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Tony Stuart

Barry Soper has ripped into Jacinda Ardern and the Labour Party over the Trevor Mallard standoff:

Jacinda Ardern preaches about it time and again: How we should all be kind to each other and to look after our wellbeing.

Well, the Prime Minister’s just lost all moral authority to preach to us about niceness, because on that score she’s failed miserably – and so have her Labour sheep in Parliament.

You just had to hear them bleating in Parliament’s debating chamber as National’s Chris Bishop attempted against all odds to move a vote of no confidence in Speaker Trevor Mallard.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/barry-soper-failure-to-hold-trevor-mallard-to-account-shows-labours-hypocrisy/GT5LNV7YTM7Z4GYKO36WNMUGSI/

Soper’s description of the Labour caucus as sheep is unfair; to sheep. At least you can eat sheep! But otherwise, he makes his point well, and continues to link Mallard to Ardern.

His ending is pretty cutting too:

This case also says a lot about what a cowered society we have become.

I was the only journalist to seek out the aggrieved man to hear his side of the story. Others it seems were too timid, presumably afraid of being labelled themselves for protecting and defending a rapist, as I was on many occasions.

I lived under a hail of social media abuse and vitriol which of course paled into insignificance compared to what Mallard’s target was condemned to live through.

This has been the shabbiest episode of inequality that I’ve experienced since starting work at Parliament before Jacinda Ardern was born.

If this is the Prime Minister’s view of being kind and caring for the wellbeing of others, I’m most certainly not on the team five million to whom she so frequently refers.

I’m with Soper as far as the Team of Five Million goes, itself a one-liner from the PR company paid tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars to give Ardern glib phrases to insert into her speeches. The PM needs to lead from the front on the issue of kindness, and right at the moment the kindest thing she could do for the man falsely accused of rape, is to take Trevor Mallard aside and tell him to quietly resign.
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December 10, 2020 8:11am
- Gravelroad
  
  How ironic that a professional woman in this day and age needs an old school, sexist male to protect and shield her from doing her job in parliament.
  It’s laughable really.
  It certainly doesn’t fall into the framework of effective, brave leadership.
  
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  February 10, 2021 8:28am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Ardern, professional?
    
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    February 10, 2021 8:34am
    - Gravelroad
      
      Ms Ardern seems to be a girl doing a woman’s job.
      She constantly needs a male to protect and advise her – whether that be a youngish boyfriend or an old father-figure in the form of Mallard.
      Might be better for her to stick with Helen Clark as the authority mentor – like the headmistress at school.
      
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      February 10, 2021 9:10am
      - igm
        
        Well you took Winnie away, he being her backstop and mentor.
        
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        February 10, 2021 10:02am
    - giltee
      
      She is a professional Kev. A professional con-artist and saleswoman. I prefer not to say person
      
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      February 10, 2021 11:12am
      - Nickc2
        
        “Is that one scoop or two of bullshit with your fish-n-chips?”
        
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        February 10, 2021 12:41pm
  - Bob
    
    What ‘Professional’ qualification does Adern posses.
    
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    February 10, 2021 9:55am
    - doublehappy
      
      She has a BA from the university of how to bull shit sheeple. With experience in Socialist/Communist establishments both here and in the UK. Perfectly qualified for her next position at the UN.
      
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      February 10, 2021 12:55pm
- Souvlaki
  
  Well, how is it that servicing Saudi jet engines “doesn’t pass the sniff test”….BUT destroying someone’s life by false allegations does in Arderns mind?
  I wonder if Sopers excellent piece will lead to Audrey Young/Claire Trevett/ Alison Mau/ Tova Obrien to examine their own consciences in their relentless cheerleading for the deeply flawed Ardern?
  
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  February 10, 2021 8:29am
  - RalphT
    
    You’ve got to be joking!
    
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    February 10, 2021 8:44am
  - surfing
    
    Yet OK to be best buddies with China who are in the act of wiping out the Uighur people.
    
    Government sanctioned rape, murder, torture. And, New Zealand implicitly supporting it.
    
    Then Jacinda gets on her high horse about Saudi Arabia?
    
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    February 10, 2021 8:54am
    - giltee
      
      Not to forget organ harvesting. The Uighur people are given drugs and extensively tested for something, if not comparability then what else in these confinement camps. The wait time for organ transplants in China is 1 month. You pay big money of course. I suspect even though the CCP says it’s not happening now I’d doubt that very much because people are still being tested and disappearing from these camps
      https://www.healtheuropa.eu/forced-organ-harvesting-one-of-the-worst-mass-atrocities-of-this-century/97035/
      
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      February 10, 2021 11:23am
  - Nickc2
    
    Consciences wrt Audrey Young/Claire Trevett/ Alison Mau/Tova Obrien is a contradiction in terms. IMO, they are poison pens so to speak.
    
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    February 10, 2021 12:48pm
- Paulus
  
  Mallard will not go quietly – he is so full of his own importance to consider anything other than what an arrogant tool of Ardern he is, and he and she do not care anyway – everybody loves her as they showed in October giving her carte blanche to do whatever she wants.
  Mallards stupid Maori tie yesterday only goes to show what he is afraid of – derision – and it was only to show what a big man he is and cause confusion in Parliament so he wants to show what a big man he is – actually sadly, he is an incompetent Jerk.
  
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  February 10, 2021 8:30am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    But the the issue is the deflection for the Maori Wards amendment that is being pushed through under urgency.
    
    Nothing a rat shit cunning as a socialist in a corner . . .
    
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    February 10, 2021 12:21pm
- Bobba Fret
  
  Tony, notice that this article is now well buried in the Politics section of the NZH.
  
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  February 10, 2021 8:47am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    Do you think they’ve had a message from the PM’s comms team?
    
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    February 10, 2021 8:51am
    - niggly
      
      Isn’t it funny, we think of MSM journos bowing to pressure from the “lovely” Jacinda Ardern … but in reality it is MSM journos bowing to pressure from a bunch of “no-bodies” who work within the PM’s Office!
      
      Fancy that, the MSM being told what to do and what not to do to bunch of losers!
      
      How degrading that must be, for the MSM to bow to a bunch of puffed up, self-important “don’t you know who I am” types!
      
      Perhaps the MSM should have a word in Jacinda’s ear that her comms team are definitely “not kind”!
      
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      February 10, 2021 9:15am
  - igm
    
    They must earn taxpayers’ handouts to keep preaching their communist doctrine.
    
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    February 10, 2021 10:03am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Barry Soap Opera is nobody compared to Queen Cindy. One word from Cindy, Sophers will be looking for job.
  
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  February 10, 2021 2:30pm
Happychappy

Jacinda Ardern and the Trans- Tasman bubble trust deficit.
You would have to wonder what the fickle public see in Jacinda with the blame game, lies and excuses she keeps making , so with the latest over the Trans- Tasman bubble a d the insinuations that Austalia pulled a dirty on us when it has always been one way in NZ ‘s favor is a bit rich coming from someone like Jacinda.
Just look at some examples of this Prime Minister that MSM, the Left in Politics a d public fawn all over and had been portrayed by any other Prime Minister these same groups would be calling for their resignation.
Karl Strobeck drug and Immigration case with Jacinda and her friends help and involvement that is still to be resolved.
The sexual deviate out of Jacindas office accused of rape that the Prime Minister promised those complaining she would get Justice for them a a other example of her bullshit and deciet by having this swept under the carpet for all to see.
Ihumatoa land dispute a d the millions of dollars of taxpayers money paid out for a land grab to Maori that the Prime Minister promised she would not get involved in.
Now we have another example and situation over the Trans- Tasman bubble that is a other of her own makings a d she says she feels short changed.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/124188862/jacinda-ardern-and-the-transtasman-bubble-trust-deficit
Is their anyone out there that she hasn’t blamed for her own doings and surely she can’t keep blaming National for housing, health, education, justice and Immigration shortfalls anymore.
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February 10, 2021 8:00am
- calendar girl
  
  New Zealand will always struggle to achieve significant progress as a nation while it is governed under the kind of light-weight ‘leadership’ offered by PM Jacinda Ardern.
  
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  February 11, 2021 4:43pm
niggly

Something smells rotten about the Air NZ engine servicing/Saudi issue.

Where did the Greens get the information from on Monday, that they trumpeted ? It was revealed yesterday that Treasury informed Air NZ 8 days ago that it was seeking more information.

Grant Robertson is the Minister responsible for Treasury. So did Labour “idly” bring this up with the Greens (although why would they)? Or did Labour “leak” this info to the Greens?

If they did why would Labour do so? As a distraction? If so, for what? Perhaps to distract from National calling for the removal of the Speaker, yesterday? Or perhaps to distract from the astounding revelation that Robertson ignored official advice that printing more money and cheap interest rates would push house prices up? Or something else?

Seems very fishy to me. Especially when Ardern came out fully bombastic about how “inappropriate” this all was.

But why did Ardern do that? Since when did NZ have an embargo on Saudi Arabia? As “despicable” as Saudi actions are in Yemen (causing unnecessary death and harm), Iran is equally “despicable” for supporting the overthrow of the Yemeni Govt. Has Ardern and Labour wandered into another foreign policy blunder? Is Ardern and Labour “taking sides”? How will that be perceived?

And as for Air NZ, they didn’t know what a third party was supplying, but why the backtrack? And for goodness sake they were contracted to fix the engines, fix them under contract then send them back before they find their name further tarnished by industry!
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February 10, 2021 8:01am
- Rich Prick
  
  Human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia have been evident on the interweb for years. Why is our leftist media fizzing over this story just now? Could it just be a blunt instrument to beat up a National MP? Who knew they could be so shallow?
  
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  February 10, 2021 8:08am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    It wasn’t a National MP who was backtracking and apologising on radio and TV last night.
    
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    February 10, 2021 8:11am
  - Frank the tank
    
    Yet ethnic Nazi-style concentration camps are no problem morally whatsoever…….
    
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    February 10, 2021 8:29am
  - Jimbob
    
    https://geopoliticalfutures.com/bidens-first-middle-east-moves/
    Great read, puts Yemen and the middle East in perspective.
    
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    February 10, 2021 10:12am
- cmm
  
  I know of at least one rabidly Green/activist person in the AirNZ maintenance shed.
  
  The only reason that AirNZ is considered fair game is because John Key is on the board.
  
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  February 10, 2021 8:39am
  - Swifty
    
    Was
    
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    February 10, 2021 8:57am
  - Nickc2
    
    and Christopher Luxton is now a National MP and could become their leader (not my choice).
    IMO, this attack by Cindy’s mob is two-fold:
    1. Discredit Luxton and
    2. Devert attention from Mallard.
    
    MALLARD MUST GO!
    
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    February 10, 2021 9:54am
    - sooty
      
      If Mallard goes, cindy fall’s!
      
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      February 10, 2021 11:42am
    - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
      
      If Mallard goes I will be selling the Parliament to the Mexicans.
      
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      February 10, 2021 2:31pm
      - Tall Man
        
        They won’t want it, too many old white male faces on the walls.
        
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        February 10, 2021 3:55pm
      - Nickc2
        
        Parliament has already been sold to China.
        
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        February 10, 2021 9:44pm
- rockape
  
  Will we be attacking all those Kiwi nurses and teachers currently earning big dollars in Saudi ?
  
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  February 10, 2021 9:05am
New Zealander

Mr Menendez-March took an extended absence from social media throughout January, and there was speculation on social media that he had returned to Mexico to visit his family in Tijuana – as he has does every year.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300225918/green-mp-ricardo-menndez-march-currently-in-managed-isolation-after-visiting-family-in-mexico

It is only now after a number of leaks and enquiries that it has been confirmed he has returned from Mexico and is now taking up space in an isolation facility.

Surely any MP with a valid reason for travelling overseas during a global pandemic would explain that prior to leaving, rather than taking an inexplicable absence from social media, making no public statements, actively hiding posts from friends in Mexico who tagged him, and then slipping back into the country.

And this is without asking the questions as to when this trip was booked? When did Mr Menendez-March book his place in the MIQ facility? Did he apply to jump the queue only to be turned down by Chris Hipkins and fail to be supported by James Shaw?

To me it looks like a simple case of an entitled, privileged and hypocritical Member of Parliament secretly travelling overseas for a leisure trip and abusing his position to take up a place in MIQ ahead of more worthy New Zealanders who have been attempting to book place for months.
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February 10, 2021 8:02am
- rouppe
  
  And is he paying the cost?
  
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  February 10, 2021 8:56am
  - Ruahine
    
    Indirectly he may ‘pay’ the cost of quarantine but we the taxpayer actually pay.
    
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    February 10, 2021 10:48am
- Ehlana
  
  Just before Parliament rose last year the Government declared a climate emergency.
  
  So what I really want to know is what carbon-free, environmentally friendly method of travel did the Member use to get to and from Mexico so quickly?
  
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  February 10, 2021 9:08am
- Master Mariner
  
  Exactly. My questions as well that need to be answered,
  
  When did Mr Menendez-March book his place in the MIQ facility? Did he apply to jump the queue only to be turned down by Chris Hipkins and fail to be supported by James Shaw?
  
  Getting seriously pissed off at the voucher system for seafarers working.
  100+ NZ seafarers stranded overseas due to voucher system.
  
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  February 10, 2021 6:14pm
Maggie Pie

“Our old patterns of life must change. Motorways aren’t only for vehicles – they are for people, bikes, and wheelchairs”

https://twitter.com/SecretaryPete/status/1358874001184030730
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February 10, 2021 8:07am
- Frank the tank
  
  LOL. Don’t upset the liberals on here – Pete “buy a lot of kegs” is a fan favorite of many on here.
  
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  February 10, 2021 8:40am
  - oldfella
    
    Frank, I think he also has at least one KB mod fan-boy. Try referring to Buttigieg by his common US nickname and see how you get on.
    
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    February 10, 2021 10:59am
Maggy Wassilieff

Last night The Herald website had Barry Soper’s opinion piece on full display….I had a feeling it would disappear from easy viewing .. so saved a link.

Barry Soper: Failure to hold Trevor Mallard to account shows Labour’s hypocrisy

Jacinda Ardern preaches about it time and again: How we should all be kind to each other and to look after our wellbeing.

Well, the Prime Minister’s just lost all moral authority to preach to us about niceness, because on that score she’s failed miserably – and so have her Labour sheep in Parliament…

So in reality they are now telling us it’s okay to call a man a rapist, to ruin his life leaving him bereft and jobless? Well, that would seem to be the case.

This has been the shabbiest episode of inequality that I’ve experienced since starting work at Parliament before Jacinda Ardern was born.

If this is the Prime Minister’s view of being kind and caring for the wellbeing of others, I’m most certainly not on the team five million to whom she so frequently refers.
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February 10, 2021 8:08am
- Bobba Fret
  
  Yes I notice they decide to have it as the lead headline but only late at night. It is now well hidden in the politics section. I think the person that Mallard accused must be a personal friend of Soper as he is the only journalist that has really picked this story up and run with it (and good on him, it deserves to be in the public domain).
  
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  February 10, 2021 8:30am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    My understanding, from both Soper and HDPA’s comments, is that is exactly the case. Kudos to Soper for his determination to see Mallard held to account.
    
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    February 10, 2021 8:55am
    - Tricati
      
      Interesting comment on HDPA show by Soper yesterday that another press galley reporter commented it was ‘just National grandstanding’.
      Doesn’t that clearly show the bias National have to deal with, and that destroying someone’s career is OK if Labour do it.
      
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      February 10, 2021 11:42am
    - doublehappy
      
      HDPA is an acronym for Heather Du Plessis Allen. I wish people would explain acronym’s in the first instance.
      
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      February 10, 2021 1:18pm
      - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
        
        If anybody needs an explanation of what HDPA is, then they need to get their head checked. HDPA is the most well known acronym in NZ.
        
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        February 10, 2021 4:27pm
- Frank the tank
  
  More interested in shark scare porn – I see another article of a mako jumping into a boat. FMD.
  
  The horrid is now a leftwing tabloid similar to the Mirror.
  
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  February 10, 2021 8:41am
I remember when

Jacinda: ‘We have got some levers we can pull and we are looking at every single one of them.’
Went to a party at the week-end and the barman was in exactly the same position.
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February 10, 2021 8:10am
- JackRabbit
  
  “We have got some levers we can pull and we are looking at every single one of them.” Airhead statement.
  
  Probably the levers on the 128Bn printing press.
  
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  February 10, 2021 8:58am
- Bob
  
  And the Barman gets far more desirable results.
  
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  February 10, 2021 10:00am
- redflagged
  
  Can, could, might , may, perhaps, possibly. All her magic communication words to do nothing other than talk.
  
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  February 11, 2021 7:31am
mandk

Rawiri Waititi complaining about having to wear a symbol of the coloniser’s oppression (i.e. a necktie) in Parliament is the height of hypocrisy.

He did this all the while culturally appropriating an item of the oppressor’s headwear, i.e. a hat.

Moreover, his female colleague was photographed alongside him wearing a necktie, even though female MPs are not required to wear one.

Attention seeking, eh Rawiri?
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February 10, 2021 8:13am
- Frank the tank
  
  He has a point just a retarded way of expressing it. Why do we request ties in parliament in 2021. It makes no literal sense.
  
  Case in point look at some of the garbage female pollies have worn in the house over the last decade. A good proportion of them must get changed in the dark with a blindfold on. And yet nothing.
  
  It’s not like he turned up in jandals and a tee-shirt.
  
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  February 10, 2021 8:44am
  - Duncan Brown
    
    It’s time for him to realise he is now an MP, and no longer only an activist. If he doesn’t like the rules (within the house of law-makers), there are democratic ways to go about it. Anything less is headline grabbing, point scoring trivia and should be given proportionate attention. Sadly media and pundits are giving him what he wants. Give the screaming child an ice cream…
    
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    February 10, 2021 9:16am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      there are democratic ways to go about it.
      
      He’s not a big fan of democracy.
      
      According to him.. it’s a system where the minority is overruled by the tyranny of the majority.
      
      https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300168542/mori-party-mps-storm-out-of-parliaments-first-session-protest-tyranny-of-our-democracy
      
      and Yesterday:
      “If two of us in the Māori Party were to put in a submission to say we didn’t agree with ties, that would get lost amongst the very system that keeps our people in second place: democracy.
      
      “When it suits everybody democracy works, but when it doesn’t suit everybody, you know, we get overpowered by the majority.
      https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018782850/my-taonga-is-my-tie-maori-party-co-leader-rawiri-waititi
      
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      February 10, 2021 9:38am
      - crikey
        
        “When it suits everybody democracy works, but when it doesn’t suit everybody, you know, we get overpowered by the majority.”
        
        Both are examples of democracy. National was overpowered by Labour in the last election. By his example that is not democracy.
        
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        February 10, 2021 5:29pm
  - Bob
    
    Business dress is about the ‘DECORUM AND IMAGE’ of the house.
    I agree that some of the female MP’s often look like they dressed in the dark; others look very feminine and display appropriate deportment. Some of the Male MP’s could take a lesson from them, also may be a need for welfare supplied safety razors for some males.
    
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    February 10, 2021 11:13am
  - jon
    
    Its all about the dumbing down of our Parliament which we have managed to do so well in the last four years in so many ways!!
    
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    February 10, 2021 11:29am
  - Liberty
    
    It is very simple
    Its a protocol of being a MP in the debating chamber.
    Just as it is a protocol to take your shoes off when going into a Maori meeting house.
    
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    February 10, 2021 1:28pm
- Clyde
  
  This guy is nothing other than a racist poser. For all his fancy rhetoric, when its analysed most of what he says is pure racist. And as for the cowboy hat. He says that “my people” have been wearing hats for thousands of years. He is a total embarrasment.
  
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  February 10, 2021 8:55am
  - Ehlana
    
    Which people are Rawiri Waititi’s people? Does anyone know?
    
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    February 10, 2021 9:11am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Well he was a Labour Candidate not so long ago…
      now he’s Maori Party…
      Might be something else next election.
      
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      February 10, 2021 9:41am
  - Gravelroad
    
    @clyde – yes, that is true about the hats.
    I’ve seen old, vintage pictures of Maori wearing hats – many of them decorated with the feathers of now extinct native birds……
    ?
    
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    February 10, 2021 10:25am
  - Nickc2
    
    Wearing hats for ‘thousands of years’?
    I think he’s having a lend there. If his lot were wearing hats thousands of years ago, they sure as hell weren’t Stetsons. Stetsons were first created in 1865 FFS and that was after Abel Tasman discovered NZ in December 1642. I don’t think the Dutch were wearing hats like the one this clown is wearing.
    Anyway, it’s bad manners to wear a hat indoors unless one is part of a clown show. Oh, shit, perhaps he is?
    
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    February 10, 2021 12:36pm
  - Close Hen Counters
    
    Lol! Cowboy hats come from ….. ummmm…. cowboys. Not sure how many cowboys pitched up to good old aye o tee rower before captain cook? Bloody ok corral in gizzy eh? Waititi is a complete waste of oxygen and taxpayers money
    
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    February 10, 2021 3:25pm
- kowtow
  
  She was a great advertisement ……..
  
  ……..for Steampunk.
  
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  February 10, 2021 9:15am
- jonno69
  
  [Deleted- provide evidence for your silly “rumour” before repeating it here. Mod.]
  
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  February 10, 2021 9:47am
  - jonno69
    
    that was clearly tongue in cheek
    
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    February 10, 2021 11:01am
    - Tall Man
      
      // helps ….. sometimes.
      
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      February 10, 2021 4:00pm
- Nickc2
  
  Our parliament is a laughing stock with the chief clowns being the PM and her Protector (Speaker).
  
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  February 10, 2021 10:05am
- rockape
  
  I see Mallard has backed down on this issue.
  
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  February 10, 2021 4:10pm
  - Nickc2
    
    Labour’s Maori Caucus strikes again. Is there trouble in the Labour camp?
    
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    February 10, 2021 9:50pm
- Sacha
  
  Just being a smart-arse.
  
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  February 10, 2021 5:37pm
Bobba Fret

Stuart Nash really struggling this morning on Hoskings show when questioned about Mallard.
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February 10, 2021 8:15am
- Tony Stuart
  
  His argument that Mallard made a mistake, apologised, and that it shouldn’t be held against him simply doesn’t wash. Not when Mallard told a select committee last year that he knew within 24 hours that he was wrong, but did nothing to correct the false accusation for months, costing the taxpayer more than $300k to date.
  
  #MallardMustGo
  
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  February 10, 2021 8:40am
  - Bobba Fret
    
    Totally agree, and it even sounded like Nash is struggling to tow the party line.
    
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    February 10, 2021 8:52am
  - Swifty
    
    They’re also setting themselves up for hard times in future.
    
    By protecting Mallard they are giving National, when next in power, free reign to trot out at any opportunity the “she/he made a mistake, has apologised, now let’s just move on as Labour did with Mallard…” defence.
    
    That’s what happens when you abandon your principles.
    
    Labour MPs should be ashamed. In fact, I wonder just how many are privately ashamed but unable to express it or do anything about it because the Party comes first.
    
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    February 10, 2021 8:54am
    - Bobba Fret
      
      My thoughts exactly Swifty. I think Nash is one that would love to come clean and basically say Mallard should step down. I presume they are all under strict instructions to from the president not to comment.
      
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      February 10, 2021 1:21pm
- Clyde
  
  Looking at Parliament during QT yesterday I almost didn’t recognise Nash. Has he stopped dying his hair or suddenly gone grey and he looked like he had just seen a ghost.
  
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  February 10, 2021 8:52am
  - jon
    
    SNAP !!! i too was wondering who that older looking man was. Whats happened??????
    
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    February 10, 2021 11:35am
- Nickc2
  
  What an … [deleted] Nash is. Perhaps Hosking only uses him as light entertainment? There was a time when I considered Mark Mitchell as leadership material but no longer, he is as weak as gnats piss.
  
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  February 10, 2021 10:10am
Maggy Wassilieff

So, if Ricardo Mendez-March had an urgent reason to visit his family in Mexico, why would he suddenly delete pictures from his facebook…and why did MBIE not consider him deserving of a compassionate exemption?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300225918/green-mp-ricardo-menndez-march-currently-in-managed-isolation-after-visiting-family-in-mexico
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February 10, 2021 8:16am
- Tony Stuart
  
  The Taxpayers Union outed RMM last night, without naming him:
  
  The Taxpayers’ Union understands that a New Zealand Member of Parliament is currently in managed isolation having travelled overseas over the NZ summer break, despite clear Government advice not to travel.
  
  The Union has received the unverified report that the MP arrived back in New Zealand on 1 February, after unsuccessfully applying to jump the queue for an emergency MIQ spot last month. It is understood the application was turned down by Minster Chris Hipkins after consultation with the relevant Party’s leader.
  
  Taxpayers’ Union Executive Director, Jordan Williams, said:
  
  “There may be valid reasons why the MP had to travel overseas – New Zealanders would totally understand if there was a family emergency for example, and it is very unlikely further questions would be asked.
  
  “But the idea that an MP can fail to turn up to work because they are secretly camped out in MIQ is incredible. If true, it is beyond believe that a statement wasn’t put out to at least give the public the heads up that the MP was on personal leave.”
  
  “If indeed we are paying a Member of Parliament to sit in an hotel because they chose to take a trip overseas, that would amount to arrogance in the extreme. Putting aside the needs of other New Zealanders currently desperate for limited MIQ spots, anyone in the private sector would lose their job for this kind of abandonment of employment.”
  
  https://mailchi.mp/b3fc23198057/is-a-new-zealand-mp-stuck-in-miq
  
  Within an hour, the Stuff story broke, with the “serious personal family matter” explanation. Suffice to say, my bullshit antennae were buzzing furiously.
  
  If RMM indeed had a “serious personal family matter”, why didn’t he put out a media release, or the Greens do it on his behalf. As much as I dislike his politics and his attention-seeking, I believe most people would have had a level of sympathy for RMM if he had a genuine reason for leaving the country, other than to take the almost-annual holiday he has to Mexico.
  
  But the horse had already bolted, and most people with an interest in politics already had a good idea it was the Green MP before Stuff confirmed it. He now looks as though he was caught with his hand in the MIQ cookie jar, and as we all know, perception is everything in politics.
  
  I just hope for RMM’s sake that his letter to MBIE asking for an urgent MIQ space didn’t include these words, or a close variant; “don’t you know who I am?”.
  
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  February 10, 2021 8:27am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Citizens have rights and it is not illegal for an MP to travel. Hipkins is not all powerful. MP’s are paid a daily sitting fee for attendance and that would not be paid otherwise. His attendance is up to his Party and the rules of the House.
    I’m sure there are bigger issues to charge him with, like excess Green and lack comprehension.
    
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    February 10, 2021 8:44am
  - Swifty
    
    I don’t know all the ins and outs of this particular case but, for heavens sake, this guy just consistently displays poor judgement.
    
    I’ve seen it reported previously that he’s had his Xmas holidays in Mexico for the majority of the last 8 years and, sure enough, he’s had his Xmas holiday in Mexico yet again.
    
    No worries about the carbon spewing out of those jet engines eh Ricky. No worries about supporting local businesses by taking your holidays in NZ.
    
    Let him tell us exactly why he needed to travel. Come on, if it’s all legit then NZers will understand.
    
    If not, if he continues with the vague ‘family matters’, then we are fully entitled to think the worst, in my view, that it was just another jaunt to family in Mexico to celebrate his election to Parliament.
    
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    February 10, 2021 8:45am
    - Bobba Fret
      
      If they keep hounding him for details as to why he travelled, I expect he will come up with the “extremely sick grand parent” excuse, which can never be proved or disproved. As I expect the “sick” person will miraculously recover.
      
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      February 10, 2021 8:57am
      - Swifty
        
        “Look at me, my family, all the plebs are locked down in NZ but I am sooooooooo special I get to travel to Mexico and see you all for the holidays. Aren’t I great? See how successful I have become?”
        
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        February 10, 2021 9:08am
    - Nickc2
      
      [Deleted – post this in your own space. Mod.]
      
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      February 10, 2021 10:23am
    - Ruahine
      
      Yes. Let him explain and provide unrefutable proof that their was a good reason to go to Mexico.
      I do not think there will be any credible explanation forthcoming.
      It is just a typical example of a Green trougher in action. Saving the planet in business class.
      
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      February 10, 2021 11:01am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      What’s the beef about this commie Green MP? He has all the rights of any citizen. If we don’t respect that, who limits our rights? He may not be in Parliament temporarily but that will be by arrangement. If its not law, nothings broke.
      He has family in Mexico and NZ has no official health travel bans on going there. His motives and his methods are largely his own business.
      
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      February 10, 2021 4:05pm
      - Swifty
        
        No one is questioning the legality.
        
        Everyone is questioning the hypocrisy.
        
        Please keep up KevOB.
        
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        February 10, 2021 4:50pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    RMM has just started his new job. How is it he has so much leave, straight off the bat? And what about his constituents? Who’s looking after their interests while he’s on holiday?
    
    // sarc
    
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    February 10, 2021 9:01am
    - Flossie
      
      Agree with that. But wondering who exactly are his “constituents”? As far as I can tell list MPs have no accountability to any electors. Just ensure you’re high enough up the list then you’re untouchable.
      
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      February 10, 2021 9:32am
  - Inandout
    
    [Deleted. Say it on your own blog. Mod.]
    
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    February 10, 2021 9:25am
- Maxx
  
  Do as I say, not as I do, you filthy capitalist pig.
  
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  February 10, 2021 8:29am
graham

So in the on-going story of the Maori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi refusing to wear a tie, he has said or written a couple of things.

As he was leaving the chamber, Waititi is reported to have said, “This is not about ties, it is about cultural identity”. And in an opinion piece, Waititi reportedly said he would “never bow my head to Pākehā power. I will never surrender my culture.”

But as far as surrendering one’s cultural identity, or bowing to another culture’s power … isn’t that what all non-Maori are expected to do when we have to sit through powhiri or karakia? I personally would prefer to have a Christian prayer at the opening of important events; that is MY culture.

When a rahui is imposed on a beach or a forest, all New Zealanders are expected to respect that rahui – isn’t that tantamount to “bowing our heads to Maori culture”?

The investigation into the Christchurch mosque attack was initially release to the families of those who died ON A MARAE. Why was a report into an attack on a MOSQUE release to the families ON A MARAE? That sounds very much like the Muslim families were forced to “surrender their culture”.

If Rawiri Waititi can refuse to do something on the grounds that it is not part of his “cultural identity” and it is tantamount to “bowing his head to Pākehā power”, then can we Pakeha ALSO refuse to do something on the grounds that it is not part of OUR “cultural identity” and it is tantamount to “bowing our heads to Maori power”?

Somehow, I suspect the howls of outrage would drown out our attempts to explain our feelings.
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February 10, 2021 8:17am
- CaptainCompromise
  
  Legally, his ancestors did surrender themselves and all subsequent New Zealanders to follow to the power of the pakeha via the crown. In fact some Iwi deciding to rebel against that power was exactly the mentality that led to the New Zealand wars (rather than the pakeha being racists). No one is stopping him preserving his culture, but the power to decide who wears what in the house lies with the representatives put in place by the crown.
  
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  February 10, 2021 8:40am
- kowtow
  
  No , whites ( I’m not using the media designation for non Maori ) cannot refuse , because “whiteness” is a negative . Being white is now bad. And bad must always give way to good. It’s literally that simple (in this Cultural Revolution).
  
  As to this MP , how the hell can a tie symbolise the suppression of his cultural identity when he’s running round in a stetson , jacket , shirt, trousers and probably fancy shoes/boots and socks .
  
  How the media don’t call out that bullshit self contradiction is not beyond me , it’s cos theyre cowards.
  
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  February 10, 2021 8:42am
  - sooty
    
    Does he have the hundred dollar underpants?
    
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    February 10, 2021 9:14am
    - Flossie
      
      Inflation I guess… $70 undies used to be the benchmark of troughers!
      
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      February 10, 2021 9:33am
    - jon
      
      Good one Sooty..wonder where Tuku is now???
      
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      February 10, 2021 11:42am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Bob McCoskrie on Twitter:
  
  bobmccoskrienz
  @bobmccoskrienz · 16h
  When on a Marae, respect the rules.
  
  When in Parliament, respect the rules.
  
  Pretty simple, really.
  
  Bob gets it. Be like Bob, not like Rawiri.
  
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  February 10, 2021 8:43am
  - MCos
    
    Entirely different.
    The dress code for parliament is business attire, which, quite clearly, can vary from culture to culture.
    Here in NZ plenty of businesses do not insist on a tie anymore.
    Times have changed since 1984 when the rule was promulgated.
    Furthermore the much maligned & currently in MIQ MP Ricardo Menéndez March doesn’t wear a tie & nobody makes a fuss, which is pretty amazing.
    I’m surprised Trevor Mallard has so much support considering he’s not exactly the most popular bloke in Wellington right now.
    
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    February 10, 2021 9:41am
    - Tony Stuart
      
      Mallard polled all MP’s after the election, and a majority of MP’s elected to retain the tie as part of Parliament’s dress code.
      
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      February 10, 2021 9:48am
      - Paulus
        
        So we are told – by Mallard who did the poll so of course he can be trusted?
        
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        February 10, 2021 1:45pm
      - Close Hen Counters
        
        Except the princess who doesn’t want to put off voters
        
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        February 10, 2021 3:36pm
    - Flossie
      
      Times have indeed changed since 1984. And they certainly have changed since 1984 – nevermind 1884 – when it was not okay for women to speak on a marae. Why can his people not move forward as he expects others to?
      Would it be okay to wear my shoes into his meeting house? But it’s okay for him to wear a hat in mine!
      
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      February 10, 2021 10:18am
    - Tall Man
      
      A cowboy hat is cultural appropriation is it not?
      
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      February 10, 2021 4:06pm
    - rockape
      
      Maybe we will see some female MPS turn up in fishnet stockings black satin blouses and 4” heels. I gather that’s business attire in certain circles!
      
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      February 10, 2021 5:08pm
    - Sacha
      
      Representing the people of New Zealand in Parliament is a serious business. It is not solely (or shouldn’t be) a forum for one’s own political fancies, rather a role in which the individual considers the wellbeing of ALL New Zealanders.
      Requiring a formal dress code IN THE HOUSE indicates recognition of the responsibility of MPs, and demonstrates to those who see them that the MPs are treating their constituents with respect.
      
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      February 10, 2021 5:51pm
- KiwiSapper
  
  Hear, Hear.
  
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  February 10, 2021 8:55am
- Nickc2
  
  Let’s get rid of the Maori bit from our National Anthem and the Maori page from our Passports. Listen to the screams then.
  
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  February 10, 2021 10:32am
Maggy Wassilieff

So, have the Greens been organising a hit job on Christopher Luxon?

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/02/judith-collins-slams-questioning-of-mp-christopher-luxon-over-air-nz-saudi-controversy-as-green-party-hit-job.html
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February 10, 2021 8:21am
- Tarquin North
  
  Makes a change from blaming John Key for everything. I reckon this is a smoke screen to cover up the M.P for Mexico Souths antics. The hilarious part is Golly is doing the bleating, and she is well known as a defender of a human rights abuser. The internet never forgets.
  
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  February 10, 2021 8:33am
  - Bobba Fret
    
    Absolutely. I found it ironic too that Golly is the one speaking up. Someone needs to remind the general public who she defended and some of the things he did.
    
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    February 10, 2021 9:01am
  - Swifty
    
    “MP for Mexico South…”
    
    Hahahahahaha!
    
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    February 10, 2021 9:14am
  - Tricati
    
    Golly G wouldn’t have a bloody clue as to the contracting arrangements within international trading companies, and who gets to see/approve the contracts. For a 3 million dollar contract (suspect minor servicing for that value), the business unit manager likely approved/signed the deal.
    As I understand in this case, Air NZ where contracted via a ‘third party’, that likely is purely a broker for specialist services and Air NZ had no direct contract with the Saudis.
    
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    February 10, 2021 11:53am
    - Nickc2
      
      This is nothing but a storm in an A cup.
      These engines and control modules are to the best of my knowledge retained in a rotatable pool of spares e.g. one in, one out where the pool is maintained by the OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer).
      When the OEM is inundated with repairs, they often sub-contract out to a suitably approved Repair Authority. The only way Air New Zealand would know who had previously had that equipment installed would be to search Logistic Support data Item’s History.
      Once defects on this equipment are rectified, they go back in the Pool of Spares (not necessarily the Saudi Navy vessels).
      
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      February 10, 2021 1:10pm
      - Master Mariner
        
        Yes but todays world there is “corporate code of conduct”,
        This should have been picked up.
        Bit like making a handle for hand granade not knowing what its for.
        All multinational companies not only have this and a sustainability policy but are required by law ( More so EU based) to know what they are producing and fot whom. You can not hide behind this for the exact same fact, ie No defense.
        
        You can not hide the fact of out sourcing.
        
        I mean seriously Air NZ ( airplanes) Saudi Navy ( Boats).
        They must of been rebalancing jet/gas turbines ( same boat/plane) and or replacing.
        This is another reason CEO of AirNZ has been a disaster. Just another feather to his cap of cock ups.
        
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        February 10, 2021 6:37pm
      - Nickc2
        
        Master Mariner @6:37PM
        Most modern Warships unless they are nuclear powered, run Gas Turbine engines or CODOG (Combined Diesel on Gas). These are exactly the same as Jet Aircraft engines and are interchangeable, Even the QE2 uses one as an Aux Power Unit. Its located in the Aft Funnel housing from memory.
        
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        February 10, 2021 9:29pm
Maggie Pie

And according to his social media posts, Pancho flew back to Mexico in 2012, 2013, 2014,2015, 2017, 2018, and 2019. All around this time of the year.
That’s a serious amount of carbon 😀

https://twitter.com/henrycooke/status/1359085087065743361
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February 10, 2021 8:21am
- Bobba Fret
  
  That is a lot of serious personal family matters Maggie!
  
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  February 10, 2021 1:28pm
Yvette

In December Mallard issued an apology to the accused Parliamentary staffer, admitting he was wrong – he knew his allegations were false, by his own admission, 24 hours after he’d made them. So he maintained that position until 18 months later and after a defamation battle cost taxpayers $333,600, with further costs still possible through other legal action.

However Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has continued to back Mallard as Speaker despite the fact he “made a mistake”.

As Dinghy Pattinson apparently has displayed in his Pike River office –
“The standard you walk past is the standard you accept!”
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February 10, 2021 8:24am
- Libertarians are right
  
  Question, did he know the accusations of rape were wrong 24 hours after he’d made them or after he said the “rapist” had left his job (which I think was more than 24 hours after he’d claimed there was a rapist and is what pointed to his victim)?
  
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  February 10, 2021 10:07am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Within 24 hours of saying that “one of the key dangers is no longer in the building” .
    
    Later that day Mallard revealed a staffer had been stood down.
    
    “One of the key dangers is no longer in the building,” Mallard told reporters at the time.
    
    Almost immediately he realised his error.
    
    “Probably within 24 hours,” Mallard told the committee, after he was asked when he realized he had made an error.
    
    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/12/speaker-trevor-mallard-reveals-he-knew-he-made-mistake-within-24-hours-of-making-false-accusation.html
    
    Earlier he had declared that the serious assaults identified in the Francis Review amounted to rape.
    
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    February 10, 2021 10:59am
CaptainCompromise

Didn’t think much of the stuff/herald rumours that Mr Plunket was going to be relieved if his talk radio duties. Until he didn’t show up yesterday for his regular slot without explanation and apparently isn’t taking questions.

My prediction: the nonsense BSA findings of late last year, the unfortunate incident with mr Banks, and the ease of which Mr Peter’s arguably risky discussions about vaccines could be turned into anti-vaxxer controversy will see manic talk ditch its current model within the next 6 months and try to move a bit more to the left, probably through a re-brand. Mediaworks are scared. It’ll probably be blamed on ratings being too low.

Mark my words, it’s too risky to air anything but the party line for the MSM these days.
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February 10, 2021 8:29am
- kowtow
  
  Karl du Fresne covered this .
  Looks like a conspiracy to rid the country of conservative media voices . Very scary .
  
  It needs to be explored . Same thing happens in Oz . A small cabal of commies have tried for years to get Andrew Bolt off the air . And they’ve just taken Eddie Maguires’ scalp.
  
  http://karldufresne.blogspot.com/2021/01/in-new-zealand-today.html
  
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  February 10, 2021 8:50am
  - doublehappy
    
    There are a lot of people talking about the ‘Cancel’ culture. Talking is not enough; what are we going to do about it? In my opinion, at least 50% of the people in the USA want a government with conservative policies. They don’t wish to cancel others who might want something different. It looks very ominous there. I believe less than 20% of NZ wants the cancel culture, open border, world reset way, that we are headed. Most are completely oblivious to it. How do we go about stopping it? Seriously, does anyone have any ideas?
    
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    February 10, 2021 2:24pm
    - Nickc2
      
      Change the Govt. for starters.
      Then, what do we do with the contaminated product from our education processes? That’s scary huh?
      
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      February 10, 2021 2:36pm
  - Nickc2
    
    Yes, and they almost had Alan Jones cancelled a few years ago when he was at 2GB. They organised a boycott of 2GB’s advertisers. He got his slot back but then a new Woke CEO was appointed to 2GB, Alan went to SKY.
    The Woke brigade also got rid of Michael Smith from 2GB. He now has his own blog and Chris Smith also departed 2GB for SKY under the new Woke CEO.
    
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    February 10, 2021 2:45pm
- niggly
  
  Basically if activists have an issue with a show’s content or the hosts themsleves etc, then follow the well established process of filing a complaint to the Broadcasting Standards Authority, the independent government body that has authority over broadcast content.
  
  https://www.bsa.govt.nz/
  
  In fact, media managers and CEO’s etc, should be pushing this when confronted by angry activists (or wokey corporate sponsors).
  
  The media managers and CEO’s can then say the matter has been refereed to the appropriate body that handles such complaints, and cannot comment (or favor an outcome) until the matter has been heard and the BSA makes their ruling.
  
  (Perhaps media managers and CEO’s can learn from politicians – this is exactly what they do)!
  
  After all, it is important to follow due process, and not have outcomes (and people’s reputations and job and income security) put at risk by a dozen or so authoritarian Twitter circle-jerks!
  
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  February 10, 2021 9:03am
- kowtow
  
  Listening to Pete Williams just now. Guy phoned in about the Big Hat guy , Pete sounded quite nervous about where it was going to go . He even pointed out to the caller ( a Scot) to be careful where he was going as he didn’t sound like he was born here……they’re shitting themselves , clearly the Banksie/Plunket Purge ( if that’s what it is ) has worked .
  
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  February 10, 2021 9:39am
  - jon
    
    If Plunkett goes then Magic Radio talk are clearly down on both knees to the Woke brigade. SHAMEFULL/GUTLESS.
    
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    February 10, 2021 11:51am
- CaptainCompromise
  
  An update: Stephen McIvor is on in Sean’s spot. Not a peep as to why Sean isn’t there, didn’t even acknowledge he was in Sean’s spot. I don’t agree with Sean on everything but be brings much needed diversity to radio, he’s entertaining and he seems like a good person on the inside.
  
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  February 10, 2021 12:38pm
  - kowtow
    
    Williams said this am that there’d be some sort of announcement about wot’s happening .
    
    The appalling thing about the Plunket Purge is it ‘s on the back of his holding the racist roadblocks to account .
    
    A deeply constitutional issue , and wot happens ?
    Unpersoned . Very dangerous .
    
    The Chinese have a saying; “Kill one to frighten a hundred”
    
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    February 10, 2021 1:42pm
  - Benedict Yu
    
    I used to occasionally listen to him in the car. He could be a bit of a clown but he made sense on a lot of issues.
    
    The thing is he had a following. And many of these people will turn off and never tune to this station again.
    
    What gets me is the cowardice of the station. They should have told the truth “Sean had a tendency to offend powerful woke folk. Our advertisers were threatening to walk so we had no choice other than to sack him.”
    
    Why do people need to lie about the obvious?
    
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    February 10, 2021 2:45pm
    - Miritu
      
      The real problem is not the cancel culture activists. It is the corporate & media hierarchy who give in to them.
      
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      February 10, 2021 4:08pm
- rockape
  
  I have written to Magic with my concerns. I will also write to all their advertisers. I am just a small insignificant voice but more of us should let them know or accept that we lose yet another freedom.
  
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  February 10, 2021 4:14pm
Maggie Pie

RANDOM IMPERTINENT QUESTION….

How many times a day does Jacinda have to remind her Caucus, that if it wasn’t for her, NONE of them would be there?
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February 10, 2021 8:38am
- MCos
  
  How many times a day do the Nats have to remind Bill, Winston, Simon, Jamie-Lee, Andrew, Denise, Todd, Judith, homeless man, that if it wasn’t for them, they wouldn’t be there?
  
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  February 10, 2021 9:58am
- Bobba Fret
  
  They were probably all given a small framed photo of Jacinda smiling to put on their desks as Christmas pressies to remind them constantly.
  
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  February 10, 2021 1:37pm
  - Nickc2
    
    I think Stuart Nash keeps his photo of Cindy under his pillow.
    
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    February 10, 2021 2:21pm
I remember when

Koala causes six car pile-up.
No it didn’t!
Despite a photo showing the koala behind the wheel of a vehicle it wasn’t driving any of the cars involved.
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February 10, 2021 8:44am
Maggy Wassilieff

Karen Chhour’s Maiden Speech.

If you think placing an unwanted child back in its whanau is always the answer—read on

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/chhour
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February 10, 2021 8:47am
- Tony Stuart
  
  I watched Ms Chhour’s speech, and for most of it, there was a rather large lump in my throat. She’s a real battler, with an amazing, sobering back story, which she refuses to use as an excuse for failure or mediocrity.
  
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  February 10, 2021 9:01am
  - Libertarians are right
    
    Many people on the right have stories like this. Poverty, child abuse, sexual abuse – survivors of these things don’t all vote Labour/the Greens/the Maori party. Many fight hard their entire lives to ensure their own children never have to live the life they’ve lived. Making hard choices and sacrifices themselves so they get to take back ownership of their own lives. These are the people that the Left so often malign as “privileged” solely due to their political beliefs.
    
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    February 10, 2021 10:43am
  - Close Hen Counters
    
    I met her at an ACT function once and she is a very nice and passionate lady – was heading to the parliament libraries soon after the function to start studying for her job desperate to make a positive change. Then there is waititi …. same race, different agenda
    
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    February 10, 2021 3:45pm
- The Housekeeper
  
  That speech gets a standing ovation from me.
  
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  February 10, 2021 12:05pm
  - rockape
    
    I would agree but for this, and it applies to 3 out of the 4 Act maiden speeches yesterday. the effectiveness of any speech is 50% content and 50% delivery. Sadly the delivery was a major fail for 3 of the new ACT MPs. That doesn’t give me much hope for the future.
    
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    February 10, 2021 12:44pm
    - Libertarians are right
      
      I don’t care so much for delivery. Labour has proven that you only need one good communicator. ACT have filled their seats with people who actually know what they’re talking about with regards to their portfolios and that’s all I really care about.
      
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      February 10, 2021 1:11pm
      - rockape
        
        So we should elect beneficiaries so they can run social services, criminals so they can run corrections and police. Nah not a good idea. You can have the best ideas and policies but if you cant articulate them you fail. Ask English or Bridges who fell foul of that.
        
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        February 10, 2021 4:18pm
lastmanstanding

Our political and business leaders are now beholden to the CCP. Dumb arses have out all their eggs in one basket instead of diversifying.

At some point in the future I wouldnt be surprised if the CCP established an air and or sea base on the Northland coast all in the interests of “mutual c0-operation” you understand.
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February 10, 2021 8:59am
- kowtow
  
  To the anti American left here along with the dumb arse , we have an independent foreign policy types , ship visits from the CCP navy welcome but not from the USN .
  
  Go figure.
  
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  February 10, 2021 10:09am
- oldfella
  
  Didn’t China propose some kind of ‘belt and road’ initiative for Northland a while back? Seem to recall it was building a rail link from the port. Yes?
  
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  February 10, 2021 11:24am
  - Master Mariner
    
    Yes, it was some CEO from a port up north. Not sure who? or where exactly but thinking this guy needs to go.
    Just think of Oz and Darwin Port sold to CPP.
    No strategic sense.
    This is where common sense should prevail.
    
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    February 10, 2021 11:18pm
Maggie Pie

FOR THE RECORD…..

Yesterday on GD, I related the story about a well known resident of Remuera, who flew the ‘MAORI FLAG’, much to the chagrin of his neighbors – one of whom was the late/great Paul Holmes.
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My post drew comments that I was either…. ‘stirring’ or ‘trolling’ – things I would never dream of doing.
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So for the record, if you want a real larf, you can read about it in a story by Herald reporter David Fisher, dated 5 March 2006, and headlined….
“The Big Flap in Auckland’s Poshest Street”

(you will need to google as link appears broken)
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February 10, 2021 9:14am
- Ehlana
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/the-big-flap-in-aucklands-poshest-street/25B4VTOMMAIPT5Z7JXOC5RBQKM/
  
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  February 10, 2021 12:25pm
  - tf78
    
    Ehlana – for $1.2m bucks it must be a shoe box in Vicky Ave.
    
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    February 10, 2021 7:24pm
Yvette

Foran said the contract was worth a “relatively small” $3 million, so didn’t cross his desk.
So, if it was under Luxon’s tenure, why do the Greens think it would cross Luxon’s desk?

It was through a third party contract that work was done on two engines and one power turbine module on vessels that belong to the Royal Saudi Navy.
In Air New Zealand records, is the work undertaken listed as for the “third party” or further detailed as equipment belonging to the Royal Saudi Navy?

Who informed the Greens of this matter? – someone with political motivations rather than a person interested in correcting a mistake the company had made?
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February 10, 2021 9:15am
- tf78
  
  Yvette – at that time, why was it a mistake. Over the last three and a half years this regime has changed a lot of NZs international relationships.
  
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  February 10, 2021 7:22pm
- Master Mariner
  
  Yvette,
  The question that raises my eyebrows is that the buck stops there.
  
  AirNZ , To operate Internationally must meet a clear “code of Ethics”. this must be on website surely?
  
  The custodian of such policy/ code is the CEO.
  I firmly believe hes an absolute disaster along the majority 50% shareholders of Air NZ.
  Any thoughts?
  
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  February 10, 2021 7:41pm
Yabster

Maori party saying anyone speaking against the Maori wards is “racist’- that old chestnut is peddled out every time to shut people up – Simon Bridges is therefore racist? I am racist also in that case – so be it.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300226100/bridges-leads-nationals-angry-response-to-mori-wards-legislation
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February 10, 2021 9:44am
- Michael Rodent
  
  Typical approach to call anyone who disagrees with them a “racist” – much easier to play the man not the ball when the basis of your position would not stand scrutiny.
  
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  February 10, 2021 12:42pm
Maggie Pie

Wonder if Trumpy regrets now not paying Rudi ?

🙁
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February 10, 2021 9:57am
- virtualmark
  
  You get the lawyers you can afford.
  
  Also, to be fair, Trump appears to be the client from hell.
  
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  February 10, 2021 4:21pm
Benedict Yu

I have no issues with Air New Zealand providing engineering services to the Saudi Government or military.

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2102/S00057/air-nzs-possible-assistance-to-saudi-military-ships-committing-atrocities-in-yemen-appalling.htm

AFAIK there are no UN sanctions applying to Saudi Arabia and Air New Zealand did not act unlawfully.

Yes Saudi Arabia is trying to oust the Houthi from Yemen and install their guy. So what? The Houthi are an anti Western death to Israel cult. I just can’t stand the Green Party wailing. New Zealand. 70 percent of New Zealand’s crude oil exports come from the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia. New Zealand also exports hundreds of millions of dollars of dairy products to the country.

I am not an apologist for Saudi Arabia. It is a despotic state in a region of despotic states, with Israel being the shining exception. But unless it is illegal, we should trade with them. Allowing Fonterra to export milk powder but being outraged at Air New Zealand exporting services is absurd.
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February 10, 2021 10:01am
- Swifty
  
  At last!
  
  Well said Benedict.
  
  It has long been NZ’s position to trade with all.
  
  Just imagine the state we’d be in if we limited our trade to those countries who never did anything ‘wrong’.
  
  We’d have no trading partners whatsoever.
  
  Is this what the Greens want?
  
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  February 10, 2021 11:16am
Maggy Wassilieff

China starting to put the screws on NZ?

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/436118/china-suspends-exports-from-local-seafood-companies
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February 10, 2021 10:15am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Have we broken the One China Policy or sided with Aus on it?
  
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  February 10, 2021 10:31am
- Master Mariner
  
  Shot accross the bow for sure.
  
  What has O’conner said now?
  
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  February 10, 2021 7:46pm
Fisiani2

Listening to Trump’s lawyers trying to defend the indefensible makes me wonder if they are just trying to appear to be assisting Trump. Their legal arguments so far are simply pathetic. They are arguing technical procedure rather than considering incitement of the deadly mob.
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February 10, 2021 10:19am
- Fisiani2
  
  So much denial in the ten downticks so far to the truth that the Trump legal team were pathetic. I called it before all the networks chimed in. Watch the video below and dare to downtick .
  
  https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/02/09/impeachment-manager-raskin-son-impeachment-trial-two-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/trumps-second-impeachment-trial/
  
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  February 10, 2021 2:29pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Downticked for still obsessing about Donald Trump.
    
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    February 10, 2021 3:39pm
KevO'Brien

Bill Gates is the largest farmland owner in the USA. He evidently has a much greater stretch than that with personal speaking rights at the UN. Also he seems to have acquired the international seed bank collections for his modification and patents.
An interesting video and transcript with an Indian PHD and RFK Jnr.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/rfk-jr-interviews-vandana-shiva-gates-empire/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=230c8846-4715-42be-918d-099d8ea5b552

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/gates-global-empire-threatens-life/
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February 10, 2021 10:40am
Maggie Pie

The only thing I hate about Hot X Buns, is how the smell of melted butter stays on your fingers for hours afterwards.
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February 10, 2021 10:42am
- Fletch
  
  I don’t really like the raisins and the spices. I go for the choc chip ones.
  
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  February 10, 2021 10:56am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Philistine! 😀
    
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    February 10, 2021 11:10am
- Tall Man
  
  Then eat the bloody things, don’t hang on to them for so long 🙂
  
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  February 10, 2021 3:37pm
Fletch

Excellent piece by John Solomon who also writes for The Hill. The FBI has evidence that the Jan 6 Capitol attacks were pre-planned, including copies of their interactions on social media.

A dozen FBI affidavits supporting charges against the more than 200 defendants show rioters engaged in advance planning on social media sites. The planning included training, casing sites, identifying commanders on scene, and requests for donations of cash, as well as combat and communication gear.

More than a half dozen of the suspects are now charged with conspiracy to commit violence for actions predating the Jan. 6 riots. The early actions identified in court documents date back to November, with planning and rhetoric accelerating after Christmas, court records show.

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/mon-growing-evidence-capitol-attack-pre-planned-undercuts-trump-impeachment

To add to that, former Chief of Capitol Police Steven Sund has sent an 8 page letter to Pelosi and other lawmakers. In the letter he details asking the Sargents-At-Arms for both Pelosi and McConnell for help days before Nov 6 from the National Guard. He was denied.

He also details his confrontation with the protesters who weren’t protesters, but heavily organized militia.

When the group arrived at the perimeter, they did not act like any group of protestors I had ever seen. Unlike other heated protests, these protesters did not simply congregate to angrily voice their grievances. As soon as this group arrived at our perimeter, they immediately began to fight violently with the officers and to tear apart the steel crowd control barriers, using them to assault the officers. It was immediately clear that their primary goal was to defeat our perimeter as quickly as possible and to get past the police line. This mob was like nothing I have seen in my law enforcement career. The group consisted of thousands of well-coordinated, well-equipped violent criminals. They had weapons, chemical munitions, protective equipment, explosives, and climbing gear. A number of them were wearing radio ear pieces indicating a high level of coordination.

https://static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2021/02/Letter_to_Congressional_leaders_02012021.pdf

So, again, nothing to do with anything Trump said. It was an attack pre-planned days and weeks before.
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February 10, 2021 10:53am
greybeard

Breaking news: Labour has announced that it will be making an announcement sometime in the future.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/124195642/live-government-set-to-announce-rma-repeal-and-replacement
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February 10, 2021 10:56am
- kowtow
  
  Oh dear , under this bunch of muppets the remedy will be worse than the illness.
  
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  February 10, 2021 11:00am
- rockape
  
  Can’t be much of a housing emergency if labour did little to sort it and even now delay the action to sort it till. 2022.
  
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  February 10, 2021 11:17am
  - Happychappy
    
    Like Geoffrey Palmer before him David Parker is promising to fix the RMA with three new laws which will take years to implement as long as the Green Party and Maori have a major say on the new laws.
    https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300226153/government-reveals-new-planning-laws-but-key-replacement-wont-be-passed-by-end-of-2022
    The only way forward to fixing this dreadful law would have been with all Parties swallowing their pride and working together for the good of future generations but no just like this outdated piece of Legislation written by Geoffrey Palmer, David Parker with our Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern know it all and with numbers in Parliament will do it their way just like Geoffrey Palmer did all those years ago.
    
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    February 10, 2021 12:41pm
mandk

Ardern opened Pandora’s Box when she decided to intervene in Ihumatao.

She gave a signal that it is ok for Maori to defy mana whenua and prevent people going about their lawful business: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/124194338/engineers-for-the-wellington-company-turned-away-from-shelly-bay-occupation-site

The worst part of this is that business people will be increasingly reluctant to make commercial deals with Maori in future.

And Maori wellbeing will suffer.

Stupid
Stupid
Stupid
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February 10, 2021 11:00am
- kevn
  
  @mank… A few years ago I had a residential maori lease. Sooo pleased to sell. Never ever again.
  Even though Churchill said never say never.
  Never again.
  
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  February 10, 2021 1:05pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  Perhaps citizens arrests are required. Mr Plod seems to be being kept away. His Oath of Office as to upholding the laws has been abandoned–I hope his pay has been reduced by at least 50%.
  
  These activist adventures are making a mockery of our property titles. Those only exist because of law not the PT PN’s say so. Police authority is independent of political say so, so why do they not execute their duties?
  
  Where are out Constitutional Lawyers when a govt exceeds it’s authority and is hopeless at carrying out even basic functions.
  Is Vogue to blame for feeding the PM’s self image? Does she seriously expect to get to the UN on her failed performance?
  
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  February 10, 2021 1:26pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Oh dear..

Geoffrey Palmer’s dream nightmare is to end
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/124195642/live-government-set-to-announce-rma-repeal-and-replacement

still he milked it well for 30years or so.
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February 10, 2021 11:06am
- Colville
  
  you think Labour is capable of coming up with an alternative and getting agreement on it with a few hundred iwi?
  
  oh…then there is the Gween factor.
  
  One thing for sure….there will be further announcements about this announcement!
  
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  February 10, 2021 11:38am
- sooty
  
  Phill Twyfords dream job!
  
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  February 10, 2021 11:44am
- info@cruzpro.com
  
  Why does it have to take 2 years? The government uses “Urgency” for lesser problems.
  
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  February 10, 2021 1:06pm
Fletch

I like using the DuckDuckGo search engine now, instead of Google, for its privacy features.

https://www.duck.com

But I notice there is another one called Start Page. They pay Google to use their search engine and then strip all of the tracking stuff out. In addition, if you click the little mask next to a search result,then you can visit the page link anonymously.

https://www.startpage.com
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February 10, 2021 11:09am
- oldfella
  
  Thanks, Fletch, just added Start Page. Looks interesting. Cheers.
  
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  February 10, 2021 12:17pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  I too use DuckDuckGo. Another useful browser is Opera with a free VPN which can allow you to get to sites otherwise hidden.
  We will defeat them!
  
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  February 10, 2021 1:16pm
- Nickc2
  
  Use BRAVE as your browser. It does all the things you mention and you can even block Ads without an Ad Blocker. It’s fast too.
  
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  February 10, 2021 1:27pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Is Brave Firewall + VPN free? If not, how much does it cost?
    This firewall is a premium feature which delivers more functionality than standard or free VPNs, and it is available for purchase. It is available for $9.99 per month or $99.99 per year. The firewall can be used on up to 5 devices a user may have.
    
    That’s why I use Opera, no cost.
    
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    February 10, 2021 4:49pm
    - Nickc2
      
      BRAVE is free!
      
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      February 10, 2021 9:12pm
Maggy Wassilieff

NZ doing favours for the US military

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/next-rocket-lab-launch-satellite-for-us-missile-defence-moon-prep/R5OCKOPRZULL7JEESOOMF6SWEY/
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February 10, 2021 11:11am
- rangitoto
  
  Well rocket lab is a US company.
  
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  February 10, 2021 12:20pm
  - sooty
    
    Well it’s not as though NZ has lots of satellites and is missing spots for luanching.
    
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    February 10, 2021 12:38pm
  - Jack5
    
    The Wall Street Journal today says there is likely to be a shakeout among more than 100 small-rocket ventures around the world. They are competing for the low satellite market.
    
    It names two as front runners: Rocket Lab, which it says is part-owned by Lockheed Martin; and Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit LLC.
    
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    February 10, 2021 1:40pm
Ruahine

I have been told that the new RMA legislation will, due to Covid-19, contain provision for more water rights for Maori. In particular with water that falls from the sky.
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February 10, 2021 11:13am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Maori deserve no more water rights than anyone else in New Zealand. They have been paid adequately already. What are they going to do with them? Peddle influence and control or sell them to Nestle and hit and run with the cash?
  
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  February 10, 2021 1:13pm
Maggie Pie

Ma txts –

‘Gordon Dryden to take over ‘noon to 4′ on MagicTalk’
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February 10, 2021 11:37am
- oldfella
  
  Maggie, surely you jest? Back to the future?
  
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  February 10, 2021 12:19pm
- rockape
  
  They have lost me as a listener. I am amazed how the media wants to attack free speech. Those who fill his shoes are the enemies of free speech and are backstabbers. They sold out for 30 or was it 50 million pieces of silver.
  
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  February 10, 2021 12:31pm
- oldfella
  
  Maggie, if you haven’t seen this, Chris Trotter is not impressed by what’s happened to Plunket.
  
  “MediaWorks’ decision to take Plunket off the air, if it stands, raises some very disturbing questions.
  On the face of it, his fate appears to have been determined by the opinions he holds, which, if established, would constitute a clear case of discrimination on the grounds of political belief.”
  http://bowalleyroad.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-political-economy-of-shock-jockery.html
  
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  February 10, 2021 12:36pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Hey thanx oldsie 😀
    
    Here’s the culprit…..
    
    https://twitter.com/JasonCParis/status/1357416689390870529
    
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    February 10, 2021 1:01pm
    - kowtow
      
      Vodafone needs to use that pour la photo French diversity thingy cos looking at the pictures of their “executive team” there weren’t many brown face there , despite the blurb about their commitment to the ‘principles of the treaty” whatever the hell those are .
      
      Time for the right to push back and do counter boycotts of all these wokester anti freedom businesses . The principles of freedom and democracy are at stake.
      
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      February 10, 2021 2:16pm
    - doublehappy
      
      I think Trust Power uses the Vodaphone network. Time for a change!
      
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      February 10, 2021 3:02pm
      - Jack5
        
        Infratil part-owns both TrustPower and Vodafone NZ, which uses the Vodafone brand in New Zealand.
        
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        February 10, 2021 7:45pm
Fletch

I see the govt is going to scrap the Resource Management Act and replace it with three new laws. One of which deals with…. climate change. No surprises there… ?
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February 10, 2021 12:11pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  That will really freeze decision making. All the argy-bargy to come about the application of the news laws, their implications and what accommodations are required. Local authorities will be pleased to find their power being usurped. They will have nothing to do.
  Net effect another 3 years of nothin’ doing. Forget about building infrastructure we are going to first have to decide how to feed the voracious taniwha.
  Couldn’t we please have a govt with at least a modest dose of ability. This is one is taking us into a wage/price inflationary spiral and sits around talking all day.
  
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  February 10, 2021 1:04pm
curry4me

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/deportation-texas-illegal-immigrants-non-citizens/2021/02/09/id/1009282/

Federal Judge in Texas Blocks Biden’s Deportation Freeze.
The Biden administration’s plan to freeze deportations for 100 days was temporarily blocked again by a federal judge in Texas over a lawsuit arguing the federal government can’t make immigration enforcement changes without first consulting the state.
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February 10, 2021 12:12pm
oldfella

Hit the English translation (top of the page, at the right when you open the link below). It’s worth it.
It’s a French website called “Pour La Photo.” As in, only for the photo. It’s a website for a company that hires “diverse” actors to pose in your company photos and make it appear, only for the photo, that your company is diverse.
It’s a parody website but in today’s woke world, anything is possible.
https://pourlaphoto.fr/?fbclid=IwAR0c0jUjF6akMXgqwdMsRMb7ndU_ctt_I1oeqKL-rccEE0Gmfb0Ko3Zm7hc
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February 10, 2021 12:12pm
curry4me

https://rumble.com/vdoy6v-trump-mulling-his-own-platform-trump-sex-trafficking-policies-help-ntd.html
Trump Trafficking Fight.

01:22 Expert: Trump Sex Trafficking Policies Help
Three major human trafficking and child exploitation busts in the last 10 days. The founder of a non-profit dedicated to combating child sex trafficking says we’re seeing the direct impact of the Trump administration’s policies.
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February 10, 2021 12:14pm
cmm

Cops harassing gangs again. Good.

But why do the Mongrel Mob seem to lead a charmed life. It’s always their enemies that seem to get raided the most even though the Mob is the biggest gang.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/124195766/head-hunters-gang-member-charged-over-kidnapping
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February 10, 2021 12:15pm
Maggie Pie

WHOOPSIE …… 😀

https://twitter.com/RMarchNZ/status/1277744876801556481
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February 10, 2021 12:29pm
- mandk
  
  So, the Marxist MP doesn’t like corporations making profits.
  
  He should, therefore, not fly at all (which would be fitting for a Green), or he could fly with a not for profit airline.
  
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  February 10, 2021 12:46pm
  - JackRabbit
    
    And as a green he does not approve of fossil fuels, but here he is making the most of it.
    
    Perhaps he should have taken a cycle lane to Mexico. Or volunteered to hitch hike as deck cargo on a passing submarine.
    
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    February 10, 2021 6:20pm
- graham
  
  Well there’s a tweet that didn’t age well …
  
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  February 10, 2021 1:09pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING

Ayatollah warns followers…..
“Not to go near anyone who has had the Covid-19 Vaccine – as it turns people GAY.
A crime which is punishable by execution”

https://twitter.com/MailOnline/status/1359280935351554052

So what chance the Muslim community in this country?
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February 10, 2021 12:47pm
- kowtow
  
  so much for scrubbing “fake” shit off their ‘platform”
  
  to think twatter banned trump.
  
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  February 10, 2021 12:51pm
  - Inandout
    
    kowtow, Twitter is a horrible place to visit, much like an asylum.
    
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    February 10, 2021 6:01pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  Bit vigorous eh?
  
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  February 10, 2021 4:25pm
oldfella

The Left’s 1960s dream is America’s 2021 nightmare.
“Orwell saw that the desire for power stamps out all ideological pretenses. It creates an untouchable ruling clique central to all totalitarian movements. Beware, he warns, of the powerful who claim to help the helpless.
Something so far less violent, but no less bizarre and disturbing, now characterizes the American New New Left. It is completing its final Animal Farm metamorphosis as it finishes its long march through our cultural, economic, and social institutions. Leftists may talk of revolutionary transformation, but their agenda is to help friends, punish enemies, and to keep and expand power”.
https://amgreatness.com/2021/02/07/our-animal-farm/
Sounds a lot like what’s happening in NZ as well.
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February 10, 2021 12:50pm
- oldfella
  
  I think the French have the right idea.
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  Politicians and prominent intellectuals say social theories from the United States on race, gender and post-colonialism are a threat to French identity and the French republic.
  “There’s a battle to wage against an intellectual matrix from American universities,’’ warned Mr. Macron’s education minister.
  Emboldened by these comments, prominent intellectuals have banded together against what they regard as contamination by the out-of-control woke leftism of American campuses and its attendant cancel culture.
  https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/world/europe/france-threat-american-universities.
  
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  February 10, 2021 1:01pm
  - kowtow
    
    I wouldn’t give the Frogs any credit at all .
    The current crop of Elitists in Fr are scared of marine Le Pen and are merely making noises to appeal to the dumb.
    Remember these pollies are tied to the idea of their republic , the revolution and the mayhem that brought the west, including regicide and the export of their tyranny.
    
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    February 10, 2021 1:30pm
  - lifesgood
    
    Good job. Now let’s hope the French infect other countries. The cancer of wokeness is quite terrifying as it spreads into all areas of our lives. I’m pretty sure that it has gathered momentum because younger generations than mine have never been disciplined, never allowed to fail, spoilt rotten by indulgent parents who wanted to be their kids friend and not their parent. These now adult brats have never been challenged or allowed to feel bad about anything. They just can’t take any kind of criticism. I fear for the future unless countries join France in condemning this nonsense.
    
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    February 10, 2021 2:17pm
kevn

@Maggie… I certain these type of ‘clerics’ are there to just entertain us regular folk. Their utterances are amazingly stupid.
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February 10, 2021 12:57pm
- kowtow
  
  sadly their utterances cause people to die at the end of a rope.
  
  Nothing “entertaining ” about their form of fascism.
  
  Do we have contracts with them . Wot have the Greens to say about that.
  
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  February 10, 2021 2:03pm
I remember when

Just been for a drive up town.
Looks like we have certainly put those Saudis in their place.
Price of petrol on the way up?
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February 10, 2021 1:19pm
Maggie Pie

FOX

French President Macron warns of new ‘Terror Threat’…..

AMERICAN WOKENESS !
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February 10, 2021 1:56pm
I remember when

The Ayatollah is most certainly right.
Covid does make your gay.
The Labour Party just can’t believe their luck.
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February 10, 2021 2:22pm
- Fletch
  
  In that case, wouldn’t a vaccine be considered “conversion therapy” and banned?
  
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  February 10, 2021 4:40pm
Maggie Pie

Taika Waititi just rose to ask a supplementary question…

He WON – Trev LOST

LOL!!!
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February 10, 2021 2:48pm
- jon
  
  No doubt Cindys had a word with Mallard.
  
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  February 10, 2021 4:39pm
Jack5

An old internet scam does rounds again …

This is your ISP.

Would you mind taking part in a survey of our service. We’ll put you in a draw to win an Apple iphone or a Samsung XYZ phone.

The questions look authentic. So you fill them in. Then after a minute or two, comes: You have been chosen as a prize recipient. You are eligible for one of the cellphones. Which one do you want?

But then: You need to pay just $2. Put your details in here (details of name and bank account).

$2 for a $1000 cellphone. Wow.

Snap! The trap is sprung. The criminals have your bank account details.
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February 10, 2021 4:53pm
dad4justice

Oh Clever Trevor lost and the bro’s win again.
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February 10, 2021 5:11pm
Maggie Pie

Just heard Bunman on Magic give Skippy a grilling about what he knew of Pancho’s trip to Mechico.
LOL!!

For some reason i thort they might have been bezzies – obviously not.
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February 10, 2021 5:15pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

https://babylonbee.com/news/dumb-football-game-keeps-interrupting-commercials?
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February 10, 2021 5:39pm
- JackRabbit
  
  I had a mate who was a film producer who produced mainly commercials, usually outdoor ones – cars, cigarettes in the day – adventure. If you went to his place, he’d have the sound on for the commercials, and muted for the program.
  
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  February 10, 2021 6:14pm
- marcw
  
  I recently had the pleasure of watching the just finished England v India 1st cricket test. Not on Spark, not on Sky, but on Channel 4 UK Freeview tv.
  Pleasure not just for the excellent sport displayed (though the Indians may not agree!), but also
  – it was free-to-air in the UK
  – it was live and in HD
  – there were restrained advertising breaks (as opposed to the NZ relentless and repetitious ads at every instant a wicket falls or an over ends)
  – excellent expert commentary and comments (comments mainly by Sir Alister Cook)
  
  NZ Cricket should take note (ha ha), the Ch 4 audience in the UK was over a million each day, even though it was starting around 6 am their time. A quality product attracts an audience naturally.
  
  Those interested, look for subscription models for British TV Club’s online. I pay ~$12 pm to subscribe to access to view the approx 50 FreeView channels, some HD, including BBC and ITV, and the only disadvantage is you have to watch live, no recording or time-shifting permitted.
  
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  February 10, 2021 8:30pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

https://notthebee.com/article/watch-this-poor-woman-lives-next-to-a-saxophone-player-who-only-plays-the-pink-panther-theme?
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February 10, 2021 6:04pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

1980, and you know he won girls and guys.
Impeach is the leftist media cocksucking in 2021. Not gonna happen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAgJAxkALyc
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February 10, 2021 6:58pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/124183678/new-mp-reveals-death-threats-racism-from-top-paediatric-surgeon-in-maiden-speech
There are so many odd things about this speech that I will have to take more time to analyse it and get back to you.
Or maybe it is just a typical lot of crap from one of our new
so-called “MPs”.,
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February 10, 2021 7:18pm
- hookerphil
  
  He is OK now though, Ardern gave him a hug.
  
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  February 11, 2021 7:25am
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/124203541/south-canterbury-lifestyle-farmer-fined-17500-for-starving-and-illtreating-sheep
Hey STUFF !
Instead of pictures of anonymous sheep, how about a picture of this cretin who abused them ?
So that his family, neighbours, “friends” and other acquaintances can see what a sad, despicable prick he is.
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February 10, 2021 7:27pm
Maggie Pie

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Ricardo asks MIQ Security Guard…”Don’t you know who I am?”
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February 10, 2021 7:36pm
Ian Boag

“Mixed feelings”

When your mother-in-law drives your new car over a cliff.

When a lefty government dealing with a pandemic hands you capital gains beyond your wildest dreams.
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