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Tony Stuart

Wow; this is going to be incredibly damaging to an already wounded government:

A blunder by a government worker sent Northland into an 11-day lockdown after travel documents that were meant to be declined were mistakenly approved.

The case of three women who travelled from Auckland to Northland hit headlines in October 2021 in the midst of a Delta outbreak – but new documents released under the Official Information Act finally outline the truth behind the saga, and the reason Northland was put into lockdown.

The OIA papers show the women – who had earlier been blamed for using “false information” to get travel permits – had no links to gangs and weren’t sex workers, as had been suggested.
Among the documents released is a summary of a police investigation into the women which found “no offence” and no “deception” in obtaining the travel documents.

Detective Inspector Aaron Proctor’s summary of “Operation Hiking” quoted an email from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment which said the travel documents were “issued in error by the Ministry of Social Development, (the error not being the fault of the applicant)”.

Another document showed it was known three days before the 11-day lockdown was announced on October 8 that human error was behind the travel documents being granted to the women.

One Northland mayor has branded the case “incompetence by the bureaucracy” while another says it would have been “tipping point” for some businesses struggling under Covid-19 lockdowns.

The women were publicly vilified for crossing the border with then Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins accusing them of using “false information to travel across the border”.

The case also saw reporters quizzing Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern over whether the women were prostitutes and former Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters was forced to apologise for falsely claiming the pair were helped by Hawke’s Bay-based Mongrel Mob leader Harry Tam.

The police inquiry summary said: “The police investigation found no evidence to suggest that (the women) had any connection to Harry Tam, the Mongrel Mob or were involved in prostitution.”

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/covid-19-outbreak-blunder-in-wellington-let-women-into-northland-and-shut-the-region-for-11-days/D3OIYTFMDOSWGRYBTHFO2VY7JQ/

There’s an old political saying that if the scandal doesn’t get you, the cover-up will. The way this information has made it to the public domain is an indictment on the Ardern government, and the good folk of Northland have every reason to be absolutely incandescent with anger over this blunder, which had widespread negative consequences. And the lockdown was completely avoidable, with the error known about THREE DAYS before the lockdown was ordered!

But will they, or we, get an apology from Ardern, Hipkins, Sepuloni and co? Don’t hold your breath!
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December 7, 2021 8:03am
- alex Masterley
  
  If the people of Northland expect an apology for this shambles they will be waiting for a long time. Hipkins will disappear into witless protection and the PM will refude things.
  Speaking of home I understand she will be busy with a round of important engagements at central Auckland primary schools this afternoon. Possibly scoping out schooling options for the child when she leaves Thorndon.
  
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  September 7, 2022 8:08am
  - Paulus
    
    She is off for a job interview at the end of this week in New York, so she will only blame somebody else, and little chippy is tha fall guy and will do anything to please her.
    He will obfuscate on this like the results of the Education Reading, Writing and Arithmatic new NCEA are equally an incredible disaster, but not unexpected.
    
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    September 7, 2022 8:15am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Sept 17th she leaves, and will arrive in NY Sept 17th.
      May be wrong but it is tied to the first Air NZ direct flight to NY
      
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      September 7, 2022 9:48am
      - Paulus
        
        Not sure but I do not think that Air NZ ready yet for the AK – NY flight.
        Qantas probably are though.
        What’s up with the two Air Force B757s ?
        Won’t they make it without breaking down ?
        When is she scheduled to return ?
        
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        September 7, 2022 2:11pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Paulus, Air NZ is a publicity thing, you know, cameras cameras cameras. I am sure Air Force One will be there so she can go see flaky socialists in NY, Then Cali, then NY, then home. Now depending on what type of shit is hitting the fan, she may have a few days in Hawaii. There is a large airfield there, so park Air Force One around the back somewhere.
        One thing for sure, she does not want to answer any questions at the moment.
        https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/jacinda-ardern-to-travel-to-new-york-later-this-month/QF6B5S7ZUGF2P4R7JR3R5FWKAU/
        
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        September 7, 2022 2:20pm
  - Nickc2
    
    Her daughter won’t go to school in NZ, especially if schools were mandated to teach NZ History.
    Just imagine the banter over an evening meal at the Gayford-Ardern house. “Mummy, is it true that you ……… (feel free to pose your own question)?”
    
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    September 7, 2022 8:44am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      “No that isn’t true. Unless you heard it from me, it is a lie”
      
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      September 7, 2022 9:49am
      - Matt Long
        
        “I’m your sole source of truth”
        
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        September 7, 2022 11:04am
  - lastmanstanding
    
    In the near future countries that dont have low cost reliable energy will either fail or be taken over by countries that have low cost reliable energy.
    
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    September 7, 2022 9:31am
    - Clownworld
      
      China reselling Russian gas to Europe….
      
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      September 8, 2022 5:22am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Possibly the saddest part of this is that it comes as no surprise after having a few years of experiencing Ardern’s government in action. They truly are the worst government in history.
  
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  September 7, 2022 8:12am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Brian – you obviously don’t do rational analysis.
    
    Our death rates were low because we’re an island thousands of kms from the nearest land mass. We hid under the bed and managed to avoid a respiratory illness for a couple of years. Living in fear doesn’t fix anything. The majority of the population finished up mentally and physically weaker as a result.
    The increase in excess death is happening, it began a few months ago and is accelerating. It follows the same curve as the vaccine and booster rollout and follows the equivalent timelines in Europe and America. It is going to get worse. We were six months behind most other countries due to our enormous “success” in “eliminating” covid.
    Remind us all again how that worked out?
    
    You, like Wayne Mapp, will vanish from the scene never to be heard from again when the inevitable inquiry happens and the real world data proves that correlation has a direct connection to causation. That the actions taken by this government and the cowards who supported them destroyed businesses, lives and relationships. Severely damaged the education and mental health of our young. Severely damaged our health system. Severely damaged our tourism industry. Their actions will take a decade or more to recover from. For many people their lives have been irrevocably destroyed.
    This Ardern’s legacy. Those who not only supported her, but actively screamed for more and harder devastation to be put upon those daring to speak out against her, you will have that to live with. Though if as is likely you have no conscience, you’ll probably be just fine.
    
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    September 7, 2022 11:16am
    - glowworm
      
      Clan. You say what needs to be said. Thanks.
      
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      September 7, 2022 1:46pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      “Living in fear doesn’t fix anything” Well it does for those instigating the fear – they have ‘control’ and a lot of the sheep are too scared to ask why
      
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      September 7, 2022 2:26pm
- Random T Person
  
  To be fair the whole thing is beyond ridiculous. An internal border in NZ? Requiring papers? For the Stasi? Because you might have caught a cold?
  What have we become.
  
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  September 7, 2022 8:16am
  - Wayne Mapp
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    A type of cold that has killed nearly 2,000 people so far (“from”, not just “with”). And at a considerably higher rate with earlier variants than the current Omicron.
    
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    September 7, 2022 8:26am
    - Cinematic
      
      So? We all die. Grow up.
      
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      September 7, 2022 8:38am
      - Brian McDonald
        
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        Famous last words from a squawker.
        
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        September 7, 2022 9:40am
    - pdm
      
      Are you sure Wayne?
      
      Personally I think those `by’ figures are grossly inflated to match the mantra.
      
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      September 7, 2022 8:42am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        pdm – of course he isn’t sure, he’s repeating the propaganda from the 9th floor.
        
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        September 7, 2022 8:52am
      - Wayne Mapp
        
        Actually I am sure. The MOH has been quite careful to sort out those where covid has been a contributing cause of death and those who died for other reasons but who also had covid. It is the reason why the MOH figures are lower than the figures on the World 0 Meter, which lists 2791 covid deaths.
        
        I would also note for the usual skeptics on this site that the death rate from covid from the initial and the delta strain were much higher than the current death rate, in fact up to 3%. At that stage the fatality rate was around ten times higher than seasonal flu.
        
        Of course I know I won’t convince the covid skeptics here, and the post is not really aimed at them.
        
        Initially there was a balance of contributions on covid, but Kiwiblog has become the principal mainstream site for covid deniers, and has been fundamentally taken over by them. Most of us in the opposite camp just ignore the covid posts made by the usual suspects. But when someone says covid is just like the common cold, well I wasn’t going to let that go unanswered.
        
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        September 7, 2022 10:07am
    - Yabster
      
      Mapp you are constant reminder of how bad our pollys are- 2000 deaths over 2.5 years so about 800 a year- Flu which has been around forever has an average death rate of over 500- why didn’t you lockdown the country for flu then when you were in power?
      
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      September 7, 2022 8:43am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        The key thing to monitor right now is all cause mortality over the last few years and to compare them with historical records.
        There are alarming increases in excess deaths right now around the world and including NZ that cannot be attributed to covid. They can and are being attributed to the policies implemented by the relevant governments.
        
        THE shills for the pharmaceutical industry deny that sudden deaths in the fully vaccinated add up to any more than a collection of unconnected tragedies. That many of the fallen are young, fit, and healthy is insufficient in evidential force to bend their collective mind towards the possibility that there could be a causal connection between the death and the jab. To the extent that they are prepared to sieve the evidence, they are sceptical that the vaccination might be the common factor which explains the ‘unexplained’ fatal injuries.
        
        The virus of cognitive dissonance has spread Omicron-like through the community of vaccine cultists.
        
        This describes Wayne Mapp and the rest in NZ who refuse to wake up to the disaster inflicted on all of us by Ardern.
        
        Worth reading the full article.
        
        https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/vaccine-injuries-and-our-floundering-blundering-scientists/
        
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        September 7, 2022 8:58am
      - Brian McDonald
        
        Try to get your figures relevant, for example how many deaths in 2022? Then by month this year. No doubt you were hiding under the bed when it was a lower fatality rate but now you are immunized you’re full noise. A bit like the errant lawyer that wanted positive cases locked up by the Army.
        
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        September 7, 2022 9:46am
      - Bullion
        
        Just about all our covid deaths have come in about 7 months.
        
        https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-deaths-cumulative-economist-single-entity?country=~NZL
        
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        September 7, 2022 12:53pm
      - Loddenthinks
        
        @McDonald: “immunised” you say? Even from you, that’s an incredibly stupid comment. I don’t know what it is you think you’re “immunised” against, or if you understand what “immunised” even means, but anyone with one, two, three of four jabs is not immunised against a thing.
        
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        September 7, 2022 8:14pm
    - mandk
      
      You are wrong, Wayne Mapp.
      
      It is ‘with’. The MOH refers to underlying or contributory facts.
      
      Neither of those things mean ‘from’.
      
      https://www.health.govt.nz/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-data-and-statistics/covid-19-current-cases
      
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      September 7, 2022 8:45am
      - Bullion
        
        If you look at the table there are two figures:
        
        COVID-attributed total: 1933
        
        Total: 2861 (which was the older definition and even just above the table its says this: *The Ministry of Health has recently switched its definition of ‘deceased’ from deaths within 28 days of testing positive for COVID-19 to deaths attributed to COVID-19.)
        
        So Wayne Mapp is accurate in his claim of nearly 2,000 deaths. (of which 97% have occurred in the past 7 months)
        
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        September 7, 2022 12:59pm
    - Random T Person
      
      Ah, so the abandonment of basic rights and freedoms cost us ‘only’ 2000 lives aye Wayne? We sent 16000 to their death in WW1, and another 11000 in WW2, fighting for those freedoms. How things have changed.
      
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      September 7, 2022 8:49am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Wayne Mapp – no it hasn’t. You are wrong. There is more than enough real world evidence from around the world that clearly shows those figures are garbage.
      Though interestingly, those “deaths” you refer to have all happened since the “safe and effective” vaccines were rolled out. Before that we only had 27 “covid deaths”. What a coincidence.
      
      Get ready to have your world view torn apart Wayne. The jabs and the lockdowns have caused far more deaths than the seasonal respiratory illness called “covid” ever possibly could have. This fact will be indisputable in a relatively short period of time.
      Come back after that and attempt to justify the shredding of our freedoms, our businesses and our lives. They policies used made everything far worse than it could have managed left alone.
      
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      September 7, 2022 8:51am
      - Cinematic
        
        That is correct. The lockdowns and border closures have done far far more damage than any strain of the covid would have. That was entirely foreseeable.
        
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        September 7, 2022 9:17am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Cinematic, Lockdowns are control of the sheep – baaa
        
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        September 7, 2022 9:55am
      - Bullion
        
        We didn’t have covid circulating for most of the two years before we opened up once our population had high levels of vaccination.
        
        Our confirmed deaths per capita is still much lower than other nations
        https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-03-01..latest&facet=none&pickerSort=asc&pickerMetric=location&Metric=Confirmed deaths&Interval=7-day rolling average&Relative to Population=true&Color by test positivity=false&country=GBR~NZL
        
        (Mod – people wanting to view the above link will need to copy and paste it)
        
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        September 7, 2022 1:05pm
    - slightlyrighty
      
      Wayne. There are 2 certainties in life. Death and Taxes. The fact is, people die. We all have to die of something. We now have a vaccine, we know that masks help.
      
      We also now know that there are risks with the vaccine. (Being fully aware, I still have the shot, like the flu jab.)
      
      We now have the tools to manage this, but we simply can’t run and hide from disease anymore, now that we have the tools and the treatments. The economic costs outweigh the benefits, and reduce our capability to fund the measures we need to manage the outbreak in it’s current form.
      
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      September 7, 2022 8:55am
      - Maggie's partner
        
        there used to be 3 – add Nurses to your list.
        
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        September 7, 2022 10:10am
      - Loddenthinks
        
        The “vaccine” doesn’t help, and masks cause more health problems than they could ever prevent, including mental health.
        
        Those two things are tools alright, but not tools for any health purpose.
        
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        September 7, 2022 8:20pm
    - Dr John
      
      Until ‘covid deaths’ are reported with any associated co morbidities in those deaths, then the statistics are meaningless.
      
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      September 7, 2022 9:04am
    - I remember when
      
      The “from,” not just “with” totals have already had one major reduction.
      Who knows what totals the final analysis might produce.
      
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      September 7, 2022 9:27am
    - Rodney Hide
      
      Hi Wayne
      
      The people that died with covid were old and ill.
      
      The people dying now are young and fit.
      
      What would have happened if we had done nothing? No lockdown. No testing. Nothing would have happened. We would not have noticed a thing. The scare was entirely political. Like climate change. It would at worst have been a bad flu season.
      
      Our economy would be strong, the government would not be in debt, businesses would have survived, so too with marriages, and inflation would not be a problem.
      
      What would have happened if we hadn’t have had a mass “vaccine” rollout? People would be alive who are dead. People would be well who are now sick. People would still have their jobs and their homes.
      
      We would not be a divided society arguing over the wisdom and benefit of taking a government-mandated jab.
      
      There was nothing especially different about covid than evey other respiratory virus other than that it was made in a chinese lab with US government money!
      
      sincerely
      
      Rodney Hide
      
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      September 7, 2022 9:33am
      - Random T Person
        
        That’s right Rodney. And the people who died fighting for our freedoms in two world wars, tens of thousands of them, were in the flower of their youth.
        Covid is barely dangerous. Covid responses, deadly.
        
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        September 7, 2022 10:40am
      - Tom Hunter
        
        You’ll notice that Wayne Mapp never actually argues or debates with anybody. He just squirts out his assertions and expects forelock tugging in return.
        
        “You are right. There were (and are) a substantial number of National MP’s who would have similar views to myself.” – Wayne Mapp
        
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        September 7, 2022 10:51am
      - Bullion
        
        Rodney, that’s wrong. The UK had a 107% increase in mortality at the beginning of the pandemic, 65% increase in those 15-64.
        
        I’m sure that was noticed.
        
        That’s just deaths, not taking into account the magnitude more that were hospitalised and those that continue to suffer with long covid.
        
        Yeah, sure no one noticed a thing.
        
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        September 7, 2022 1:13pm
      - Rodney Hide
        
        Hi Bullion
        
        Sure deaths were up. But that’s what happens in a bad flu year.
        
        You should also for completeness do your increase for the year – – not weeks!
        
        The life expectancy in England and Wales in 2020 was 80.4 – down from 81.8 in 2019. That was because the deaths were overwhelmingly the old and the sick.
        
        Rodney Hide
        
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        September 7, 2022 6:14pm
      - Bullion
        
        Hi, Rodney
        
        I think you should look at years of life lost.
        
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        September 7, 2022 7:50pm
    - Richard
      
      Yeah, right! They got you hook, line, and sinker. If so many people are dying from covid, why have we had so few people in ICU? It doesn’t kill you instantly. Are we supposed to believe that people are catching covid, getting so sick it kills them but not spending any time in ICU? 3 in ICU currently I believe. People are dying like the always do and some of them also have covid.
      
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      September 7, 2022 9:42am
      - Brian McDonald
        
        ICU has been under pressure for 2 years. Come out from out your bed often and read the news.
        
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        September 7, 2022 9:50am
      - mawm
        
        Brian – ICU’s are always under pressure – there are just not enough staffed ICU beds – ever. Every winter lots of elective surgery gets cancelled because there are not enough staffed ward beds. Nothing has changed except we stopped the hospitals from doing their normal daily work.
        
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        September 7, 2022 1:24pm
    - Ghost
      
      I have a cousin who was one of the first wave of deaths this Government listed off as Covid death back in 2020. Ssssh, he died of cancer. This government took his death and claimed it was Covid.
      
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      September 7, 2022 9:47am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Same with my ex wife’s sister. Battled throat cancer for years. About 60 she was. In a bed in a resthome, being fed with a tube. She caught Covid and died. It was listed as a Covid death, when really she succumbed to the cancer.
        This Govt and MOH are a bunch of liars.
        
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        September 7, 2022 10:02am
      - Bobba Fret
        
        Is the poor bloke that was isolating at home with Covid, and got shot on his driveway in West Auckland still a Covid death?
        
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        September 7, 2022 11:21am
      - Paulus
        
        My Cousin in Texas died as recorded from Covid – he was 85 and had Parkinson for years in a home !
        
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        September 7, 2022 2:13pm
    - Opie
      
      You are right Wayne, it isn’t like the common cold. It’s much milder.
      
      Have you even had it?
      
      When I had I covid I was so sick that I didn’t manage to win my golf match untill the last hole.
      
      And guess what, I didn’t even pass it on to anyone in the group.
      
      Yet because of moronic decision making by terrified politicians – people like you that think they are better and know better than others, people sit at home terrified and think a piece of paper sitting loosely on their face is going to save them.
      
      As always, if a politician is telling you to do something, history shows its better to do the opposite.
      
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      September 7, 2022 10:22am
      - Wayne Mapp
        
        Yes, I have had covid, and so have about 60% of the people I know.
        
        Of the 10 closest, only one had symptoms no worse than a cold, she was over 80. Four were under 40. Two (over 70) were sufficiently serious they needed the antivirals. Two of those under 40 took 3 weeks to recover, and were in bed for more than 7 days. The rest (5) were similar to the flu.
        
        The wider group had experiences on a similar ratio.
        
        So I would put you in the 1 in 10 who had few symptoms. That is not the norm, as you will actually know.
        
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        September 7, 2022 11:29am
      - Hebe123
        
        Wayne Mapp it’s funny that your friends were so I’ll I’ll with covid. In my family most of us are unvaxxed and for those that have had it, covid was At the level of a cold. Most of us had no cold symptoms but a sore throat. So that’s 6 of us. My parents are yet to have it (unvaxxed) despite their best efforts. My vaccinated brother had it too – he said worse than a cold but nowhere near a flu.
        
        You must have very unhealthy friends!
        
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        September 7, 2022 7:24pm
    - rouppe
      
      Nearly 10,000 people die from cancer.
      836 died from Influenza and pneumonia in 2019.
      
      The number isn’t as meaningful as you try and make it out to be
      
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      September 7, 2022 12:18pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      In the same ballpark as a bad influenza season. Do we smash the economy and turn the place into a police state when we have one of those?
      
      Study the Swedish response.
      
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      September 7, 2022 3:56pm
- JimBobJoe
  
  Wow….
  
  ”The women were publicly vilified for crossing the border with then Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins accusing them of using “false information to travel across the border”
  
  ”Another document showed it was known three days before the 11-day lockdown was announced on October 8 that human error was behind the travel documents being granted to the women.”
  
  Those two statements from the article don’t read well for Chippie at all. A fulsome and unreserved apology from Mr Hipkins is required
  
  But more than that this exposes that our standing bureaucracy is just not very good. The competence inside government agencies is sliding and sliding – and worse in Wellington they premium dollars for incompetence. (Queue MikenMild to rally to the defense of our poor beleaguered Public Servants caused anxiety by some criticism)
  
  Take note National and ACT – a clean out of the PSC and Senior Public Servants down to National Manager is required to refocus on the standard functions of standing agencies – and the Friday afternoon waiata practice is not core!
  
  Question: How many senior Public Servants at the CE and DCE level travel from Wellington to their private homes in other provinces every week on the tax payers coin, how frequently does it happen and what is the cost per Public Servant and the aggregate amount??? Maybe the Minister for the Public Service deserves an OIA on this question …..
  
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  September 7, 2022 8:17am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    Chances of an apology from Hipkins JBJ? Somewhere between none and zero. He has doubled down this morning:
    
    Asked whether he would apologise to the women who travelled into Northland and faced public backlash, Hipkins said he didn’t want to get into “all the ins and outs” of the situation, saying decisions were made on the information available and acknowledged much of that information was not completely confirmed.
    
    However, he said the decision to send Northland into lockdown was the right one.
    
    Hipkins said he was made aware of the error at some point during the investigation, but reiterated it had been made public at the time.
    
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/chris-hipkins-defends-northland-lockdown-amid-calls-for-responsibility-over-govt-blunder/4LOTIORD7EGBRDETVUW3JR5P3I/
    
    Hipkins reckons today’s revelations are nothing new, and that the information was already in the public domain. I can’t say I ever heard it at the time, and certainly haven’t seen it reported prior to today.
    
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    September 7, 2022 1:15pm
- Yabster
  
  damaging?- it should be- Hosking has covered it- can anyone spot it on Stuffed? nah…. second lead story did Harry Styles spit on..?
  
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  September 7, 2022 8:38am
- pdm
  
  Megan Woods was totally unapologetic with Mike Hoskings this morning.
  
  Same with Rotorua disaster.
  
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  September 7, 2022 8:38am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Who is Mike Hoskings? Is he related to John Keys?
    
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    September 7, 2022 10:45am
    - fernglas
      
      No but I think his cousin Luxton is big in the National party
      
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      September 7, 2022 12:53pm
- Harry Knuts
  
  perhaps the 3 women involved should get a written apology from Ardern, Hipkins, Sepuloni and co. After all they worn the brunt of covid-fear-porn fueled by MS and politicians.
  
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  September 7, 2022 8:44am
  - RoboRob
    
    Those three polys ALL knew it was a govt cock up but contniued to manipulate the media and portray the woman involved as prostitutes or criminals. They all knowing lied to us. This is a HUGE story and one the media should be hitting hard.
    
    It also explains why the woman involved got name suppression and no charges were laid. At the time I thought this was terrible, but when you know that the woman did nothing wrong that changes everything.
    
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    September 7, 2022 9:16am
    - Harry Knuts
      
      sounds like a great case for a defamation lawsuit.
      
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      September 7, 2022 10:09am
    - Tony Stuart
      
      Even worse, Hipkins repeatedly said that at least one of the women had falsified information, and used a fraudulent document to cross the border. We now know that to be untrue; her application for a permit was issued erroneously by MSD.
      
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      September 7, 2022 1:18pm
- Fishing in the dark
  
  What I would do, sue the day light living out of these corrupt government.
  
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  September 7, 2022 8:51am
  - Countrygirl
    
    I can understand the sentiment, however, as with Mallard, it’s us taxpayers who foot the bill. Unfortunately these poor women will always carry the stigma of those early lies whether they get a payout or not. Because we remember the headlines!
    
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    September 7, 2022 4:22pm
- Brian McDonald
  
  Just imagine how apoplectic you would be now Tony if despite the error the women had spread Covid and it had taken hold.
  I’ll be interested to know how the mistakes as to character were made. That could be the real story, Tony.
  
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  September 7, 2022 9:37am
  - Lance
    
    An ad hominin and strawman in the same (brief) post.
    Well done
    
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    September 7, 2022 10:20am
  - RoboRob
    
    Brian, can this government do no wrong in your eyes?
    
    I was apoplectic that these gang associated prostitutes were potentially spreading Covid around the country. I was furious when they appeared to get away with it after getting caught.
    
    I am disgusted that my previous feelings were manipulated by a group of Lying ministers and that these woman did nothing wrong. Are you not annoyed in the slightest?
    
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    September 7, 2022 1:25pm
  - Loddenthinks
    
    Gosh, some people might have got Covid, oh wow. Some of them might even have become aware of it, though most likely they wouldn’t have even noticed.
    
    What do you mean, “taken hold”? It’s a virus you idiot, it replicates and moves on, it’s how it stays alive.
    
    For someone with so much to say on the topic, you seem to know very little about it – but then they say an empty vessel makes the most noise.
    
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    September 7, 2022 8:44pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Who was the ‘human’ that made the ‘error?’
  These dropkicks need to be exposed.
  
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  September 7, 2022 9:44am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    Steve, that’s the same mentality as blaming the first scapegoats, the women unfairly maligned, thrown under the bus and then Chippy backed over them.
    
    The person was possibly stressed, tired and overworked, poorly led, inadequately trained and badly compensated.
    
    It’s the despicable Hipkins who was told 3 days before the lockdown (the need for which is not in dispute, as someone with Covid was in the region and mingled) that it wasn’t the 3 women’s error that led to the pass being given, yet he stood up and said they “gave false information”. At the very minimum he should have corrected that egregious lie as soon as he became aware of it, publicly and loudly. Along with an apology to the 3 women unfairly besmirched.
    
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    September 7, 2022 11:11pm
Warren

More lies are being found out about a Government and Prime Minister that can’t lie straight in bed as the old saying goes. Yet the voter can’t see past a Prime Minister and her Government when the facts are there to see, if only these people that can see no wrong in Jacinda because they think she is so nice and butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth they would find what a deceiving lying piece of crap she is as Jacinda is not here for the people or country she is here for herself.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/covid-19-outbreak-blunder-in-wellington-let-women-into-northland-and-shut-the-region-for-11-days/D3OIYTFMDOSWGRYBTHFO2VY7JQ/
This is just one of the many fuckups this Government led by Jacinda Ardern has made but the media and many of the female that vote turn a blind eye to the blatant lies , policy fuckups and arrogance she uses to control a large portion of New Zealand Voters.
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September 7, 2022 8:02am
- I remember when
  
  Warren:
  Jacinda’s problem is that she is ‘aspirational’ in the wider sense.
  It is highlighted by the difficulty the government have trying to apply remedies to problems.
  Every time they one start working on one problem, they get distracted by another problem they need to fix.
  Unfortunately they are not coalface workers and largely think that drawing attention to the matter will fix it.
  Too many problems, too little expertise.
  Diversity in areas that achieve nothing.
  
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  September 7, 2022 9:56am
  - Clownworld
    
    I remember when you are far too charitable to this government.
    
    They are both incompetent and evil in probably an even measure.
    
    They are liars and stupid. However it has been noted people get the government it deserves.
    
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    September 8, 2022 8:05am
NeverMindTheBollocks

Today’s number is zero.

Principals and teachers have told RNZ all Year 10 students at at least one school failed the writing test.

Let the long term implications of aspirational education sink in for a minute.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/474261/low-pass-rates-in-trial-of-ncea-literacy-and-numeracy-tests-alarm-principals
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September 7, 2022 8:03am
- Inandout
  
  Boll, so long as they can tick the correct box for Labour on the voting form all will be OK. I think even the thickest 18 yr old knows what a tick is.
  
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  September 7, 2022 8:39am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    We did not call them ‘ticks’ when I was 18
    
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    September 7, 2022 2:45pm
- RoboRob
  
  In my sons class all but 3 students failed. The teacher said ‘oh well there have been a lot of illness going around’. I shit you not. Its also not just his class. Have contacted the dean who are ‘looking into it’, read brushing it under the carpet. The results were about a month late, the school has been sitting on them.
  
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  September 7, 2022 9:19am
  - I remember when
    
    I have had an association with a team of year 11/12 girls.
    If the number of people talking about moving to Australia is a worry then (if this team is indicative) the number of pupils that can see little sense in school is a tidal wave.
    Also pupils are now older while still at school but little thought seems to have been given to non-academic advancement.
    Pupils with learning difficulties, with elements of dyslexia, still seem to be poorly catered for at many schools.
    
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    September 7, 2022 10:09am
Captain Mainwaring

Michael Wood’s wobbling on the bike was hilarious, in the same category as Don Brash walking the plank.
That clip needs to be repeated constantly coming up to the election.
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September 7, 2022 8:08am
- Random T Person
  
  Link please.
  
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  September 7, 2022 8:17am
  - bartybart
    
    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/09/transport-minister-michael-wood-wellington-mayor-andry-foster-show-off-bmx-skills-in-wellington.html
    hahahaha wood is such a retard
    
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    September 7, 2022 8:48am
    - Random T Person
      
      Thanks!
      
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      September 7, 2022 9:45am
    - Brian McDonald
      
      Please provide a video of your own BMX skills for comparison Barty (rhymes with something.)
      
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      September 7, 2022 9:55am
      - Benedict Yu
        
        Oh look a squirrel! Over there!
        
        This is a Minister who is urging everyone to stop driving cars and to instead ride bikes.
        
        “”We’re committed to making it safer, quicker and more attractive for people to use public transport, walk, scoot and ride bikes in urban centres right across Aotearoa New Zealand.””
        
        However it is clear that the guy has not been on a bike in a very long time.
        
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        September 7, 2022 9:58am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      This country is run by kids on bikes.
      Yeah yeah it is an adult competitive sport, but these two dorks on BMX Bikes? Really? Seriously?
      
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      September 7, 2022 2:49pm
- Gravelroad
  
  Really?
  I saw that on Te News last night and it seemed to me to be an very thinly disguised Labour Party organised publicity stunt.
  Added to which, the man sitting at the desk in the TV studio seemed to be reading out, verbatim, a press release – which could only have come from the government.
  It wasn’t news.
  
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  September 7, 2022 8:18am
  - Clownworld
    
    To be fair there is no news.
    Just one carefully crafted narrative orchestrated on a global scale.
    
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    September 8, 2022 8:14am
- Inandout
  
  CM, oh I think Key eating the hot dog was classic.
  
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  September 7, 2022 8:41am
- nathie
  
  Interesting how these Labour and Green Minister/MP’s, pushing the cycling/lanes/bridge (and “cars are bad”) agenda, tend to travel exclusively by cars themselves …
  
  I mean, have you ever seen a Labour and Green Minister/MP’s actually practice what they preach and cycle to work?
  
  (Is Julie Ann Genter the only one? Mind you she seems to be taking things too far by cycling to hospital to give birth, surely)?!
  
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  September 7, 2022 11:16am
  - Bullion
    
    Hipkins often cycles in from Upper Hutt
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/128739991/why-a-ride-to-work-sets-up-the-day-for-one-of-the-beehives-busiest-ministers
    
    Shaw I think walks mostly and entered parliament without even a restricted licence.
    
    A lot of MPs from out of Wgtn probably stay within walking distance of the Beehive.
    
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    September 7, 2022 1:22pm
- 7kiwi11
  
  and he’s riding a girls bike!
  
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  September 7, 2022 12:04pm
iMP

Catastrophic failure in Nz literacy and numeracy across schools piloting standard easy tests. like 100% failure in one school, 2/3 failures etc. 16% numeracy…

But can I have the report in Te Reo, please.
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September 7, 2022 8:14am
- Random T Person
  
  There will be no catastrophic failure in my household, there is reading, writing and maths every morning. FTP? FTT. Fuk the teachers. And the government, especially the government.
  
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  September 7, 2022 8:18am
  - MCōs
    
    Do your kids teachers know you despise them?
    
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    September 7, 2022 8:25am
    - Random T Person
      
      Actually, this year we are fortunate, both boys have very good teachers from the old school. Last year, not so much, bright young things straight out of college with heads full of air, Facebook and learn through play.
      
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      September 7, 2022 8:51am
      - MCōs
        
        So why do you say fuck the teachers if you’re happy with the ones your kids have this years.
        And.
        Did you express your concerns to the ones you weren’t happy with?
        
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        September 7, 2022 11:51am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      The teachers are, in many cases, and particularly for more experienced teachers, not happy with educational initiatives being foist upon them.
      
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      September 7, 2022 9:16am
      - RoboRob
        
        We dont see that though. Sure there are some that care but if the majority really cared about the kids. I mean really cared. The teachers and principals would be up in arms about these policies. Instead they tow the Govt and union lines.
        
        Teachers : The only problem in education is class ratios. We need more teachers. The only way to get more teachers is to pay existing teachers more.
        
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        September 7, 2022 9:23am
- Ruawai
  
  These poor results do not include the students who are truants who if tested would likely reduce the already low pass rates.
  
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  September 7, 2022 10:33am
Maggie Pie

TRENDING

A little surprised to read on the government website where ‘Ethnic Communities’ now make up 20-per-cent of Aotearoa New Zealand’s population.

Driving thru the city the other night, I would have thought it might be closer to 40 per cent. That’s just me.

And it’s when you read horrendous stories like this, that you feel pleased Labor has appointed their very own Minister-for Diversity-and-Inclusion, dedicated to keeping our country safe.

https://twitter.com/DeeKnig67666008/status/1566640630197276673
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September 7, 2022 8:24am
- Ghost
  
  Twitter is such a stupid place. The reason some stranger knows about her kidnapping and murder is because of the media coverage.
  
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  September 7, 2022 9:25am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Why would you make a silly comment like that Ghost?
    How is Twitter….. ‘stupid’?
    I have found it to be the single sauce of truth.
    Even the last President of America was a prolific tweeter until the left wokesters banned him.
    He had over 100 million followers!!
    
    The richest man in the world even offered to buy it for $45 billion. Is he ‘stupid’ as well?
    
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    September 7, 2022 9:45am
    - MCōs
      
      Twitter is full of authentic facts
      https://twitter.com/archer_rs/status/1567100745375252480?s=21&t=8BDZm82NEoETDgta03TOUw
      
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      September 7, 2022 12:04pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Twitter is a media platform where you can get to your audience before the Media fuck with it.
    Now, why is Donald Trump not on Twitter? Twitter just does not like him? – Or does he tell lies?
    Think about this before a kneejerk reaction. Two questions. Does Twitter want to control Trump’s possible lies, or possible truth?
    Remember this – the media fuck with your comments, they bend a twist almost everything. Hence I avoid the NZ media
    Same with Facebook.
    OK, I do Facebook, but prob will never go near Twitter.
    
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    September 7, 2022 3:02pm
- kiwikidsnz
  
  From the OED:
  noun
  noun: ethnicity; plural noun: ethnicities
  the fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition.
  “the interrelationship between gender, ethnicity, and class”
  
  Same worldwide, NZ has 100% of it’s population in ethnic communitys. The Govt is simply playing identity politics again.
  
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  September 7, 2022 9:35am
Opie

I notice that with the government realising that people are starting to see them for what they are, they have started giving snippets about getting rid of masks etc.

I also notice that the covid numbers haven’t been released on newsub etc each day this week.

Are they trying to wind the narrative down?

Went out for dinner last night and stoked to see 8 out of 10 staff not wearing masks, with only one wearing and a chin masker.

I still despair at the idiots coming in wearing them and sitting down and taking them off. You look ridiculous at this point.

Will we ever recover from the stupidity?
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September 7, 2022 8:25am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Opie – further to your comments, Michael Faker in yesterday’s Herald commenting that the traffic light system might be past it’s usefulness. More hints of easing of restrictions. This isn’t accidental, it’s prepping the public for a future announcement by Princess Brenda.
  This is how narrative control works. Brenda is a control freak, we now know that for a fact. But the more we are exposed to this PR campaign and the tactics used, the more we understand it and recognise it for the manipulation that it actually is.
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/the-front-page-michael-baker-on-what-should-follow-the-covid-19-traffic-light-framework/2O24QO3AFHSE3FQDATG3YEI774/
  
  Of course he’s advocating for something similar. Apparently “lockdown” has negative connotations and needs rebranding. Who could have guessed?
  
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  September 7, 2022 8:42am
  - kevn
    
    @Clan… The ‘Nudge Unit’ working NZ over.
    
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    September 7, 2022 8:46am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      @kevn – UK Column did an excellent analysis of these “nudge” units and how they operate in May 2020.
      
      At the beginning of this millennium, a range of psychological tools was applied simultaneously on the British public to change the behaviour of smokers, drinkers and the obese. Today, we are all constantly being ‘nudged’ to make decisions which favour the preferred options set by global policy makers. But what is their ultimate objective, and which actors are working behind the scenes to change citizen behaviour?
      
      https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/behavioural-insights-second-team-leading-uk-governments-covid-19-response
      
      I wonder how much of their advice and instruction manuals were sent to the chair polishers in Wellington?
      
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      September 7, 2022 9:07am
      - kevn
        
        @Clan… The ‘Nudge Unit’ was/is actually operating in NZ. People were sent not just advice and manuals.
        
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        September 7, 2022 9:56am
  - Brian McDonald
    
    It’s also a response to declining cases in case you didn’t notice.
    
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    September 7, 2022 9:57am
    - I remember when
      
      Yes I have noticed declining numbers of cases of people wearing masks.
      
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      September 7, 2022 10:18am
    - Opie
      
      Cases have been decling for 2 months, from the second wave peak in early July.
      
      Now we get an announcement about an announcement which will be that we will gradually drop masks at the end of September, depending on polling results.
      
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      September 7, 2022 10:31am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Brian McDonald – of course cases are declining. That’s how every seasonal respiratory has worked since the beginning of time. We know this. We knew this in late 2019/early 2020. The point is, what the Ardern government did had zero bearing on case numbers. In fact it is likely that the vaccination programme made the case numbers worse. The vaccines prevent neither infection or transmission. They also appear to damage your innate immune system. This means you are more likely to actually catch covid after your small amount of “vaccine” efficacy has waned, which happens very rapidly, hence the need for repeated boosters every 4-6 months.
      Not only have you increased your risk of catching covid, it is now looking increasingly certain that the vaccines are injuring and killing people in unprecedented numbers.
      So yes, the government is responding to declining cases. In the meanwhile, they have indebted the youth of the country for decades, destroyed lives and businesses, destroyed the education and mental well being of many of our young, shredded the fabric of society and basically devastated NZ for the foreseeable future.
      The worst PM and government in history.
      
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      September 8, 2022 7:20am
  - Opie
    
    Michael Faker. That’s outstanding and accurate.
    
    Only a few weeks ago he was calling for more masks. Now his payers have advised the shift in narrative he smoothly changes direction to ensure a continuous flow of taxpayer money into his bank account.
    
    He must have had a really hard time at school.
    
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    September 7, 2022 10:36am
Yvette

Roto–vagueous

Professor Elizabeth Rata: The Decolonisation of Education in New Zealand
Revolutionary moves to decolonise mainstream education are outlined in two Ministry of Education documents ….
The Curriculum Refresh, meanwhile, proposes that ‘knowledge derived from Te Ao Māori will sit at the heart of each learning area, along with other knowledge-systems that reflect the cultural uniqueness of Aotearoa New Zealand.’ …
Decolonisation is a key strategy of He Puapua’s ethno-nationalism agenda.
https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/04/elizabeth-rata-decolonisation-of.html

“… There will be opportunities for an expansion of the decolonisation cadre as ‘Māori exercise authority and agency over their mātauranga, tikanga and taonga’.”
Will children learn this emancipating stuff at school and then go ‘home’ to a motel on what was the Golden Mile to think about it?

… from a comment below the above article –
Promotion of education as a means for Maori to throw off the shackles and really go after the opportunity to achieve real independence is what the [Maori]elite fear however as they see that challenging what they see as their historical right rule, as education will remove the Maori dependance on both the state and the tribal leadership. This is threat to the tribal authority is the truth of the decolonisation brigades reason for being.
– same link as above.

In an interview between New Zealand journalist legend Brian Edwards and visiting American Charles Colson – Watergate Felon Who Became Evangelical Leader – who said roughly “African Americans were first imported physically in slavery, then when emancipated, were continually told how low they were in every social statistic and that mentally enslaved them a second time”
– and for a possible New Zealand context, for “slavery” read “colonisation”.

There does need to be an inquiry into Rotorua motel accommodation by the State, especially to see who is doing what to whom … and also even find a solution for those so accommodated
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September 7, 2022 8:29am
ClanMcleod

Further to the Northland story, el gato malo does another excellent blog piece, this time on:

more evidence on media as an organ of “the party”

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/more-evidence-on-media-as-an-organ?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

NCLA Suit Uncovers Army of Federal Bureaucrats Coercing Social Media Companies to Censor Speech

https://tinyurl.com/3phw6d2z

The NZ government under Ardern has destroyed free speech, they have bought and now own the mainstream media, they have told us that they are the “single source of truth”. They have shut down the majority of dissenting voices. They actively and publicly smear and vilify opponents using lies. This is a crisis that has to be addressed.

As el gato malo points out:

“the public square is the commanding heights of a free society.

and if we will not take it as our own, the question is not “will it be weaponized against us?” but merely “how and by whom?”

and that is not a hammer you want to live under.

dying societies accumulate laws like dying men accumulate remedies – Nicolás Gómez Dávila

more laws about “don’t do this” and “must do that” serve only to dig the hole deeper.

you cannot regulate your way out of over-regulation.

attempts to do so merely feed the beast and drive dependence deeper and that will serve only to prolong this awkward period of internet adolescence.

the time to negotiate the rules of living in mom’s basement has passed.

we need to move out of the house and build our own.”
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September 7, 2022 8:32am
Benedict Yu

Just when you think it can’t get crazier, Cathedral Square in Christchurch has been renamed “Whiti-reia”.

“Council Head of City Growth and Property Manager Bruce Rendall said Mana whenua indicated that the name Whiti-reia would be the most suitable for Cathedral Square”

“The Council embraces the use of te reo Māori names to honour the spirit and intent of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and to reflect Ōtautahi-Christchurch’s strong partnership with Ngāi Tahu. ”

https://www.chrislynchmedia.com/news-items/christchurch-city-council-renames-cathedral-sqaure

How can Cathedral Square have been named by Maori? It is entirely the product of Christian English settlers?
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September 7, 2022 8:40am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  And of course is the name of the Polytech campus in Porirua
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitireia_New_Zealand
  
  and the name of one of the marae up the road
  https://natlib.govt.nz/records/37902022
  
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  September 7, 2022 8:49am
- Yabster
  
  Not renamed -its been added to- maori name then cathedral square- no one will use the maori name- just more bollocks- like the central library, sports facility, convention centre- list goes on and on…
  
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  September 7, 2022 8:50am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    Yes I concede the Maori name has been ‘added’ as you point out.
    
    However, the ‘library’ only has a Maori name – “Tūranga”
    
    https://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/locations/central/
    
    Same with the ‘metro sports centre’. Its only name is “Parakiore Recreation and Sport Centre”
    
    https://www.ccc.govt.nz/rec-and-sport/projects/parakiore
    
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    September 7, 2022 9:36am
    - pdm
      
      Turanga can be misleading.
      
      In Fijian it means Man or Men.
      
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      September 7, 2022 9:46am
    - Yabster
      
      yep they are new so- not added to names- just saying people will just say “i’m off to the metro sports centre” etc I live in Chch and haven’t heard of “Parakiore” -just virtual signally bollocks.
      
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      September 7, 2022 10:17am
    - Taieri
      
      the ‘library’ only has a Maori name – “Tūranga”
      ————
      “Library” is from the Latin “libre”, meaning book. What does “Tūranga” actually mean in Maori?
      
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      September 7, 2022 10:41am
      - Nickc2
        
        My translator reveals [Status] as the literal translation. I’ve never heard of a building let alone a Library called Status. IMO, some person in authority is taking the piss.
        BTW, whose status are we talking about? Oh, don’t bother, it’s pretty self-evident with Co-governance looming in the not too distant future eh?
        Let’s face it, they started tooling up for 3Waters about eighteen months ago.
        
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        September 7, 2022 11:41am
      - Jack5
        
        What will Christchurch City Council candidates say about the Maorification issue of Christchurch names?
        
        Will any of the candidates make a stand on this?
        
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        September 7, 2022 7:01pm
    - Dave
      
      This sort of thing brings out my inner bolshie larrikin.
      
      If you feel sufficiently mischievous, in the name of cultural inclusiveness you should insist on calling the library ”Tushuguan” instead of Turanga and accusing any who correct you of being white, skinhead racists bringing shame on Christchurch.
      
      Or you could be an Asian struggling with NZ languages and innocently mispronouncing Whitireia as ‘white area’.
      
      Parakiore is obviously a wonderful fusion of two languages, Greek and Maori, meaning ‘resembling/close to a rat’. Who could deny the beauty of bilingualism?
      
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      September 7, 2022 7:28pm
  - Paulus
    
    Yabster
    Cannot be bollocks – after all it is the enlightened City of Christchurch where anything goes.
    
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    September 7, 2022 2:22pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  Don’t Maori get very offended when others try to co opt their culture? Cultural appropriation?
  Should Christians be offended by this?
  
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  September 7, 2022 9:10am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    It works both ways. For example, everyone knows what a “marae” is. There is no good English translation, and none is required.
    
    My point is that there is equally no sensible Maori translation for “Christchurch Cathedral Square” and it is not necessary.
    
    Another crazy example was providing a Maori name for the “Transmission Gully Motorway” in Wellington. “Te Ara Nui o Te Rangihaeata”. It will simply never be used so what is the point? The purpose of language is to communicate.
    
    There are some successful examples of institutions with exclusively Maori names that have been successfully adopted. “Te Papa” in Wellington is a good example.
    
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    September 7, 2022 9:41am
    - JimBobJoe
      
      Rangihaeta…. Sigh… Another murderous chief who slaughtered his way down the west coast of the North Island to avoid defending his home area from the Waikato tribes…
      
      Really should be stripped of the honour as should Te Rauparaha be stripped from Poriruas indoor sports arena…
      
      Both slavers and muderous thugs….
      
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      September 7, 2022 11:59am
- Paulus
  
  Like Te Wehe Aotearoa
  Republic of Aoteroa now beiing used.
  It will happen very soon once the Queen passes.
  Assume Air NZ Planes will be repainted first.
  
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  September 7, 2022 9:32am
- Bobba Fret
  
  Have they re-built that darn cathedral yet? About bloody time they did. What next? A stadium that takes years to build?
  
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  September 7, 2022 11:29am
  - fernglas
    
    Perhaps they should rename it Cathedral Where?
    
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    September 7, 2022 12:58pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  My oldest public high school in Chch had exactly one Maori family in a roll of about a thousand pupils. That was the real contribution of Ngai Tahu to Christchurch.
  
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  September 7, 2022 11:35am
Maggy Wassilieff

Has Labour been playing games with the SFO over the donation scam?

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/lawyer-claims-labour-official-knew-of-donations-scam
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September 7, 2022 8:43am
Tomtoddy

Prebble makes some astute observation again this week in the Ferald. States an enquiry into our handling of Covid is required so as to help us avoid the problems we encountered when the next pandemic strikes. I don’t think Jacinda wants any scrutiny of her failures.
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September 7, 2022 8:44am
I remember when

Most of the food we produce (for fewer greenhouse gas emissions than other countries) is EXPORTED – approx 95% of dairy, almost 90% of beef and 95% of sheep meat.

A fact totally overlooked by the Greens.
Bet they refuse to spend overseas currencies to show their determination to prevent them being produced from this source.
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September 7, 2022 8:50am
- MCōs
  
  My wife was in a market down the road from our house in Bangkok recently and she contacted me on Line to show me NZ apples that were better looking, better presented and cheaper than the same ones in our supermarkets.
  
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  September 7, 2022 12:15pm
  - Ghost
    
    Made the mistake of buying nz apples last week, they were rubbish
    
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    September 7, 2022 12:21pm
    - Dave
      
      Given the variety of NZ apples available and how freshly picked they are – I assume you bought them in NZ – that’s a rather non-specific claim. Some apples are mediocre, others might be wonderful off the tree – Braeburn – but they don’t seem to keep so well.
      
      For some months I’ve been eating two NZ apples a day and really enjoying them: Pacific Rose, a bit variable, from ok to very good; Pink Lady, great; NZ Queen, excellent; Dazzle, wonderful; Rouge, very good.
      
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      September 7, 2022 8:04pm
Ian Boag

I do not waste my time trying to defend the actions and outcomes of the government. But ranting on about the failures does nothing to move us forward. I suppose it could assist the change of government process but there is a frying pan/fure problem …

Anyway – what I want to know is where team red or team blue want to take us. I would like to see a prioritised list of the problems and measures proposed to deal with them.

Tax cuts sound like a good idea except that we face costs for (eg) fixing the highly stressed health system, creep in the cost of super, housing issues… it’s quite a long list.

Spending cuts sound like a good idea, but I would like to know where they would impact and what sort of $$$ would be saved.

We need to look forward, not obsess about looking back. Numbers would be good ….
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September 7, 2022 8:56am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Ina – yes, Ardern, Baker, Wiles, Hendy, Jackson, Plank, Bloomfield, Hipkins, Bishop and many others would very much like us all to forget about the last 3 years and “move on.”
  
  I don’t think so. The destruction wrought, businesses destroyed, lives lost, relationships wrecked, mental health wrecked, education system and health system wrecked – you don’t get to say “move on” after implementing apocalyptic and disastrous policies that directly caused these devastating outcomes.
  And they aren’t over yet. The negative consequences will be with us for many years to come.
  
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  September 7, 2022 9:15am
  - Ian Boag
    
    … destruction .. businesses destroyed, lives lost, relationships wrecked, mental health wrecked, education system and health system wrecked
    
    I get it. You don’t like Labour. You won’t be voting for them and you think noone else should either. Fair enough.
    
    I’m no advocate for forgetting the last five years. If you want to blindly support National/ACT because you believe whatever they do it will be better that’s fair enough too.
    
    I suppose I’m a bit old fashioned – my vote is influenced by policy proposals ….
    
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    September 7, 2022 12:42pm
    - Hebe123
      
      How about it being influenced by whether the people in question are competent – which the red lot have proven they are not.
      
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      September 7, 2022 7:53pm
- Gravelroad
  
  @Ian Boag-
  “I want to know where team red or team blue want to take us. I would like to see a prioritised list of the problems and measures proposed to deal with them.”
  With respect, both “teams” told us where they wanted to take us prior to the last two elections. Many, many people believed what Jacinda said, agreed with Labour Party policies, believed their promises- and voted for them accordingly.
  The Labour Party was given a mandate t0 pursue the actions they are now taking.
  I don’t see that the National Party has any responsibility to list their “measures proposed to deal with” problems at this time.
  
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  September 7, 2022 9:16am
  - Ian Boag
    
    I don’t see that the National Party has any responsibility to list their “measures proposed to deal with” problems at this time.
    
    Fair enough. I thought it would be good to get some idea of their vision looking forward. If that is less tax, government getting out of people’s lives and all that then so be it. Just say so and be specific about which bits will be got out of and how much tax saving that might generate.
    
    I get it that a lot of KBers are seriously grumpy about the last five years – I’m not all that thrilled myself.
    
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    September 7, 2022 9:54am
    - Gravelroad
      
      I guess the National Party will produce some policies and principles nearer to to next year’s general election.
      At the moment, they seem to be just treading water like rest of us as our country sinks like the Titanic.
      
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      September 7, 2022 10:10am
      - Tony Stuart
        
        They most certainly will. There is a huge amount of work going on behind the scenes at the moment in terms of policy development. The majority of it won’t see the light of day until 2023 however. One of the reasons for that is the speed at which the economy is changing; that has implications on the costing of policy.
        
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        September 7, 2022 1:26pm
  - Taieri
    
    The Labour Party was given a mandate t0 pursue the actions they are now taking.
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    But were they? For 3 waters? Co-governance? Renaming the country? Separate health care systems? Did they even ask for a mandate?
    
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    September 7, 2022 10:45am
- Tomtoddy
  
  The first requirement is to establish a set of values and principles that underpin the policies. Things like adhering to private property rights, use of market mechanisms wherever possible, individual freedom, free speech, rule of law, limited government/lower taxes, private enterprise etc .
  
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  September 7, 2022 9:19am
- RoboRob
  
  Actually Ian, most of your posts here are about defending the goverment. All be it by indirectly attacking a part of some post.
  
  Money isn’t the solution to the issues Labour has caused in NZ (the problem areas are exponentially worse under Labour). labour has proved that. They spend far more than National did to acheive worse outcomes.
  
  The solution is rolling back lots of poor policy and reversing the Muldoon / communist, centralised control government that Labour is creating.
  
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  September 7, 2022 9:31am
  - Ian Boag
    
    rolling back lots of poor policy and reversing the Muldoon / communist, centralised control government
    
    Aspirational. Conflating Muldoon with communism is a bit novel.
    
    Anyway – I guess what I am asking is what policies would be rolled back (pick a couple that would save significant amounts), how much would be saved by these rollbacks and what would be done with the savings. Numbers …..
    
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    September 7, 2022 9:48am
    - Libertarians are right
      
      Ian – that’s a stupid request and you know it.
      As you say, the numbers are small.
      It’s not about individual policies/wastage.
      The issue is a fundamental belief in the right to spend other people’s money in any way they see fit.
      There are thousands of examples of wasting money, Hundreds of thousands of dollars a time.
      We need to roll back this entrenched apathetic approach Government departments have towards our money that they waste.
      
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      September 7, 2022 10:24am
      - Nickc2
        
        Blame the Pollies that make the decisions that let them (Govt Depts) do it.
        
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        September 7, 2022 11:33am
    - RoboRob
      
      ‘Aspirational. Conflating Muldoon with communism is a bit novel’
      
      They both believed in command economies. To me Muldoon has more in coming with the current Labour government than he does with any other subsequent government (left or right).
      
      I’m not specifically talking about saving money, I am taklking about imporving NZ doesn’t have to mean spending more money. A few examples (from recent stories off the top of my head)
      
      1) Rollback labours ‘State homes for life ‘ policy. This has people who no longer need state homes taking up a spot someone else needs. Ironically this would save money too.
      
      2) Re institute hospital targets and goals (waiting list times and ER processing times)
      
      3) Stop the government having direct influence in the police, farmac and researve bank. There has been too much direct government instruction (for the worse).
      
      4) Remove government controls for businesses wanting to hire from overseas.
      
      5) Remove green vehicle subsidies / tarrifs. Replace with goal of minimising stop / start traffic.
      
      6) Revert landlord laws to what was in place prior to Labour
      
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      September 7, 2022 1:20pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uERKqjw1zIo
The Big Christmas SWITCH-OFF.

Cold cooking pasta, tin foil behind the radiators, a bill saving magic kettle, and a packet of “instant cricket noodle”. Sorted. Britain 2022.
[I wonder if the Extinction Rebellion will go extinct as reality bites? 8:18]
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September 7, 2022 9:01am
I remember when

Todd Niall: THere is no-one to drive the buses: Central Leader.
“Public transport use in Auckland needs to rise ninefold to met its goal of cutting transport emissions by 64% by 2030.
Auckland’s bus plight used to be covid and winter ailments, with a driver shortage an aggravating feature.
The shortage has continued to climb to around 500, or 20% of full complement.
How will Auckland achieve a ninefold increase if no one wants to drive the buses?
In June, buses made 79% of Auckland’s public transport trips.”

Obviously more Labour and Greens councillors are needed!
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September 7, 2022 9:17am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  I expect Tesla’s robo-taxis to make bus and taxi drivers irrelevant within 5 years. Their self driving computer system has improved dramatically this year due to adoption of new neural net processing approaches, many videos now of testers driving round for hours around towns, cities and countryside without needing to take over. Motorways in particular are highly reliable.
  
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  September 7, 2022 9:54am
  - Taieri
    
    I expect Tesla’s robo-taxis to make bus and taxi drivers irrelevant within 5 years
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    Yeah, right…
    
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    September 7, 2022 10:47am
  - I remember when
    
    So why be a bus driver you will be irrelevant and unemployed in 5 years time.
    In the meantime we need more Labour and Greens bus driver to make it a painless transition.
    Take one for the team.
    
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    September 7, 2022 11:57am
7kiwi11

Some people don’t deserve nice things.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/129799336/smashed-bottles-vomit-and-faeces-mar-new-38m-auckland-bridge
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September 7, 2022 9:18am
BeaB

The incompetence of this government is not in doubt. But we also need to worry about the competence of the police.
The Herald reports the police used every high and low tech tracking methods they possess and brought in the ‘most experienced organised crime detectives in the country’ to assist.
These women were not hiding. They were lawfully in Northland. They weren’t delivering drugs or sex work as part of a secret gang network.
Yet the cops couldn’t find them!

Is there anything going right in this country under this useless and dishonest government?
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September 7, 2022 9:21am
Benedict Yu

I thought this was a joke when I heard it on the radio last might but no. 🙁

“Govt’s new youth crime package: Ramraiders under 14yo in Counties Manukau, west Auckland to be referred to ‘social wellbeing board'”

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/09/govt-s-new-youth-crime-package-ramraiders-under-14yo-in-counties-manukau-west-auckland-to-be-referred-to-social-wellbeing-board.html

Yes that will work 🙁
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September 7, 2022 9:32am
- Ian Boag
  
  I agree BY that this sounds a bit hopeful. Like you I can’t raise any optimism about whether it will work.
  
  Perhaps you could share your solution with us.
  
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  September 7, 2022 10:03am
  - Yabster
    
    heres a few
    
    ankle bracklets and home detention
    
    Community work- like picking up rubbish- imagine the shame as apparently the raids are about street creed.
    
    Being made to apologise to shop owners and workers
    
    Make them work off a debt.
    
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    September 7, 2022 10:24am
    - Ian Boag
      
      Worth a try.
      
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      September 7, 2022 11:03am
    - Alan Wilkinson
      
      Especially the last. That everyone else is expected to pay for them is insane.
      
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      September 7, 2022 11:37am
    - MCōs
      
      Ten, eleven, twelve & thirteen year olds working to pay off a debt?
      Home detention for kids at that age?
      
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      September 7, 2022 12:26pm
      - Yabster
        
        yep i had my first job milk boy at 11- got a problem with that Mcos….
        
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        September 7, 2022 12:47pm
      - MCōs
        
        Times have changed since your day.
        
        Apart from that can you imagine those kids going out to work with their attitude problems?
        
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        September 7, 2022 2:04pm
      - graham
        
        I’m presuming you don’t get out much, MCōs, and therefore haven’t seen all the thirteen year olds that deliver pamphlets?
        
        Although there is a question about whether they are paid fairly.
        
        https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/08/08/fair-go-parents-cry-foul-over-pay-rates-for-pamphlet-delivery/
        
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        September 7, 2022 3:07pm
      - Ghost
        
        They aren’t being made to work and are doing it to make money. Will be different than getting these little shits to do some work to pay off their crimes.
        
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        September 7, 2022 3:08pm
    - Yabster
      
      yeah I can- if they are made to- some hard work would do the lil pricks some good- you are a typical socilaist wailing at the treatment of the criminals and not giving a crap about the victims. $43m re wrap around services would buy a lot bolards etc.
      
      Whats your solution mcos?
      
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      September 7, 2022 2:19pm
      - Ghost
        
        Who is going to make them do hard work? I see the adults doing community service standing around doing bugger all.
        
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        September 7, 2022 2:26pm
  - Trev
    
    Stop paying “the baby bonus” would be a start. Truancy officers or secure facilities and compulsory life skills education.
    
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    September 7, 2022 10:45am
  - Bobba Fret
    
    Singapore has a very low crime rate.
    
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    September 7, 2022 11:33am
  - Nickc2
    
    My solution would be to ship them to one of the Auckland Islands, offload them and tell them you’ll be back in about twelve months to uplift anyone who wants to return to society and obey its laws. In the meantime, they better start using those survival skills their forefathers allegedly had.
    There’s plenty of fish, game, timber, and water there for their use.
    
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    September 7, 2022 11:50am
Ghost

More exceptional health news for the government that has destroyed out health system, and these are just the lucky people who have managed to get on the list

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/129781167/almost-7000-cantabrians-awaiting-surgery-as-143-operations-deferred-in-a-month

Almost 7000 Cantabrians awaiting surgery as 143 operations deferred in a month

A Canterbury woman who can’t open her mouth properly, bite, or chew hard food since damaging her jaw eight months ago cannot get on a waiting list for surgery.

Cynthia, who did not want her last name published to protect her privacy, said she had been in severe pain and discomfort since damaging her left jaw joint in January.
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September 7, 2022 9:32am
UrbanNeocolonialist

More video of the USA 2020 Democrat ballot fraud mules in action, this time from Detroit:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/shocking-video-via-mc4ei-gateway-pundit-13-minutes-never-seen-footage-ballot-trafficking-detroit-michigan/
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September 7, 2022 9:47am
Ehlana

From the Herald this morning: Bones were found at Epsom Girls Grammar School. (https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/maori-students-asked-to-perform-karakia-on-bones-found-at-epsom-girls-grammar-school/TF2FRPWM5XIPVL37Q7AMJVXUUQ/)
It’s thought they may have been used at some point for teaching.

So first off, a teacher thought it would be a good idea to have some students say a prayer over the bones before they were moved. As an adult, why did this teacher think it was appropriate to put such a responsibility onto teenagers instead of doing it him or herself or asking another adult?

The girls felt uncomfortable with this (who wouldn’t) so told their family. Their father is quoted as being angry, feeling his children were put at risk, the Treaty was not upheld, etc. Again, as an adult, shouldn’t he be the one calming and reassuring his daughter and her cousin?

It is admitted in the article that the school, when informed of the problem, was responsive. And it has not yet been established that they are actually human bones.

Why is there this constant need to make mountains instead of calmly dealing with small hills?
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September 7, 2022 9:50am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Because we have deluded children running our institutions.
  
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  September 7, 2022 9:56am
- Ehlana
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/maori-students-asked-to-perform-karakia-on-bones-found-at-epsom-girls-grammar-school/TF2FRPWM5XIPVL37Q7AMJVXUUQ/
  
  This link might work better. Though I thought we weren’t supposed to need the code at the end.
  
  (Mod – I’ve fixed the link for you in your first post)
  
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  September 7, 2022 10:08am
  - Ehlana
    
    Thanks Mod.
    
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    September 7, 2022 10:34am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  By what rationale are the bones presumed Maori?
  
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  September 7, 2022 11:39am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    They were probably brown, silly!
    
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    September 7, 2022 1:11pm
    - Alan Wilkinson
      
      From cooking?
      
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      September 7, 2022 1:25pm
  - Don Beckett
    
    Probably sheep or kuri bones.
    
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    September 7, 2022 2:28pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

The Taxpayer’s Union, Sept 7th 2021.
Facebook memories. Not real, it is humour.
https://www.facebook.com/TeRangitira/posts/pfbid0FLD5671k957MeeBHjSev8gULGwgta3T6jPRovSeqF4qKZUUbNvNCihMeMJjCaqMil
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September 7, 2022 10:12am
surfing

Megan Woods claims the alternative to motels is sleeping on the street. Sounds like she hasn’t done her job if that is the only alternative. This has been going on for years but she only reacts when it hits the papers?

There are references in KB from 3 years ago that things were a mess…
July 2019…

https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2019/07/general_debate_14_july_2019.html
6pm news on TV3, Sunday.An article about the use of motels in Rotorua by WINZ who are trying to solve some sort of social housing crisis.
The Rotorua moteliers are rebelling because the WINZ ‘clients’ are not exactly the best people for the motels’ other tourist guests ( no kidding ! ) and are having an adverse effect on the region’s tourist reputation.
Claims of gang-related problems, noisey parties, swearing, general bad behaviour, intimidation etc etc.
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September 7, 2022 10:20am
- Ghost
  
  Oh my, where are all the state houses this government was going to build? Heard on the radio yesterday people are leaving the areas they have a house in, going to Rotorua and claiming they are homeless to get put up in a motel for free.
  
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  September 7, 2022 10:30am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Hard to believe that any decent person would do that.
    
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    September 7, 2022 8:20pm
Maggie Pie

Thort this worth sharing…..

It’s my partner’s mum birthday. I just rang to tell her we’re taking her to one of Auckland’s finest restaurants tonite to celebrate.

Had to larf when she said…… “74 is the new 47”

LOL!!
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September 7, 2022 10:25am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Doesn’t work for me, I’ll be 77!
  
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  September 7, 2022 11:40am
- mogg
  
  Those born in 47 will be 74 now. We may be square but we are still a-round.
  
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  September 7, 2022 2:56pm
Surely Knott

NZ Herald. Reports . Texas news reader has stroke on air. Justin Beiber cancels tour due to Ramsay Hunt syndrome which is usually in people over 60 and caused by Shingles virus.

But they never say the words. Elephant. Room.
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September 7, 2022 10:34am
- Ruawai
  
  Think Justin Beiber has had a few other drugs in his system over the years, just saying.
  
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  September 7, 2022 10:51am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Justin Beiber.
    Dear Justin Bieber haters, I owe my life to Justin. On March 9th, 2009 I was in a coma for 6 months after a terrible car crash. One day my nurse turned the radio to Justin’s song. So I got up, and turned the radio off.
    
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    September 7, 2022 11:15am
    - kevn
      
      @SteveO… Beiber is a walking advert for jab adverse reaction.
      
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      September 7, 2022 1:56pm
Ghost

I’m sure a good look at some of these parents would find they have no ability to stop their children from committing crimes because they are supporting it

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/youth-crime-national-party-leader-christopher-luxon-calls-on-parents-to-take-responsibility-after-spike-in-serious-offending/7E2P4JGW3W5E62OVBZZPB2KKXM/

National Party leader Christopher Luxon is calling on parents of young offenders to take responsibility for their actions.

Speaking to AM this morning, Luxon said he was concerned that truancy rates were up around 55 per cent, with 100,000 students deemed to be chronically truant.
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September 7, 2022 10:38am
- Ghost
  
  How long before we actually see a shop owner killing one of these kids in self defence, will the government make an example of the shop owner?
  
  https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/09/shop-owner-supports-act-s-idea-to-put-youth-offenders-who-commit-serious-crimes-in-ankle-bracelets.html
  
  A shop owner is supporting ACT’s idea of fitting youth offenders as young as 11 with ankle bracelets, saying the Government needs to act now to stop offenders from continuing to recommit burglaries.
  
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  September 7, 2022 10:41am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I fear that it is more likely that a shop owner/worker will be killed.
    
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    September 7, 2022 12:51pm
    - Ghost
      
      Unfortunately I think you are right, and I’m surprised it hasn’t happened yet
      
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      September 7, 2022 12:58pm
Maggie Pie

Aljaz reporting that Chynah is now supplying natural gas to European countries that are struggling with Putin’s supply cuts.

Anyone like to take a guess at who’s supplying Chy Nah with NG?

LOL!!
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September 7, 2022 11:30am
- Blog-aholic
  
  да.
  
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  September 7, 2022 11:45am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  I thought Russia didn’t have the necessary pipelines to China? Are they maybe shipping it down the Pacific coast?
  
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  September 7, 2022 11:46am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Here’s a link Al….
    
    https://twitter.com/MktsInsider/status/1567206241964802049
    
    (Don’t show Ghost – he’ll think it’s stupid 😀 )
    
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    September 7, 2022 12:04pm
    - Alan Wilkinson
      
      They have a gas line from Siberia but seems to be limited to northern China until they build more lines. Currently most of their gas doesn’t come from Russia and Covid lockdowns have reduced demand so they are probably selling supplies to take advantage of high prices. They are building more pipelines from Russia but that will take some years.
      
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      September 7, 2022 1:22pm
- mogg
  
  I know that UK has plenty of gas in the North Sea, because of ‘net zero’ they are leaving it in the ground. At the same time they are buying imported LNG from the West Coast of Aus.
  
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  September 7, 2022 3:03pm
Surely Knott

UN Transport document. This could explain a few things. Auckland potholes have gone next level. Says Potholes are good for road safety as it slows traffic down.

“Road Safety Considerations in Support of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainability.”

“The national Road Safety Strategy and Action Plan of Kosovo (EU Office in Kosovo, 2015) for instance, identifies the following for addressing infrastructure issues:” …..

“Over-speeding is the most frequent reason for an accident and responsible for severity of injuries. ” ..”Whenever speed reduction is necessary (junctions, main roads through villages, pedestrian crossings etc.), efficient structural measures must be taken.”
“Old, worn-out pavements with potholes are unwelcome in terms of traffic flow, but generally good for road safety because of the low possible speed. New pavement frequently mislead to over-speeding.”
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September 7, 2022 11:45am
- MCōs
  
  I don’t know about Kosovo & I’m not particularly interested.
  However
  I notified Auckland Council of a pothole in the street outside my house a couple of weeks ago & it was repaired a few days later.
  
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  September 7, 2022 1:51pm
info@cruzpro.com

Could someone please explain the rules concerning your blog entry being coloured red or yellow?

I can’t make any sense out of it.

Entries with 20 upticks seems to get a yellow background, a bunch of downticks get a red background but then I see a comment with 25 uptick and 3 downtick with a red background and another comment with only 10 upticks and 3 downticks having no coloured background.

Tried reading about this in the “ABOUT” field but no luck.
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September 7, 2022 11:56am
- Dodger
  
  @info.
  I have found it confuseing also and have asked several of my riends and we can’t work it out either.
  Maybe just random, who knows?
  
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  September 7, 2022 2:47pm
- Ghost
  
  It’s just automatic, once a comment reaches a certain number of likes it goes yellow, and one that is downvoted a certain amount of times goes red. It’s just part of the software David uses on this site, nothing anyone does to posts except through votes.
  
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  September 7, 2022 8:45pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Strong message – the best is yet to come.
https://rumble.com/v1ixzz3-donald-trump-just-dropped-the-most-powerful-ad-you-will-see-today.html?
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September 7, 2022 11:58am
- mandk
  
  Great speech.
  
  Can you imagine Biden being able to deliver anything similar?
  
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  September 7, 2022 12:15pm
  - Ghost
    
    Joe is a strong public speaker
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14OK8_Cpiz0
    
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    September 7, 2022 1:05pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      That, Ghost is going on Facebook.
      I must get in jail soon!
      
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      September 7, 2022 3:34pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Biden without a teleprompter? A lot of Trump’s speeches are done on the spot. Yeah sure, he does have a teleprompter – but not reading word for word.
    There will be just bullet points.
    
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    September 7, 2022 3:33pm
Surely Knott

Pregnant Perth woman wearing her bag on her shoulder was grabbed by hair to the ground and dragged metres along the walkway while being punched in the head. The attacker doesn’t seem to be grabbing for her bag at all. Was it a robbery or a hate crime?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/horror-attack-on-mum-with-pram-in-perth-suburbs/MVH6IPXZKSGH4IJXOANNA4UP4Y/
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September 7, 2022 12:28pm
- Inandout
  
  SK, WA is such a pleasant state with an adored Premier who was the Lockdown King for a long period. Can’t understand…
  
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  September 7, 2022 4:29pm
Maggie Pie

OMG!!

A bestie from tennis re-tweets….

“You have a doppelganger” 😀 😀 😀

https://twitter.com/sdcwatson_03/status/1566828610832449536
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September 7, 2022 1:10pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I have ugg boots. Wonder what those would look next to mine?
  Ugg boots = inside warm slippers. Old people have them. So do solo mothers in the Warehouse, matches the PJ’s
  
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  September 7, 2022 3:38pm
kevn

@Maggie.. In RotoVegas, pyjamas ( sometimes with a dressing gown) is always the go every winter.
Especially popular at Warehouse and Pak n save.
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September 7, 2022 1:53pm
Surely Knott

When did they know? The media. The govt. Your doctor. When did they know it was mild and not deadly?

Aug 21 NZ Herald.

ICU nurse says “What I really want people to understand is that it’s truly the unvaccinated people who are sick enough to need critical care. It is the unvaccinated people that are on ventilators, who do not survive. If they do survive they leave the hospital with a breathing tube in their throat, a feeding tube in their stomach.” “”I work in a 12-bed ICU. All 12 patients right now are covid, they are all unvaccinated. And they are young. “”People say, ‘I want my freedom, and I’m going to live how I want to live.’ And I respect that, but please know, you are exposing all of our staff to this deadly virus as well. “They are jeopardising our lives as well, and we have children to go home to.”

“Seeing that much death day in and day out for this extended period of time—it becomes unbearable.” “Mississippi nurse Nichole Atherton made the decision last week to resign.

“There are going to be children…in my own community that are orphans, and it could’ve been prevented.””

Now:
Ministry of Health Website Sept 2022. “The COVID-19 pandemic brings many challenges. Most people who get COVID-19 experience a mild or moderate illness and don’t need to go to the hospital. ”

When did Ardern and Bloomfield know?

This is the crux of the lie? When did they know?
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September 7, 2022 2:32pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Jaspinda knew all the time. Blofeld knew, Baker knew, Plant, the pink terror, and the many changing associate Ministers knew.
  I don’t know exactly when they knew, but this is a leftist Govt that says “do not write anything down that can be OIA’d”
  He said they she said that that other person said.
  Jaspinda did not know my left tit.
  
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  September 7, 2022 3:58pm
kevn

@SK… When did ‘we’ figure it out and know? There is the clue.
12 months ago?
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September 7, 2022 3:49pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  You did not finish with the link? OK
  
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  September 7, 2022 4:00pm
- Lucia Maria
  
  It was obvious with the Diamond Princess. After that, there must have been something else they were terrified of that they did not let on. My guess is some sort of biological agent.
  
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  September 7, 2022 8:54pm
Warren

The taxpayer is still paying for retired former Speaker of the House Trevor Mallard legal bill over Winston Peter’s trespass stoush.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/trevor-mallard-our-speaker-of-the-house-off-to-ireland/LHEYC7AMK2XUOSDPP77XZMN3AI/?ref=readmore
Should the New Zealand Taxpayer be paying for former Speaker Trevor Mallards big mouth and how many others are lined up to take him to court.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/final-insult-to-taxpayers-former-speaker-trevor-mallards-legal-bill-over-winstons-trespass-stoush-revealed/ZZRSBUXO4LXMYBUUAWRFZZA6OY/
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September 7, 2022 4:24pm
Hugh Jarse

Just thinking that at least none of the current government are young enough to see the Treasury benches for any length of time again. Their tagline in 2044 “twenty one long years of neglect”. 🤣
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September 7, 2022 5:03pm
- Tauhei Notts
  
  Hugh, are you Megan Woods’ love child?
  
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  September 7, 2022 5:49pm
Ghost

30 million dollar Lolley scramble

https://www.nzdoctor.co.nz/article/support-sexual-and-reproductive-health-pacific

New support for access to contraceptives, family planning and other sexual and reproductive health services in the Pacific has been announced by the Minister of Foreign Affairs during a visit to Papua New Guinea (PNG).
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September 7, 2022 6:07pm
- info@cruzpro.com
  
  Considering how few net taxpayers there are in NZ, it’s got to iritate them to no end.
  
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  September 7, 2022 6:29pm
Ghost

I’m pretty sure this kind of thing has been on fair go, so why does it still exist

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/09/anomaly-in-car-ownership-law-causes-innocent-man-to-be-wrongfully-arrested-lose-50-000-worth-of-possessions.html

Imagine you’re sitting in your car and the police turn up, tell you it belongs to someone else, take you away in cuffs to a police cell, charge you and bail you.

It happened – alongside other similar stories – thanks to an anomaly in the car ownership law.
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September 7, 2022 6:59pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  There’s a very nice Lambo parked not too far from me …
  
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  September 7, 2022 8:26pm
Ghost

Oh, no, I bet everyone saw this coming.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/large-amounts-of-food-waste-thanks-to-lunches-in-schools-programme/HYUGUZL56YTCV7SLRHFMMIV7OE/

‘Large amounts of food waste’ thanks to lunches in schools programme
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September 7, 2022 9:00pm
Clownworld

To be fair there is no news.
Just one carefully crafted narrative orchestrated on a global scale.
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