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Tony Stuart

Michael Field describes himself as a “journalist and writer on South Pacific”. He posted this on Twitter late yesterday:

Michael Field @MichaelFieldNZ
Embarrassing for @chrisluxonmp – when he was CEO of @FlyAirNZ (did you know he was CEO?) he bought planes with dodgy engines. Now same planes have skin acne – their paint is coming off, grounding a number. Bottom feeders at work now

https://twitter.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1508231158433165312

It didn’t take long for Field’s inaccuracies to get pointed out. The planes in question were ordered in 2004, long before Luxon became CEO of Air New Zealand. Sir Ralph Norris was the boss of Air NZ at the time, succeeded by Rob Fyfe, whom Luxon succeeded in 2012.

But it calls Field’s integrity into question. This story from Fiji Broadcasting’s senior multi-media journalist Edwin Nand notes an incident from August 2021:

Incorrect news reports about Fiji by a New Zealand-based journalist has raised concerns among the local media fraternity.

Michael Field has been known to publish articles that are factually incorrect and lack official corroboration and has come under the spotlight again for claiming that Fijian journalists had been arrested for reporting on the iTaukei Land Trust Bill.

FBC News reached out to Field to explain why he ran information from sources without verification or confirmation from official channels.
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Field evaded most of our questions and refused to apologize to Fijian journalists or even give an undertaking to cease writing unverified stories.

https://www.fbcnews.com.fj/news/misleading-reports-about-journalists-detainment-raise-concerns/

I wonder if Field will offer the courtesy of an apology to Christopher Luxon for a blatant political smear; somehow, I doubt it. If you needed any proof as to how inaccurate and misleading this smear was, not even Labour’s chief social media agitator, Clint Smith, has gone near this story!
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December 29, 2020 9:01am
- Nickc2
  
  Are Michael Field and Barbara Dreaver the same person? There are similarities in their reporting styles (lies)?
  Barbara Dreaver reports Army Tanks on the streets of Suva Fiji and children eating grass. The Fifi Military Forces don’t have Army Tanks. However, such lies provide an income eh Barbs?
  https://www.fijileaks.com/home/today-it-was-claimed-that-one-news-showed-tanks-on-suva-street-and-images-of-children-eating-grass-this-never-happened-and-we-did-no-such-thing-look-at-the-footage-that-disproves-bainimaramas-claims-tvnz
  
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  March 29, 2022 9:27am
- CPB
  
  Michael Field has an established history of making stories up. He cost Fairfax (now Stuff) a lot of money after defaming Stephen Jennings, before washing up at that bastion of objective journalism Radio NZ. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/rich-lister-jennings-settles-defamation-case/6OCROKHT4CYBNFGEO7KTVOTVXQ/
  
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  March 29, 2022 9:27am
  - David Garrett
    
    We accept that the article and the statements about Mr Jennings and his businesses within it were entirely without merit; Mr Field did not contact Mr Jennings for his comment; and the article failed to meet Fairfax’s high expectations in relation to its own editorial standards and journalistic ethics.
    
    Bugger me…it doesn’t get more groveling than that. After that sort of result, Field shouldn’t have been able to get a job on the local giveaway.
    
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    March 29, 2022 10:57am
    - gravedodger
      
      Careful there David G as some of us slide into total irrelevance, local giveaways are a vital link to our communities, who ever the F@#$ this jerkoff might imagine hiself to be, we appreciate what the local giveaway delivers.
      He might be useful as the editor of The Auckland Islands Gazette , then again that discerning readership probably would not be interested either.
      
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      March 29, 2022 11:29am
    - Loddenthinks
      
      @DG: he couldn’t get a job on the local rag, so the next rung down is woke-whoring to the gutter press. Figures.
      
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      March 29, 2022 12:08pm
- lastmanstanding
  
  On the matter of rates. On average Kiwis buy and sell a house every 7 to 9 years according to the stats. So they dont get to live in one house long enough to really grasp the increase in their rates.
  On the other hand Mrs LMS and I have lived in our house since 1979. At that time we paid the East Coast Bays Borough Council the princely sum of $236 a year in rates.
  
  Fast forward and we are now paying north of $4000 in rates. Stats NZ tell me that the rates have increased 450% of the CPI and wages and salaries increase over that time.
  
  Sadly the services we get from the Auckland Council havent. And I have never seen any explanation for why the rates should not reflect the CPI and wages and salaries increases over that time.
  I say Councils have become bloated. The changes to the Local Body Act by the Clark regime in 2002 have allowed Councils to run amok wasting rates on vanity projects competing with private enterprise whilst ignoring core spending like roads rubbish parks and libraries.
  
  In addition the rating model is flawed. It doesnt match the costs with the usage of the assets and services.
  It is a 19th Century model in the 21st Century. The model using property valuations should be replaced with a model based on usage and ability to pay from income.
  
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  March 29, 2022 9:32am
  - kowtow
    
    If councils stopped spending so much on vanity projects/ vanity staff levels etc you wouldn’t need to replace the model at all.
    
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    March 29, 2022 9:45am
  - Jack5
    
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    March 29, 2022 10:14am
  - Ra Henare
    
    In this day and age Councils should not be funding libraries!!
    
    They provide DVD rentals? and cheap Internet access as well as large numbers of fiction books and magazines.
    
    The original thinking for libraries were to provide a storage of knowledge.
    NOT a cheap source of entertainment for a few local citizens. Just check the surveys of how many citizens(%) use the the library for searching for knowledge??
    
    The current knowledge storage and source of entertainment is provided by gasp shock horror. The internet.
    
    So lets get councils back to the basics.
    Roads, rubbish, water, sewage, parks
    
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    March 29, 2022 10:24am
  - David Garrett
    
    lastman: it’s even worse out here in the country mate; I pay $2,500 odd but get my water from the sky, dispose of my own shit (thru a septic tank), and pay for rubbish disposal bag by bag.
    
    For that 2500 I get 2 kms of local road to SH 16 and the use of the Helensville library.
    
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    March 29, 2022 11:00am
  - gump
    
    @lastmanstanding
    
    “And I have never seen any explanation for why the rates should not reflect the CPI and wages and salaries increases over that time.”
    
    I’d like to see an explanation of why you think that rates should only rise at the rate of the CPI?
    
    Building and maintaining all of the infrastructure that has been created in Auckland since 1979 wasn’t free. It has cost literal billions and those costs have been carried by all of the ratepayers in the district
    
    Why on earth would you think all that infrastructure should have been free?
    
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    March 29, 2022 5:29pm
- mikenmildagain
  
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  Michael Field has been reporting on the south pacific for about forty years or so. He is, so far as I’m aware, still banned from Fiji for reporting critical of the regime there. Incidentally, we seem to be okay with resuming full military cooperation with Fiji, probably on the grounds that it is better to do so than have the Chinese buy more of the country and its leaders. Field has reported widely on the decline of democracy in the region.
  I hope he apologises too. It must be very worrying to have national party stalwart Tony Stuart on your case. Luxon appears to have been hated enough by Air NZ staff without have extra misdemeanours attributed to him.
  
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  March 29, 2022 9:34am
  - kowtow
    
    he’s welcome to report on the decline of democracy in NZ and how much the CCP has bought of political parties , influence and business here too .
    
    Oh but it’s OK to report it when banana republics do it , but not when polite society does ?
    
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    March 29, 2022 11:30am
  - pdm
    
    Mike – Fiji Army is very well trained and disciplined.
    
    Remember when Lange thought about sending troops there but backed off our troops would get a walloping from the Fifians.
    
    Vinaka vaka levu.
    
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    March 29, 2022 11:32am
  - In Vino Veritas
    
    Again mike, “hated enough by Air NZ staff” is just business as usual for you. Yeah, a few might have hated him, but not all. And because your lack knowledge of business, and having never led anything other than perhaps a dog, people in positions of leadership are seldom liked by everyone they lead. After all, tough decisions have to be made, and along the way, some staff don’t like those decisions.
    
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    March 29, 2022 11:57am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Those are fair points. It’s entirely possible his reported comments about his AirNZ people are very isolated instances of disrespecting his workers.
      
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      March 29, 2022 3:22pm
- alloytoo
  
  I wasn’t aware that Luxon was an engineer setting the paint specs for every single aircraft.
  
  That’s the sort of tweet that demonstrates the IQ of the Tweeter as well below average.
  
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  March 29, 2022 9:55am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    Buying the planes and setting the paint specs two CEOs before he got the job too – impressive stuff!
    
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    March 29, 2022 12:10pm
- David Garrett
  
  Field has often published wildly inaccurate stories about Tonga…and ignoring any communication aimed at getting a correction published.
  
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  March 29, 2022 10:11am
  - mikenmildagain
    
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    Why do you care, David? You stated just the other day that brown lives didn’t matter when compared with white people.
    
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    March 29, 2022 10:45am
    - RoboRob
      
      Why don’t you care about ‘journalists’ reporting obviously factually inaccurate stories?
      
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      March 29, 2022 11:10am
    - David Garrett
      
      I said nothing of the sort you clown…I said that in countries in SE Asia life was valued less…and supported that opinion by quoting the Viet Cong, (Le Duc Tho from memory) who said that they didn’t care how many men the Americans killed, or how long the war went on….the Americans could decide on 10 years, 20 years, or 50 years.
      
      How else would you interpret those statements than that “for us life is cheap”? Do explain
      
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      March 29, 2022 11:15am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Yeah, “life is cheap”. I don’t know who said that originally, btw.
        A moment’s reflection should, but probably won’t, persuade you that profligacy with human lives is not defined by race.
        It’s nive that you admire Le Duc Tho, who famously declined the Nobel Peace Prize. Not a hard decision – to refuse sharing a peace prize with Kissinger. If he said what you report above, it would chime nicely with your worship of Churchill, for example: “we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be”. And of course, warfare between the ‘civilized’ nations has been notoriously profligate with human life. But perhaps it was different for brown Vietnamese defending their homeland than for white Englishmen defending theirs.
        
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        March 29, 2022 12:17pm
      - David Garrett
        
        So, no engagement; no evidence; just mud thrown in the hope that some sticks. Nice to know that the one downticker – so far – is Ol’ Milky…or perhaps his mate the killer is lurking about.
        
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        March 29, 2022 12:50pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        What the hell are you on about, David? I answered your ludicrous argument as best as I could, and you just respond with unhinged abuse.
        
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        March 29, 2022 3:18pm
- marcw
  
  About the “paint”story. Both Boeing and more acutely Airbus have problems with the protective “paint” on their composite structures, in some cases the coating is eroding and peeling. Qatar Airlines had most of their Airbus 950’s grounded at one stage.
  
  Apparently it is related to a reaction between the composites, the copper film over the composites in certain areas (which is there to protect the plane structure from lightning strikes) and the “paint”. Both manufacturers are working on a more permanent solution, and planes have been repaired and are back in service in the meantime.
  
  It is certainly nothing to do with ANZ or Chris Luxon, but is a worldwide issue.
  
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  March 29, 2022 12:19pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Is Field rightfully copping it on Twitter now?
  
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  March 29, 2022 12:56pm
  - Tony Stuart
    
    Oh yes, he sure is. But the tweet is still up, and there’s been no apology, so one presumes he stands by his allegation/smear.
    
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    March 29, 2022 4:26pm
Matt Long

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/will-smith-son-reacts-slap-oscars
Jaden Smith approves of daddy assaulting stand up comics, the whole family should have been ejected immediately, no bouncers?
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March 29, 2022 8:04am
- Jimmy Brown
  
  It was an act.
  
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  March 29, 2022 8:05am
  - Bloody Dago
    
    Yip Yip Yip it was all an act for gods sake, their actors🤣🤣🤣
    
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    March 29, 2022 8:26am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Publicity junkies – best ignored
    
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    March 29, 2022 8:51am
    - curry4me
      
      Yes, I feel none the worse for not knowing a thing about these creatures from Harveywood.
      
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      March 29, 2022 8:58am
  - Libertarians are right
    
    If that was an act it makes him an even bigger moron. He’s been working hard for that Oscar for years now (and thrown tantrums for not being nominated) and when he’s the raging favorite he decides to crap all over his biggest career achievement by pretending to slap Chris Rock in the face? That’s beyond unbelievably stupid. Far more likely he’s just an aggressive, entitled moron.
    
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    March 29, 2022 8:52am
  - alloytoo
    
    Only way for the Oscars to stay relevant.
    
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    March 29, 2022 10:22am
  - Ra Henare
    
    Imagine if the very large, strong man had really slapped the MC. The guy would have been on the floor!!!
    
    It was excellent theatre in my view.
    
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    March 29, 2022 10:26am
  - dannz
    
    Was it a “mostly peaceful” slap?
    
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    March 29, 2022 10:29am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  But congratulations to Jane Campion, right? That’s the most important things about the Oscars for Kiwibloggers, surely. Celebrating the achievement of a great Kiwi artist.
  
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  March 29, 2022 8:07am
  - Chris R
    
    When they start to dish out Oscars for dark, dreary boredom then Ms Campion will win more or less continually.
    
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    March 29, 2022 9:02am
    - MCōs
      
      I take it you watched her movie and didn’t like it?
      Could have just said so.
      Personally I found it had going for quite awhile, but persevered to my benefit.
      
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      March 29, 2022 10:34am
  - Jimmy Brown
    
    I see you haven’t changed much over the years MM.
    
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    March 29, 2022 9:07am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Yes, still celebrating our achievers, despite the Kiwiblog obsession with clobbering our tall poppies.
      
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      March 29, 2022 10:50am
  - Frank the tank
    
    No congrats goes to Ron. Putting all those clowns in their place.
    
    Anyone else think Amy Schumer is the spitting image of Miss Piggy?
    
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/florida-desantis-signs-parental-rights-education-bill
    
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    March 29, 2022 9:25am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Ron de Santis is going to stop Jane Campion making movies?
      
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      March 29, 2022 10:50am
      - Frank the tank
        
        No but he is going to stop sexualising young kids at pre-school and school in his state Mikey.
        
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        March 29, 2022 2:51pm
  - Matt Long
    
    Even the herald online isn’t interested Mike
    
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    March 29, 2022 10:43am
  - Stellaboxer
    
    I don’t cheer for people because they happen to be a citizen of the same country as me I cheer them because I like their creations.
    
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    March 29, 2022 11:01am
  - Media hater
    
    Genuine question: Why are you even here, day in day out. What purpose does it serve for you?
    
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    March 29, 2022 12:02pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      And a question I have answered many times before: Kiwiblog is an entertainment forum with amusing comments.
      Genuine question: What is a ‘media hater’ doing on a media website?
      
      Kiwiblog was a member of the Online Media Standards Authority since from 1 October 2014 to 31 December 2016 when it got subsumed by the NZ Press Council which we are now an associate member of.
      
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      March 29, 2022 5:30pm
- rouppe
  
  I have zero sympathy for either of them.
  
  I have zero sympathy for Will Smith because he was happy to laugh away when (so called) comedians made fun of people Will Smith didn’t like. That he gets upset when it comes close to him is hypocritical.
  
  I have zero sympathy for Chris Rock because he – and all his ilk – were loud when talking about MeToo, BLM, equality and diversity but he thinks it’s OK to make fun of – i.e. humiliate – someone based on their appearance. He effectively pointed at Jada Pinkett Smith and said “Look! There’s a woman, and she’s bald!
  Where’s the opprobrium for that?
  
  No sympathy. No outrage. At all.
  
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  March 29, 2022 8:10am
  - pdm
    
    rouppe = I hear on radio that Smith was out of order in defending his wife’s reputation.
    
    Chivalry is now officially dead.
    
    If it had happened earlier the Knights Of The Round Table would have been redundant before they started.
    
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    March 29, 2022 8:36am
    - Libertarians are right
      
      He said “Jada, I love you. GI Jane 2, can’t wait to see you.” That’s not exactly besmirching her honour or even mean spirited at all. He certainly didn’t attack her reputation in any way (unless being linked to a potential GI Jane 2 counts?). He didn’t even attack her looks or her lack of hair. At worst you can say he brought attention to her lack of hair, that’s it.
      
      Will Smith was clearly out of order. Even if it was appropriate to defend her honour, he still had no right to physically assault Chris Rock. Ths attack was about Will Smith, not any wrongs committed by Chris Rock.
      
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      March 29, 2022 9:01am
      - rouppe
        
        Really? The only reason he linked her to GI Jane was because she was bald.
        
        She wasn’t impressed, as evidenced by her eye-roll.
        
        We know from the mandatory anti-bullying and sexual harassment training we are all required to do, that if the woman was offended, then the remark was offensive.
        
        Was a strike warranted? I’ll say no, but actually I don’t even care. I still have no sympathy, because they both are reaping the rewards of the seeds they themselves sowed
        
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        March 29, 2022 12:24pm
      - Libertarians are right
        
        Rouppe, as I said, he brought attention to her hair but there is no way you could possibly argue that he attacked or insulted her lack of hair. To be honest, I always thought short hair Demi Moore was stunning.
        
        She rolled her eyes because she didn’t like the joke (rolling eyes doesn’t generally mean offense, it’s more a physical groan), that’s fine. She has every right to be offended but honestly, she’s got big problems if that offends her and that’s her problem, not Chris Rock’s. Chris Rock didn’t reap anything, he got assaulted for doing his job (yes, presenters are actually supposed to make jokes about the audience members) and it wasn’t even close to the worst joke, probably closer to one of the tamest.
        
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        March 29, 2022 1:28pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Knights of the Round Table, you say?
      
      We’re knights of the round table
      We dance whenever we’re able
      We do routines and chorus scenes
      With footwork impeccable
      
      Tis a silly place, not to mention mythical. And chivalry, of course, was more of a myth than reality too.
      
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      March 29, 2022 9:39am
  - Colville
    
    Compared to the jokes made by Ricky Gervais at the Globes..Rock was tame and lame.
    
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    March 29, 2022 1:04pm
- Cinematic
  
  Agreed. I thought that had to be a stunt? If not I presume charges will be laid. How pathetic of Smith.
  
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  March 29, 2022 8:11am
  - Ehlana
    
    I heard Chris Rock declined to press charges.
    
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    March 29, 2022 10:25am
    - Loddenthinks
      
      I believe there’s some video evidence, does the “victim” have ultimate right of veto?
      
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      March 29, 2022 12:20pm
      - Ehlana
        
        Seems like it in LA, going by the radio reports.
        
        I guess Police have got enough to do without prosecuting cases in which the victim doesn’t want to proceed. And possibly there is some sort of victim’s right to decline.
        
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        March 29, 2022 3:21pm
- cmm
  
  It’s the Oscars that have woked themselves into irrelevance.
  
  Perhaps a bit of slapping will help boost the ratings.
  
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  March 29, 2022 8:11am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    He should have used his handbag
    
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    March 29, 2022 8:53am
  - GT Build
    
    As this article says they are on the way out the back door no one watches them unless they are a tragic
    https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/03/28/nolte-2022-oscars-go-down-as-the-second-least-watched-ever/
    
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    March 29, 2022 10:02am
- Maggie Pie
  
  We played the whole drama on slo-mo over & over again on the big screen.
  It was nothing more than than a staged pussy-slap!
  My partner whacks my ass harder that 😀
  
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  March 29, 2022 8:21am
  - Nickc2
    
    I agree with your sentients Maggie but know nothing of your arse.
    Seriously, if you look at the positioning of Smith’s feet, it was never meant to be anything more than a staged ‘Bitch Slap’. Real men punch!
    
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    March 29, 2022 8:26am
    - Colville
      
      Smith is a well trained actor and knows how to slap someone without hurting them (much)
      
      Its was a calculated slap , what he knew he could get away with.
      
      A punch would have cost him every cent he has and his Oscar.
      
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      March 29, 2022 12:57pm
- G152
  
  Insulting the wife and expecting people to laugh ??????
  Just maybe Will is protecting those he loves
  
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  March 29, 2022 8:21am
  - My
    
    Nope. If he wanted to protect he would have taken the full Ali stance and anchor punched the dude. The slap just grandstanding.
    “I got in one little fight and my mom got scared
    She said, You’re movin’ with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air”
    
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    March 29, 2022 2:56pm
- Stellaboxer
  
  You don’t need bouncers when actors are acting.
  
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  March 29, 2022 8:22am
- Albert_Ross
  
  Bit rich of the Academy to put out a statement decrying violence in any form. They celebrate an art form that routinely glorifies extra-judicial violence (and other crimes, notably car theft, breaking and entering, and burglary) as a means of solving problems.
  
  Anyway, what should Smith have done?
  
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  March 29, 2022 8:57am
  - Ehlana
    
    If his wife was really upset? They could have simply stood up and walked out. Look after her, give her time to regain her composure and decide whether she wants to return or not. Either one or both of them could have returned in the next ad break.
    
    It would have delivered a message about the “joke” while keeping the focus on the victim (her, not him) and demonstrating grace and dignity.
    
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    March 29, 2022 10:28am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Exactly. It’s not okay, at all, to assault someone over a joke. Wouldn’t the normal response at a theatre be to remove someone who assaulted the staff (entertainer), and also call the police?
      
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      March 29, 2022 10:57am
      - In Vino Veritas
        
        “It’s not OK” he says in his whiniest voice. Yeah, and can you imagine if Rock had made a joke about a cripple, or a retarded person. That would have been OK with these turds as well. I mean, it was these hollywood pricks who piled in when Trump waved his hand around a still of it showed he made some sign that was interpreted as white supremacy, or humiliating a cripple. And here is a comedian directly referencing a woman’s struggle with alopecia. Do you think for one minute that she would find that direct reference to her as funny? That her husband would? Personally, being old school, I would have whacked Rock as well. But bloody well made sure he was talking out the side of his mouth for the rest of the night.
        
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        March 29, 2022 1:18pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Well, of course a Trump fanboi would advocate violence as an appropriate response to a joke. What the hell difference does it make what or who the joke was about?
        
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        March 29, 2022 3:13pm
    - Loddenthinks
      
      He couldn’t leave the auditorium, what with his Best Actor award about to be announced and all.
      
      The only thing worse for these narcissists than being joked about is not being joked about.
      
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      March 29, 2022 12:23pm
- lastmanstanding
  
  Sadly I fear that as it becomes obvious Labour are going to lose Election 23 they will deliberately sabotage the economy to seek their revenge on voters and taxpayers.
  
  Remember Cullen in 2008. “the cupboards bare we spent the lot”. Taxpayers will pick up the pieces of the Left Socialist disaster that is called the Labour Party.
  
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  March 29, 2022 9:06am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Yes, and the fact that ACC was 2 billion in the hole, putting to rest the lies of handing Nats a surplus, the treachery of the other 2 billion of a rooted rail system was also disgusting and a hole on the tax payer ever since.
    
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    March 29, 2022 12:59pm
    - Ian Boag
      
      Cullen in 2008. “the cupboards bare
      
      OTOH government debt was close to zero ….
      
      ACC was 2 billion in the hole
      
      ACC had changed from “pay-as-you-go” to “fully funded”. Pay as you go means today’s contributions pay for today’s costs. Fully funded meant they had to have enough in the bank now to fund the long ones right till the end.
      
      So of course they were in the hole. The fully funded approach would be interesting if it was applied to the pension …
      
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      March 29, 2022 1:20pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Debt was around USD $22 Billion- which is low.
        But the rest of the economy was pretty stuffed
        https://www.treasury.govt.nz/publications/efu/pre-election-economic-and-fiscal-update-2008-html#section-6
        
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        March 29, 2022 1:39pm
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        Dont give me that crap, Cullen personally invested $2billion of ACC money in high risk investments, Madoff corruption i think, he personally created the 2 billion in the hole mess
        
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        March 29, 2022 5:57pm
      - Ian Boag
        
        …crap, Cullen personally invested $2billion of ACC money in high risk investments,
        
        Heavens. I didn’t know. He must have been quite busy to manage this in the 15 or so months that he was ACC minister. You will of course be able to point me at a link that details all this. I couldn’t find one.
        
        Conspiracy of silence? Started by Cullen and continued by his successors …. ? Wot?
        
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        March 29, 2022 6:40pm
- Lance
  
  Some seem to think it was an act, I don’t think so.
  Will Smith initially laughed at the joke until his wife leaned over and told him it was offensive.
  Then his deep-seated entitlement took over, knowing that any lesser mortal would have got the bums rush and a police arrest.
  A Hollywood elite so far up his own arse he has lost touch with reality.
  Further reason to not take seriously anything these arrogant royal wannabes have to say.
  
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  March 29, 2022 11:24am
Opie

Don’t worry, it was just acting.
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March 29, 2022 8:10am
- Gravelroad
  
  We have huge domestic violence problems in this country where many women and children are regularly hit by people who are unable to control their tempers.
  So now we have real life super stars using public assault as a justification for perceived grievance.
  Great role modelling – whether it was staged or not.
  
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  March 29, 2022 9:46am
  - Lance
    
    Turns out Will’s old man used to brutally beat his mother.
    I thought he might want to break the cycle, obviously not.
    
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    March 29, 2022 2:40pm
kowtow

Media Pardy hypocrisy is amazeballs .

They’ve spent years pushing “diversity” , blm , equality , wimmins rights and respect etc and then they get a biffo on stage , triggered cos one of them had a history of un pc, un # me too , smutty jokes about wimmin’s panties ( how’d he get the job with that history ).

The other thing about the Media Pardy , the Ukraine war , Yemen war and Ethiopia war must all be over as they can give so much air time to two black men having a minor barney.

Hollywoke. ya gotta lurv it.
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March 29, 2022 8:11am
kowtow

Talking of hypocrisy .

Ferald reports Kelvin Davis livid at a prison escape .

Hang on a mo , he’s the one letting ’em all out early .
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March 29, 2022 8:13am
- Simon
  
  Kelvin Davis livid at actually having to do some work.
  
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  March 29, 2022 8:28am
Nickc2

Who cares? It would be vastly different if Wil Smith was White, the LAPD would be there in force in less than one nanosecond with guns drawn and bale declined, etc.
Oh, America’s hypocrisy.
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March 29, 2022 8:13am
- MCōs
  
  Chris Rock wouldn’t have dared made a joke about a well known white woman suffering from Alopecia Areata.
  
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  March 29, 2022 8:44am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Are you sure about that?
    
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    March 29, 2022 10:57am
  - Libertarians are right
    
    You clearly don’t know who Chris Rock is.
    
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    March 29, 2022 11:06am
- kowtow
  
  It’s not “American hypocrisy”
  
  It’s the woke class hypocrisy and it’s a universal phenomenon.
  
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  March 29, 2022 8:50am
Maggy Wassilieff

Something is seriously wrong here:

The Independent Children’s Monitor, set up in 2019 to gauge whether OT is meeting new national care standards (NCS), said it was impossible to know if Oranga Tamariki was on target due to the poor quality of its self-monitoring.

“Oranga Tamariki respond well when tamariki enter care; practices weaken during their time in care,” it said.

“In nearly two-thirds of cases, tamariki are not visited as often as outlined in their plan.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/03/almost-500-children-teenagers-in-oranga-tamariki-care-harmed-during-2020-21.html

Is OT under-staffed, or are the staff incapable of doing the job they are paid to do?
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March 29, 2022 8:15am
- rjay
  
  What can go wrong once abused kids are placed into care with other family members? No need to monitor as they are now in the safe hands of whanau.
  
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  March 29, 2022 8:28am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Both. Understaffed, undertrained, and, of course underpaid.
  
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  March 29, 2022 9:00am
- artemisia
  
  Organisations could do worse than check out the ‘mythical man month’, old but good book and concept. Basically adding people to a project slows it right down.
  
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  March 29, 2022 9:02am
- In Vino Veritas
  
  Ah, tamariki. Tree Tamariki, lovely things. Cut the top of and add a bit of sugar, scoop the flesh out with a spoon. Delicious! And they are talking about having orange ones?
  
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  March 29, 2022 12:02pm
Opie

Tried watching the am show this morning, my first consumption of a TV news program in over 2 years.

It appears to be half in a language that I don’t understand, and the amoeba “reporters” could barely read from the autocue. Like seriously, a 10 year could read it clearer.

Unwatchable with the necessary jamming in of Maori words everywhere.

Good to see David Seymour as the top article on News hub today though, continuing to push for a democracy and a referendum on Co governance.

As he says, “…not all disadvantaged people are Māori, and not all Māori people are disadvantaged”

You wouldn’t think that was case with what os being force fed on us.
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March 29, 2022 8:17am
- graham
  
  I’ve never watched the am show, but from my understanding you would be hard put to call it a genuine news program. I thought the programs that were on at that time of the morning had entertainment at the top of their agenda? When you hear about the really important stuff to come out of the Breakfast show – ie how well the presenters can dance – can you really count it as a serious news program?
  
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  March 29, 2022 8:42am
  - MCōs
    
    As you say
    
    “I’ve never watched the am show”
    
    I watched it once . . . didn’t like it.
    I watched the corresponding one on TV1 once . . . didn’t like that either
    
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    March 29, 2022 9:00am
- Jimmy Brown
  
  I didnt realise Gisborne had been renamed. Something starting with T.
  
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  March 29, 2022 8:43am
  - graham
    
    Yes – we now have Tairawhiti, along with Paremata, Kirikiriroa, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Otautahi, Otepoti, Tamaki Makaurau …
    
    I presume it makes the news readers and reporters feel all warm and fuzzy inside when they use these names, but when you’re trying to keep up with a story and can’t understand where the hell the reporter is actually talking about, it does get rather irritating.
    
    My wife complains that I sit through less and less of the news these days, but as I explain to her – when you can’t understand a significant proportion of the language that’s used, what’s the point?
    
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    March 29, 2022 10:58am
    - Nickc2
      
      I don’t know for sure what the %age of Te Reo words is used in our everyday media is but let’s say it’s 30%.
      On those grounds, wouldn’t it be fair to insist at least 30% of words used in Maori Media be English?
      Nah, didn’t think so, our Govt and its Maori Caucus in particular wouldn’t permit that.
      
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      March 29, 2022 2:20pm
      - MCōs
        
        %age?
        Is that Te Reo too?
        
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        March 29, 2022 4:00pm
    - Paulus
      
      I assume the News Readers are told what to call a place and how it is to be pronounced.
      Otherwise somebody else will !
      
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      March 29, 2022 2:24pm
      - MCōs
        
        The clue is in the name newsreader.
        
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        March 29, 2022 4:04pm
    - MCōs
      
      Tairāwhiti has been in the news lately because of the ongoing flooding.
      It’s the DHB area of the same name, not just Gisbourne.
      Kirikiriroa Is so pretty they named it twice, said nobody ever.
      
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      March 29, 2022 4:23pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Renamed in 1870 from Turanganui. Allegedly to avoid confusion with Tauranga.
    
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    March 29, 2022 11:02am
- curry4me
  
  Isn’t that ‘raycist’, or something? It definitely doesn’t fit the narrative. /sarc
  
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  March 29, 2022 9:02am
  - MCōs
    
    Raycist?
    What language is that?
    
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    March 29, 2022 4:01pm
    - curry4me
      
      Sarcasm, and derision in equal measures.
      
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      March 29, 2022 7:11pm
Tony Stuart

Comment of the night from Twitter last night:

Well, I am just glad that Chris Rock did not make a joke about Alec Baldwin’s wife…..
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March 29, 2022 8:24am
- Kiwi Dave
  
  To be fair, Smith literally struck a blow for gender equality by showing men can be slippers too.
  
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  March 29, 2022 9:10am
  - Kiwi Dave
    
    Botheration! Thou shalt always proofread.
    
    …slappers…
    
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    March 29, 2022 9:26am
    - Flossie
      
      Just love that word “botheration”! Takes me back many years to childhood when an elderly great aunt used to say that if – for example – she had made a mistake in her knitting pattern!
      
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      March 29, 2022 10:06am
- Maxx
  
  Best response I heard “..it’s been a while since Will Smith made a hit”
  
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  March 29, 2022 9:53am
- virtualmark
  
  Or … “Chris Rock should have insulted Ted Cruz’s wife instead, then the worst that would have happened is Ted would have endorsed him to be President”.
  
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  March 29, 2022 12:35pm
Simon

Russia & China run by ruthless highly efficient dictators who prioritize the economy vs the West, run by dripping wet woke neolib climate change bedwetters, who loath significant percentages of their own population.

Who is going to win?
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March 29, 2022 8:25am
- kowtow
  
  Prioritze the economy ?
  
  No they prioritze any strategy that consolidates their hold on the levers of power .
  
  In that they are not very different from politicians the world over.
  
  At it’s simplest one could argue the main difference is in democracies politicians are constrained in ways that dictators are not.
  
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  March 29, 2022 8:59am
- virtualmark
  
  Russian troll alert.
  
  If you really think Russia is run to prioritise the economy … well, you’re either rock stupid or you’re being paid to say it.
  
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  March 29, 2022 9:09am
  - virtualmark
    
    If you don’t think that Russia and China will have paid trolls on the largest politic blog in a Five Eyes country then I have a bridge to sell you.
    
    Seriously … it’s in Auckland … looks like a coat hanger. As is where is. Buyer must remove.
    
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    March 29, 2022 9:12am
  - virtualmark
    
    And if you think that Putin and Xi don’t loathe significant percentages of their own population then clearly you haven’t seen how they invite those people on to their super-yachts all the time. Or worked out why Putin & Xi have such large internal security forces.
    
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    March 29, 2022 9:33am
- MCōs
  
  Sounds like you’d prefer a ruthless dictator to swoop down here, lay waste to the cities, relocate their people onto the farmland, enslave the locals & send all the produce back to the homeland?
  In the meantime.
  Do you loathe a significant percentage of our population, you know, the ones who believe climate change is a thing?
  
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  March 29, 2022 9:15am
- Kiwi Dave
  
  Given the corruption associated with such dictatorships, the willingness of fearful lower officials to massage unpleasant facts and statistics, and the effort put in to suppress detested dissenters, the competition might not be quite so one-sided as your comment implies though, admittedly, current leaders of the West inspire little confidence.
  
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  March 29, 2022 9:21am
Mr_Blobby

I cant help geting the feeling that, the largest public health safety failure in NZ history, has moved to being the largest public health safety cover up in NZ history.
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March 29, 2022 8:26am
- Thought Criminal
  
  Royal commission please!
  
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  March 29, 2022 8:51am
Durden

Interesting discussion and good participation in the issue of Wellington and its useless councilors yesterday.

I would like to see the None Of The Above (NOTA) option introduced on the ballot. If NOTA wins, and this is very important, I think the politicians should be asked to go back and do better — i.e. have another election with better policies platforms and better candidates. Repeat until you get it right.

Despite all objections — procedural, cost etc, doing this a few times will hopefully give confidence to the right candidates with sensible policies to put their name forward.

The NOTA option has the potential to energise ratepayers to vote in greater numbers–because their wishes will actually count once more when presented with a set of duds.

Its been done elsewhere.
India–https://www.elections.in/none-of-the-above-option.html#info_id1

Other places–https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/None_of_the_above
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March 29, 2022 8:29am
- mikenmildagain
  
  I’d prefer representation by a random selection of eligible citizens.
  
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  March 29, 2022 9:06am
  - Taieri
    
    I’d prefer representation by a random selection of eligible citizens.
    ———-
    
    I suspect that the results wouldn’t be much worse than what the current lot is achieving.
    
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    March 29, 2022 1:27pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      It’s something that has been tried, with some success I believe, in lower-level bodies like school boards, etc in some countries.
      
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      March 29, 2022 3:08pm
- Steve Todd
  
  @Durden @ 8:29AM
  
  I am a big fan of NOTA (with teeth!), especially as an option in STV elections, considering it to be an extension of voter choice that would enable voters to indicate a “positive abstention”, or to “withhold their consent”, as they see fit (not necessarily as a means to increase voter participation, although that would certainly be a welcome benefit).
  
  But, for any NOTA option to have teeth, it would, firstly, need to be treated as if it were an additional candidate (as you suggest). In other words, the votes given for NOTA would not just be counted, then set aside, the way informal and blank votes are.
  
  Secondly, any single candidate, rather than being elected unopposed, would need to defeat NOTA to be elected; and thirdly, rejected mayoral (or other single vacancy) candidates would not be able to stand in any follow-up election. Nor would the highest polling rejected candidate, be appointed to the mayoralty (or other vacancy).
  
  Fourthly: ideally, the councillor election would need to be an at-large affair*, i.e., all vacancies would be filled citywide, rather than from wards (or regional council constituencies). Finally, should NOTA “win” one or more councillor vacancies, the seat(s) would remain vacant for the ensuing triennium.
  
  * In, say, a three-seat ward, the quota for election would be 25%; way too high for NOTA to have any chance of attaining. If, however, say, 10 councillors (or other representatives) were being elected together (or at-large), the quota that NOTA would need to attain would only be 9.09%. Now that would concentrate a few minds.
  
  In my view, there is much to recommend NOTA, but getting it legislated for wouldn’t be easy.
  
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  March 29, 2022 12:18pm
  - Durden
    
    I am pleased we are in violent agreement Steve. Did you miss the third point by any chance?
    
    Maybe DPF could start a NOTA NZ movement via the Taxpayers’ Union.
    
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    March 29, 2022 12:52pm
    - Steve Todd
      
      Thank you for that, Durden.
      
      Great suggestion, to see if the Taxpayers’ Union could get a campaign started. It took me (with one or two others) eight years (1993-2001) to get STV legislated for, as an option for local elections, so, however the campaign is conducted, it won’t be easy.
      
      Also, you said: “Repeat until you get it right.” While it would be extraordinary if NOTA got 50% of the votes, to win, say, a mayoral election by PV (single-seat STV)*, were it to happen, then a new election a few months later, with different candidates entirely, could be held, but without a NOTA option. Those few months would be needed for the powers-that-be to take stock of what happened, and why, and to take some sort of remedial action, whatever that might be.
      
      * For such an outcome to be achieved, the candidates contesting the election would have to be unusually unattractive (from an electoral point of view).
      
      We would have to be wary of voter fatigue / declining interest, and having a caretaker mayor for too long, if we kept going until NOTA lost. Participation rates in council elections are bad enough as it is, without a third or even fourth mayoral re-run election being decided on a 10-15% turnout!
      
      I’m glad you raised this topic. It gave me an excuse to dredge up a paper I wrote more than 20 years ago, advocating NOTA — I called it NOTC (None of these Candidates), as they do in Nevada — and to read it again.
      
      (My third point is in paragraph 3, line 2.)
      
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      March 29, 2022 2:21pm
      - Durden
        
        For starters, why don’t you update your old paper and send it to DPF to do a Guest Post. I know he is supportive of that approach.
        
        Let us get a discussion started. Local body aspirants have become too arrogant and complacent. NOTA + Recall provisions + 4 year term might give us better governance and stability.
        
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        March 29, 2022 5:02pm
      - Steve Todd
        
        Hmm, I could do that, I suppose, but my paper has six ‘elections’ as appendices, using my old NZ STV demonstration computer program (written by my late STV mentor in England, Dr I D (David) Hill (1926-2015)), which show various ways that NOTA can be accommodated within the STV system. I would really want you to see those first, then we could take it from there.
        
        What say I (slightly) revise my paper (which I have done a number of times over the years), and send it to DPF, asking him to forward my e-mail to you. If it meets with your approval (you could let me know on General Debate), I could then condense it into a format suitable to be put up as a Guest Post. (Currently, with the six appendices, it’s a 13-page document.)
        
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        March 29, 2022 6:11pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Taxpayers’ ‘Union’ would be firmly wedded to a reversion to FPP, I suspect.
      
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      March 29, 2022 3:06pm
      - Ian Boag
        
        That would take ACT back to one grace and favour seat from the Nats ….
        
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        March 29, 2022 5:07pm
  - Durden
    
    Steve T,
    
    Yes I would be happy to read your document via DPF. Sorry this response was delayed. Hope you see it. Just to be sure, I will also put in a note for you on 1 April GD.
    
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    April 1, 2022 8:24am
Maggy Wassilieff

RSNZ and its failures over the Listener 7 article

https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2022/03/28/where-was-the-royal-societys-forum-for-debate-during-science-dispute-professor-and-former-fellow-explains-his-resignation/
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March 29, 2022 8:29am
Maggy Wassilieff

Is co-governance our destiny?

“Over the past 40 years, the courts and Waitangi Tribunal have quietly made co-governance our unquestioned and unquestionable destiny.

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2203/S00220/pm-needs-to-be-clear-on-co-governance-agenda.htm
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March 29, 2022 8:34am
- Yabster
  
  ACT Petition re co governance referendum:
  
  https://www.act.org.nz/treaty?utm_campaign=pm_needs_to_be_clear_o&utm_medium=email&utm_source=actnz
  
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  March 29, 2022 11:23am
Maggie Pie

Both me and a few other girls at tennis will no longer wear our ADIDAS gear.
Used to be they were famous for promoting a healthy sporting lifestyle.
I mean look at this!!

https://twitter.com/backtolife_2022/status/1507665667402653700

And obviously the Adidas-Marketing-Department has gone sooo WOKE, it even promotes Trans athletes competing in women’s sports as well 🙁
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March 29, 2022 8:35am
- pdm
  
  Maggie I always thought ADIDAS meant:
  
  All Day I Dream About Sex.
  
  That is what my children told me.
  
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  March 29, 2022 8:42am
- Thought Criminal
  
  That’s not healthy.
  
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  March 29, 2022 8:53am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Cancel culture comes to the Otahuhu Tennis club. What will the isthmian snowflakes find to moan about next?
  
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  March 29, 2022 9:11am
RockyJ

Listening to Chris Hipkins being interviewed on our declining education performance made me realise what a made up fantasy world our government leaders live in.
When asked why school absenteeism is so high his first reason was “because parents take their children on overseas trips”.
When asked how he could reduce absenteeism his solution is “to make schools a more attractive place for kids to want to go”.
It just shows how far these idiots will go to deny root causes of problems. To them it is only the well off who are ever responsible.
Making schools more appealing is the child lead approach to learning that has got us into this mess.
Shakespeare nailed it “the whining schoolboy, creeping like a snail, unwillingly to school”
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March 29, 2022 8:37am
- Thought Criminal
  
  Overseas trips during border closures?
  
  Gold medal level of mental gymnastics from the left this morning.
  
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  March 29, 2022 8:55am
- Ehlana
  
  Perhaps our ministers should watch television. There is an ad on at the moment which outlines reasons not to go to school – no shoes, no raincoat, no lunch. And, surprise, surprise, no parents in the picture.
  
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  March 29, 2022 9:01am
- mikenmildagain
  
  child lead approach
  
  Teachers have been letting children lick the lead paint?
  
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  March 29, 2022 9:13am
  - David Garrett
    
    Jesus…your “jokes” just get worse and worse. Stick to informing us of made up ……..days
    
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    March 29, 2022 10:30am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      I’ll take your feedback into account.
      
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      March 29, 2022 11:04am
dannz

Why are we not locking these types up and throwing away the keys?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/whanganui-court-recidivist-aggravated-robber-given-another-chance-to-avoid-jail-gets-home-detention/HWLQAFA3R65HSVXFEORMHJCHEE/

Plenty of capacity in prison these days
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March 29, 2022 8:39am
- Inandout
  
  dannz, watch what is happenning in many Dem cities in the US and well, we follow suit. Police catch, courts despatch.
  
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  March 29, 2022 9:27am
- David Garrett
  
  This guy is a second striker FFS…the only place for him is jail…all the more so since he “struggled to comply” with earlier community detention sentences.
  
  Why is this happening? Two main reasons: soft cock judges and the Labour government…Strike offenders who would be in jail but for this government…coming to your town in increasing numbers soon.
  
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  March 29, 2022 10:37am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Just another day down at Castlecliff Beach
  
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  March 29, 2022 11:49am
westernScientist

Another step towards becoming a banana republic

https://www.interest.co.nz/public-policy/114995/policymakers-numbers-1-and-2-terrace-work-more-closely-together-treasury-will
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March 29, 2022 8:41am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Ah, the ‘monitoring’ shemozzle. Fairly large sections of the public service are devoted to ‘monitoring’ the performance of other parts of the public service. As might be expected, this creates work for both the monitoring agency and the agency being monitored, but results in no discernible benefit to either agency, or to parliament or the public.
  It seems to have taken off after the crown entities act was passed 20-odd years ago, and has, naturally, got ever more complicated and expensive.
  
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  March 29, 2022 9:20am
  - ISeeRed
    
    How should agencies be monitored then?
    
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    March 29, 2022 1:11pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Ah, good question. There are a number of ways in which agencies are monitored and scrutinised. Some of these involve central agencies: the Treasury, PSC, Audit NZ. Some are from parliament more directly, via questions and select committee scrutiny. Some are via s the media or directly from the public by information requests. All of these mechanisms could be strengthened. Instead, much resource has been expended on establishing boards for semi-independent crown entities, whose performance is monitored by ‘parent’ departments, For example, MBIE monitors NZ Trade & Enterprise, the Tourism Board and Worksafe, among others. The Ministry of Transport monitors Waka Kotahi, CAA, Maritime NZ, etc. Between these agencies’ boards, the monitoring departments, and the other methods I mentioned above, no one is really sure who is responsible for anything going wrong (or right).
      
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      March 29, 2022 3:04pm
      - Batman
        
        Haha I wondered if you’d give this answer.
        
        You could also pop in a mention of Letters of Expectations if you wanted a more direct line from agencies to Ministers.
        
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        March 29, 2022 3:06pm
      - ISeeRed
        
        Didn’t really answer my question but upticked for interesting content.
        
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        March 29, 2022 3:47pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Hey folks, all that do$h the Journo$ got wa$n’t a bribe.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/464176/public-interest-media-fund-not-media-bribe-but-deal-of-the-century

I do hope that i$ clear now.
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March 29, 2022 8:42am
- graham
  
  Funnily enough, the more the media trip over themselves in their haste to tell us how independent, how professional, how rigorous in their attention to detail, and how utterly lacking in bias they are …
  
  … the less I tend to believe them.
  
  “He who blows his own trumpet is often a solo player.”
  
  But lo! A tear came to my eye as I read this heart-rending sentence:
  
  Journalists, already earning scandalously small wages, got sacked and local news got smaller.
  
  Oh, those poor, POOR journalists. My heart aches for them and their “scandalously small wages”.
  
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  March 29, 2022 9:11am
- Gravelroad
  
  No, I don’t trust “the media” at all now.
  All very well for this guy to start back peddling on their support for the leftists parties now that the wheels are coming off the government.
  But who made and embarrassingly pushed Jacindamania?
  Who fawned over the Labour Party at election times to ensure a certain result? And sought to smear candidates and parties they didn’t approve of?
  And the other thing is social media.
  The writer claims that all/most of today’s reporters and journalists are nice, fair minded, non partisan professionals.
  But then so many of them go home after their day’s work reporting the truth (as they perceive it) and tell us what they really think by posting their opinions on social media.
  Once upon a time after work, reporters went home, or to the pub, or to a sports club or a voluntary service club dinner , or a boring PTA meeting.
  Now it’s straight on to the platforms to promote their politics.
  
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  March 29, 2022 9:24am
  - David Garrett
    
    Gravel: Quite so. Those of my era will remember Lindsay Perigo – a quietly spoken assassin who asked the hard questions of everyone he interviewed, regardless of what “side” they were on.
    
    I had no idea his politics were well to the right of mine – he’s a far right maniac – until he quit TVNZ more than 30 years ago.
    
    By contrast, Gower, O’Brien, Vance et. al make clear what <their personal views are every bloody day. I suppose it’s better that we know?
    
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    March 29, 2022 10:45am
    - virtualmark
      
      My personal theory is that 30-40 years ago, when the pay scales of different professions were a lot more tightly grouped, you got a lot of smart people going into professions like journalism. And those smart people invested the time to understand their field, their topics, and they asked smart questions.
      
      Nowadays the pay differentials are such that all the smart people go into law, or commerce, or anything but journalism. So you’re left with journos who just lack that last bit of insight and clarity, and who can’t think on their feet to follow up on something stupid their interview subject just said, so they just plow on to the next scripted soft-ball question.
      
      (Note: Similar dynamic with teaching. In the 1950s & 1960s, when women had a lot less career options, there were lots of smart women who saw teaching as one of the few career paths open to them … and the quality of our teachers was higher. Today, the smart women are choosing law, or commerce, or … and the IQ of the average teacher has fallen as a result. Witness things like the quality of maths teaching.)
      
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      March 29, 2022 11:28am
      - David Garrett
        
        virtual: I think that’s right – especially what you say about female teachers. I have good memories of many female teachers both at primary and secondary level.
        
        A few years ago one stupid young bint at my daughter’s high school told her class that “some gangs are a force for good in their communities”. Regular readers can guess my reaction to that – straight up to the school to see the principal.
        
        Long story short, when I confronted her at a PTA meeting (or whatever they are called today) a few weeks later – when I had cooled off – I asked her if she thought some members of the SS were actually good guys.
        
        Her reply floored me: “I have never heard of that gang” How the fuck can you get even a BA and not know who the SS were and what they did? Miss Norman and Mrs Kuen from Mangapapa primary would certainly have known.
        
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        March 29, 2022 1:58pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Journalists of days gone by used to have their feet on the ground and attend lots of events. Over the course of their working day / night they met with a variety of people, had multiple contacts and were able to construct a reasonable account of some newsworthy happening.
        
        Today’s journos seem very happy to just make up crap.
        
        For instance a couple of weeks back the MSM was hinting that Simon Bridges was leaving politics because:
        1. a scandal involving him was about to break
        https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/03/simon-bridges-resignation-national-mp-denies-scandal-prompted-exit-takes-jab-at-winston-peters-hints-at-media-project.html
        
        or 2. that there was some ill-feeling between him and others in the Nats
        https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/300542571/behind-simon-bridges-shock-departure-and-what-comes-next
        
        But then, when it is blindingly obvious that neither of these “stories” fitted the facts, we get yet another version …which seems to be exactly the version that Simon Bridges gave when he first announced his resignation…
        
        3. Family reasons
        https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/03/the-heart-stopping-family-incident-that-drove-simon-bridges-shock-retirement-from-politics.html
        
        But all good for the $$$$$public-fund$$$$$ M$M which had a week or more of $mearing the Nats.
        
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        March 29, 2022 2:14pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        You could well be correct. I can’t recall where I saw this, but a high school principal use to earn about the same as the secretary of education.
        As for journalists, the big money is for those who blather their opinions over the broadcast media. The Hoskings, Campbells, O’Briens, DuPlessis-Allans, etc, do not need any journalistic skills, much less ethics, to play their trade.
        
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        March 29, 2022 2:53pm
      - Hebe123
        
        not sure about that. I’m in my late 40s and as far as i recall there weren’t many standouts at my primary school. I do recall my parents sending my spelling notebook back with corrections to the spelling in it…. High school….a lot of really average teachers and one or two good ones, particularly the senior/A stream maths (but not science) teachers.
        
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        March 29, 2022 3:24pm
      - virtualmark
        
        Mikey, I wouldn’t categorise the Hoskings, Campbells, O’Briens, du Plessis-Allens etc as journalists. They’re “opinion hosts” (to use the term Fox News uses in defending law suits).
        
        They’re there to sell advertising, not get to the bottom of a story. They are very good at it, and so they get well paid. But their main qualification is being attractive to a particular audience, rather than breaking the big stories.
        
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        March 29, 2022 3:48pm
- Yvette
  
  Maggy
  Not once in his article regarding the Ardern Government $55 million “bribe” to media, does David Reid, the Local Democracy Reporting manager, mention that NZ On Air, in administering the Journalism Fund, filters all submissions, not for political obeisance, but expression of the liberated Treaty of Waitangi.
  
  Nor is it explained how covid effects media, that being the reason given by Ardern’s Government for the establishment of the Fund.
  
  Not particularly good reporting (opinion piece as it is) by David Reid
  
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  March 29, 2022 9:47am
  - graham
    
    In choosing to concentrate on the accusations of having been bought by the Labour government, and rejecting those accusations in great detail, the media have quietly side-lined all other concerns that people raise, and are pretending they don’t exist. As DPF highlights here.
    
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    March 29, 2022 11:08am
- Ruawai
  
  Bit like the National Maori council guy and Willie Jackson saying co-governance is nothing to worry about. It they say it often enough people start to believe it and repeat it.
  
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  March 29, 2022 9:51am
  - RockyJ
    
    It’s like when the pilot of an airliner comes onto the intercom and announces “there is no cause for alarm….”
    
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    March 29, 2022 1:53pm
BAM

Thank god it’s ACT and not National leading the fight against the co-governance bullshit this government is trying to ram through.
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March 29, 2022 8:43am
- leoj
  
  Amen.
  Apart from being late to even recognise the Freedom protesters, Seymour and ACT are looking more and more like the country’s best option to stop the current madness and shift to the left.
  Meanwhile, woke, weak Luxon is all in on the climate change con and promoting te reo.
  What a pathetic opposition the Nats make. A bunch of spineless pretenders.
  
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  March 29, 2022 12:19pm
  - chukar
    
    About one hour ago Luxon has advised he does not support ACTs call for a referendum on co governance.
    His reasoning for this already apparently accepted that co governance is coming.
    
    NO Mr Luxon that policy will destroy this country !
    And before you actually do more damage please resign now !
    
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    March 29, 2022 2:10pm
Master Mariner

Marine BioDiesel from DNV site which lays out technical issues .

https://www.dnv.com/news/using-biodiesel-in-marine-diesel-engines-new-fuels-new-challenges-186705

Technical challenges and solutions
Below is a summary of items to be observed for the use of biofuels and a few words on how to prevent damages on board:

Microbial growth: Bacteria and mould may grow if condensed water accumulates in biodiesel fuel. Microbial growth leads to excessive formation of sludge, clogged filters and piping. Frequent draining of tanks and the application of biocide in the fuel may reduce or mitigate microbial growth.
Oxygen degradation: Biodiesel can degrade over time, forming contaminants of polymers, and other insolubles. Deposits in piping and engines could form, compromising operational performance. In advanced stages, this could lead to increased fuel acidity, which could result in corrosion in the fuel system and accumulation of deposits in pumps and injectors. It is therefore recommended not to bunker the fuel for long-term storage before use, but to treat the fuel as fresh goods and to use it within a relatively short period of time. Adding antioxidants to the fuel at an early stage may improve the ability of a somewhat longer time of storage without degradation.
Low temperature: Biodiesels in higher concentration usually have a higher cloud point than diesel (depending on feedstock), leading to poor flow properties and the clogging of filters at lower temperatures. It is therefore important to know the product’s cold flow properties and to keep the storage and transfer temperatures above the cloud point.
Corrosion: This is most critical for biodiesel in higher concentration (B80-B100). Some types of hoses and gaskets could degrade, leading to loss of integrity and interaction with some metallic material such as copper, brass, lead, tin, zinc, etc. It could also result in an increased formation of deposits. Hence, it is important to verify that these components in the fuel system are endurable and can be used together with biofuel.
Possible degeneration of rubber sealings, gaskets and hoses: It is important to verify that these components in the fuel system are endurable and can be used together with biofuel.
Conversion: Biodiesel has shown to have a solvent property, so when switching from diesel to biofuel it is expected that deposits in the fuel system will be flushed, clogging fuel filters. It is recommended to flush the system and/or to monitor filters during this period.

OK, A whole lot of technical issues. It has been trialed in Queensland and
also a lot in Brazil.
What do they have in common? Sugar cane and Corn/Maize to make into Bio diesel.
NZ would have to import ethanol. Then there remains the quality and standard of Bio Diesel.
Oil companies appear to be tripping over themselves in promoting this. Why?
https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/country-sites/en_nz/new-zealand/home/documents/bpsubmission-sustainable-biofuels-mandate.pdf
Personally I can see this being the Mother of unintended consequences if allowed to go ahead. Remember also its 4-6% less efficient than Diesel from fossil Fuels.
It is not a silver bullet never mind how sugar coated it sounds.
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March 29, 2022 8:47am
- Matt Long
  
  And at the same time diesel engines are becoming more and more like stuffy little snowflakes.
  
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  March 29, 2022 10:22am
- westernScientist
  
  The Wiri plant used to use Tallow, before it was mothballed.
  Sugar cane and Maize are typically used to create bio-ethanol rather than bio-diesel.
  Scion have been working pretty hard on using pyrolysis from wood and other feedstocks to create a bio-oil which can then be converted into diesel and petrol substitutes.
  In the past work has been done on oil seed rape and alike as well. They all produce different fuels, so no doubt there would be work to be done on which ones are best with what to solve which problems, but I dont think all of those issues exist for every bio-fuel.
  
  It still seems like an easier technological problem to solve than hydrogen or electric trucks to me. Of course there are lower ongoing burdens with hydrogen production than with biofuels, which you have to keep producing feed stocks for.
  
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  March 29, 2022 10:49am
Tomtoddy

The Ferald has started attacks on mayoral candidates of the right. You can guarantee this will run through to the election. Labour’s Efeso Collins will get a free ride.

The writer?? Silly old duffer Simon Wilson. As leftie as you can be.
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March 29, 2022 8:49am
- MCōs
  
  Who’d want to be mayor of Auckland or just about any of our major cities right now?
  No matter how accomplished they are they still need good councilors who they can work will and a CEO.
  I see the problem as the pitiful voter turnout, which means people don’t know who the candidates are
  40% tops.
  The lower the turnout the more likely fringe groups can get their person elected & the more dysfunctional the council.
  
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  March 29, 2022 9:45am
- 7kiwi11
  
  So if you’re right leaning and you want change then you’re ‘angry’. No doubt if you’re left leaning and want change you’d be called visionary.
  
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  March 29, 2022 10:14am
  - graham
    
    You mean, biased articles with a lack of balance? Surely this can’t be. After all, NZME managing editor Shayne Currie stated just a couple of weeks ago:
    
    The media’s role has never been more important – and the NZH audience numbers are now at record levels. More than ever, people are trusting us to deliver factual, timely and balanced news. Unlike social media channels they are reading content compiled and presented by editorial staff who have spent hours verifying and checking facts.
    
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    March 29, 2022 11:55am
- Rocky Jnr
  
  Poor, pathetic old Simon Wilson, according to him we have two angry men standing for mayor, and, even Jordan Peterson is angry. Watch the whole thing if you want to see what a silly old duffer he really is, or straight to 31.15
  
  https://youtu.be/wPSdj7QqkKU
  
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  March 29, 2022 11:22am
  - David Garrett
    
    Jesus…and that clown is a senior journalist…but hey, I would certainly have got angry if Wilson had interviewed me in that patronising morally superior fashion.
    
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    March 29, 2022 2:11pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      But what wouldn’t have got you angry?
      
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      March 29, 2022 2:25pm
  - Jim
    
    Wilson was simply in along line of supercilious and quite foolish journos, who sought an interview to massage their own egos by intellectually sparring with Prof JP.
    Every interview of that ‘bating style’ have ended with the journo receiving an erudite and always decisive defeat.
    
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    March 30, 2022 11:20am
- Paulus
  
  It is not that he is a Leftie it is that the rest of the Councillors remain Communist – so good luck to him.
  
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  March 29, 2022 2:31pm
kowtow

Greens concerned at constraint tactics used within prisons .

But don’t care that the criminal classes are totally unrestrained , abroad in society and giving all and sundry the bash.
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March 29, 2022 8:52am
curry4me

https://www.bitchute.com/video/8pZIJDBahPk/

Biden HUMILIATED in Europe, Brings Us Closer to WORLD WAR 3!!!

Well, we just got a little closer to nuclear annihilation as Bumblin’ Biden calls for regime change in Russia! In this video, we’re going to look at how badly Biden humiliated himself in Europe, we’re going to look at the series of tortured retractions that had to subsequently issue, and stick with me to the very end of this video when I’ll reveal precisely why the only regime change that may be happening anytime soon is Biden’s own. [11:21. How long before Dems pull the 25th. The same video is on YT. But I’d rather link to Bitchute wherever possible.]
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March 29, 2022 8:56am
curry4me

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/milwaukee-officials-face-zuckerberg-related-election-bribery-lawsuit

Milwaukee officials face Zuckerberg-related election bribery lawsuit.

Three Milwaukee, Wisconsin, officials face accusations of illegally taking “Zuck Bucks” to facilitate voting by purchasing absentee ballot drop boxes, among other things, according to a lawsuit filed by the Thomas More Society.
The complaint, filed last week against Milwaukee Acting Mayor Cavalier Johnson, former Mayor Tom Barrett, and City Clerk Jim Owczarski, claims the officials violated Wisconsin’s election bribery law by taking private donations from the non-profit Center for Tech and Civic Life, which is funded by billionaire Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan.
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March 29, 2022 8:56am
- All_on_Red
  
  But but but, I thought Batman and other fools said there was no fraud!
  Oh well, wrong again I guess.
  As usual.
  
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  March 29, 2022 1:21pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Filing lawsuit = proof of fraud
    – area genius
    LOL
    
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    March 29, 2022 2:24pm
  - curry4me
    
    Yeah, I know. I’m astounded too -;)
    
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    March 29, 2022 7:20pm
greybeard

Is Auckland ready for another mayor named Brown ?
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March 29, 2022 9:09am
artemisia

Brain drain in the media (again). Kiwibank forecasting net migration minus $20k.

Young couple in my family, DINKs, with skills in high demand, seriously looking at Perth. Mates are already there. One with a double trade ticket (and a steady job here) could easily be paid 60% more there. They are thinking come back after a few years. But if they go and build a good life they might never come back.
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March 29, 2022 9:10am
- curry4me
  
  Them, and a lot of others. Good luck to them. I wish them every success.
  
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  March 29, 2022 1:14pm
- MCōs
  
  People have been saying/doing that for as long as I can remember.
  There’s always somewhere else where the money is better, the houses are cheaper and the sun always shines.
  
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  March 29, 2022 3:17pm
kevn

@Tony… Inaccurate uttering from field. But he scores a quick low blow on Luxon and walks away.
Yet another poor excuse for a journalist doing someone bidding.
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March 29, 2022 9:13am
Frank the tank

Anyone sick of the booster add that speaks in pidgin English. I was thinking how would anyone from South East Asia, the subcontinent or the Middle East understand what that women was gibbering on about…..
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March 29, 2022 9:19am
- Ehlana
  
  There is a short one in English and a longer one which talks about h-something and h-something else. Can’t guess from the context. And don’t see why I should take a screenshot and look it up. McDonalds ads are easier to understand; I’ll go there instead.
  
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  March 29, 2022 3:33pm
westernScientist

Ok Leftists, tell me again why the horticulturalists just cant get workers because they just exploit them as “slave labour” by paying too lower wages. All they have to do is offer a reasonable wage right?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/bay-of-plenty/300551480/60-an-hour-to-pick-fruit-kiwifruit-industry-desperate-for-workers
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March 29, 2022 9:20am
Maggie Pie

A colleague from work retweets….

‘This is what we are seeing a lot more of being posted to Tik-Tok these days. Often as a result of Mental Institutions being closed down. Sad. Very sad.’

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1508456583017099265
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March 29, 2022 9:33am
- 7kiwi11
  
  Holy cow! I don’t know whether to laugh or cry! There is a lot going on there!
  
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  March 29, 2022 10:22am
Scooter

I watched Jacinda on the post cabinet press conference just to see what’s going on, as usual nothing new except I wonder why she is compulsively scratching her arms? She didn’t even seem aware of doing it.
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March 29, 2022 9:39am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  “Out damned spot” (the murderous Lady Macbeth in the scottish play)
  
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  March 29, 2022 10:28am
- BAM
  
  https://www.healthline.com/health/anxiety/anxiety-and-itching#causes
  
  Ardern has major issues with anxiety.
  
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  March 29, 2022 10:34am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Nervous itch? Lying?
  
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  March 29, 2022 10:57am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  [deleted by Mod, gross personal abuse]
  
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  March 29, 2022 1:05pm
ClanMcleod

Well, somebody needs to get Mahuta’s smart phone off her in a hurry……
The UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, on an unsecure line discussing weapon supplies to Ukraine and even alluding to some potential support for a nuclear policy in that country. The most concerning part is he was talking to a couple of well known Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus.
How is he still in his position? How could he fall for something like this? How was it not checked before the call went through? This is an astonishing faux pas. Just imagine what Mahuta might say!!

https://odysee.com/@RaymondTheBrave:5/Full-Video-by-Vovan-and-Lexus-with-UK-Secretary-of-State-for-Defence-Ben-Wallace:a
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March 29, 2022 9:51am
- Gravelroad
  
  No worries.
  It is apparent that Ms Mahuta says only what she is told to say by her political minders and the dodgers and weavers in the PM’s propaganda unit.
  What she is supposed to say will all be written down on her smart phone for her to read out.
  
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  March 29, 2022 10:06am
  - 7kiwi11
    
    Plus she will waffle on about taniwha’s, tigers and unicorns in some metaphor so that any covert listeners have no idea what she is on about
    
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    March 29, 2022 10:25am
- pdm
  
  Clan – they would probably hang up when she introduced herself by way of a 10 minute diatribe in Te Reo.
  
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  March 29, 2022 11:42am
Rusty

Whatever happened to investigative journo Ian Wishart?

Ever since covid started 2 years ago he seems to have disappeared from the media spotlight.

I’m sure he would have juicy stories to write about lock downs, mandate jabs, Biden, woke culture, and Ukraine.
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March 29, 2022 10:09am
- Matt Long
  
  Interestingly he was talking up vaccines a while ago but seems to have gone quiet.
  
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  March 29, 2022 10:28am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Seems to have faded away after the woeful Investigate magazine went bust.
  
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  March 29, 2022 12:43pm
Peter Lane

FFS.

I’m contracted to a major corporate and they’re having a 3 day planning event.

Most of the first 10 minutes has consisted of an obviously white male trying to speak Maori terribly.

I don’t personally care whether he speaks it properly or not but why the fuck do corporates feel they have to indulge in this bullshit?

I’m hopefully retiring next year.

It can’t come soon enough.
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March 29, 2022 10:10am
- kowtow
  
  Yer but look at how much “investment” now goes into ‘corporates’ for greenwashing too .
  
  Once upon a time we white washed , now there’s every colour of the rainbow there ; rainbow geddit ; that was a trend in the 90’s , pink wash.
  
  The trend du jour is brown wash .
  
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  March 29, 2022 10:15am
- 7kiwi11
  
  I’m part of a professional organization with a 100+ year history that has now changed it’s name to something that I don’t know what it means and I struggle to pronounce. Every gathering of the organization is kicked off with bit of a song with lyrics that mean nothing to me. Then someone will do a speech for 2 – 5 minutes in a language that 95% plus of the audience don’t understand. Only then will the presentation begin. I often sit there thinking surely I can’t be the only one here who thinks this is crazy. Of course no one would ever utter their dismay publicly as you’d be outcast as a heretic.
  
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  March 29, 2022 10:34am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    You can’t have been attending School prize-givings or Graduation ceremonies in the last 30 years or so.
    
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    March 29, 2022 12:02pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    The Emperor’s new clothes
    
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    March 29, 2022 7:00pm
- BAM
  
  Corporates are piss weak and terrified of been cancelled. Once the left-wing realised that it’s been all downhill.
  
  A CEO lives and dies on how much money he brings in, bad press could mean less money, less money means, no bonus or worst-case scenario, out of a job.
  
  That is why business bends over for all the clowns on social media and in mainstream media.
  
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  March 29, 2022 10:44am
  - Surely Knott
    
    And it’s not just Maori language. Businesses also know best about what medicines you should take as companies jumped at the opportunity to mandate the only half-approved vaccine on their staff and suppliers. Vaccine promotions from non-medical companies like clothing stores ran promos to get the public vaccinated and only the vaccinated could go into the draw ?!
    
    Businesses are being asked to go where the law can’t. Companies are being used to curb employees free speech, and social media use (eg Israel Falau) and enforce right think.
    
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    March 29, 2022 12:13pm
- big bruv
  
  Mrs Bruv and I leave NZ on June 1st, never to return. There are many, many things I look forward to in our new homeland, the first will be no requirement to wear face nappies, the second will be that the local media (far, far superior to ours) speak only English.
  Oh…and the third, no Toxic O’Brien.
  
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  March 29, 2022 12:04pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  a 3 day planning event…why the fuck do corporates feel they have to indulge in this bullshit?
  
  I recommend this for reading before the next event:
  https://www.amazon.com.au/Five-Go-Strategy-Away-Day/dp/178648224X/ref=sr_1_5
  
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  March 29, 2022 3:37pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

“This shit can only happen to me” DJT.
https://rumble.com/vypgyl-trump-sues-hillary-clinton-james-comey-andy-mccabe-and-more.html?
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March 29, 2022 10:17am
- virtualmark
  
  Yep, no President has been treated the way Trump has.
  
  Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley & JFK were unavailable for comment.
  
  Teddy Roosevelt said harden the fuck up and finish your speech.
  
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  March 29, 2022 11:33am
  - Batman
    
    He’s been treated so viciously that he is reduced to issuing press releases claiming he hit a hole in one with a five iron.
    
    Woe is he! How terrible! 🤣🤣
    
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    March 29, 2022 1:12pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      He still showed you two losers up as being wrong about everything
      hahahaahahahaaha
      
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      March 29, 2022 1:16pm
      - virtualmark
        
        Red, you keep worshipping the manly Donald. I know that to you he is a God-king.
        
        Though to the sane he’s just a lecherous drug-addicted con-man in an adult diaper.
        
        But maybe you only think the con-man is a God-king because you’ve been … conned. Surely not! (Actually, yes).
        
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        March 29, 2022 1:23pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Did he not issue a press release about his golfing exploit? Or was the hole-in-one misreported by the fake news media?
        Perhaps he is envious of his buddy’s father, Kim Jong-il, and his remarkable golfing feats.
        
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        March 29, 2022 3:42pm
    - virtualmark
      
      Sad! Especially when you compare it to Kim Jong-Il … I gather he got four or five holes in one in his first ever round of golf.
      
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      March 29, 2022 1:20pm
      - David Garrett
        
        virtual: I think he gets several holes in one every time he plays doesn’t he? And if anyone says otherwise they get executed…by an anti-aircraft gun.
        
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        March 29, 2022 2:14pm
      - virtualmark
        
        Really doesn’t pay to be his caddy, even when he gets a birdie.
        
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        March 29, 2022 2:40pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        David. The golf record was from Kim Jong-il, the present ‘great successor’ is the one reputed to have done away with his uncle by anti-aircraft gun.
        The golf score, I believe, was 38 over 18 holes, including 11 aces, and in his first ever game, too!
        
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        March 29, 2022 3:48pm
      - In Vino Veritas
        
        virtual, Kim went round in 38 under par including 11 holes in one. Plus there is the small matter of Kim inventing the hamburger.
        
        Kim Jon-un on the other hand, could drive at 3. Apparently.
        
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        March 29, 2022 4:43pm
- Nickc2
  
  I wonder if Hillary kept the measurements for that Chartreuse Jump Suit (prison attire) she was measured up for when she beat the rap wrt to Classified Information on her at-home server?
  
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  March 29, 2022 1:36pm
  - Batman
    
    So how did Donald’s jumpsuit measuring go for the actual crime removing actually classified material from the White House and taking it to Mar a Lago?
    
    It’s amusing that people still harp on about Hillary when their guy did it and dialled it up to 11, so to speak.
    
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    March 29, 2022 3:02pm
    - Nickc2
      
      That story was borne out of the RT Television (Russian propaganda) station. Try watching genuine stuff.
      If it was real, Adam Schiff and that Pelosi thing would have purchased every bolt of Chartreuse material in existence just in case there wasn’t enough in Govt stock.
      
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      March 29, 2022 8:24pm
Phronesis

An article in the herald today on benefit rates going up. Apparently a single parent of one takes home $714 a week. Which is the equivalent of a pre tax income of $44K. More than the minimum wage and with no costs of working, transport / clothing etc.

So we pay solo parents more than the full time minimum wage. But it gets better, if you have a student loan to repay then the $714 in the hand per week is equivalent to a salary of $50K after loan deductions. A starting teacher in NZ has a salary of around $48K.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/families-still-short-by-165-even-after-benefit-rates-are-lifted-on-friday/
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March 29, 2022 10:21am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Link broken or removed
  
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  March 29, 2022 11:01am
- Joely Doe
  
  You have to copy the entire link for Herald
  
  Families ‘still short by $165’, even after benefit rates are lifted on Friday
  
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  March 29, 2022 12:27pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Climate, DJT.
https://rumble.com/vypfji-crowd-goes-wild-as-trump-drops-f-bomb.html?
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March 29, 2022 10:41am
Maggy Wassilieff

This will be worth keeping an eye on developments.

An offshore windfarm in the South Taranaki Bight (offshore from Patea – Hawera). backed by the NZ Super Fund and local iwi.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/128196101/super-fund-says-5b-offshore-wind-farm-could-supply-11-of-nzs-electricity

Local iwi were very keen on stopping iron-sands mining in this area.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/452642/taranaki-ironsands-mining-appeal-fails-at-supreme-court#:~:text=Trans%2DTasman%20Resources%20has%20lost,the%20coast%20of%20South%20Taranaki.&text=In%20a%20unanimous%20decision%20released,decisions%20quashing%20the%20company's%20consents.
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March 29, 2022 12:12pm
- kowtow
  
  In modern New Zealand it looks like the only way you can get summit dun is if ‘iwi’ say so.
  
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  March 29, 2022 12:58pm
  - Taieri
    
    In modern New Zealand it looks like the only way you can get summit dun is if ‘iwi’ say so.
    ————–
    
    Indeed. As testified by today’s Dunedin council 3 waters vote.
    
    https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/dcc/vote-overturns-dccs-three-waters-decision
    
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    March 29, 2022 1:35pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Dolphins 1, Seabirds 0
  
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  March 29, 2022 7:06pm
surfing

Barry Soper is changing his name to ‘Jessica’ so he can get to question the Prime Minister at press events.

Joke on Newstalk ZB of course, but, shows how reprehensible the PM is being to journalists who ask difficult questions.
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March 29, 2022 12:23pm
Its only I

https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/128190496/forestry-proposal-will-trash-tai-tokeraus-mori-landowners

Is this the first hint of a Labour/Green/Maori implosion?
Seems two of the three have done a code brown in at the pool party.
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March 29, 2022 12:31pm
I remember when

I was cruising along a new stretch of motorway on Sunday, beautiful sweeping curves, a wonderful view from the highest point – and that when I woke up.
Still as Michael Wood has said they are getting closer every time they set a date.
Michael was really pleased.
“We nearly got it right.”
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March 29, 2022 12:53pm
Stellaboxer

My wife has just telephoned her hairdresser to enquire as to whether they will be cutting unvaccinated hair come Arderns relenting date in April 5 . Yes absolutely they answered and gave her the first available appointment. 6th of May! We live in a village of approximately 3000 souls with two hairdressers and a barber.So a good number of those 5 % unvaccinated must live in our village 😂. If this is repeated across the country surely the governments figures on vaccination must be questionable. Before the immoral mandates and coercion was implemented she could ring a few days ahead to secure an appointment. I know for a fact that the barber was cutting all comers throughout and despite of Arderns threats and bullying. Food for thought. I know it may sound ridiculous but maybe the government have been lying.. surely not
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March 29, 2022 1:05pm
- Inandout
  
  Stella, was listening to Hosking mentioning that the numbers getting the booster were abysmal and most chemists had dropped out of the jab scheme. Yet he still managed to slip in an ad for Jacinda’s ‘get the booster’. He has been 3x jabbed so I guess he can’t reverse the results; he is a vaccine virgin no more.
  
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  March 29, 2022 1:35pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    The chemist can have my jabs: One, two, booster, second booster, novel new as-yet-uncreated vax one, and two etc.
    
    Let me know when to send flowers.
    
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    March 29, 2022 4:08pm
  - Stellaboxer
    
    Yes Hos has made a knob of himself when it comes to vaccines but so have so many who thought they were sophisticated.
    
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    March 29, 2022 8:07pm
Maggie Pie

A bestie from tennis Txts…..

‘Pansexuals with alopecia have just become the worlds preeminent victim group, briefly replacing Transgenders for the coveted title’
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March 29, 2022 1:14pm
All_on_Red

Biden is getting more deluded each day
‘[Fox News’ Peter] DOOCY: “Big things you say on the world stage keep getting walked back.”

BIDEN: “What’s getting walked backed?”

DOOCY: “You told troops they’re going to Ukraine, that the U.S. would use a chemical weapon, & called for regime change in Russia.”

BIDEN: “None of the 3 occurred.”

Narrator voice: all of them occurred.’
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/03/28/watch-biden-denies-making-his-gaffes-from-last-week-n1584973
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March 29, 2022 1:32pm
- Rusty
  
  How Biden ever became president of the USA will probably remain one of the biggest mysteries of the 21st Century.
  
  Yet strangely and weirdly his speech botch ups might end up causing a revolution in Russia and the demise of Putin.
  
  It could happen.
  
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  March 29, 2022 2:43pm
  - Batman
    
    It will only be a mystery to those suffering from brain worms, Rusty. And you are surely not one of those, right?
    
    I see you don’t buy the stupid media narrative that his comment was calling for regime change. Rather speaking from a personal level.
    
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    March 29, 2022 2:59pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Not nice Batman. If I said that to you, then you and other Mods, and DPF, would be on my shoulder.
      Others on this blog, do not be scared to challenge this sort of thing!
      
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      March 29, 2022 3:28pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        “For Gods sake, this man cannot remain in power!”
        -Joe Biden
        
        I think Batman shows us why he is so stupid.
        
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        March 29, 2022 7:08pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    It’s not a mystery at all.
    
    People vote an incumbent out, no matter the quality of the leader that ends up filling the void.
    
    The hatred of Trump was such that had he been challenged by a goat it it would have won. Indeed, that is what happened.
    
    Further, the goat’s elevation to leader of the free world cheered on by seemingly sensible people like our kindly host, and by other not so sensible, upside down cave dwelling creatures.
    
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    March 29, 2022 4:02pm
  - kowtow
    
    No mystery .
    
    Time magazine proudly reported how it was fixed.
    
    Search Time Magazine ” The secret bi partisan campaign that saved the 2020 election”
    
    Seems to be subsriber only now.
    
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    March 29, 2022 6:14pm
    - RichardX
      
      But as you admitted yourself, nothing they did was illegal or fraudulent.
      
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      March 30, 2022 12:50am
Philview

The Dunedin City Councillors have buckled after coming under attack from Iwi and the media and have voted against supporting democracy.
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March 29, 2022 1:36pm
- kowtow
  
  No , one councillor who had previously been against the so called reforms was absent , and one who had also been against abstained .
  
  So what had been an original 8 to 7 against the govt 3 waters became 7 to 6 in favour .
  
  I wonder what shenanigans enabled a second vote on the issue ?
  
  Hopefully the voters of Dunedin take note.
  
  btw there’s no way $3 billion worth of local rate payers’ assets should be at the mercy of such Tammany Hall hi jinks.
  
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  March 29, 2022 3:16pm
- Yabster
  
  ffs – weak pricks.
  
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  March 29, 2022 3:21pm
Jethrod

Mallard announced that he has the resignation letter of Louisa Walls effective 1 May 2022
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March 29, 2022 2:22pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Let’s see that. She is one of the team
  
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  March 29, 2022 3:42pm
Yvette

May be I am just not keeping up, but when will Bridges and now Wall be replaced in Parliament?
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March 29, 2022 2:24pm
- cmm
  
  Bridges is a bit messier because he triggers a by-election.
  
  Walls is a list MP, so just say “next please”. Poor sausage probably only keeps his/her snout in the trough for 18 months and is gone at the 2023 election.
  
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  March 29, 2022 2:41pm
cmm

So Louisa Walls is finally ducking out after 14 years in parliament.

I see Christopher “Light up” Bishop uses it as an opportunity to take a sideways swipe at other Labour MPs.

14 years. And in that time what has she got to show other than promoting the marriage equality bill? The saddest part of this is that Bishop is partially right: compared to her Labour colleagues that’s an exceptional career.

Same sex marriage was hardly a breakthrough bit of legislation. By 2013 there were already heaps of other countries who had done this.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/labour-mp-louisa-wall-resigns-after-14-years-in-parliament/SK6MRV6VV7GKROYDFDYNEGQTYQ/
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March 29, 2022 2:37pm
- virtualmark
  
  cmm, a more interesting question is “Just what did Louisa Walls do that got her offside with the Labour hierarchy?”
  
  As a Maori lesbian electorate MP, who pushed through same sex marriage legislation … shouldn’t she be golden in the Labour Party?
  
  So why no Ministerial posts? Why has the Labour Party encouraged challengers in her electorate? Does it have something to do with her role in the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China?
  
  I’ve never heard anything that sheds light on those sort of questions.
  
  But why do I get the feeling the Labour Party leadership are silently saying “She finally got the message”.
  
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  March 29, 2022 3:11pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    I have heard that Ardern dislikes her, she has stood up against her party before, and intern that means Ardern, her replacement worked in Tito Phillip Fields office, and has been causing trouble in the Mangere local council board
    
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    March 29, 2022 6:09pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Stuff has put up the meme that She’s not a Team Player
      
      https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300553289/louisa-wall-achieved-a-lot-in-politics-but-sometimes-forgot-it-was-a-team-sport
      
      Jeez, I wonder how she managed to get into two national teams?
      
      Wall was named in the Silver Ferns 1989 team, aged 17.
      
      Wall made the Black Ferns in 1995. This team would go on to win the first ever Women’s Rugby World Cup.
      In 1997, Wall won the title of New Zealand Women’s Rugby Player of the Year.
      
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisa_Wall
      
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      March 29, 2022 8:32pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Not to mention being captain of the Black Ferns
    
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    March 29, 2022 7:58pm
  - virtualmark
    
    Turns out there stories from both the Horrid and Stuff on Louisa Wall’s retirement, with the common theme being that she’s her own woman and wouldn’t bend enough to “the Party”.
    
    The problem for MPs is that there’s always a small “kitchen cabinet” who get to make decisions, and then the rest are basically just cannon fodder who get whipped to place their votes in the House, and told to turn up at various functions where an MP is needed to be seen.
    
    If you want to actually make decisions, and make a difference, but you’re not in the “in” crowd then … it’s lonely.
    
    Of course, if you’re too dumb or too lazy to make decisions, but you like the prestige, the salary, and the expense arrangements then selling your soul (if you ever had one) to be vote fodder is a dream life.
    
    Personally … respect to Louisa Wall for getting stuff done *despite* her Party and despite her lowly ranking. I’d say Louisa Wall and David Garrett deserve some sort of award for getting legislation passed even though they were far away from the seat of power.
    
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    March 29, 2022 8:24pm
- Steve Todd
  
  14 years. And in that time what has she got to show other than promoting the marriage equality bill?
  
  A cheap shot, cmm. You could ask that question about dozens of MPs, from all sides of the House.
  
  (Why do so many people overlook the work MPs do in select committees? One of the reasons why the 1986 Royal Commission recommended 120 MPs — they really wanted 140 — was to ensure that proposed legislation was properly reviewed by a PR/MMP-elected parliament.)
  
  Some more information about the Wall resignation at No Right Turn, here: http://norightturn.blogspot.com/2022/03/a-loss-for-labour.html.
  
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  March 29, 2022 6:38pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  She seems to have worked well across the House, according to reports. I can imagine her being independently minded also. Neither of those things are likely to appeal to the hierarchy.
  
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  March 29, 2022 7:56pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Woke Hollywood.
https://rumble.com/vyv522-ricky-gervais-torching-woke-hollywood-is-only-oscars-moment-that-matters.html?
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March 29, 2022 2:41pm
Maggie Pie

Speaking to my partner earlier. He’d been to a client lunch at the Squadron.
Apparently word round the Viaduct, is one of the main reasons Dalts opted for Barcelona rather than Auckland, was the mere suggestion Fa’anana Efeso Colins could end up as the city’s new mayor.

But according to those in the know…..now that Wayne Brown has thrown his hat in the ring, it’s going to be a real contest.
Here’s hoping. The entire future of Auckland Ratepayers depends on it.
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March 29, 2022 3:01pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  I think we all know the reason for choosing the next America’s Cup venue – money. NZ taxpayers have probably been wrung dry in that regard.
  
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  March 29, 2022 3:59pm
  - MCōs
    
    I’m picking the Americas cup will be one of Leo’s many stumbling blocks.
    There’s no way he’ll be able to resist the lure of hobnobbing with all those billionaires no matter how much it’ll cost the beleaguered ratepayers who aren’t the slightest bit interested.
    
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    March 29, 2022 8:26pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Colins has already ordered his Council Credit Cards to milk Auckland
    
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    March 30, 2022 8:40am
Hebe123

I heard that the vote of no confidence in Mallard was happening today. Anyone heard anything?
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March 29, 2022 3:32pm
krazykiwi

NHS trusts ask men if they are pregnant before having scans

Men are being asked if they are pregnant before undergoing scans at NHS trusts in England, it has emerged.

Male cancer patients and those having X-Rays and MRI scans are being asked if they could be expecting after the Government removed the word “female” from the law governing the medical procedures and replaced it with “individuals”.

The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, in Liverpool, now asks “ALL patients under the age of 60, regardless of how you may identify your gender”.
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March 29, 2022 4:04pm
- Ehlana
  
  I wonder how much confidence men now have in the NHS?
  
  When a condition only affects 1% of a population, does it really make sense to change everything to accommodate them? Put it this way, there are probably more people who use sign language. So maybe the NHS should make it compulsory for their staff?
  
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  March 29, 2022 4:08pm
- kowtow
  
  They’ve gone stark raving mad there.
  
  BBC wouldn’t call a woman a woman ” The BBC has amended a news story after describing people suffering from endometriosis as having been “assigned female at birth”.
  
  The broadcaster reacted to backlash against their feature by updating the wording to call people living with the gynaecological condition “women”.
  
  And the leader of the labour party can’t / won’t either.
  
  When asked whether a woman can have a penis, Sir Keir replied: “I don’t think we can conduct this debate. I don’t think discussing this issue in this way helps anyone in the long run”
  
  Source GB News.
  
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  March 29, 2022 5:00pm
krazykiwi

Oops….

Ukraine releases list of identities of more than 600 alleged FSB agents, some of whom could possibly be operating in Britain

Ukraine has released a list of what it claims are the identities of more than 600 Russian spies, including one who appears to fancy himself as James Bond, in a bid to embarrass Moscow.

The list of 620 agents working for Russia’s FSB security agency, who are meant to stay in the shadows, exposes their passports, phone numbers and even their drinking habits.

One alleged FSB agent, according to the list, has a Skype address that includes the phrase “jamesbond007” as well as the characters “DB9”, referring to Bond’s iconic Aston Martin.

Another agent is said to have a taste for “premium cars”, while a third is a heavy drinker who “systematically violates traffic regulations”.
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The Telegraph has not independently verified the list, which if confirmed would prove to be a major embarrassment for Moscow that may compromise many of its spies.

Ukrainian officials did not disclose how they had obtained the list. But Aric Toler, a researcher for the investigative website Bellingcat, said some of the data appeared to be based on previous leaks of sensitive Russian intelligence.

Last week, Russia reportedly launched a hunt for “Western spies” in the FSB, implying that Moscow fears the agency has been infiltrated.

Earlier in March, an FSB whistleblower claimed its spies had been kept in the dark about the plans for an invasion of Ukraine, going on to describe the war as a “total failure” akin to the collapse of Nazi Germany.

Vladimir Putin, the Russian leader, has reportedly placed some senior FSB figures under house arrest. The move appeared to be a reprisal for detailed plans of Russia’s invasion being obtained and disclosed by Western intelligence agencies.

Sounding more like Spy vs Spy.
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March 29, 2022 4:18pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Thanks. I hadn’t thought of MAD Magazine for a while. Happy memories.
  
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  March 29, 2022 4:21pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    Indeed. So cheeky.
    
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    March 29, 2022 5:50pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING

Bought & paid for NZ HORRID headline gloats….. Simon Bridge’s family home auction never reached $3.9 million reserve.
Instead, describing it as having….’flopped’

As my partner said, “Just goes to show what a horrible nasty woke prick that Editor-in-Chief Shane Curry has become” 🙁
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March 29, 2022 4:22pm
- MCōs
  
  The article was written by Anne Gibson of the Bay of Plenty Times who also wrote a previous article the other day that was basically advertising, presumably free.
  She described it as a stately home.
  Oh dear!
  I see it is now listed at $3.9mil, the previous reserve.
  Maybe the woman who just won $28mil on lotto might fancy it for a beach house.
  
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  March 29, 2022 6:01pm
Maggy Wassilieff

I wonder if the MSM will do a little digging and tell us all why Arena Williams was favoured by Labour over their sitting MP Louisa Wall.

It couldn’t be that Labour folk prefer pretty young females to middle-aged ones, could it?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/jacinda-ardern-is-young-and-female-is-that-why-some-people-have-a-problem-with-her-john-macdonald/5VCTPUHNSWCGGNKB5FAZFTHLQQ/
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March 29, 2022 4:35pm
- Suze Wainwright
  
  Ardern’s middle aged now, though…
  
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  March 29, 2022 4:53pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  “If you’ve got it, flaunt it”
  Or as Rachael Smalley might say…..”Arena will make a pleasant change to the current crop of lardos”.
  
  https://stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/Naked-students-protest-debt
  
  LOL!!
  
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  March 29, 2022 5:01pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    This one might work better
    http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/6513708/Naked-students-protest-debt
    
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    March 29, 2022 5:15pm
    - Loddenthinks
      
      That headline (from just over 10 years ago) shows how dishonest and stupid $1uffed has always been, must be in their DNA.
      
      Headline: Naked students protest debt.
      Article: Nobody was naked, but they were “near-naked”
      
      In the same way that you can’t be “a little bit pregnant” you can’t be “near-naked” you’re either naked or you’re not. They were not.
      
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      March 29, 2022 9:11pm
- MCōs
  
  She pulled/was elbowed out before the selection which was then between Williams & Ian Dunwoodie.
  
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  March 29, 2022 6:22pm
westernScientist

come on labour, please just go on holiday or something, we will keep paying you, just please stop touching things.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300553017/government-introduces-fair-pay-agreements-bill-will-exclude-contracts-allow-regional-differences
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March 29, 2022 4:39pm
blue collar

Wind farm 23 kms out to sea on the north islands west coast ……. Are you insane Megan woods ????
Will be destroyed in 12 months if they can even build it
Denmarks are in waters sheltered from swell …. No way will it hold up on the rugged west coast
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March 29, 2022 5:05pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Let’s hope the Danish firm investigating it reads your comment before it’s too late.
  It doesn’t seem like it will have much to do with Megan Woods, unless law changes are needed to allow the project to go ahead.
  
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  March 29, 2022 5:44pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  That’s even if the wind doesn’t do for it. The Chatham Islands one lasted no time even on land.
  
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  March 29, 2022 6:30pm
- Hebe123
  
  I seem to recall that Meridian’s Te Apiti wind farm (biggest turbines in NZ at the time) was having turbine blades fail within two years. They were designed in Denmark for the highest wind locations with a 20 year design life….hopefully someone has been back to the drawing board since then.
  
  However….super high winds are not what one wants for a wind farm as they. Can’t operate above certain maximum wind speeds. So why on earth one would build off shore is beyond me. The economics must be appalling!
  
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  March 29, 2022 7:15pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    Economics?!? Pffff. This is 100% about signaling virtue. And lots of it too, across plenty of ridges where the people can ooo, and ahhhh and be thankful for being saved from the relentlessly rising seas
    
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    March 29, 2022 9:29pm
graham

Someone called Judd Apatow (never heard of him, but maybe that’s just me) apparently tweeted about Will Smith slapping Chris Rock:

“He could have killed him”.

https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/oscars-will-smith-slap-1328461/

So pleased to see that people aren’t going WA-A-AYY over the top with their rhetoric …
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March 29, 2022 5:23pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/128197352/man-jailed-after-beating-boy-locking-him-in-car-for-days-without-food
OK: let us see photo of this piece of filth.
Oh wait: that might be a problem.
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March 29, 2022 5:37pm
- Loddenthinks
  
  Instead, they show a staged photo of a white man with fists clenched while a small white boy cowers in the corner.
  
  The POS jailed for 13 years (well, probably 4 and a half at most, but he was sentenced to 13 years) is a part-Maori, Riki Ross Kake, as the caption underneath the photo makes clear.
  
  Can you imagine the outcry if it was a pakeha that did this and they showed a staged photo of a brown-skinned thug and a brown-skinned child victim?
  
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  March 29, 2022 8:14pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  He has a past history…
  
  Kicked a woman in the face twice and threatened to kill her
  
  https://www.pressreader.com/new-zealand/bay-of-plenty-times/20080904/281672545742382
  
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  March 29, 2022 8:24pm
  - Loddenthinks
    
    Yeah he’s a real prince Maggy. Hasn’t matured any in the 14 years since then, it seems.
    
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    March 29, 2022 9:27pm
Maggie Pie

We saw Chris Luxon on 1Ewes tonite….apologising for a MeMe the Young Nats posted to FB, depicting hardworking Kiwis being slapped in the face by Labors cost-of-living-crisis (Rock v Smith image)

Honestly, why couldn’t he just say he found it funny?
Better hope no one discovers a MAGA cap in his office. SHEESH!!
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March 29, 2022 6:58pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Labour is getting very touchy about any reference to our cost-of-living crisis.
  
  Today Luxon was told off for repeating the phrase “the squeezed middle”
  
  Christopher Luxon: What does she say to the average Kiwi household—the squeezed middle—who are facing—
  
  SPEAKER: Order! Order! I’ve let the member go, but time for a bit of developmental feedback, and that is that unnecessary phrases, like the one that he’s used twice, should not be part of questions.
  
  Oral Q 4. https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/hansard-debates/rhr/combined/HansDeb_20220329_20220329_20
  
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  March 29, 2022 7:55pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Thx Maggz!
    I’m just sorry I missed Q10.
    Really really love that Anna Lorke.
    She’s the sort of gal we’d make an Honorary Member of the Club.
    
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    March 29, 2022 8:53pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      She’s got 5 daughters!!!
      
      Imagine the fights for the showers in that household.
      
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      March 29, 2022 9:12pm
      - skyblue
        
        And the chocolate machine.
        
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        March 29, 2022 9:22pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Maggie,
  Why the Hell are you still watching Government TV?
  I didn’t think you were a lefty.
  
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  March 29, 2022 9:12pm
krazykiwi

I see our 51% owned state airline is continuing their vaccination apartheid throughout April.
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