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Warren

Grant Robertson defends track record on deficit, housing, labour shortages to Business Audience International.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/130093181/grant-robertson-defends-track-record-on-deficit-housing-labour-shortages-to-international-business-audience
How can you defend the undefendable but Grant Robertson our Finance Minister does just that without mentioning the disasters and excessive spending on the failures he created with his inept and stupid policies that are now divideding New Zealander’s.
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October 8, 2022 8:02am
- hullkiwi
  
  Even worse, his bold statement this week that he was the best qualifiedperson to have guided NZ through the pandemic and the economic fallout.
  
  What boll**ks!
  
  He is an unqualified morln in terms of finance and economics.
  
  He is a left wing politician, advised by a combination of bureaucrats and left wing socialists who think like him. All he has to do is make the speeches!
  
  What he doesn’t realise is that any economy does not succeed because of its government, but it sure as he’ll can fail!
  
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  October 8, 2022 9:09am
  - blue collar
    
    Bang on hullmeister ….
    Because Brenda’s mob don’t know anything about their portfolios , at all , they need to hire a multitude of people to do their work for them .
    Then they read it out .
    Learn as they go , answer a couple random questions , if they’re semi intelligent ( grunter n chippie )
    Or are just thick in which case they can read it out but can’t answer questions ( Brenda , poto , davis, wee Willy , sepuloni )
    Most national and act mps are intelligent and can handle the work required of their portfolio and can answer questions in detail .
    Hope Seymour cleans out the public services and ministries .
    Wahay !! Brown got in by a landslide !
    
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    October 8, 2022 3:02pm
- KH
  
  Grant Afterpay Robertson has a severe superiority complex.
  You see his pride in himself as he talks down to us little people. So superior he does not take in the feedback that his reign has been an unmitigated disaster.
  He doesn’t get it.
  
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  October 8, 2022 9:10am
- Benedict Yu
  
  FFS how can he defend the record on housing? Go back and look at what Jacinda promised in 2017.
  
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  October 8, 2022 9:51am
  - Nickc2
    
    Arrogant incompetent lying fools, the pair of them.
    
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    October 8, 2022 9:57am
- Pineapple Lumps
  
  Thanks Warren for sharing this. Robo is going to protect the bulging public service who predominantly vote labour and his economic vandalism of our country.
  
  “Robertson said the Government was reducing spending, but argued doing this faster would mean austerity-style cuts to public services.”
  
  So sinking the country 10 bill into debt is reducing spending — absolute gaslighting. It is a crime for a business to trade while insolvent, why does a Minister of Finance not get held to the same standard?
  
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  October 8, 2022 10:04am
  - artemisia
    
    2021 Public Service workforce survey – 4.4% over 65. Headcount 62,853. So nearly 3,000 drawing the pension and many also government super. They may of course be the most experienced and skilled, but if so also on big bucks. Time for the succession plan and save taxpayer money. There is a succession plan, of course. Right?
    
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    October 8, 2022 12:10pm
- Pineapple Lumps
  
  Headline should be “Grant Robertson defends spending of other people’s money”
  
  Actually, with the level of debt he has created it should read “Grant Robertson defends spending other generations money”
  
  Must be nice to know the current generation of public servant shouldn’t face austerity because future generations can afford to pick up the tab.
  
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  October 8, 2022 10:43am
Yvette

We need to speak up more on Mahsa Amini

THEY ARE US – but only so far?
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October 8, 2022 8:04am
- pdm
  
  Ardern picks her issues for when she emerges from a kindergarten visit and this woman is way, way down the pecking order.
  
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  October 8, 2022 9:09am
- Pineapple Lumps
  
  Only so far as it fits the narrative.
  
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  October 8, 2022 10:45am
Ra Henare

It strikes me that this Government is not socialist in the broad sense. ie Ownership of the means of production.

But facist.

A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.

Many decry capitalism, but it is the system that has raised more people from poverty than any other system.

I am reminded of the Humane ness of Capitalism verses the inhumanness of out current system

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27Tf8RN3uiM&t=1817s

If you are short on time skip to 12:30
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October 8, 2022 8:09am
- mogg
  
  Ardern’s own words. “Capitalism has failed New Zealand”. When the truth is that Capitalism has given us everything we have got, without exception.
  
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  October 8, 2022 9:23am
  - In Vino Veritas
    
    “Capitalism has failed NZ”, and given that the current Labour Government has meddled in various markets (housing is one that comes to mind instantly) skewing outcomes away from those achieved by capitalism, you’d have to say that socialism has failed NZ. To a way greater degree than capitalism. So I’d say Churchill was right “Capitalism is the worst economic system, except for all of the others”.
    
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    October 8, 2022 10:27am
  - artemisia
    
    Capitalism has failed …. We the people should be asking Ms Ardern to repeat that. Public meetings pre election would be a good time. MSM media won’t ask. Opposition and non-MSM can and should. And often. And challenge the word salad replies.
    
    Still and all, she was quite clear about that, so voters should not have been surprised at what we got.
    
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    October 8, 2022 11:36am
- In Vino Veritas
  
  A common misconception Ra, is that fascism is of the right (pre WW2 it was commonly accepted as of the left). The claim being exactly that which you have reproduced, namely “a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls”. There is no right wing ideology that espouses any government control of means of production. Socialism and fascism are of the left, just at differing degrees.
  
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  October 8, 2022 10:22am
  - Taieri
    
    There is no right wing ideology that espouses any government control of means of production. Socialism and fascism are of the left, just at differing degrees.
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    Yes there is. It is called statism, where the means of production are to a large degree privately owned but its outcomes are subjugated to the needs and priorities set out by the state. Contemporary Singapore is one example. The Peoples Republic of China is another – while nominally communist, its economy is in fact statist. Hitler’s Germany economy was set up in pretty much the same way.
    
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    October 8, 2022 10:44am
    - In Vino Veritas
      
      If the outcomes of production are subjugated to the state, it isn’t the ideology of the right. Just as I said.
      
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      October 8, 2022 4:34pm
      - Taieri
        
        I wouldn’t call Singapore leftist.
        
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        October 8, 2022 4:43pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  “Many decry capitalism…”
  
  Actually many do not. It is a deluded and fanatical minority.
  
  Real GDP per capita in Europe did not change for several centuries. 99 percent of the population lived a miserable existence and died young from 1000 AD through to the late 1800s. From 1880 GDP exploded following the mass use of coal and the steam engine, and the expansion of railways. Following the set back of WW1, capital markets flourished as did mass production. In 1990 China joined the party.
  
  There are literally no examples globally where a government with the policies of the current New Zealand government has made a country richer or fairer. It is exactly the opposite.
  
  https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-gdp-over-the-last-two-millennia
  
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  October 8, 2022 10:52am
- Ra Henare
  
  Is Jacinda the new Stalin???
  
  Take 5 minutes and watch this clip from the guy that knows more about Stalin than Stalin.
  
  Interviewed by the guy who wrote Regans speech.
  Mr Secretary tear down the wall. An excellent interviewer that does his homework.
  
  skip to minute 10 if you are short on time.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhi2icRXbHo
  
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  October 8, 2022 5:51pm
Im Right

As the local body elections close today, we will see a vast swathe of Labour aligned councillors and Mayors elected….why? Well, I guess not why exactly as I kinda know the reason, the right do not contest mayoral elections with any gusto nor conviction/passion….again WHY?
When did National leaning (or right leaning in general) contenders decide to not even bother, was there a point in history where National decided to forgo local body elections and not endorse/promote any candidate and thus leave them all to be won be candidates who are predominantly Labour/Green affiliated?
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October 8, 2022 8:10am
- iMP
  
  A big group has coordinated and cooperated in Chch ( on Council, Ecan and Community Boards) as true independents for the first time. Associated not affiliated. Let’s hope it counters the Labour stronghold.
  
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  October 8, 2022 8:48am
  - Tricati
    
    Bloody hope so.
    
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    October 8, 2022 9:27am
- Chris2
  
  Labour candidates for election are aware that if elected, this will be the best money they can ever expect to earn in their lives.
  
  In contrast, National candidates commonly take a pay cut if elected.
  
  That might account for the fewer number of National-aligned candidates – their “day” job is more lucrative and does not involve their character being publicly assasinated by the media.
  
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  October 8, 2022 9:54am
  - Pineapple Lumps
    
    Or because many Labour greens in public service/academia – they can do both jobs, but no way most people working in private enterprise can make that work.
    
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    October 8, 2022 10:56am
- Pineapple Lumps
  
  My prediction is this local election will show a big swing right and the discontent with our current government.
  
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  October 8, 2022 10:37am
  - jon
    
    P.L. now later in the day and you were so right in your prediction of a big swing to the Right.
    
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    October 8, 2022 5:24pm
- 103PapPap
  
  Interesting that many Labour mayoral hopefuls are standing as ‘Independant’. Paul Eagle in Wgton, Barry in the Hutt. In Christchurch David Meates declares himself Independant, but his campaign is managed by Gary Moore – as Labour as they come.
  
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  October 8, 2022 10:45am
  - Nickc2
    
    Also, Efeso Collins – (Akld Mayoral Candidate). Labour to the core but standing as an independent (just like his predecessor Phil Goof). Noteworthy is that Lord (Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor of Takapuna) and Cindy (aka NZ’s PM from hell) have come out and publically endorsed him.
    Needless to say, he’s not my choice.
    
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    October 8, 2022 11:24am
    - Nickc2
      
      Should Labour like candidates do well, self imagined media personalities such as Jesica hyphen hyphen Much, the Bradford bratt, Jack untamed, John Campbell and his opinions on everything will come out from under their rocks and volunteer their time gratis to openly gloat about Labor’s success and what it says about the upcoming National elections.
      
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      October 8, 2022 11:49am
Chris Nisbet

Regarding the Peter Ellis travesty, was that about the time men started leaving the teaching profession in droves, or was it already well underway by then? I’m sure it can’t have helped.
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October 8, 2022 8:14am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  All men got looked at suspiciously at and after that time. Feminists saw all men as evil, and that attitude is still there in some.
  Test, ring the Ministry of Woman’s Affairs and ask to speak to the man in charge.
  
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  October 8, 2022 8:44am
  - Inandout
    
    SO, and the response may well be ‘hold the line, I will put you through to Sally who identifies as a man’.
    
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    October 8, 2022 8:57am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Yup!
      
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      October 8, 2022 11:57am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Definitely signalled the end of men entering Early Childhood Training and Primary school training.
  
  When I undertook Secondary School Training in 1994, our intake had 6 men and about 25 Females.
  
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  October 8, 2022 9:03am
CJames

Looks like Jacinda missed out on the Nobel Peace Prize yet again
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2022/press-release/
Things are likely to be very frosty in Premier House this morning.
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October 8, 2022 8:18am
- Taieri
  
  Looks like Jacinda missed out on the Nobel Peace Prize yet again
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  I’m very disappointed…
  
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  October 8, 2022 8:20am
- Blackbob
  
  Perhaps a bit of “blackface” might have helped?
  
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  October 8, 2022 8:33am
  - Countrygirl
    
    She wore a korowai. Did they not notice that?
    
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    October 8, 2022 4:17pm
- hullkiwi
  
  ….and how does dividing New Zealand Society in the most damaging way, make any of Jaspinda’s fan club think that she has done anything to promote or develop democratic institutions in NZ?
  
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  October 8, 2022 8:34am
  - Taieri
    
    Jaspinda’s fan club think that she has done anything to promote or develop democratic institutions in NZ?
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    Dr Ardern enhances democracy and takes it into new direction in her every speech. We should be grateful for having such an outstanding Leader as her. The whole world is envious!
    
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    October 8, 2022 9:47am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  The UN censorship speech was a desperate last bid for attention but came too late to affect the voting.
  
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  October 8, 2022 8:35am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Many not impressed with that speech. See Neil Oliver’s comments in it. “Sinister”
    
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    October 8, 2022 8:47am
    - Tricati
      
      There are a number of international commentators who were ‘chilled’ by Ardern’s speech. They found the under-tones very alarming.
      The only commentary we had here was of the speech itself, with little on the international reaction (condemnation) to its sinister content.
      
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      October 8, 2022 9:31am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Showing her true colours.
        
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        October 8, 2022 1:03pm
- Nickc2
  
  The Norwegian Nobel Committee couldn’t be that stupid! …….. Could they?
  
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  October 8, 2022 8:38am
  - Cassandra
    
    They have been before.
    
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    October 8, 2022 8:42am
    - Nickc2
      
      Obama?
      
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      October 8, 2022 9:04am
    - pdm
      
      Didn’t Obama get one a week or two after taking office?
      
      If so that proves Nick2’s point.
      
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      October 8, 2022 9:12am
      - hullkiwi
        
        He did on the strength of advocating a new approach to peace in the Middle East. He got the prize and then feathers….
        
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        October 8, 2022 9:28am
  - Sideoiler
    
    Obama?
    
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    October 8, 2022 9:51am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Maybe next year – oh, wait
  
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  October 8, 2022 8:46am
- nathie
  
  Betcha if the PM burned hijabs and traveled to Iran to give the Mullah’s a telling off she would have won! Putting women and girls first! But no! Hanging out with other woke pale males (Macron and Trudeau and Facebook etc) is more her thing!
  
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  October 8, 2022 9:54am
- Alex
  
  CJames, Didn’t she mention noble wars?
  Krill Stemouse the Deputy head of annexed
  Kherson region, has called on the Russian Defense Mnister Shoigu to shoot himself because of failures, according to the Telegraph.
  Ukrainians are taking ground in the East and South.
  Kherson in the South is the gateway to Crimea.
  
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  October 8, 2022 10:07am
Old.Mickey.Blue.Eyes

impertinent questions for a Saturday.
1) if you ran a website that often challenged govt policy and used scientific argument to encourage debate, is it reasonable for the political party in govt to shut it down?
2) would you expect that in “democracy” like NZ?
3) is freedom of speech UNder attack in NZ, and on life-support?
4) does anyone actually think the govt (any govt) should be the one source of truth?
5) why has media ignored aderns speech in UN labelling free speech a weapon
6) I now understand KB moderator actions, has KB every been threatened with litigation by labour party hq?
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October 8, 2022 8:19am
- Philview
  
  The BFD site and comments section was put under police surveillance for anti government commentary so easy to assume KB also has been watched.
  
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  October 8, 2022 9:27am
- Taieri
  
  My answers:
  1) Yes
  2) Yes
  3) No
  4) Yes
  5) N/A
  
  This is what we want. And this is what we voted for in 2020.
  You reap what you sow, as the old saying goes…
  
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  October 8, 2022 9:50am
kevn

@CJ… She who incites racial issues that weren’t even there but are now.
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October 8, 2022 8:37am
- Nickc2
  
  yep, yep, yep. She provided the fuel, and lit the fire, Willie Jackson keeps stoking it whilst Nania Mahuta and Kelvin Davis keep pouring accelerant on it.
  This fire will keep smoldering for years whilst those concerned have either lost interest and/or moved on to create more hatred and controversy.
  Winston, you have a lot to answer for!
  
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  October 8, 2022 8:48am
  - pdm
    
    Nick2. Willie Jackson is the Organ Grinder while Mahuta and Davis are the monk…s, oops make that facilitators.
    
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    October 8, 2022 9:15am
    - Tricati
      
      Heard Shane Jones call Willie Jackson ‘ the Jerry Springer’ of the Maori elite – Priceless.
      
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      October 8, 2022 9:33am
      - Nickc2
        
        Surely, there can’t be two of them (if you include Jones).
        
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        October 8, 2022 10:18am
NeverMindTheBollocks

So, if you’re living in Europe and there’s a serious chance that the heating gas might run out during winter, what do you do?

If you live in cities, you can’t go back to the old days of burning coal – the clean air legislation prevents that. Heat pumps aren’t that common, AFAIK. Do you just rug up? Spend the day at the public library? No more working from home, that’s for sure.
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October 8, 2022 8:40am
- Scooter
  
  Kiwis and Ozzies (living in Europe) will cope, Italians are already in their winter jackets and it’s 25°.
  
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  October 8, 2022 9:34am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Heat pumps lose efficency when the temperature falls below minus 4 degrees. Below minus 10 they are useless. New Zealand is perfectly suited to heat pumps.
  
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  October 8, 2022 10:58am
- Benedict Yu
  
  The answer is that if there is a severe cold snap in Europe and there is no gas, people will die.
  
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  October 8, 2022 10:59am
- dubya
  
  Get a ULEB (ultra low emissions burner). Installed one in Autumn, does a solid 12 hour burn with a big heavy piece or two of hardwood. Keeps my 105m2 1975 built single glazed multi-level home (admittedly in Auckland) at a pleasant mid 20s all day, no cold spots. Can make coffee on the cast iron top, even did poppadoms to go with a curry on it the other week. Legislation currently allows you to install one basically anywhere in NZ. I understand the UK has seen a resurgence in sales, too. Bit more ambience than a heat pump, can’t think of any love songs that allude to turning the Fujitsu up to 25 degrees…
  
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  October 8, 2022 11:23am
- MCōs
  
  It depends whereabouts in Europe.
  Ireland, for example, which uses gas for electricity generation gets its supply locally and from Scotland.
  The price of electricity has rocketed and the gas producers are laughing all the way to the banks.
  
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  October 8, 2022 12:13pm
- NothingLeft
  
  If Europe really cares about the environment they should burn Greens (the anti nuke nutters) to make up for the winter fuel shortfall.
  
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  October 8, 2022 12:18pm
Cassandra

Nobel Prize for Hypocrisy is awarded to………………
Stands on the Podium proclaiming peace and love while at home she fosters the most appalling corruption and racism. Right up there with Bob Mugabe.
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October 8, 2022 8:41am
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7QRjQU7yaE
Leighton Baker on his Parliament protest charges being dropped
Former New Conservative Leader Leighton Baker speaks with Sean Plunket on his Parliament protest charges being dropped. [8:40]
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October 8, 2022 8:46am
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lnu5mTfDi4
Danish government collapses over Covid-19 overreach, new SNAP election on November 1st!

Danish government implodes over Covid-19 mink extermination. [15:38]
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October 8, 2022 8:46am
Loddenthinks

I realise local government elections inspire low (and rapidly declining) turnouts, but it’s even worse in the race-based wards. In one area of eastern Bay of Plenty, there were zero votes in the race-based ward, although now it has spiked to a massive 25 votes out of 307 registered voters. That’s just over 8% of voters who took the time to register their preference to be on the race-based roll who can be arsed to vote.

I don’t believe the solution is to make voting mandatory; it’s to abolish race-based seats, which have no place in a modern multi-cultural society, once and for all.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/candidate-calls-for-online-and-mandatory-voting/U4XSDUIR6KITRLZR3XXKG7OEPM/
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October 8, 2022 8:50am
- C-Town
  
  A ward with only 307 registered voters and 25 of them actually voting! Maybe non-left candidates should consider standing in Maori wards if they could win it with just 26 votes. All they need is a smidgen of Maori ancestry.
  
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  October 8, 2022 11:38am
- Steve Todd
  
  I don’t believe the solution is to make voting mandatory; it’s to abolish race-based seats, […].
  
  I agree, Loddenthinks.
  
  At these elections, six regional councils have separate Māori constituencies (up from two in 2019), totalling 12 seats and 18 candidates, six of whom (including Tipa Mahuta (Waikato) and Toi Iti (Bay of Plenty) have already been re-elected unopposed.
  
  Twenty-eight territorial authorities now have separate Māori wards (up from one in 2019), totalling 54 seats and 125 candidates, eight of whom are already elected unopposed (including two sitting councillors).
  
  Across the North Island (and in Marlborough and Nelson), the participation rate in the Māori wards and constituencies is well below that of the General wards and constituencies, the explanation for which involves more than the age-related fact that the percentage of Māori eligible to be enrolled is slightly lower than for non-Māori, or by a slightly lower rate of enrolment in any event.
  
  For example, as at last night—
  
  Far North: the three General wards 36.8%, Māori ward 24.4%
  Hamilton (as at Thursday night): the two General wards 25.9%, Māori ward 11.5%*
  Rotorua: Rural and General wards 44.5%, Māori ward 26.6%
  Gisborne: Tairawhiti General 36.6%, Tairawhiti Māori 23.5%
  
  * A factor here may be that there is no election for the two regional council Māori seats, the two candidates being re-elected unopposed.
  
  What we are likely seeing here is Māori on the Māori roll essentially being gifted representation, and therefore taking it for granted — they get their separate representation whether or not they vote.
  
  Compulsory voting is most definitely not the answer. I have done quite a lot of reading on this subject over the years, and would oppose (or at least indicate my opposition to) any move to introduce voter compulsion.
  
  This is a good paper on the subject (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2158244018817141), based on the case of Ecuador (where compulsory voting is strictly enforced by a system of sanctions), showing that compulsory voting has failed to safeguard more equal access to the political system for different socioeconomic groups.
  
  Compulsory voting would likely lead to an increase in informal voting, which would work against the interests of Māori. However, were compulsory voting ever to be introduced, its negative effects could be offset by requiring all regional and local councils to use PR/STV, either at-large (my preference), or in large constituencies/wards, e.g., Hamilton City, i.e., there would be no separate Māori representation. Theoretically, at least, that would incentivise Māori and other minority groups to vote, because they would each have a realistic chance of electing their proportional share of councillors.
  
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  October 8, 2022 12:30pm
  - Cassandra
    
    The answer is to do away with the bantustans. Race-based elections, electorates and wards is awful – racist and discriminatory.
    
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    October 8, 2022 12:48pm
    - Steve Todd
      
      Agreed, but Māori miss out under the majoritarian (multiple-)FPP system, which is one reason why their participation rate is lower than for non-Māori, and also, of course, why they have pushed so strenuously for their own seats — well, at least for those on the Māori roll.
      
      Abolish separate Māori representation by all means, but also ensure fair, equal and proportional representation on councils for everyone by means of PR/STV.
      
      All people then need do, is vote!
      
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      October 8, 2022 1:06pm
      - Manu-Rau
        
        Sorry, you lost me in your first sentence. Please explain how Maori miss out under FPP majoritarian systems.
        
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        October 8, 2022 2:53pm
      - Steve Todd
        
        I’ll let you do your own research into the many failings of the (multiple-)FPP electoral system, Manu-Rau.
        
        However, I will say this. My comment was made in the context of abolishing separate Māori seats on local councils. FPP is a majoritarian voting system, which favours majorities. That is why National and Labour dominate single-seat elections.
        
        Māori are a minority group in our society, so, on the whole, will always be swamped by the non-Māori majority. That is one reason why STV should be mandated for all local elections (except, unfortunately, in Hutt City) as from the 2025 elections, to ensure, in an electoral environment where there is no separate Māori representation, that Māori have the electoral wherewithal to obtain fair, equal, and proportional representation on their local councils. But, of course, as I said, to get that, they, like everyone else, must vote!
        
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        October 9, 2022 10:38am
Yvette

“Hate speech” was mentioned the other day after Kelvin dropped a few remarks in Parliament, but that was not a case of “When you see it, you will know it”.
Kelvin’s comment were apparently just “rather personal”.

So, is someone in Government still trying to define what “unkind speech” is?
It seems to still be to do with “denigration of any faction or individual as to harm their wellbeing”

But should any definition not also cover the “over-positive selective treatment” – favour – of any faction so as to harm the remainder, to unbalance reality and national wellbeing, to incite division or undesirable social action?

I do appreciate how difficult such a definition must be to reduce to an internationally-praised bumper-sticker slogan and why we have not already had national conversation about it …
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October 8, 2022 9:19am
- Its only I
  
  Anyone outside of their bubble is wrong and needs correcting immediately, at all costs!. So how the left live with being the bully is thinking like they are taking one for the team for the greater good of the bubble. The left dont see their “enemy” as an equal but with different views.
  In their world its bit like someone with a real hatred of guns but having to use one to put a severely injured animal to sleep except it’s not guns its derision, racism false accusations and the target is anything or anyone outside of the Pa. Pa dogs the lot of them.
  
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  October 8, 2022 12:45pm
Chris2

I am hoping today, that left wing Labour candidates are not elected to Councils, a dry-run in advance of next year’s election, so to speak.

Fellow Kiwiblog readers, what will be best sites to monitor to learn of these changes as results are release?

Are any of the TV channels devoting time to covering the results as they come in?
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October 8, 2022 9:47am
- Nickc2
  
  If Labour and/or Maori candidates are successful, it will be broadcast and published in/on every available media outlet in the country. Otherwise, crickets eh?
  
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  October 8, 2022 10:14am
- Paulus
  
  Remember Tauranga only has one Councillor for the next few years – called Mahuta – so must be a balanced vote
  
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  October 8, 2022 11:00am
  - Ghost
    
    It happens, national had to put commisioners in as well
    
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    October 8, 2022 11:12am
  - Steve Todd
    
    For the next two years. See https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2022/10/general_debate_07_october_2022.html/comment-page-1#comment-3254539.
    
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    October 8, 2022 12:43pm
Maggie Pie

We can now add a ‘D’ to the ever evolving acronym….LGBTIQA+

DETRANSITIONING

https://twitter.com/desisteraqua/status/1578021666403516416
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October 8, 2022 10:19am
- Pineapple Lumps
  
  I just add etc after the LGBT = LGBTetc
  
  That covers all future cases of look at me I’m not a Heterosexual
  
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  October 8, 2022 10:53am
- Yvette
  
  Maggie, isn’t “detransitioning” still just “transitioning”
  If you “drive” somewhere, do you “undrive” home again, already?
  
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  October 8, 2022 11:49am
  - Don Beckett
    
    Transitioning = Man to woman.
    Detrasitioning = Man not happy being woman, want to revert to man. (tough shit)
    
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    October 8, 2022 12:43pm
    - alloytoo
      
      Unfortunately many of these detransitioners are children who have abused by people who should have been protecting them.
      
      I find no joy in their suffering.
      
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      October 8, 2022 7:24pm
Taieri

The latest from The Cuckoo Land:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/129996098/the-covid-cloud-and-the-silver-lining-was-change-possible#comments

The fathomless naivety…or is it just a plain old stupidity?
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October 8, 2022 10:35am
- C-Town
  
  “comments have been closed on this story”. After four comments published.
  
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  October 8, 2022 11:43am
I remember when

Is it time for Parliament to ensure there is more diversity in the intended beneficiaries of the legislation they are passing?
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October 8, 2022 11:38am
Maggie Pie

OMG!!

I sooo love this guy 😀 😀 😀

https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1578296004536930304
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October 8, 2022 11:56am
Nickc2

For Soccer spectators going to Qatar, there’s loads of fun to be had – or so they say!
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/10/the-soccer-in-qatar-sounds-like-fun.html
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October 8, 2022 12:17pm
In Vino Veritas

“We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis,” and “First time since the Cuban Missile Crisis we have a direct threat of the use of nuclear weapons if, in fact, things continue down the path they are going,” so says Joe Biden comparing his plight to that of JFK during the Cuban missile crisis. Of course, this is the Joe Biden that when Trump was the President, asked people whether they felt safer from nuclear war with Trump as President, because he and many people he met didn’t. And secondly, this is the same President that was questioned in February (reported by the WSJ), “do Americans have to be worried about nuclear war?” Biden’s response “no”.
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October 8, 2022 12:18pm
- Nickc2
  
  Peter Garrett, a Labor Politician in Aust once said “it doesn’t matter what we say to get elected, we can do whatever we like once we’re elected (or words to that effect).
  I think that’s the same the world over, albeit Local or National elections, and our Cindy’s made an art form out of it.
  
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  October 8, 2022 12:45pm
  - Ghost
    
    He was a better musician than a politician
    
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    October 8, 2022 12:50pm
    - Don Beckett
      
      He was a Green member – not Labour.
      
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      October 8, 2022 1:16pm
      - Ghost
        
        I thought he was too but he was labor
        
        Labor Member for Kingsford Smith 2004-2013
        https://petergarrett.com.au/biography/
        
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        October 8, 2022 1:22pm
      - Nickc2
        
        Courtesy Wikipedia
        He served as President of the Australian Conservation Foundation for ten years before being elected for the Labor Party as the Member of the House of Representatives for the seat of Kingsford Smith in the 2004 election.
        He had a massive falling out with Kevin (07) Rudd Aust Labour PM with the introduction of free Pink Batts Insulation when some installers were killed. Needless to say, he walked away from Politics.
        
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        October 8, 2022 1:34pm
      - Don Beckett
        
        Ah – he was involved with Greenpeace. 🙂
        I recall him as a green activist in the 1980’s while I was living there.
        
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        October 8, 2022 1:46pm
      - Nickc2
        
        Re your comment @1:46PM.
        Yes, he’s still an activist for Greenpeace. Aust’s ABC (the Nation’s Communist Voice) still go to him for their propaganda pieces.
        
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        October 8, 2022 1:57pm
    - crikey
      
      That means very little.
      
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      October 8, 2022 8:12pm
Benedict Yu

Interesting reading about the 2023 census. looks like they are throwing sheds load of money at it to avoid the mess of 2018.

This caught my eye:

“2023 Census and Te Tiriti o Waitangi – the Treaty of Waitangi”

https://www.stats.govt.nz/reports/2023-census-and-te-tiriti-o-waitangi-the-treaty-of-waitangi/

I am thinking what does the Treaty have to do with the census?

As I read through the explanation, I am really none the wiser. There are many grand phrases but I still do not know how, on the ground, this thing needs to comply with the Treaty. For example:

“We will prioritise initiatives supporting Māori participation in the census and engagement with the data ecosystem.”

Does the Treaty require the Crown to adopt specific measures to support Maori participation?

The problem with all this is that it just takes one activist to claim they were denied an opportunity for “engagement with the data ecosystem” and the demand redress.

It makes my head hurt.
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October 8, 2022 12:38pm
- Cassandra
  
  Woke virtue signalling. Article 4 of the treaty, which lists all these privileges for the Maori partner, does not exist. Except in Ngaruawahia. A bit like Joe Smith and his golden tablets. “One day Robert Mahuta was walking in the hills behind Ngaruawahia and a voice called out to hm………….”.
  
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  October 8, 2022 12:53pm
Nickc2

Hey Mods, what was wrong with my post about media personalities?

(Mod – no idea but it should be posted)
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October 8, 2022 12:51pm
- Nickc2
  
  Tis OK, found it.
  
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  October 8, 2022 1:01pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Trump telling World Leaders that America will not be ripped off. Nato 2018.
This is why Trump is needed back. Imagine Joe in this heat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpwkdmwui3k
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October 8, 2022 1:38pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  An earlier version:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cm8Su-bbmw
  
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  October 8, 2022 1:43pm
  - blue collar
    
    He’d be asking if Churchill was in the room steveo !
    
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    October 8, 2022 4:27pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      All of the smug European leaders smiling – pricks
      
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      October 8, 2022 4:57pm
- blue collar
  
  Get that kleensack filled up steveo !! , looks like labour candidates hv been arseholed left right n centre in the local body elections ….. I’m shovelling popcorn 🍿 in to two of the bastards 🥳😅
  
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  October 8, 2022 4:31pm
krazykiwi

National Party has sent an email begging bowl to its mailing list. I let Sylvia know why the National Party won’t be getting a cent from yours truly.
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October 8, 2022 4:30pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Co Governance.
https://stopcogovernance.site/blog/f/what-is-co-governance-an-astoundingly-wrong-maori-explanation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IwUqOq1pVA
https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/What-Is-Co-Governance-An-Astoundingly-Wrong-Maori-Explanation-1.pdf
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October 8, 2022 4:52pm
Swifty

Why does Biden lie so much and for so long?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y60OojsCsdo

Genuine question.
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October 8, 2022 7:37pm
- Bloody Dago
  
  WEF disciple carrying out the agenda from the teleprompter, just like Cinders Truckfadeau Marcon and little albasneezy
  
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  October 8, 2022 8:51pm
Ghost

The kind of people too stupid to understand why they shouldn’t be near children

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/lil-blessings-daycare-in-hamilton-under-investigation-for-halloween-mask-video/news-story/9d0a7835577ce1033b7a09d39699c0c7

An American nursery has come under fire after footage emerged of workers using a terrifying Halloween mask to torture horrified kids as a form of punishment.
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