here’s an ~~ao-hole~~ ao song: shades of the Snow White dwarves.

Ay-Oh, Ay-Oh, we talk te reo you know
We cringe, cringe, cringe; cringe, cringe, cringe
all day in Ay-oh-tea-a-roa
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February 2, 2021 8:04am
Simon

Mutant strains!! OMG OMG, moo moo. Save us Jacinda. Cure covid again Moo moo. We are in this together Mooooo!!
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February 2, 2021 8:15am
- Tall Man
  
  Baaa Baaa I think 😉
  
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  February 2, 2021 8:59am
I remember when

About 40% of staff in UK’s largest care provider have not yet been vaccinated for covid-19.
In November there was an article saying that 48% of deaths had occurred in care homes.
So the people that have seen the largest number of serious covid cases have not rushed to get the vaccine.
Why?
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February 2, 2021 8:16am
- Tall Man
  
  Because despite the hype (bullshit) the care providers are not at serious risk and the vaccine is not being touted as a “path” to being non contagious.
  
  It is the residents that are providing the deaths.
  
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  February 2, 2021 8:58am
  - sooty
    
    Resthomes are going to be in dire straits if all the oldies die off. Suppose they can house all the homeless now!
    
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    February 2, 2021 9:55am
- KevO'Brien
  
  There is a higher risk of killing off patients from administering the vaccine.
  I get a severe reaction each year from the flu vaccine and shudder to think of a Covid variant which particularly targets my age cohort commonly found in care.
  
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  February 2, 2021 12:54pm
  - Steve Todd
    
    Yeah, but Kev, perhaps that’s just you.
    
    As you know (if you remember), I’m trucking along some years behind you. I have had the ’flu jab every year for about the last 25 years, without any reaction whatsoever. In fact, having to sit there for 20 minutes, after the jab, when I wanted to get back to work, really used to annoy me.
    
    The moment I become eligible to get the COVID-19 jab, some time after June or July, I’ll be in there, “boots an’ all”.
    
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    February 2, 2021 5:51pm
Jade Warrior

It really is astonishing how dramatic the effects of the Climate Commission’s draft advice will have on our way of life. Here is just one example:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/climate-change-report-gas-fueled-barbecues-and-commercial-kitchens-to-be-snuffed-out/YYQ4KMX3Q3EFALSD4XM35I45VU/

And the public has just six weeks to comment on these far-reaching proposals which were released on a Sunday with virtually no in-depth media coverage or any other kind of dissenting critique. Surely, given the gravity of the consequences that will result if these recommendations are to be adopted (the cost to our economy alone is said to be in excess of $10 billion) there needs to be a much longer conversation if we are to go down this rocky path that the Commission wants us to take.
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February 2, 2021 8:16am
- graham
  
  The same article states, “Its plan suggests no new natural gas connections to the network or bottled LPG after 2025.”
  
  I live on a lifestyle block in Auckland, and my hob and hot water are both gas. There is no mains gas out here, so I use bottled gas as do my neighbours.
  
  So if I understand this correctly, I will need to replace my one-year-old continuous flow water heater and my three-year-old gas hob in the next four years? As will my neighbours, and hundreds more people in the same situation.
  
  Thanks for nothing, Labour.
  
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  February 2, 2021 8:59am
  - Batman
    
    I have a suspicion that this will be axed as a ceremonial sacrifice to display reasonableness. That’s probably why it is in there.
    
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    February 2, 2021 9:06am
    - RoboRob
      
      Agree with Batman. Seems like an obvious ploy. Get everyone focused on the LPG and than scrap it. People will miss the stupidity of things like reducing farm output so that other, less green farmers, will have to produce more.
      
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      February 2, 2021 9:24am
    - Tricati
      
      The cynic in me agrees Batman – What would be interesting to see is the number of gas powered oven/hobbs & hot water systems in NZ, and the likely increase in electricity use to cover their conversion. This coupled with recharging electric cars, we are going to need a bloody lot more than the pipe dream of using Manapouri power to cover all of this.
      
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      February 2, 2021 10:58am
      - Benedict Yu
        
        Also 95 percent of chefs use gas. Most Chinese cuisine can only be cooked on gas.
        
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        February 2, 2021 1:11pm
    - Frank the tank
      
      I agree with you on that one. Classic case of increase the price with knowing you have some “margin” to play with when the push back comes. This my trick when Indians and Arabs try to barter the price down at our work. It’s fucking annoying but works every time.
      
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      February 2, 2021 7:00pm
  - The Housekeeper
    
    Same graham. My new house will only be 5 years old in 2025. I wasn’t allowed a solid fuel burner so went with bottled gas for heating, cooking and hot water. What a waste of money and resources.
    
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    February 2, 2021 10:14am
  - GT Build
    
    How am I going to cook on the BBQ when the power goes out as it will when the network is under stress from charging all the EVs
    
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    February 2, 2021 11:01am
  - Paulus
    
    You probably voted for them too !
    
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    February 2, 2021 11:17am
  - kevn
    
    @Jade and Graham… Merely collateral damage. Same for the more financially challenged NZer’s.
    The elites rule.
    
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    February 2, 2021 12:21pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Electricity is coming to all. Tesla has been conquered. Out of Zimbabwe comes a surprise. See the developments here (includes battery free electric car.)
    https://saithgroup.com/
    A lot of detailing on the FaceBook pages: https://www.facebook.com/SaithtechGroup
    
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    February 2, 2021 1:13pm
    - Master Mariner
      
      Yeah seen that, Apparently ordered out of Alibaba , China.
      Got to give him credit for ingenuity.
      
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      February 2, 2021 5:38pm
  - OTGO
    
    You are a wealthy, capitalist, land owner sucking wealth from the working class. Getting rid of your energy supply will teach you to be more grateful for your entitled position in society and as a bonus you will be saving the planet.
    
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    February 2, 2021 1:22pm
  - Master Mariner
    
    I’d be picking the price of gas will make it economically unviable by 2025.
    Goodbye to Califonts, Gas Heaters etc.
    People be lucky or willing to spend on BBQ Gas as the price to refil will be out of reach and instead of “swap” a bottle will come under “steal ” a bottle due to cost to replace.
    Thats my prediction, as economics of scale will be against the consumer, unlike Oz.
    
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    February 2, 2021 2:34pm
  - Loddenthinks
    
    New saying to indicate things are up and running:
    
    “Now we are cooking with dung” ???
    
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    February 2, 2021 3:28pm
- ldypen
  
  If this government was truly interested in reducing our carbon emissions surely they would open the boarders and not bother with the vaccine, 80,000 plus deaths would mean 80,000 less users of carbon, it’s all very simple really.
  
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  February 2, 2021 9:31am
- tf78
  
  Mark Latham said he did some numbers on it last week and said it would cost 30% of our household income. I hope he’s not correct but no one else has come out with any real numbers from this side of the ditch.
  
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  February 2, 2021 11:21am
Simon

Based on your 2020 election vote decision which Pride & Prejudice character are you?

ACT: Mr. Bingley
Green Party: Mr. Collins
Labour: Lydia Bennet
NZ First: Mr Wickham
National: Caroline Bingley
Maori Party: Mr. Collins on drugs
Registered didn’t vote: Mr. Darcy
Non-registered: Elizabeth Bennet
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February 2, 2021 8:17am
Benedict Yu

I read parts of the climate commission report yesterday. It was worrying. Quite apart from the fact that the name of the country, New Zealand, was totally absent in the narrative.

The report acknowledges that people on low incomes will not be able to afford EVs. It specifically mentions South Auckland. And it goes on to say that these people will need to switch to public transport.

So we are going to deprive low income people of cars for what benefit? If you are a family with kids in the suburbs your quality of life will be significantly diminished without a vehicle.

Why is there not outrage over this? I am hoping it is a slow burn…

I am totally confident that Jacinda will ban petrol cars. National will sit on the fence. Only ACT will point out the stupidity.
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February 2, 2021 8:22am
- Tall Man
  
  “ACT will point out the stupidity”.
  
  Probably. It’s easy to wave a flag or a stick and shout into the wind. How about a solution …. Not so easy then and ACT is completely on board with the “climate” fraud.
  
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  February 2, 2021 8:55am
  - pdm
    
    Tall man – I thought ACT was the only party to vote some of the (so called) climate measures in the Peters led Government 2017 to 2020.
    
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    February 2, 2021 9:25am
    - pdm
      
      bugger – vote against
      
      mods can you slot the against in please? – between vote and some.
      
      Thank you.
      
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      February 2, 2021 9:49am
      - pdm
        
        Obviously not.
        
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        February 2, 2021 11:22am
    - Tall Man
      
      Hmmm, looks like they believe the bullshit to me, just have a slightly, very slightly, different plan.
      
      “Climate Change
      ACT will introduce a no-nonsense climate change plan which ties our carbon price to that of our trading partners.”
      and
      
      “ACT believes New Zealand must play its part on climate change. “
      
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      February 2, 2021 12:13pm
  - The Proper Ghandi
    
    Seymour took about 5 minutes to become corrupted.
    
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    February 2, 2021 10:56am
- RalphT
  
  South Auckland? Surely they meant to say the southern part of Tamaki Makaurau?
  
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  February 2, 2021 9:16am
  - Unity
    
    Is anyone else getting fed up with hearing Auckland’s new name? And all the other bits of ‘Maori’ inserted into the News on TV1 and I think TV3 also do it. It would be nice to have an English only channel as we do have other Maori TV channels.
    
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    February 2, 2021 11:46am
    - Jack5
      
      State TV, notably a chubby weather announcer, is intent on renaming Christchurch Otautahi.
      
      The poster, Unity, is right. If they were sincere, State TV (and Radio NZ) would run dual programmes in English and Maori, reflecting the two languages.
      
      Instead they are trying to force us into speaking Maori, and in doing so are creating New Zealand Pidgin – Maorified English.
      
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      February 2, 2021 2:23pm
    - Steve Todd
      
      Is anyone else getting fed up with hearing Auckland’s new name?
      
      No, not at all, Unity. In fact, I quite like it.
      
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      February 2, 2021 6:01pm
      - Jack5
        
        You mean, Steve, Jaffaville? ?
        
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        February 2, 2021 7:59pm
- rockape
  
  Personally I can afford an ev but many can’t. Public transport is not an option for my ire, a nurse in ED that sometimes starts at 7 or finishes at midnight or 7 or 3 in the afternoon. We live 3 km from the village and a 32 km drive to work. Fine , as I said, I can afford an ev but can the cleaners, care assistants and lower paid nurses living in the village ? Ps as an ED nurse, working from home is not an option!
  
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  February 2, 2021 9:52am
- Wayne Mapp
  
  The plan is to ban petrol car imports from 2030 or so, not ban petrol cars outright. Though that could occur sometime around 2050.
  In doing so New Zealand will simply be part of a global trend, with both left and right governments already going down this path.
  I imagine poorer families won’t be getting into electric cars for another 8 to 12 years.
  Round where I live there are heaps of new Tesla 3’s. Presumably they will be on the second hand market in about 3 to 5 years. I guess a second hand price of $20 to $40k. Maybe poorer families will be the third owners in about 5 to 8 years.
  
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  February 2, 2021 10:27am
  - Jack5
    
    “Maybe poorer families will be the third owners in about 5 to 8 years.”
    
    That is, when the car’s battery is rooted.
    
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    February 2, 2021 10:31am
    - SGA
      
      But won’t the market reflect this eventually? In effect, you pay for a car without a battery knowing that you’ll be up for one soon (like on the kids toys “batteries not included”). Much like now, where if you are looking a certain brands of car of a certain “km”age then you factor in replacing the cam belt sometime soon. Not so?
      
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      February 2, 2021 12:27pm
      - Jack5
        
        Do you know how much an electric car battery costs?
        
        Prices in Japan for “refabricated” (that is reconditioned) batteries from Nissan for Leaf vehicles, including shipping, local margin, and GST must be $6000 to $7000 or more. That is before installation, which might take a mechanic most of a day.
        
        For new batteries the price is much steeper.
        
        The price of a brand-new Leaf in New Zealand is $62,000.
        
        Take an ordinary Kiwi family, say a tradie with a wife still not able to work because the three kids are too small. Forcing them into electric vehicles is like forcing them into driving BMWs and only BMWs.
        
        New Zealand’s professional-Greenie elite on electric cars is acting like the fabled response of Marie Antoinette when told the power had no bread. Instead of telling them to eat cake today she would be telling them: let them drive EVs (or bike or walk).
        
        Here’s a case of a Nissan dealer telling the New Zealand owner of a $13,000 used-import Leaf that a brand new battery would cost her $121,000.
        
        https://www.autocar.co.nz/autocar-news-app/kiwi-nissan-leaf-owner-told-new-battery-would-cost-121-000
        
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        February 2, 2021 1:39pm
      - Jack5
        
        Edit: .. Marie Antoinette when told the ~~power~~ poor had no bread.
        
        The Power have all the bread.
        
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        February 2, 2021 1:46pm
    - backster
      
      Maybe WINZ or whatever it’s now called will be empowered to offer emergency replacement batteries to those too poor to afford a replacement.
      
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      February 2, 2021 2:01pm
  - Paulus
    
    It has been reported that some well known electric cars have a second hand value now lower than battery replacements.
    
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    February 2, 2021 11:20am
    - Unity
      
      And has anyone thought about the disposal of the EV batteries? I imagine that would be a massive exercise unless they can find some way to break them down and use them for something else.
      
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      February 2, 2021 11:48am
  - graham
    
    I’m not overly familiar with the Tesla models, but I haven’t seen any Tesla people-carriers in Auckland – and remembering that often the families in South Auckland have large families, I imagine these will be the car of choice. A very quick Google tells me that the Model X is a 7-seater, and list price on the NZ website is $182,598.
    
    What sort of price do you think one of these will be going for in, say, eight years? I highly doubt it will be within reach of your average South Auckland family.
    
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    February 2, 2021 11:21am
    - Wayne Mapp
      
      Battery life is not the problem it was a few years ago. The Model 3 is quite a decent sized car at starts at $80,000 new. So I am picking $20,000 at 5 to 6 years old. In any event there will be a much bigger range of choice in EV’s pretty soon and from big volume manufacturers like Kia and Toyota..
      
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      February 2, 2021 12:43pm
  - tf78
    
    Wayne, I hope they don’t have to fork out for a new battery – second hand should only be sold if they have a new battery installed.
    
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    February 2, 2021 11:25am
  - Tall Man
    
    “Round where I live there are heaps of new Tesla 3’s.”
    
    So you’ve no idea how the average Kiwi lives then?
    
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    February 2, 2021 12:14pm
  - Nukuleka
    
    Jeez Wayne. Love the ’round where I live there are heaps of new Tesla 3’s”… It is little wonder that us little people have so little time for the elites of the world- particularly fat cat former politicians.
    
    I can assure you that not many kiwis are able to brag about the numbers of people driving Tesla 3’s round where I live. Nor in the world that the bulk of kiwis live, either. Talk about out of touch!
    
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    February 2, 2021 12:35pm
    - Wayne Mapp
      
      I obviously appreciate that Bayswater and Devonport are not exactly a mirror of wider New Zealand. Though Bayswater, where I live, ranges from about 200 state houses to a few $10 million properties at the end of the Peninsula. The Tesla’s are more of a Devonport thing. Tesla’s could easily be the biggest selling car in Devonport. In Bayswater there are a lot of Ford Rangers.
      
      The point I was making is that the shift to EV’s is already occurring, especially in affluent, environmentally aware places like Devonport. They are just the first wave, the early adopters.
      
      By 2030, EV’s will be everywhere and in all market segments. The Tesla’s 3’s being sold to Devonport residents (price range $80,000 to $110,00 depending on model) will be 10 years old in 2030. You will see a lot of them in West Auckland, and perhaps South Auckland by then.
      
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      February 2, 2021 5:47pm
  - Frank the tank
    
    At some stage when the EU,US, Canada and ourselves are midway through this lunacy, ‘Chyna’ are laughing from the sidelines and a little girl is shoved down a hole in Benin, Chad or another shithole country so Gayford can get an electric 4wd for his fishing show there will be a lightbulb moment and they’ll realise Malthus was correct.
    
    And that stage I’ll be a ranging alcoholic in a nursing home saying I told you so.
    
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    February 2, 2021 7:16pm
  - Tom Hunter
    
    ^^^^^^^^^
    
    Former National Cabinet Minister.
    
    And similarly on every other issue you care to think of.
    
    Just vote Labour. No point wasting your vote on people like this as I did between 2002-2017.
    
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    February 3, 2021 12:45am
- Frank the tank
  
  At some stage when the EU,US, Canada and ourselves are midway through this lunacy, ‘Chyna’ are laughing from the sidelines and a little girl is shoved down a hole in Benin, Chad or another shithole country so Gayford can get an electric 4wd for his fishing show there will be a lightbulb moment and they’ll realise Malthus was correct.
  
  And that stage I’ll be a ranging alcoholic in a nursing home saying I told you so.
  
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  February 2, 2021 7:08pm
oldfella

[Mod: deleted for outright racism. Referred to Mods and DPF for potential ban as a deterrent.]
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February 2, 2021 8:22am
- sooty
  
  Must have a different moderater on today.
  Batman would have comeout with snakey remark.
  
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  February 2, 2021 9:57am
  - oldfella
    
    Sooty, have asked for some clarification over this alleged ‘outright racism’.
    Not sure if my request will make it through and appear here for others to ponder.
    
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    February 2, 2021 11:10am
- oldfella
  
  Wow. I can’t keep up with the rules on this blog or the vagaries of the various mods.
  Please explain – was my two-word description of Mahuta the bit that got you incensed? Even though that description is commonly used on KB?
  Okay, cut it out if it really offends you. Warn me, and ping everyone else who does the same thing.
  But… the majority of my comments were not in the least racist. Not even close. I was actually arguing over the imposition of what I see as a racist law.
  Is that also offensive?
  How about asking the rest of the commenters on the blog for their opinion. I suspect they’d mostly agree with me.
  
  What I said was…
  “Watched ****** Mahuta on the news last night explaining how the current law that allows citizens to democratically oppose the creation of local body Maori Wards is racist and must be overturned.
  To be replaced by a new, improved, kinder form of separation of the races (‘apartheid’ anyone?) which is not racist and will no longer be subject to democratic opposition.
  I’m pleased she cleared that up for us.
  Me? I’m still confused.”
  
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  February 2, 2021 10:29am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    To make any observations that are negative as to the present govt is to place a target on your back.
    
    The right to free thought cannot be suppressed but the right to free expression can. The American Disease seems to have caught on here: what our rulers want they demand, digitally enforced,lawfully avoided or physically upheld. Police have become irrelevant now that tribal activist rule is recognised.
    
    Betta get some bro-wash.
    
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    February 2, 2021 1:40pm
- calendar girl
  
  And most readers have never seen the comment, so they have no means of knowing or understanding the appropriateness or otherwise of the deletion.
  
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  February 2, 2021 10:47am
  - Unity
    
    Surely anything done on the basis of race is racist, which is what they want to do, and thus makes Nanaia Mahuta’s comment inexplicable.
    
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    February 2, 2021 11:53am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      Mahuta is exercising the mana of her rank but that does not apply across NZ’s Pakeha society. The Treaty made no provision for such. Tribes other than Waikato are not affected either.
      
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      February 2, 2021 1:43pm
I remember when

What an odd item by Jo Muir.
National hunt for votes ‘on the marae.’
Mentions that neither John Key or Bill English had any interest in running candidates in the seats.
How did they do?
Then seemed to think the party needed a current sitting Maori MP to stand in a seat. Why?
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February 2, 2021 8:23am
- New Zealander
  
  link?
  
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  February 2, 2021 8:47am
- MCos
  
  John Key had the backing of the Maori Party & thus Maori seats by proxy. That gave him 5, 3 & 2 seats over consecutive administrations. ( Notice a trend)
  The Maori Party dipped out at the next election leaving Bill high & dry with no Maori seats.
  BTW
  Until 1999 the Nats had always stood candidates in the Maori seats since its inception. They even won 2/4 first time up, but that didn’t last long and even Apirana Ngata lost his seat.
  
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  February 2, 2021 9:55am
Maggie Pie

So what DO they do when they see someone in a MAGA hat…….
EAT THEM?

https://twitter.com/BidenLs/status/1355903268854050822

😛 😛
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February 2, 2021 8:27am
- Tall Man
  
  Well that red is very similar to tomato sauce …..
  
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  February 2, 2021 8:31am
Tall Man

I saw this today:

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/02/duncan-garner-it-s-time-to-get-hostile-over-new-zealand-s-cancer-care.html

One line stood out to me:

“And outcomes are far worse for Māori.”

Now I know a few at the pointy end of medical treatment and one thing is clear from our discussions. Maori are far more likely to cease medication before the specified date. They are far more likely to fail to attend appointments for initial treatment, ongoing treatment and followup appointments to review the result of treatments.

They are far more likely to fail to collect prescriptions, that may be a cost issue, and are far more likely to fail to follow the exact instructions when timeliness is a requirement for the success of the medication.

However, it appears that it’s the fault of the system. No one has yet told me how……
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February 2, 2021 8:29am
- Simon
  
  Nearly 50% of Maori are obese. Cindy or fake $1 media outrage wont save them.
  
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  February 2, 2021 9:08am
- WaveyDavey
  
  Institutional Racism of course
  
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  February 2, 2021 9:10am
  - sooty
    
    Due to colonialism!
    
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    February 2, 2021 9:59am
- pdm
  
  `“And outcomes are far worse for Māori.”’
  
  Couldn’t be any worse for my mother who had not a drop of Maori blood and died from breast cancer 4 weeks after her 50th birthday.
  
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  February 2, 2021 9:29am
  - JibberJabber
    
    Same here PDM, my mother at 52 from cervical cancer after being ignored several times by her Dr after asking for smear tests even tho’ a health campaign had been underway for some years for that specific illness.
    Maybe she should have changed Drs but she was from an era that trusted their Drs advice.
    
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    February 2, 2021 11:48am
- RoboRob
  
  Maori are far worse off socio economically for a number of historic and current institutional issues. Part of the reason Maori may be less liklely to attend appointments might be things like;
  
  a) Insufficient funds to actual travel to the hospital (broken car, no money for petrol, no money for a bus)
  
  b) Unable to get time off from low wage manual job. These jobs can often be much less flexible than white collar work.
  
  With regards to following instructions, who knows. Lower educational outcomes leading to an inability to follow instructions? Inability to travel to the chemist for repeats?
  
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  February 2, 2021 9:30am
  - Paulus
    
    re your comment
    b Sick Leave is now 10 days (was 5) so there is employment accommodation for a medical visit.
    
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    February 2, 2021 11:23am
    - RoboRob
      
      Didn’t know that sick leave was 10 days now, thks for the info. Not sure it makes much difference though, for cancer treatment I think 10 days isn’t likely to cut it.
      
      For what its worth I am not saying Maori aren’t at least part to blame here. I just think sometimes people overlook things that they dont experiance in daily life.
      
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      February 2, 2021 11:47am
  - Tall Man
    
    I just drove past one of our local marae. Carpark absolutely chocko with primarily later model cars. Actually overflowing onto SHW1.
    
    No shortage of transport there.
    
    My own medical centre is a maori health provider as the GP has been a mate for over 30 years. No only do the staff and the doctors bend over backwards I see very few old dungers in the carpark but often the consulting fees are never paid but picked up by the DHB or written off within the practice.
    
    Too many excuses and not enough “giving a shit” in my opinion.
    
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    February 2, 2021 12:20pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Generally less able and scared of doctors–hospitals are where people go to die.
    
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    February 2, 2021 2:14pm
- Sacha
  
  @ tall Man: And that was my experiences 20 years ago.
  Endless re-admissions to hospital to re-stabilise the condition.
  In the end, if the person decided not to co-operate, well, we had someone else to take their place in the programme.
  
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  February 2, 2021 9:30am
- cmm
  
  Maori might be doing worse for obesity related deaths (incl cancer), but they must be doing better by some measure.
  
  All of us die.
  If you add up all the ways Maori die it adds up to 100%.
  If you add up all the ways non-Maori die it adds up to 100%.
  
  If more Maori are dying of cancer then less Maori must be dying of something else. What is that magic disease/ailment X?
  
  Why are we not seeing headlined “Shocking Stats: Heaps of pale stale males dying of X! What are the govt going to do about it?”
  
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  February 2, 2021 9:51am
  - calendar girl
    
    A bit simplistic, perhaps, unless the average age at death is also factored-in for each cohort.
    
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    February 2, 2021 10:56am
  - Paulus
    
    But will not having an unelected Maori Councillor now help Maori Health and wellbeing.
    
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    February 2, 2021 11:24am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Polynesian obesity is linked to the cultural appreciation of excess weight denoting higher status. That happens here too.
    It may have occasioned genetic effects so that the genes involved now produce the required carcass configuration automatically.
    
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    February 2, 2021 2:18pm
  - Jack5
    
    Cmm’s “…less Maori must be dying of something else….”
    
    Skin cancer! Brown skins aren’t so vulnerable to sun exposure.
    
    Some ethnic variations in health are related to diet. For example, higher sea food consumption may be the cause suffering more from gout than Whites do.
    
    Men from many Asian countries suffer much less prostate cancer, but if they move to the United States, the next generation or two of their family have a similar incidence rate to White Americans. That shows life style is a factor.
    
    Meanwhile Black Americans suffer 75 higher rates of prostate cancer than white Americans, and they suffer more severe forms.
    
    Some postulate that African Americans’ dark skins may create insufficient Vitamin D in a climate that is milder than that of the Africa of their forbearers.
    
    Building on CMM’s point, different races, different groups, different families even have different propensities to develop various diseases.
    
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    February 2, 2021 2:37pm
  - jonno69
    
    But death is worse for Maori !
    
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    February 2, 2021 2:45pm
- Libertarians are right
  
  Don’t forget that some cancers are often (but not always) a product of choice (like smoking etc).
  There are also active advertising etc to get Maori and Pacifica women to have testing done and also advertising and programmes aiming at reducing smoking amongst Maori and Pacifica.
  That is explicit race based help aimed specifically at them and many still ignore it and blame the system when they get sick.
  
  I’m not religious at all but there is a funny God story that is relevant here:
  
  A fellow was stuck on his rooftop in a flood. He was praying to God for help.
  Soon a man in a rowboat came by and the fellow shouted to the man on the roof, “Jump in, I can save you.”
  The stranded fellow shouted back, “No, it’s OK, I’m praying to God and he is going to save me.”
  So the rowboat went on.
  Then a motorboat came by. “The fellow in the motorboat shouted, “Jump in, I can save you.”
  To this the stranded man said, “No thanks, I’m praying to God and he is going to save me. I have faith.”
  So the motorboat went on.
  Then a helicopter came by and the pilot shouted down, “Grab this rope and I will lift you to safety.”
  To this the stranded man again replied, “No thanks, I’m praying to God and he is going to save me. I have faith.”
  So the helicopter reluctantly flew away.
  Soon the water rose above the rooftop and the man drowned. He went to Heaven. He finally got his chance to discuss this whole situation with God, at which point he exclaimed, “I had faith in you but you didn’t save me, you let me drown. I don’t understand why!”
  To this God replied, “I sent you a rowboat and a motorboat and a helicopter, what more did you expect?”
  
  Ignoring help when offered because it’s not the help you want or expect, or because it’s too hard does not mean that people were not offering you help and certainly does not mean those people are racist for not offering you the help you wanted/expected.
  
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  February 2, 2021 9:59am
- IC5000
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  > No one has yet told me how……
  
  Why? It’s not like you give a fuck about Maori apart from using them as a punching bag to indulge in your personal prejudices. Does it make you feel better to be able to look down on others?
  
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  February 2, 2021 10:49am
  - Tall Man
    
    Go on, tell me how you really feel……..
    
    I have maori within my family as well as other races so keep your ignorance to yourself, or not as you see fit.
    
    From a purely fiscal point of view it is far more efficient to heal people when they are sick not perpetuate the illness, but you ignored that didn’t you.
    
    Secondly, no one ever improves their wellbeing by continually blaming others for the unfortunate situation they find themselves in so I have to assume that you are either part of the endless gravy train of welfare and under utilised medical treatment for maori or just don’t want them to get out of the rut they are in.
    
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    February 2, 2021 12:07pm
    - IC5000
      
      > I have maori within my family as well as other races so keep your ignorance to yourself, or not as you see fit
      
      Then why not redeem yourself and ask the correct questions to solve the problems to enable Maori to live longer? Is that so hard to do?
      
      > Secondly, no one ever improves their wellbeing by continually blaming others
      
      Exactly. So I guess we won’t see any more posts from you blaming the PM and Labour Party for all manner of perceived evils that they have no control over. I guessed wrong though because the whining will continue because that’s all you can do, whine and not come up with any solutions.
      
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      February 2, 2021 12:57pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Do you understand your logic because I certainly don’t and it makes me chuckle to see you whining about me whining.
        
        It is not my place to solve maori problems as we are being continually told by maori. Perhaps you missed that or are just so condescending that you think they are incapable of solving anything.
        
        Please identify any post that I have made blamming ardern or the rest of her pathetic government for any of the problems that I face due to my own stupidity.
        
        I don’t like liars, I never have but I dislike idiots even more even more I think.
        
        How’s that for restraint in the face of abject idiocy mods? 🙂
        
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        February 2, 2021 2:19pm
      - Inandout
        
        IC, I have asked Maori family members why they seem to always be on the bad end of stats. The answer is invariably because they are basically a lazy lot and see ‘the easy way’ as the answer. Getting off one’s arse takes a certain amount of attitude, and if the taxpayer is always on tap to catch your fall, well why the fuck even try?
        
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        February 2, 2021 2:49pm
  - Kiwi Dave
    
    This is your opportunity to answer the question and enlighten us racist ignoramuses. Roborob has made some suggestions; what can you add? Impugning Tall Man’s character might or might not be justified – I have no idea – but tells me more about you than the issue.
    
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    February 2, 2021 2:58pm
- Raphael
  
  It’s the same as when they blame the education system for Maori not doing well (don’t get me wrong, I think there is a lot to improve there, and support the brilliant work done by charter schools)
  There is a culture amongst many Maori that education is bad (as aopposed to asians having a culture that prioritises education).
  
  We can fix lots of things, makes lots of programmes etc. but until there is a cultural shift there will be no real change.
  
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  February 2, 2021 11:07am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Only Maori can give themselves permission to accept education. It’s bad manners for a lesser ranked person to shine in the presence of their betters. Kids keep quiet in class because of it. Charter schools must have found a way around that problem.
    
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    February 2, 2021 2:23pm
I remember when

‘anyone who is willing and pay for the security themselvesld b
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February 2, 2021 8:35am
colina

The great reset but you will be happy
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/climate-change-report-gas-fueled-barbecues-and-commercial-kitchens-to-be-snuffed-out/YYQ4KMX3Q3EFALSD4XM35I45VU/
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February 2, 2021 8:36am
- Frank the tank
  
  Electric barbecues LOL just LOL.
  
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  February 2, 2021 8:47am
  - JerJer
    
    Just go charcoal, or wood. They cannot ban wood. In any case, most of this stupidy won’t happen.
    
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    February 2, 2021 9:33am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Might run out of wood – no trees being planted except native trees. Cut them down and see what happens
      
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      February 2, 2021 4:12pm
  - zulumonster
    
    Solar or wind turbine powered BBQ’s coming soon to a Bunnings near you?
    
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    February 2, 2021 11:09am
  - Pharmachick
    
    I understand there is a roaring trade in dung braziers in Pakistan…
    
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    February 2, 2021 2:15pm
    - Master Mariner
      
      Camel is the Fuel of choice in middle East.
      
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      February 2, 2021 3:05pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        9 out of 10 men who have tried camels, prefer women.
        Tee shirt I had many moons ago
        
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        February 2, 2021 4:17pm
- RW Capitalist
  
  When I serviced Giffins Biscuit’s factory in Gracefield (a few moons ago now).
  They had 4 gas ovens , does this mean them and similar business’ are now out of business?
  
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  February 2, 2021 9:09am
  - sooty
    
    No they are going to go back to burning coal, logs or tyres!
    
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    February 2, 2021 10:02am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Guess we won’t making our own cement either.
    https://www.thermofisher.com/blog/mining/the-cement-manufacturing-process/
    
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cement_kiln
    Fuels that have been used for primary firing include coal, petroleum coke, heavy fuel oil, natural gas, landfill off-gas and oil refinery flare gas.
    Thought they were trying to bring the cost of housing down?
    
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    February 2, 2021 11:31am
    - Master Mariner
      
      Nope, Im assuming all imported now.
      Thats why on Climate report page 49, Shipping and avaiation will not be included.
      There is I believe one vessel transporting cement up and down the coast but assuming all imported now.
      Biggest “climate emergency” in that regard is “legally obtaining” sand for cement.
      Believe it or not.
      In which case how come we dont see on Bunnings Quickset cement ” Certified Sand” ?
      True question.
      In fact how far do you take it?
      Shipped by a FO source from “certified” organisation, With 5 Gold stars rating.
      Thats why its a total sham and NZ needs to kick academia out of Government organisations.
      
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      February 2, 2021 3:13pm
- Simon
  
  “be happy in your work’
  
  Japanese infrastructure planner. Thailand mid- 1940s.
  
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  February 2, 2021 9:10am
  - Master Mariner
    
    Burma rail road foreman ?
    
    Reminds of “Work sets you free”.
    Sounds familar somewhere ?
    
    Rebrand it Too keep up with the times ” No work sets you free” And apply all conditions / constraints to the original above quote above to get a better picture of future prospects.
    
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    February 2, 2021 5:52pm
- Greg Ettridge
  
  This is just verbal diatribe
  A greedy selfish adulating individual uses two gas guzzling 757’s with a handful of climate destroyers giving the finger to the climate.
  Maybe we start looking at these flights on a per person basis if we are close to destruction as these space pilots think and keep telling us.
  How many barbecues could you fire up with the wanted destruction of the climate by these aircraft and their selfish use.
  Didn’t 66,000 litres av gas get burnt off to feed a baby once.
  All these practices will need to change, starting from the top.
  
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  February 2, 2021 9:23am
  - kowtow
    
    “Do as I tell you , not as I do”
    
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    February 2, 2021 9:29am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    And the coincidence of a Navy Frigate that just happened to be in Samoa, on it’s way to Tokelau
    
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    February 2, 2021 11:36am
- Bobba Fret
  
  I was not aware that they were now going after gas water heating and gas cooking. Many chefs will not be happy.
  
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  February 2, 2021 11:00am
plc

Friend came home from Europe for holiday in November. Spent two weeks in MIQ and went back to Europe mid-January.

Was open that that was the length of her stay. Never was presented with a bill for the cost of MIQ and left without paying.

Another flawed aspiration it appears. If you want people to pay the cost you must raise an invoice.

I’m sure Chippy would say it was a ‘one-off”. His press conferences are getting more and more “Chernobyl” by the day.
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February 2, 2021 8:39am
rouppe

Anyone else think that Dr Rod Carr looks a bit like Karl Marx?
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February 2, 2021 8:39am
- Frank the tank
  
  Looks like a greens vegan nutter…..wait…..
  
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  February 2, 2021 8:47am
- Tony Stuart
  
  He’s certainly got a magnificent hipster beard. I bet he drinks craft beer!
  
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  February 2, 2021 8:54am
  - Libertarians are right
    
    If you look at the photos of when he was announced to the job, he had a neatly trimmed, short beard.
    It’s almost like he’s let it grow out to give him woke points when he made his big (predetermined based on his ideological beliefs) announcements.
    It also explains why is announcements took so long when he knew going in what he was going to demand.
    It wasn’t just about money, he also needed the time to grow out his hipster beard.
    
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    February 2, 2021 11:48am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Rod Carr is legally blind… perhaps it has just got too difficult shaving each day or keeping his beard trimmed.
      
      He is also partially sighted and has been legally blind since birth
      https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/110369900/rod-carrs-hard-yards
      
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      February 2, 2021 1:34pm
      - Master Mariner
        
        Maybe he can only feel the Co2 unlike his friend Greta who can see it
        
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        February 2, 2021 4:27pm
  - Charmaine Hawke
    
    Hey Tony not all of us who drink craft beer rhyme with bankers, lol
    
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    February 2, 2021 12:25pm
- JibberJabber
  
  Well, I’m no Gynecologist but I know a ____ when I see one .
  This communist clown (like all Greenies) is dead set on imposing a Holomodor on NZ the likes of which hasn’t been seen since the 1930s.
  This is what happens when the ideological simpletons that infest leftist politics get their hands on the levers of power. The sheer ignorance of history has got us to where we are now, we were all warned and 50% + choose to ignore the lessons of the past.
  
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  February 2, 2021 9:07am
- Bobba Fret
  
  One look at the beard tells you all you need to know.
  
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  February 2, 2021 12:01pm
Yvette

Is the Billion Trees Scheme for the chop?

Previous scenarios for New Zealand have involved staggering amounts – millions of hectares – of new plantation forestry. This has found its way into government policy, through the Billion Trees programme, and subsidies via the Emissions Trading Scheme. In turn this has generated concern both from farmers, that farmland is being converted to less productive uses, and from climate advocates, who argue that trees represent a finite and risky store of carbon. Focusing on them can act to delay the exit from fossil fuels and limit land-use options available to future generations.

The commission has heard these concerns and responded with a new proposal. It still involves 300,000 hectares of new plantation forests, but it also contains a new ingredient, 300,000 hectares of permanent native forests, planted on steep, less productive land. These store carbon at a much slower rate, but can keep doing so for centuries, and also lead to biodiversity gains. The commission argues that this is a plausible way to offset the small remaining emissions from fossil fuels. [1]

Is writer, Robert McLachlan, actually saying here that the Climate Commission is advocating the Billion Tree Programme be cut now to 300,000 hectares – in exotics terms, at 1,000 trees approximately to a hectare, so to roughly 300 million trees – and that they all be natives: much more expensive to plant, sequester less carbon, but longer lasting?

How come this comment appears in the international Guardian UK, before seeming to feature in local media?
And have the goalposts being reset from a One Billion Trees Scheme to About Three Hundred Million?

“Forests have a role to play, but we can’t plant our way out of climate change,” the Commission wrote.

“Relying heavily on forestry before 2050 is likely to make maintaining net zero long-lived greenhouse gas emissions after 2050 difficult. It would delay action, lead to higher cumulative emissions and make the job ahead of us more difficult.”

Waste from plantation forests should be turned into biofuel and new, permanent native forests should be planted to serve as a long-term sink for residual emissions. [2]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2021/feb/01/new-zealand-will-need-a-policy-revolution-to-meet-climate-commissions-brief
[2] https://www.newsroom.co.nz/climate-commission-report-what-you-need-to-know
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February 2, 2021 8:41am
- Tall Man
  
  There never was going to be much “chop” Yvette, it was merely another source of revenue for “what’s in it for wynston” to tap into.
  
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  February 2, 2021 8:51am
- Tony Stuart
  
  We can but hope. Already the Billion Trees scheme has seen dozens of productive farms sold off to overseas consortiums, and planted exclusively in pine, much of which will never be harvested.
  
  Planting trees is fine, but it needs to be the right tree, in the right place, and for the right reason. Planting thousands of hectares of productive farmland in pine, solely to take advantage of carbon credits, is short-sighted policy that will have a significant negative and long-term effect on rural New Zealand.
  
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  February 2, 2021 8:58am
  - sooty
    
    Just as well Tugger and his cousins have never started their planting or we would be paying for them to sit on the couch!
    
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    February 2, 2021 10:06am
colina

It is simply terrifying just how gullible and stupid people are to accept this crap
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February 2, 2021 8:45am
Maggie Pie

My partner was just saying, the biggest collusion ever to occur on New Zealand soil is between the MSM and the Labor Party.
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February 2, 2021 8:48am
- Tony Stuart
  
  You might very well think that, but I couldn’t possibly comment.
  
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  February 2, 2021 8:59am
KevO'Brien

If two degrees warmer bothers you consider the temperature difference from chair to ceiling at home.
Does such a small difference have an affect globally on our lives and health?
See here this illuminating scorn on the global warming nonsense:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/02/01/the-so-called-climate-health-emergency/
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February 2, 2021 8:50am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Tax
Tax his land,

Tax his bed,

Tax the table

At which he’s fed.

Tax his work,

Tax his pay,

He works for peanuts

Anyway!

Tax his cow,

Tax his goat,

Tax his pants,

Tax his coat.

Tax his tobacco,

Tax his drink,

Tax him if he

Tries to think..

Tax his car,

Tax his gas,

Find other ways

To tax his ass.

Tax all he has

Then let him know

That you won’t be done

Till he has no dough.

When he screams and hollers;

Then tax him some more,

Tax him till

He’s good and sore.

Then tax his coffin,

Tax his grave,

Tax the sod in

Which he’s laid.

When he’s gone,

Do not relax,

Its time to apply

The inheritance tax.

Accounts Receivable Tax

Airline surcharge tax

Airline Fuel Tax

Airport Maintenance Tax

Building Permit Tax

Cigarette Tax

Corporate Income Tax

Death Tax

Dog License Tax

Driving Permit Tax

Environmental Tax (Fee)

Excise Taxes

Local Body Tax

Unemployment (UI)

Fishing License Tax

Food License Tax

Gasoline Tax (too much per litre)

Gross Receipts Tax

Health Tax

Hunting License Tax

Hydro Tax

Inheritance Tax

Interest Tax

Liquor Tax

Luxury Taxes

Marriage License Tax

Medicare Tax

Mortgage Tax

Personal Income Tax

Property Tax

Poverty Tax

Prescription Drug Tax

Provincial Income and sales tax

Real Estate Tax

Recreational Vehicle Tax

Retail Sales Tax

Service Charge Tax

School Tax

Telephone Tax

Telephone , Provincial and Local Surcharge Taxes

Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax

Vehicle License Registration Tax

Vehicle Sales Tax

Water Tax

Watercraft Registration Tax

Well Permit Tax

Workers Compensation Tax

— and in 2010

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, & our nation was one of the

most prosperous in the world. We had absolutely no national debt, had a large middle class, and

Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

What in “Hell” happened?

Can you smell ‘politicians?’
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February 2, 2021 8:51am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Try 60 years ago Steve. The standing joke in the Holyoake years was that Kiwi Keith knew all the unemployed in New Zealand by their first name.
  
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  February 2, 2021 9:01am
  - Jack5
    
    Wasn’t Holyoake’s home phone number was in the White Pages?
    
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    February 2, 2021 9:48am
    - Tony Stuart
      
      More than likely. Rob Muldoon’s definitely was, when he lived in Kohimarama Road in the late 1970’s. Muldoon also lived just down the road from Tom Skinner from the Federation of Labour, and a few potentially volatile situations were sorted out with a neighbourly chat.
      
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      February 2, 2021 11:05am
  - MCos
    
    I remember.
    Kids used to leave school at 15 because they could waltz straight into a well paying low grade job. The golden days didn’t last and those that stuck it out at school and the few that went on to university were the real winners.
    
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    February 2, 2021 10:14am
    - Jack5
      
      There were always kids who found it financially hard to get to university – those who lived outside the main centres when there were fewer universities and polytechnics, in particular.
      
      But are the kids who went to university from the 1980s or so on the real winners, MCos?
      
      Most graduates start working life with a big debt. Heaps of them make less than a good tradie does, and tradies generally have a better chance of starting their own business and potentially doing very well.
      
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      February 2, 2021 1:56pm
- MCos
  
  We don’t have inheritance tax or death duties as it used to be called.
  We don’t have Medicare tax
  We don’t have this, we don’t have that
  
  If you’re going to cut & paste you could at least edit it for NZ situation.
  
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  February 2, 2021 10:05am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    DILIGAF
    
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    February 2, 2021 11:20am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      There many Taxes there that Jaspinda has not thought of YET
      
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      February 2, 2021 11:33am
    - oldfella
      
      Steve, love it. DILLIGAF (with two ‘l’s) is my new word of the day. Made me laugh out loud when I looked it up.
      
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      February 2, 2021 11:36am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Yeah – my typo.
        Also, I don’t
        
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        February 2, 2021 11:47am
      - alex Masterley
        
        Thats going to be name of my next boat.
        
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        February 2, 2021 1:28pm
      - curry4me
        
        oldfella: Might have guessed. I had to look it up though.
        
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        February 2, 2021 2:18pm
- IC5000
  
  > What in “Hell” happened?
  
  1984 happened
  
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  February 2, 2021 11:11am
Tony Stuart

From Newsroom:

Rod Carr has a compelling vision of a future New Zealand

https://twitter.com/NewsroomNZ/status/1356325092427354113

Given Carr’s comments yesterday likening farmers to whale hunters, should we take it that his “compelling view of a future New Zealand” is one where farm animals are protected species? Has he, and the likes of James Shaw and Jacinda Ardern already forgotten that it was our primary industries and the products they export that got us through last year’s lockdown and economic uncertainty?
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February 2, 2021 8:53am
- Maggie Pie
  
  Why is it that those on the Left who have a ‘compelling vision’ for this country’s future, always look like they’re well and truly from the past?
  
  Just saying.
  
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  February 2, 2021 9:08am
- 70andstilllearning
  
  But but… doesn’t everything grow on trees including money?
  
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  February 2, 2021 9:52am
- Gravelroad
  
  Exports? What are they?
  Production? Who cares?
  Exports and the jobs surrounding them don’t matter to this lot.
  Just print more money and all will be well.
  What an astonishing ignorant insult to primary producers from Mr Carr.
  
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  February 2, 2021 10:24am
- JibberJabber
  
  Like all leftists, the “compelling vision” involves prosperity for them and slavery for you.
  
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  February 2, 2021 11:57am
- GazzaW
  
  The Herald had a lead article trumpeting the climate initiative and its effect on barbecues and very foolishly allowed readers’ comments. 95% of the 120+ comments made in very short order were extremely negative and guess what? The article has vanished in dare I say it – in a puff of smoke.
  
  Absolutely appalling.
  
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  February 2, 2021 2:49pm
RW Capitalist

didn’t actually know that this gag was so long.
WORLD IDEOLOGIES EXPLAINED BY REFERENCE TO COWS

FEUDALISM
You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.

SOCIALISM
You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn
with everyone else’s cows. You have to take care of all the cows. The
government gives you a glass of milk.

FASCISM
You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of
them, and sells you the milk.

PURE COMMUNISM
You share two cows with your neighbors. You and your neighbors bicker
about who has the most “ability” and who has the most “need”. Meanwhile,
no one works, no one gets any milk, and the cows drop dead of
starvation.

RUSSIAN COMMUNISM
You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government
takes all the milk. You steal back as much milk as you can and sell it
on the black market.

PERESTROIKA
You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the Mafia takes
all the milk. You steal back as much milk as you can and sell it on the
“free” market.

CAMBODIAN COMMUNISM
You have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you.

DICTATORSHIP
You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.

PURE DEMOCRACY
You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.

REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY
You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the
milk.

BUREAUCRACY
You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed
them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then
it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the
drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the
missing cows.

CAPITALISM
You don’t have any cows. The bank will not lend you money to buy cows,
because you don’t have any cows to put up as collateral.

PURE ANARCHY
You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your
neighbors try to take the cows and kill you.

ANARCHO-CAPITALISM
You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.

SURREALISM
You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica
lessons.

OLYMPICS-ISM
You have two cows, one American, one Chinese. With the help of trilling
violins and state of the art montage photography, John Tesh narrates the
moving tale of how the American cow overcame the agony of growing up in
a suburb with (gasp) divorced parents, then mentions in passing that the
Chinese cow was beaten every day by a tyrannical farmer and watched its
parents butchered before its eyes. The American cow wins the
competition, severely spraining an udder in a gritty performance, and
gets a multi-million dollar contract to endorse Wheaties. The Chinese
cow is led out of the arena and shot by Chinese government officials,
though no one ever hears about it. McDonald’s buys the meat and serves
it hot and fast at its Beijing restaurant.

AMERICAN CORPORATE CAPITALISM
Both cows are bloated with toxic steroids. They are set out to graze on
privatized public parks, release massive amounts of flatulence that
destroys the ozone layer, die from excess ultraviolet light, and are
processed into meat-like products that look great as a result of clever
and unprincipled marketing strategies. When you mortgage your
artificially devalued farm at high interest rates in order to buy meat,
you consume the poisoned material and develop terminal illnesses because
there is no health care plan to treat you. The corporate management uses
your purchase price to acquire THEIR meat from cows raised “naturally”
on tree-free rain forest land outside of the country where labor and
resources are cheap.

BRITISH REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY
Both cows are mad
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February 2, 2021 9:02am
- skyblue
  
  NZ Climate Change Comission:
  You have 2 cows, govt mandates culling one. You have to however, produce 40% more meat from 1 cow.
  
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  February 2, 2021 10:48am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    But no milk
    
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    February 2, 2021 11:38am
    - Libertarians are right
      
      And definitely no farts.
      
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      February 2, 2021 12:42pm
    - skyblue
      
      Don’t assume the cows sexuality. The climate Comission is just as likely to kill the cow and leave the bull, hence no allowance for milk quota.
      
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      February 2, 2021 2:53pm
Maggy Wassilieff

How on Earth are Primary School teachers graduating without the ability to teach Maths to 11-13 year olds?

principals had noticed that new teachers were avoiding taking older age groups in primary schools because they were worried they could not teach the required maths.

“NMSSA shows that learners aren’t getting enough mathematics teaching time, and that they aren’t getting a good balance in their ‘maths diet’ because teachers are not confident teaching what they don’t know.

If teachers can’t teach at the level they are being employed to teach, then there’s something seriously wrong with their Teacher Training Course.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/300219393/principals-challenge-education-ministry-over-student-failure
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February 2, 2021 9:03am
- JibberJabber
  
  It is all part of the plan Maggy, all part of the plan.
  
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  February 2, 2021 9:13am
- RW Capitalist
  
  So that everyone will agree that Grant Roberson is a genius.
  He can have $1.9billion left over from the money he BORROWED and call it a surplus.
  
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  February 2, 2021 9:23am
- Nukuleka
  
  My grandson’s classroom teacher is away this term doing a Maori language course. It matters not whether she can teach Mathematics at senior primary level as long as she can indoctrinate the kids in Maori.
  
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  February 2, 2021 10:21am
- rangitoto
  
  Maths meh. These teachers are experts at gender studies which is the important thing.
  
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  February 2, 2021 11:00am
- Paulus
  
  As long as the new Teachers can count up to ten in Te Reo then they are good at Maths.
  
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  February 2, 2021 1:15pm
- Pharmachick
  
  11 – 13 year olds. Thats BASIC arithmetic. I first read it as Year 11 – 13 and thought, okay precalculus and applied stats takes a bit more. But come on, at AGES 11-13 they’re barely doing BEDMAS and quadratic equations…
  
  That being said I have Uni students that struggle with e^(-Kel*t). I prolly need to retire early, becoming a curmudgeon is so… Academical
  
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  February 2, 2021 2:27pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Yep….
    
    The old Std 4- Std 6 // or Std 4, Form 1 & 2 classes.
    
    Since it has been compulsory for pupils to take Maths to Year 11 (5th Form) for yonks, you would assume that all of those who go on to teach primary /intermediate school-aged children could manage to teach this very basic-level maths.
    
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    February 2, 2021 2:37pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  How about something seriously wrong with the maths curriculum? Maths and numeracy are not the same. Most people don’t need to be trained to think like mathematicians but they do need a good basic learning of number facts.
  
  The syllabus could be modified drastically to be useful and teachable. Only select people should be concerned with learning maths. Who needs to know what the sq root of pi is? For most people basic counting is the first requirement. When GST calcs are taught through to year 10 that is too much. The classical teaching of number facts by rote is efficient and quick.
  
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  February 2, 2021 2:39pm
  - Master Mariner
    
    Actually Pi should be 6.28…Only a simple slip up made it 3.14…
    Thats why it 2Pi this and that.
    Under new cirricuculum that would mean if you have 2 pies then you have to give one away free of charge due to colonial guilt.
    True story actually.
    
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    February 2, 2021 3:30pm
  - Pharmachick
    
    “Who needs to know what the sq root of pi is..”
    
    Be careful with these rhetorical Q: I once told my 5th form maths teacher that Pythagoras’ Theorem was thousands of years old nonsense with no real-world application apart from School Cert Exams (err, that’s almost verbatim)… Fast forward to me tiling a kitchen in 2009 and having to cut a triangular piece for a corner. Oh GAWD. Needless to say I got in touch with him (ret.) and he *remembered* the comment, and appreciated the humble pie.
    
    PS: Life hack: hire professional tilers, even with the laser levelling I was out by about 10 mm over 40 feet (slate, herringbone pattern)… drove me nuts until I left the house b/c I always KNEW.
    
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    February 2, 2021 3:46pm
    - KevO'Brien
      
      Perhaps I should have referred to Euler. I still find his elegant equation mind boggling.
      
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      February 2, 2021 5:03pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I thought I’d check some of the Level 4 maths activities…..
      Here’s one on tiling.
      
      https://nzmaths.co.nz/resource/clumsy-tiler-b
      
      I just think it’s a hell of a complicated way to teach kids about fractions.
      
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      February 2, 2021 7:16pm
rouppe

@Nigel Kearny at 8:26:
Except they didn’t pay for their own security. We paid for the security and extra arrangements for the high needs wife.

“There are no charges for any additional measures, such as security, that are needed to be put in place for those who are granted exemptions from staying in managed isolation.”
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February 2, 2021 9:05am
I remember when

‘Anyone who is willing and able to pay for the security themselves……’
This is another fail for the Government – a lack of forward thinking.
Where are the thoughts about ways to allow people to isolate at home with adequate security.
If you are thinking of popping overseas you have until June (at the moment) to come up with answers.
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February 2, 2021 9:06am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Electronic bracelet with a geofence. Suits me. I want to go to Waikiki, Hawaii
  
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  February 2, 2021 9:22am
Tall Man

“If teachers can’t teach at the level they are being employed to teach, then there’s something seriously wrong with their Teacher Training Course.”

You’ve only just discovered this?
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February 2, 2021 9:15am
RW Capitalist

for those that don’t think we should be dealing with the UK ahead of the EU

When the common market/ EU said they HAD to buy European butter etc.
The Poms built MASSIVE chillers on the South bank of the Thames (Vauxhall) to store the European butter so they could still buy NZ/Australian butter to sell in their supermarkets.
ie buying twice as much as they needed, keeping our exports alive.
I personally saw these chillers, they were huge (hectares in size).
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February 2, 2021 9:15am
cmm

It looks like our little Aotearoans are not so awe-sum but a bit more awe-dumb.

Given the type of “experts” we’ve had being consulted on CV19, I don’t hold out much hope tor the experts being consulted here.

Poor maths performance (of a whole cohort) really comes down to crap teaching. Of course there will be individuals that do better or worse, but when the statistics drop like this then it is all down to teaching – or the crapness thereof.

In general maths requires helping pupils achieve some basic concepts. Once they understand those and “get it”, then the rest goes well.

I am fortunate in being one of those that “got it” easily in school and, for me, getting as low as 95% was a personal humiliation and disaster.

I did spend a lot of time helping others and, for the most part I could couch someone failing dismally (say 20%) to get a reasonable mark (say 60%) in their final exams in a couple of days – including giving them a quick calculus 101.

A recurring comment was of the form: “But this is so easy now I understand. Why do the teachers make it so complicated?”

My kids were homeschooled. Apart from giving them a reasoable grasp of the basics, and a few pointers later on, they were both pretty much self taught in maths. Both completed the whole maths syllabus quickly and one started doing uni-level maths at age 15.

It really does not have to be that hard. It just needs competent teachers.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/maths-decline-ministry-of-education-calls-in-royal-society-to-stop-nz-mathematics-rapid-decline/RJUTY7WTFGED4E5GSVNXDUSEHE/
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February 2, 2021 9:16am
- Jack5
  
  What a fucked-up immigration system we have.
  
  Selling citizenship to pseudo students who end up in pizza parlours and courier vans, when the intelligent approach would have been to recruit top Asian maths teachers.
  
  In the link, look at this ethnic-Chinese Aussie teacher, the brilliant Eddie Woo, here in a teaser explaining the maths of the Sydney Opera House:
  
  https://youtu.be/Qh-ZD1CAtmg
  
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  February 2, 2021 9:44am
- lifesgood
  
  I was flabbergasted when I saw the unnecessarily complicated way my grandson was being taught maths. He is 9, in year 5. When I was taught if you wanted to add say 24 and 36 you put one above the other, added the 6 and 4 = 10, wrote down zero and carried the 1 across, added 2 and 3 plus the 1 = total 60. Now they have this weird way that I simply can’t fathom and it is complicated, as I said. Why? Why bugger up a good system? His teacher told the parents NOT to help their children with maths because they would only confuse them. No wonder we are falling badly behind.
  
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  February 2, 2021 10:17am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    That would be the teachers getting confused, not the kids.
    Seen any of this common core bullshit?? Incredibly stupid and mind numbing
    
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    February 2, 2021 11:25am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejqH1ofSx8U
      
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      February 2, 2021 11:29am
      - info@cruzpro.com
        
        The “new” way seems much more complicated, more steps and more chance of error. Poor kids.
        
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        February 2, 2021 1:43pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        If you can’t do this in your head, you are a total loser.
        35 x 10 = 350. 35 x 2 = 70. 350 + 70 = 420.
        It is that fucking simple ffs
        
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        February 2, 2021 2:58pm
  - Fletch
    
    I think I was a kid when the so-called ‘New Maths’ came into schools. And yeh, I can remember my folks complaining about it. It was dumb.
    
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    February 2, 2021 11:53am
  - doublehappy
    
    When I buy half a dozen items at a supermarket and give the teller the correct amount, they look at me like I’m a genius. There was nothing wrong with the method of maths I was taught. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
    
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    February 2, 2021 1:34pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      If something costs $1.50 and you give them a 2 dollar coin and a 50 cent coin – watch them spin out.
      This happens when they are dumbed down by computers, no need to think
      
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      February 2, 2021 3:01pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Oh lookie, the dumb fuck downticker has not worked out that you get a $1 coin in the change.
        Need an age restriction on this blog, and I don’t mean those over 60
        
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        February 2, 2021 4:22pm
  - rangitoto
    
    Add corresponding digits and carry is essentially the the way computers do unsigned addition except that all the digit by digit adds are done in parallel and using base two (binary) instead of base ten representation of numbers.
    
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    February 2, 2021 1:39pm
  - Ian Boag
    
    Everybody has a phone with a calculator. Manual methods for long multiplication and division are past their use-by date IMO.
    
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    February 2, 2021 1:55pm
    - Pharmachick
      
      Disagree Ian, if you can’t do it manually when you get to calculus you simply can’t do it.
      
      Similarly, our MD and PharmD students likely will have an App for their dosage calculations (including infusions etc) but if they don’t have an understanding of the working, they risk e.g. punching in the wrong #, being out by an order of magnitude, not instinctively understanding that and severely injuring the Px. Teaching them longhand is as much about imparting intuitive understanding of the dimensions of these equations as it is any real skill set.
      
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      February 2, 2021 2:33pm
      - Ian Boag
        
        Long division done by hand? Wot? I have no problem that we need to understand what a string of calculations are leading to , but longhand?
        
        When was the last time you did a 3 digit x 5 digit long multiplication “by hand”? Why would you?
        
        That said, I fully support that a one-significant-digit version should be done to make sure the decimal is in the right place. Like we had to do in the old days when using a slide rule ….. some call this a “reasonability check”
        
        I wasn’t talking about an app – just a calculator. I agree that an app is vulnerable to miskeying when the underlying sums are a bit opaque. And using the app does not test whether one understands where it all comes from.
        
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        December 2, 2019 3:04pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Agree,
        You see it time and time again marking physics or maths papers….answers orders of magnitude out.
        
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        February 2, 2021 2:40pm
      - Jack5
        
        And having a rough idea of a result helps you pick up the result of, say, mis-keying a calculator or slip when using the memory function.
        
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        February 2, 2021 2:40pm
      - Pharmachick
        
        Yes Maggy, agreed the orders out should be instinctive if taught long hand (repetition, repetition, repetition). Also, a mistake in a Physics or Maths exam doesn’t kill or debilitate a patient (I’m not exaggerating, I teach Pharmacokinetics, including therapeutic drug monitoring and dosage calculations (oral, IV, infusion))… Random impertinent fact, the ex- Mr Pharma (Civil Structural) could *almost* be out an order of magnitude and buildings wouldn’t fall down – its all a matter of perspective.
        
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        February 2, 2021 2:59pm
      - Pharmachick
        
        @Ian, oh yes, long division by hand in my lab book because of the molarity calculation triangle when calculating weird volumes or very precious compounds (I have one chemical that is worth $1000 USD for 10 mg –> we don’t waste it).
        
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        February 2, 2021 3:31pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Jack 5, you got it. The comprehension is lost.
        The difference between a billion and a trillion is only 3 zeros. As zeros have no value, there is no extra cost.
        Yes, AOC said it, but the google machine scrubbed it
        
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        February 2, 2021 4:27pm
      - Aunty
        
        That’s really very funny, Pharmachick, and so true.
        
        What happened???
        
        The engineer did the calculations on his calculator and the patient is dead! But look on the bright side, the building is still standing!
        
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        February 2, 2021 5:29pm
      - Master Mariner
        
        Couldnt agree more.
        Calculations would take say 1 hr to complete and 3-4 pages.
        Everything was longhand.
        Cadets could do most on calculator in about 5 mins.
        However , I could ( mostly did actually) go back through my working and immediately see the problem.
        Boils down to, You MUST understand the problem, Not just do it.
        In our exams we had to get 80% pass mark in some subjects. Stability was one.
        
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        February 2, 2021 6:07pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      35 x 12 is NOT long multiplication
      
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      February 2, 2021 3:03pm
      - Ian Boag
        
        35.7 x 123.95 is …..
        
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        February 2, 2021 3:11pm
      - Jack5
        
        But rounding that to 36 x 125 is easy and gives a quick answer suitable for many purposes, or for better purposes confirms you’ve pressed the right calculator buttons.
        
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        February 2, 2021 4:07pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Boag is being cute. But I do know it is on the upper side of 4200+
        Nice try sweetie
        
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        February 2, 2021 4:29pm
      - Ian Boag
        
        I’m not being cute. I put some time in over the last couple of years doing voluntary maths teaching in a year 8 class in a decile 1 school. We were using an on-line thing (Mathletics) that I thought was OK except for the bits where they just asked for the results of a long div/mult. Maths is all about algebra, not mensuration.
        
        In frustration I bought $2 calculators from AliExpress and handed them out like lollies.
        
        Long div/mult is mindless stuff that is slow and time-consuming and teaches nothing about the analytic side of what maths (algebra as opposed to arithmetic) is about. It was all made a bit harder by the fact that the procedures taught today are different to what we all learned and I never did get my head around long division.
        
        I was unimpressed to find out that calculators are generally not permitted at high school in year 9.
        
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        February 2, 2021 5:17pm
  - Master Mariner
    
    Yep theres plenty of ways to arrive at a math problem.
    herein lays the problem. The kids must learn one way only. This is mostly without any logical step but get too the answer at the end.
    Maths in my field I not only have to arrive at an answer but MORE importantly I have to understand it.
    Herein lays the problem.
    They are not Taught to UNDERSTAND the problem.
    Just ping, ping , ping and get an answer at the end
    
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    February 2, 2021 3:36pm
    - Pharmachick
      
      You would love my field… there’s always multiple ways to get to a PK answer – most of them out by a decimal place or two, sometimes up to half a sig. fig. Its because we bend the math to the biology. We also use a lot of simplifications of pure maths that are “close enough for govt. work”
      
      Invariably I get 30-50 scripts into marking a final exam (PharmD class n = 230, MD class n = 280) and I find a clever clogs that’s found ANOTHER way that isn’t on my model answer. So I just spent the extra 5 mins recalculating, and if they’re right; add it to the model for marking.
      
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      February 2, 2021 4:02pm
    - Ian Boag
      
      100% with you there. Math is an “understanding” subject. You need to be able to set up the calculation – run a one-sig-digit ruler over it to get the order of magnitude of the answer, then bang it into a calculator. Teaching the mechanics of long division is not a lot of help.
      
      When I was at high school three thousand years ago, in addition to long div/mult we were also taught how to extract a square root. It looked a bit like long division but was worse. Despite the fact that our book of log etc tables also had a “square root”section ….
      
      Not a skill that I EVER used ….
      
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      February 2, 2021 4:16pm
      - Pharmachick
        
        Heh, I see your SQRT extraction and I raise you LaPlace transforms!!! (Disclaimer, the first 3 are quite useful for us, they collapse time…)
        
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        February 2, 2021 4:26pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        3000 years ago they had little books with logarithms, and anti logs.
        Once I drew a sketch of a pyramid in iso. So the base and height were given. I asked how long from the top to the bottom down each corner?
        The answer was from a morn, “you just measure it”
        I rest my case about dumbing down – why tax your brain when computers do it? One mistake in the decimal point …………………
        
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        February 2, 2021 4:37pm
    - Master Mariner
      
      Yes, Agree about about Maths. Some the methology is more important and some the answer.
      But it all boils down to understanding it and what you are looking at.
      Im guessing you will have an eye for “variations” and trained eye will pick it out .
      Compass and Magnetism, there’s a “dark” art.
      Sperical trignometry and Napiers Rules. May as well thrpw in Gyroscopic inertia as well.
      And of Celestial Navigation.
      
      The point is we do maths for different reasons and therefore required results.
      Of which you must have the Basic understanding and broaden your knowledge from there in your line of work / Interest.
      
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      February 2, 2021 6:25pm
- Suze Wainwright
  
  That’s all very well, but would improving school children’s mathematical abilities be to the detriment of Queer Theory and Fat Studies…?
  
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  February 2, 2021 10:42am
- fightingtemeraire
  
  In the 70’s and 80’s when I was Mate in the Shipping Corp of NZ I used to race the cadets to do star sights.
  
  They used a calculator I used Logs. I won!!!
  
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  February 2, 2021 11:33am
  - Pharmachick
    
    Yes, as a bench scientist I can multiply #s in my head very fast, particularly when I’ve had a long stretch of experiments. Often my Grad students are still pulling out their iPhones, tablets etc and I’m calling the number… You get the odd one that has cultivated this skill though, they tend to go far.
    
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    February 2, 2021 2:36pm
    - KevO'Brien
      
      Numerical fluency is a gift.
      
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      February 2, 2021 2:59pm
      - Pharmachick
        
        @Kev Yes and no. I don’t disagree that there are instinctive prodigal mathematicians, and on that spectrum also those that are just naturally inclined. But there is also the repetition, repetition, repetition angle that can raise “average” students into something quite special.
        
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        February 2, 2021 3:33pm
      - rangitoto
        
        Talking about prodigal. I recall a story about the self taught Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.
        
        The mathematician Professor Hardy recounts a visit to see Ramanujan who was sick at Putney hospital.
        
        Hardy thinking of something to say remarked that he had traveled to the hospital in a taxi cab with the number 1729, saying to Ramanujan that it seemed to be a rather dull number and hoped it wasn’t a bad omen. Ramanujan immediately perked up and explained Oh no! 1729 was in fact a very interesting number, being the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicab_number
        
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        February 2, 2021 4:26pm
      - KevO'Brien
        
        I got my job because of being numerically fluent. I could work all day with numbers but it was only arithmetical processing. I could then remember numbers readily too.
        For many fluent number crunching is superfluous.
        The maths adventures where much are reduced to sets and properties is quite different. For most being able to prove the sum of an infinite series is irrelevant.
        We waste a lot of effort attempting to create mathematical understanding when all we need for most is basic numeracy and the ability to recall a reasonable quantity of number facts (not their properties) to facilitate living.
        
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        February 2, 2021 5:18pm
  - Master Mariner
    
    Yep, Nautical Almanac.
    Same same.
    
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    February 2, 2021 6:27pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  For those with a “maths brain” maths can be fun but without that special personal flavour it’s almost impossible for them to understand.
  I was one of the top of the College in algebra, trig and calculus but I don’t think like a mathematician and came a cropper when a perverse audit teacher thought we should have a dose of it because he did think that way.
  
  Mathematicians took over computing too and the languages became more obtuse and more difficult for many women programmers who did not think or code in the ultra abstract–Cobol worked, Algol was far out. Those same people have invaded the school maths curriculum and made it their territory. Time for a re-write.
  
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  February 2, 2021 2:54pm
  - Pharmachick
    
    OMG did you just say COBOL! ? Hope you’re at least up to Python or R (I think there was an interesting discussion about FORTRAN on KB a few months before Xmas … I speak a little as it was an interface for a program I used to use [badly]. As far as I understand, FORTRAN speakers come out of India now almost exclusively, and they’re needed for some interfaces at places like Bell Labs and NASA. Happy to be corrected (love of trivia is showing)…
    
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    February 2, 2021 3:55pm
    - KevO'Brien
      
      I did refer to Cobol although I have never used it. I have programmed in some terse languages like Wang Basic where a char could do a lot.
      Cobol I saw in operation and found that the women programmers of the time were happy in it. I believe they got pushed out when the mathematicians created a different style of language, symbolic not descriptive with code blocks that were self proving or contained.
      
      I have written in Clipper, assembler and even machine code.
      Python I would use if I was still coding and R looks good for the number crunching I once did by hand. My one encounter with Fortran was when I commissioned some data crunching for a client and the reports all came back with “9” substituted for “0”. I understand a current UK Epidemiologist used it last year for his predictions about Covid population risk. Perhaps he used Fortran 56
      
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      February 2, 2021 5:37pm
Kiwi_in_Paris

Peruvian court rules that Bill Gates, George Soros and Rockefeller family “created” coronavirus pandemic:

https://trump.news/2021-01-29-bill-gates-george-soros-rockefeller-family-coronavirus.html
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February 2, 2021 9:17am
- burt
  
  I spotted that a few days ago – needless to say not reported by the people who rely on government handouts to run their business.
  
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  February 2, 2021 11:14am
  - Batman
    
    Or not reported on by anyone who isn’t a loon?
    
    Honestly, a third world Peruvian court?
    
    At least if it was from the US it might be newsworthy.
    
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    February 2, 2021 1:10pm
- krazykiwi
  
  Not long ago the Portuguese Court determined that PCR tests did not constitute an accurate method for detecting SARS-CoV-2 infections. Not much reporting on that, either.
  
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  February 2, 2021 1:10pm
Simon

Has Nanaia Mahuta issued a statement on Burma yet? What is the “indigenous perspective”?

The whole world holds its breath.
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February 2, 2021 9:45am
- fightingtemeraire
  
  Does she know where Myanmar is???
  
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  February 2, 2021 11:29am
  - cmm
    
    No she probably doesn’t know where your granny is.
    
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    February 2, 2021 12:24pm
  - Tall Man
    
    This may help
    
    https://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/full/1639012/rohingya-childrens-drawings.jpg
    
    or this
    
    https://media.istockphoto.com/vectors/children-of-the-world-laos-cambodia-myanmar-and-thailand-vector-id504070492
    
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    February 2, 2021 12:25pm
- MCos
  
  She has.
  Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta said New Zealand was calling for a rapid return to civilian rule and the swift release of Suu Kyi and those detained. (Stuff)
  There’s a couple of problems. ASSK has fallen a long way from the moral icon she once was. She sold her soul to the military in pursuit of power and then threw the Rohingya under the bus. As a consequence she’s hugely popular at the polls, but at huge cost abroad and now domestically.
  Is she worth anything more than a perfunctory statement?
  Besides there are NZ aid programmes on the ground in that wretched country to consider.
  
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  February 2, 2021 11:45am
  - Master Mariner
    
    What choice did she have MCos as things are not that simple.
    It was one of the conditions of power to be transferred.
    The millitary retain 25% of seats.
    She has a lot of support internally however Millitary still had the reigns. she still has a huge following internally.
    
    There you go.
    
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    February 2, 2021 6:52pm
- Master Mariner
  
  Yep, Telling NZ not too travel there.
  Well guess what.?
  
  I arrive in Yangon in 2 days.
  
  Have far superior intelligence and security information than that non sense.
  
  Hence the reason to allow seafarers automatic entry into NZ without the impossibility of obtaining a voucher. MIQ, MBIE, Ombudman no use in replies.
  Flights outbound cancelled till May ( Burma)
  
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  February 2, 2021 6:35pm
Fletch

Un-freaking-believable! A tour around Pelosi’s razor-topped wall around the Capitol that stretches miles (takes 2 hours to walk around completely).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaQU7yljBr8

If Trump had erected this, the media would be calling him out every day. Calling him a fascist, a dictator, an authoritarian running a military state. Of course, all this is probably true of the current Democrat leaders.
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February 2, 2021 9:50am
- Rich Prick
  
  I thought Democrats hated walls.
  
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  February 2, 2021 11:36am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    The joke was, just after Obama left office, someone put on line.
    A picture of his new house with a massive block wall being built around it.
    
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    February 2, 2021 11:44am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Only walls that don’t get them votes
    
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    February 2, 2021 4:43pm
- Batman
  
  Fletch, things changed after the violent thugs of the American Fascist movement tried to violently overthrow democracy in order to soothe the ego of their dear leader.
  
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  February 2, 2021 1:12pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Antifa and BLM tried to overthrow democracy?
    The dear Leader was the Democrats – you seem to be confused Batman.
    Antifa and BLM said they would “MERGE” into the rally.
    You forgot to mention that Batman
    
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    February 2, 2021 4:47pm
lilman

As at 9.50 am a lot of pissed off posters here.

You voted for them.
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February 2, 2021 9:51am
burt

Good news people of KB.
We can now go on holiday and skip MIQ on return.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300218643/covid19-sport-stars-family-do-miq-at-3m-auckland-home-after-complaining-about-hotel
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February 2, 2021 9:59am
- MCos
  
  You can try your luck
  “However, MBIE did acknowledge exemptions from MIQ facilities are rare – with just 11 since July 14, 2020.”
  
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  February 2, 2021 10:18am
- The Proper Ghandi
  
  Ah, the egalitarian Left. Nothing if not hypocritical.
  
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  February 2, 2021 11:04am
Sacha

I think that todays problems education arose from the decision back in the day, to promote children through primary school socially in order to keep the ‘slower’ ones in their age group.
Before then, a child might spend an extra year in the ‘primers’ or, if a bit slow in reading, stay back until they had reached the syllabus standard required. There was no stigma attached, just an acknowledgement that that particular child was not ready to advance just yet. Sometimes kids were promoted after just one term once they had caught up – and this was regarded as a real achievement. They would start writing with chalk, then a pencil and then a page with lines, and then ink – each step a mark of success. They learnt math by chanting ‘times tables’ in class. There were standards to be achieved.
But sometime in the ’70’s it became twisted and all about the supposed hurt feelings of the child left behind – and so we end up where we are today. Somehow teachers have become the parents, and the real parents criticise their efforts.
And, it seems, no-one is satisfied with the outcomes.
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February 2, 2021 10:02am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  second year fifth formers in the late sixties, they were as thick as fuck. Prob running NZ now
  
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  February 2, 2021 5:12pm
Benedict Yu

I see that the Climate Change Commission wants to literally ban all use of gas.

While Australia is in the middle of 100 billion USD investment in natural gas exports. And consumption of natural gas globally is forecast to double by 2050.

Honestly this reminds me of Pol Pot year zero. Are New Zealanders going to accept this?
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February 2, 2021 10:28am
- fightingtemeraire
  
  Qatar has ONE HUNDRED + Gas Tankers on order!!!!
  
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  February 2, 2021 11:25am
  - Master Mariner
    
    Yep, Worked out of Ras laffan and fields there.
    
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    February 2, 2021 6:58pm
- Inandout
  
  BY, in a word, yes. You see, we are a crushed nation led by a wholly incompetent team of buffoons. Businesses servicing the public are already deeply affected financially, some actually gone to the wall. How long this charade can continue depends on how long liquid assets and savings last, because let’s face it, we are at present in a dream world, oblivious to the storm brewing.
  
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  February 2, 2021 11:46am
- BananaLlama
  
  Yes.
  Their dollar will continue to buy less and they will continue to blame everyone else while they impoverish themselves. They will work longer and harder for less and have less leisure time to engage in thoughts as to why their situation has become worse than their grandparents despite marching towards a progressive utopia.
  
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  February 2, 2021 11:55am
- JibberJabber
  
  Yes, yes we are.
  We have to lose it all before reality sinks in and we begin the fight back to reclaim freedom, it’s the human legacy it happens time and time again.
  It is the speed and the willingness of NZers to accept their chains that’s astonishing.
  
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  February 2, 2021 12:04pm
  - Benedict Yu
    
    Yes exactly. Where is the critical assessment of the climate change report?
    
    Imagine if the Australian government said it was going to ban gas?
    
    The Commission also acknowledges that the methanol plant in Taranaki will need to be shut. That methanol will just be produced somewhere else in the world!!
    
    Honestly it is totally mad. And yet in the media… Nothing. And nobody seems at all worried. Hell Taranaki folk even voted for New Zealand in large numbers.
    
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    February 2, 2021 6:05pm
Jack5

The fray caused on Wall Street by small individual share investors seems to have calmed somewhat today.

However, Robinhood Markets Inc, the small punters’ champion, has raised $US3.4 billion since last Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Robinhood and other brokerages were flooded with orders to buy and sell a handful of popular stocks last week.

GameStop, whose shares started the retail surge, closed on Wall Street on Friday at $US325. It began the year at under $US20. Today (Monday on Wall Street) GameStop dived to $US212 after the opening bell and closed at $US225.

There is a gap between investors placing buy orders and their cash being cleared by the broker.
Robinhood had to impose trading conditions on Wednesday. This fuelled resentment among Robinhood’s small punters, many of whom, the WSJ reported, saw it as Wall Street trying to restrict them.

Shares in AMC Entertainment Holdings, a financially troubled cinema chain, rose 500 per cent this year until Friday, and lifted another 11c to $US13.37 at the close.

Robinhood’s trading app was downloaded more than 600,000 times on Friday alone, according to analysts at JMP Securities, the WSJ reports.

By comparison, the app was downloaded around 140,000 times during its most active day in March 2020, when coronavirus fears sent share prices down sharply.

Wall Street as a whole closed up 0.8 per cent today (Monday trading), as last week’s manic buying switched to futures in silver, which had their biggest one-day rise for 11 years.

Small punters in the sharemarket used to be called Mum and Pop investors, but that term doesn’t fit the Robinhood types. They tend to be young and anti-Establishment.
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February 2, 2021 10:28am
- tf78
  
  Jack, who said the “Little can’t win” – obviously they did and so can we.
  
  Don’t get mad – get even. (Don’t know how yet)
  
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  February 2, 2021 5:55pm
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[Mod: whining about the mods never gets far. Email DPF if you have a specific complaint.]
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February 2, 2021 11:40am
- Tall Man
  
  Amen to that 😉
  
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  February 2, 2021 12:21pm
- krazykiwi
  
  Mod says “[Mod: whining about the mods never gets far. Email DPF if you have a specific complaint.]”
  
  Can you point us to the community rules that allow you to, apparently arbitrarily, delete a comment that personally irks you?
  
  I ask this as someone who has regularly thanked mods for the work done here. However, much like the police, your authority comes from the consent of the people even if your ’employer’ (yes, I know it’s voluntary work) is DPF
  
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  February 2, 2021 1:16pm
  - Tall Man
    
    I have asked that as well. Didn’t get through 😉
    
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    February 2, 2021 2:21pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    No reply yet KK. The mods here seem to be getting like FB fact checkers. They don’t agree with your narrative so you get a warning, then a ban.
    Personal politics has come into play for moderators.
    Batman – you are excluded – at least we can debate with you – the rest are hiding and pushing their own agenda
    
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    February 2, 2021 5:19pm
burt

This chap will be wishing he had joined the Labour Party so he could get name suppression and all charges dropped.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300219622/repeat-rapist-murray-robertson-admits-fresh-sex-abuse-charges-on-morning-of-trial
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February 2, 2021 11:59am
- Inandout
  
  burt, a Gay chap wrote the article. But seriously, this guy would (pre Biden) in the US be locked up until his last breath.
  
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  February 2, 2021 12:16pm
  - burt
    
    Sure, but in NZ the most likely outcome for him is that he will be employed by the Labour Party to run their next youth camp.
    
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    February 2, 2021 12:52pm
    - Happychappy
      
      Does this sound like Grant Robertson and Adrian Orr have taken notice of Treasury not wanting them not to go down the path of printing money as after being told once not to, they are now in discussions again.
      https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300219961/dont-let-the-reserve-bank-just-give-the-government-money-treasury-warns
      This after Treasury telling Grant Robertson ot to consider this option.
      
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      February 2, 2021 8:08pm
RW Capitalist

https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/063/967/522/original/46bc5b2bcd8609f3.png
Found this
Wonder how many screw ups our govt. will blame on climate change?
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February 2, 2021 12:23pm
cmm

The cultural organisations are really getting cocky.

The mob boy is still in ICU with a bullet in his head. Every day it looks less and less like he’s going to walk out of there.

The bros are ready.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/gangsters-paradise-mongrel-mob-descends-on-queenstown-while-police-probe-christchurch-assault/YR4MTWKOOJT54VQSLZDAZVSZFU/
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February 2, 2021 12:26pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  We watched a repeat Sky doco over the holidays…..
  ‘Ross Kemp on Gangs’.
  He actually got quite up close and personal with the Mob.
  One of the bros he interviewed was telling him “…. part of the ‘initiation’ to qualify for a Patch, was that you had to wear the same undies and jeans for a whole year!”
  
  Who on earth would want to check that out? 🙁
  
  Asking for a friend
  
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  February 2, 2021 12:55pm
  - kevn
    
    @Maggie… A lofty goal indeed. Inspirational.
    
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    February 2, 2021 1:30pm
  - cmm
    
    The chicks must dig it – much less washing.
    
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    February 2, 2021 2:13pm
doublehappy

An excellent guest post by Alwyn Poole today; there are many points to consider and I think I agree with them all. One that is strong on my list of directions we are headed, that I don’t like, is education. He put forward this, “When I was asked by a group of New York educators why the down-trodden groups in NZ accept the education results of their children without taking to the streets in protest, I had no answer.” At present we have no media that supports the average New Zealander’s interests. Alwyn calls for “Parliamentary opposition and media need to do their job superbly”. Unfortunately; I can’t see either happening. Firstly” it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.” Secondly the media graduate from, what must be the most woke establishment in NZ. Even the ones who have been in media for a while are just as bad. If for one moment a media person tells the truth, or say/do anything controversial, then without trial, or fact-checking, or context checking, you are canceled. Is John Banks an example?
What is the tie between education, government, and media? This year the government has issued a new curriculum to schools. It is very long and hence not many people will read it. I believe it is in line with “The Great Reset”. This has been done by a very left socialist government. The media has said virtually nothing about it, let alone study it and convey the meaning of it, to the general public. I find ‘brainwashing’ of our children in schools totally abhorrent. When are New Zealanders going to do something about this? What can we do about this? If we do nothing, then we to are guilty to a lesser extent, but still guilty.
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February 2, 2021 1:11pm
- Jack5
  
  It was an interesting guest post, but, for anyone looking for it, Kiwiblog carried it yesterday, not today.
  
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  February 2, 2021 7:49pm
Fletch

Asking for my aunty… what are the most pollen-free, privet-free areas in NZ?
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February 2, 2021 1:14pm
- JibberJabber
  
  The Desert Road, between Waiouru and Rangipo.
  Nice this time of year, I’ve heard…?
  
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  February 2, 2021 1:45pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  For Tree Privet – probably only Fiordland and the cooler parts of the South Island are relatively free of this plant.
  
  I hardly ever encountered the plant in the southern half of the NI when I was doing reserve surveys during the 1980-1990s.
  
  (It was first recorded growing wild in NZ in 1958)
  
  I’m surrounded by the stuff here in Gisborne and am for ever pulling young seedlings out of my garden…
  We must have cut out about 40 mature tree privets when we first moved here.
  
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  February 2, 2021 2:10pm
  - Fletch
    
    Thanks! Yeh, it is quite deadly for some people. Some councils go to the trouble of eradicating it, but here it grows along the train tracks etc, and the council seem uninterested.
    
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    February 2, 2021 2:21pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Looks a bit like elderflower from a distance.
    
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    February 2, 2021 6:26pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING

I’m fairly sure we had a gold-medal winning ‘Male Weightlifter’ here in NZ that competed in women’s events, who may also have suffered from ‘gender dysphoria’ .
Looks like it could be catching……

https://twitter.com/BawdenSnoek/status/1356347148141350914
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February 2, 2021 1:34pm
- Rich Prick
  
  I think the defence will only need to adduce one piece of evidence.
  
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  February 2, 2021 1:45pm
  - Tall Man
    
    What .. that he is one or that he has one?
    
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    February 2, 2021 6:23pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1N4VosR2xo

UK in massive trade deal!

You’ll never get a trade deal with anyone, claimed the UK Pro-EU lobby throughout the whole Brexit process. Well, the Tory MP and International Trade Secretary, Liz Truss, soon put that claim to bed. Having secured many roll-over deals to keep things ticking over, as well as a good deal with Japan, the UK is now applying to become a member of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (or CPTPP). The CPTPP is a nine trillion pound trading bloc of some 500 million people, and if the UK is accepted, it will become the first non-founder member to be included and will take the CPTPP worth up to some eleven trillion pounds.
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February 2, 2021 1:43pm
curry4me

https://rumble.com/vdha23-zuckerberg-exposed-facebook-insider-leaks-video-as-conservative-nations-reb.html

Face Book Censorship Plans Leaked

FB don’t like conservatives. Who knew. Now there is leaked video confirming it.
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February 2, 2021 1:43pm
curry4me

https://www.newsmax.com/us/taliban-violence-troops-withdrawal/2021/02/01/id/1008162/

US May Delay Afghanistan Withdrawl.

The Biden administration will likely keep U.S. troops in Afghanistan, despite a deal between its predecessor and the Taliban for a May 1 withdrawal date, because of a surge in violence, reports ABC News.
The Trump administration last year signed an agreement with the Taliban to end the 18-year war in Afghanistan that has killed more than 157,000 people and is estimated to have cost the U.S. $2 trillion. The pact addressed four issues, including reducing violence, withdrawing foreign troops from Afghanistan by May, starting intra-Afghan relations, and guaranteeing Afghanistan will not again become a refuge for terrorists. [Well, I guess people should be grateful that Beijing Biden hasn’t started a war two weeks into his term. I guess defence stocks might be up a point or two.]
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February 2, 2021 1:44pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  And so the Democrat cancer spreads
  
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  February 2, 2021 5:23pm
- alloytoo
  
  I thought Joe needed the troops in DC?
  
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  February 2, 2021 6:28pm
Chuck Bird

Why has National not stated its position on Labour rushing through legislation on stopping referenda where the required number of signatures have been gathered?
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February 2, 2021 2:37pm
- Tall Man
  
  Seems clear to me.
  
  https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/mike-hosking-breakfast/audio/pollies-stuart-nash-and-mark-mitchell-talk-housing-tourism-covid-vaccine-and-maori-wards/
  
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  February 2, 2021 6:17pm
Maggie Pie

The ‘BANKSIE’ effect?

Just been lying out by the pool listening to Shorn Plunkett on MagicTalk.
Seems every time a caller of obvious Maori descent phones up, Plunko gets all sort of ‘lovey-dovey’ towards them, and agrees that pakeha are all a pack of A-holes.

Saying…..
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February 2, 2021 2:52pm
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, I am about to head for our pool, but unlike you don’t pollute the air and water with Shorn. He is an unstable chap, moreso since his pet dog departed to Fido heaven.
  
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  February 2, 2021 3:03pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Just got out. Despite the day the pool was barely 26 but bracing was good.
    
    Need to think more about that heatpump but not sure if it would give me the extra months swimming that we need.
    
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    February 2, 2021 6:13pm
- Jack5
  
  If you work for Radio Moscow you’re gonna toe the Putin line.
  
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  February 2, 2021 3:38pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Seems a fair analogy these days.
    
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    February 2, 2021 6:12pm
New Zealander

Failed Minister to lead review on failed council.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/news/former-national-mp-anne-tolley-to-lead-tauranga-council-commission/BQBBYN3E6EBHB4ZJTXQOYFTRDY/
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February 2, 2021 4:23pm
- Tall Man
  
  So a five term MP is a failure in your mind.
  
  I’d love to know what you deem successful…..
  
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  February 2, 2021 6:11pm
  - New Zealander
    
    She was Minister of Education, Minister for Children, Minister of Social Development, Minister of Corrections, Minister of Police, Minister of Local Government.
    
    You’d have to lie to tell me any one of those departments has been a success in the past 12 years. They’re all a mess, and National and Labour are equally to blame.
    
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    February 2, 2021 7:56pm
- alloytoo
  
  Tolley, not Twyford.
  
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  February 2, 2021 6:27pm
- Jack5
  
  It’s a forgone conclusion, Tolley will block Tauranga voters from holding a referendum.
  
  When you oppose referenda because your side will lose you are anti-democracy.
  
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  February 2, 2021 7:44pm
  - MCos
    
    The plural of referendum is referendums.
    To my mind they are a curse. We elect representatives to make decisions on our behalf.
    The people of Tauranga don’t even seem capable of electing people able to make decisions.
    
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    February 2, 2021 10:28pm
Maggie Pie

HDPA was just speaking with the rooster whose wife and kids were given permission to self isolate in their $3mill house.
He was saying his kids had some kind ‘behavioural issues’, which was given full consideration by those responsible for the decision to allow them to move home early.

Good on them for taking the sensible approach they did in the circumstances.
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February 2, 2021 4:26pm
- Tall Man
  
  So get your kids to behave like shitbags and everyone else falls into line. Good to know.
  
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  February 2, 2021 6:06pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    As my partner said when he heard the interview… “Thank God they’re not in Remuera. Imagine living next door to them” 🙁
    
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    February 2, 2021 8:01pm
Fletch

If you’re old enough to remember.. the guy who played “Screech” from the TV show Saved By The Bell has died, aged only 44
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February 2, 2021 6:39pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/124121711/it-could-have-killed-me-gloriavale-leaver-struck-by-tree-branch-struggling-to-support-large-family

42 years old.
12 kids.
A pregnant wife.
Decides it is time to leave Gloriavale and finally (a) hope that the general public will support him and his enormous family or (b) throw himself and his family on the glorious beneficence of the NZ taxpayer.
What a PRICK.
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February 2, 2021 7:19pm
- MCos
  
  I don’t see anything in the article indicating he expects support from the general public.
  The guy’s got twelve kids, which seems to be the way of the world in Gloriavale. He left because he couldn’t stand the place anymore.
  At least he’s trying to make a normal life for himself and his family. Maybe later than he could have, but leaving at all is no small thing.
  
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  February 2, 2021 10:19pm
lazza

The moderator … most likely the one that dumped my post for the first time ever … my post pointing out the declining standard of EVEN-HANDED KB moderation has “responded”??? [yeah right] thus:

Quote: [Mod: whining about the mods never gets far. Email DPF if you have a specific complaint.]

I rest my case ehh?
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February 2, 2021 7:48pm
- Ian Boag
  
  So you emailed DPF …. ?
  
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  February 2, 2021 8:22pm
lazza

Quote:

“So you emailed DPF …. ?”

Nope.

Slim Dave is a busy man… he has deputed the moderators to do a job (fairly) … he can read these postings .. he will make up his own mind on fairness and balance issues based on his assessment/judgments

So be it.

What I will continue to point out, is that if KB wish to maintain their status and mana as the “best and fairest” then they should be sensitive to and react to my claims that “lately their halo has slipped”. Moderation sometimes now shows up as partial… and wokeish (Horrors!)

It will be a tragedy if KB goes the way of other ratbag blogs purely because no one at KB sees fit to properly react/respond to the/my charges of poor or worse judgments/balance OK?

Feel free to demure … now that’s!! what KB is all about … NOT the supercilious superior moderator response* to my serious charges OK?

Note the moderator response?* was a one liner hospital pass to DPF. Not note any actual response from the culprit. A Cop Out.
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