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NeverMindTheBollocks

Debbie Ngarewa-Packer calls for OT to be accountable. That’s all very well, but it’s after-the-event stuff.

Is she brave enough to call for children to be placed with the best foster parents, regardless of race ‘compatibility’?

If not, she’s part of the problem.

http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/10/malachi-subecz-death-te-p-ti-m-ori-calls-for-state-to-be-legally-liable-for-abuse-in-its-care.html
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October 22, 2022 8:04am
- G152
  
  But some-ones writing a report and there might be a committee in the future.
  That a number of innocents will get the bash and some will die seems to elude this bunch
  
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  October 22, 2022 8:38am
- Loddenthinks
  
  She’s 100% part of the problem. Instead of focusing on holding the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff accountable, she should be laying into her tangata whenua supporters and telling them to stop neglecting and beating their kids.
  
  Treat them as the taonga you’re always telling us they are, instead of ATMs to get more money from the government.
  
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  October 22, 2022 8:41am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  How are foster parents selected?
  Seems many of them like beating up innocent kids.
  
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  October 22, 2022 8:44am
  - CJames
    
    IIRC, OT have a directive to go around family members first, then around the wider relationship group to look for foster parents. I believe there have been issues like this before, but they weren’t as serious.
    If this is correct, then it isn’t OT that is to blame. It is the government policy – from memory one of Special K’s.
    
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    October 22, 2022 9:14am
    - pdm
      
      CJ – it would be drawing a long bow to think that Klueless Kelvin would put forward any legislation that might work.
      
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      October 22, 2022 9:35am
- Gravelroad
  
  I would have more respect for Ms Ngawera Packer and her party if, instead of expecting the Government to solve this problem, she actually showed some leadership with “her people” by suggesting they should grow up and stop bashing their kids.
  But that would be racist, I guess.
  
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  October 22, 2022 8:47am
  - PeeJay
    
    I still remember the farcical situation with Kahui twins and the wider family wall of silence. Remember Pita Sharples having talks to get them to do the right thing and nothing happened? (I still wish the entire pack of them had all been charged as obstructing justice). It never seems to change does it? How many times a year do we see a story on some gorgeous smiling kids being killed by those that should be there to protect them?
    
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    October 22, 2022 9:58am
    - Gravelroad
      
      Yes, remember that also.
      An on-line “chat group” I visited at the time was all for “doing something”.
      Was quickly shut down due to threats of visits from gangs.
      Yep, those big men wearing leather and sitting on motor bikes protecting themselves and other criminals.
      Respecting the dead children? Not so much.
      Same with OT today.
      
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      October 22, 2022 10:15am
  - I remember when
    
    Te Pati Maori are a real problem for Labour as they are a threat to safe Labour electorates.
    While Te Pati Maori may well sit on the left, they would make Maori issues even more ‘front and centre’ if they were part of government.
    Their being is solely to focus on issues that affect Maori voters.
    At what stage do electorate voters become concerned by being represented by a ‘List’ Government.
    Maybe the ‘two ticks’ option is what makes MMP a worry when considering voting systems.
    
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    October 22, 2022 10:18am
  - Ra Henare
    
    An interesting view on Racism and how to eliminate it!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQzZ2DZNKDs
    
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    October 22, 2022 2:16pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  This case is different from the usual, as Malachi’s family wanted him, and thought that he was going into the care of his aunty… but the “State” let his (eventual) killer walk out of the Court room with Malachi and Granted Michaela Barriball all the rights and $$$$ as a Guardian.
  
  On that day, then 4-year-old Malachi arrived at Tauranga District Court with his mother, and left with his killer. The family had thought she was pleading not guilty, and did not expect her to be jailed that day.
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300579424/the-boy-who-could-name-every-dinosaur-we-tried-to-save-him-family-says?rm=a
  
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  October 22, 2022 8:54am
  - Gravelroad
    
    @MW-
    It would be interesting to know what amount of taxpayer money was paid to this “guardian” person whist she went about beating to death the child in her care.
    Any accountability from OT there?
    Make her pay it back when she gets out of prison.
    Won’t happen, of course, but, in my opinion, it will be only when the free money is turned off that these “care givers” will change their ways.
    
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    October 22, 2022 9:23am
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  Of course not.
  
  Maori parents brutalising and murdering their kids is clearly because of colonial oppression.
  
  All those missionary accounts of similar behaviour in traditional pre-colonial Maori society were clearly Christianist propaganda!
  
  And, don’t forget the “lies” about cannibalism, slavery, destruction of ecological habitats, extermination of native species, etc etc.
  
  Pre-European Maori culture was a place of harmony and balance, with loving people at one with nature, and it took a whole village to raise the mokopuna…… not least because it was hard for a single family to eat a whole one.
  
  Ask any Moriori.
  
  Bwuhahahaha!
  
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  October 22, 2022 9:03am
  - kowtow
    
    Seeing as how the “decolonising” movement is so keen on cancelling anything to do with slavery , that could also be chucked into the mix .
    
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    October 22, 2022 9:46am
- Ruawai
  
  How about call for the parents to be accountable and start caring for their children.
  
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  October 22, 2022 10:15am
Cassandra

In a Herald column, paywalled, this morning Bruce Cotterill writes a critique of the current government. His last sentence: Never has so much damage been done to a country by so few in so short a time. The perfect epitaph. And to think its leader may well get a lucrative overseas job. Doing what, one may well ask? She couldn’t run a bath.
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October 22, 2022 8:14am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Cassandra – I firmly believe she did everything she was asked to. Mission accomplished. If she gets 3 Waters through that will be the icing on the cake that gets her the gold star and the plum job at the UN, Blackrock or somewhere similar.
  
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  October 22, 2022 8:33am
  - pdm
    
    CM – UN maybe but I don’t think Blackrock would want her.
    
    Staff at Blackrock are probably expected to put in a full days work which is not something Jacinda has shown she is capable of.
    
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    October 22, 2022 8:43am
    - All_on_Red
      
      Things aren’t so rosy at Blackrock now
      ‘Larry Fink is having a bad year. Some estimates place investments withdrawn from BlackRock, the firm where he is CEO, at nearly $3 billion just from states pulling treasury funds due to Fink’s public political agenda. In the second quarter of 2022, BlackRock exceeded average market losses, with assets under management falling 22% to $8.5 trillion. Third-quarter assets under management fell another 15%, with adjusted earnings down 12.8% and revenue falling 15%.’
      
      Poor things down to their last $8.5T
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      A lot of Red States are now pulling their Pension Funds from them as they are sick of the political interference.
      Hard to stop the decline when customers lose confidence in you.
      https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/stacey-lennox/2022/10/18/blackrock-gets-downgraded-for-the-increasing-political-risk-of-esg-investing-n1638130
      
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      October 22, 2022 9:10am
    - crikey
      
      pdm: also expected to have some useful talent.
      
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      October 22, 2022 11:15am
  - Cassandra
    
    Asked by whom? I assume you mean her party? Her voters not so much. By every voter measurement she has failed; by every political measurement she has failed. The UN would have to be daft to employ her. So I gues she’ll get a well paid job there.
    
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    October 22, 2022 9:29am
  - kowtow
    
    I believe they have a plan for this country to be a co government model for the world and for it to be inplace for the 200 th anniversary of that ‘nullity’ the T o W .
    
    It must not be allowed to succeed and all the other race division stuff including the so called and un defined “principles” must be rolled back , binned and we must have a proper , equal before the law for all citizens , liberal democracy .
    
    Otherwise we will continue our slide into third world status .
    
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    October 22, 2022 10:07am
    - mawm
      
      Quite honestly I cannot see Luxon stopping it.
      
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      October 22, 2022 1:38pm
- MCōs
  
  Can’t find that article
  
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  October 22, 2022 8:50am
  - 3-coil
    
    It’s there MCos, just click on the hyperlink! Well worth making the effort and reading it. It looks like Jacinda’s poo fingers may have poisoned Blackrock even before she takes up her new job there! 😂
    
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    October 22, 2022 9:20am
    - MCōs
      
      There is no link to a Herald article.
      
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      October 22, 2022 12:26pm
      - Ghost
        
        Don’t know why you are down voted, there is no herald link
        
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        October 22, 2022 12:44pm
Benedict Yu

I don’t buy the story that all these huts are being demolished to make way for more culturally appropriate structures. It is to stop people going there.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/130242974/thoes-governing-authority-begins-removing-burning-huts-in-te-urewera
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October 22, 2022 8:15am
- Nickc2
  
  Can’t have people going there, they may discover the marijuana crops eh?
  
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  October 22, 2022 8:19am
- Jade Warrior
  
  Benedict, I remember walking Lake Waikaremoana a few years after Tuhoe took over the administration of Te Urewera National Park and I was quite astonished how run down so many of the huts were even back then – and the reluctance of Tuhoe to fix them.
  
  Perhaps the real reason the huts are being removed is because Tuhoe are either unable or unwilling to maintain them, so they have simply decided to remove them in order to save themselves further embarrassment.
  
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  October 22, 2022 8:24am
  - Toes on the nose
    
    The back country huts are in pristine condition and are kept that way by hunters and trampers who have stayed, repaired & cleaned for generations. The maintenance thing is a smokescreen for saying vistors aren’t welcome.
    
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    October 22, 2022 8:32am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      The line the media has swallowed is that these 50 huts are rat infested ruins so they need to be demolished.
      
      However those who use the huts are enraged….
      
      “The annual plan, which is available to view on the Tūhoe authority’s website, states its intentions to “remove the western influences and their imprint within Te Urewera””
      
      https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co.nz/f12/end-line-urewera-huts-87409/index7.html
      
      Perhaps the iwi can destroy their SUVs. They are a western influence.
      
      It is nothing short of vandalism. Who decided that handing over a National Park was a good idea?
      
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      October 22, 2022 8:43am
      - LauraNorda
        
        Benedict, you asked who decided that handing over a National Park was a good idea.
        
        Answer is, the National Government under John Key and in particular the Minister of Treaty Negotiations, Christopher Finlayson.
        
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        October 22, 2022 9:04am
      - Benedict Yu
        
        Yes my question was rhetorical.
        
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        October 22, 2022 9:48am
      - Tom Hunter
        
        The line the media has swallowed…
        
        Not swallowed. They agree with all of this and thus whatever narrative emerges from Maoridom becomes the MSM’s narrative also. If you pushed them they’d probably tell you that they’re afflicting the comfortable and speaking truth to power – and other such Nineteen Eighty Fourish assertions.
        
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        October 22, 2022 9:56am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Nope. Tuhoi want to make the Urerewas a Tuhoi-only zone. Tamati Kruger has said as much.
    
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    October 22, 2022 8:42am
    - I remember when
      
      As it was when the Treaty, which they didn’t sign, was signed.
      
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      October 22, 2022 10:41am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    They have been receiving 2 million dollars annually from DOC to maintain the tracks and the huts. What did they do with the money?
    
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    October 22, 2022 8:42am
    - pdm
      
      Do DOC check re this maintenance etc?
      
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      October 22, 2022 9:40am
      - I remember when
        
        Either, had access restricted, or weren’t allowed to do so.
        
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        October 22, 2022 10:43am
      - Paulus
        
        Am not sure that DOC would dare enquire where their (Our) money has gone.
        
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        October 22, 2022 10:54am
      - Bridgenag
        
        Do you know when kind farmers give land to QE2 a moron comes around every couple of years to make sure the poor farmer has keep the weeds out etc etc…
        
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        October 22, 2022 1:51pm
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    So, what happened to all the money that DoC and the government gave to Tuhoe to maintain the huts and tracks?
    
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    October 22, 2022 9:05am
- Toes on the nose
  
  100%- these huts which I would call architectual and social taonga are BACKCOUNTRY. You might get on or two fancy side-of-the-road Green School type eco wank huts. If Tuhoe have any $$ left after buying fuel for the iwi that is. Message is super clear– stay way we don’t want you here. Chur Poto- cool Co-Governance.
  
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  October 22, 2022 8:29am
- Drone
  
  They have to do something with the money the government are paying them to look after the park. I’m more concerned about the way DoC has simply caved in over the whole issue.
  
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  October 22, 2022 8:33am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    I have read comments by ex DOC staff who are incensed. There will be plenty of current DOC staff who feel the same way. However they can’t say anything because they will be labelled racist and colonisers.
    
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    October 22, 2022 8:46am
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    DoC does as it is told to.
    
    Co governance is a great success! See look over there, squirrels!
    
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    October 22, 2022 9:06am
  - Cassandra
    
    Yes, where’s the “co”.
    
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    October 22, 2022 9:31am
    - Jebahco
      
      “Co” is for company, Cassandra
      Company Governance.
      
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      October 22, 2022 9:53am
      - oldfella
        
        jabahco: and ‘MaCo’ is the new branding for MahutaCorp.
        
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        October 22, 2022 11:05am
- Loddenthinks
  
  You can tell what they’re doing, and why, very easily. If it were really about replacing huts that were at the end of their useful life with brand new fantastic ones, you’d build those before demolishing the old ones.
  
  Not this band of clueless wreckers – they’re dismantling and burning the huts, whilst promising (with a forked tongue) to build modern dry and warm huts. Only they don’t say how many, where they will go, or when they’ll be built. I expect none of them to be built, and that Tuhoe will make up some BS reason, something about colonialism I guess.
  
  They have said they want to remove all western influence from the Ureweras, and aided by a wet, woke, useless DOC and abetted by the MSM, they’ll do it.
  
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  October 22, 2022 8:45am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    These are backcountry huts. They are not supposed to be flash. I have been on a few tramping trips. I can recall the joy of finally reaching the hut after a long walk, no matter how basic.
    
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    October 22, 2022 8:50am
  - Matt Long
    
    Who can blame Tuhoe, the National government gave them control of a former National Park. If it were me I’d want to keep all the Unwashed (or in this case maybe washed) out too.
    Either it’s their private playground, a great place for elicit substance industry or a business opportunity to soak the mega-rich and they get taxpayer funding on top.
    Tuhoe are bloody genius negotiators, no point in blaming them for getting a great deal, blame the racist White Savior progressives who gave it to them if you don’t like it.
    Two ticks blue//
    
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    October 22, 2022 10:55am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      It was the National Government who gave it away – Chris Finlayson.
      
      “The Te Urewera Bill will replace the National Parks Act 1980 as the primary legislation providing for the governance and management of Te Urewera. It sets out the new arrangements which will preserve Te Urewera for its cultural, historic and natural values, as a source of Tūhoe identity, as well as for the use and enjoyment of the public.”
      
      https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/t%C5%ABhoe-claims-settlement-and-te-urewera-bills-passed
      
      This part:
      
      “It sets out the new arrangements which will preserve Te Urewera for its cultural, historic and natural values, as a source of Tūhoe identity, as well as for the use and enjoyment of the public.”
      
      ….. was a lie. Demolishing all the huts is inconsistent with preserving historical values and with preserving public access.
      
      I honestly wonder whether Chris Finlayson believed this at the time.
      
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      October 22, 2022 11:47am
      - Matt Long
        
        I suspect Finlayson has no regard at all for people who hunt or would like to enjoy the outdoors, perhaps Tuhoe negotiators weren’t such geniuses but Finlayson was eager to decolonize the Uraweras.
        It will throw up challenges in the future, the area is likely to become a harbour for noxious weeds, pests and diseases like bovine TB.
        There’s no way the authorities will take a heavy hand like they do with private landowners, we might see Tuhoe deliberately harbouring noxious organisms so that the government will pay hundreds of millions koha in order to combat them.
        
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        October 22, 2022 12:03pm
      - Nickc2
        
        IMO, Chris Finlayson’s actions were akin to feeding Rabbits with Lettuces, where the more you give em, the more they want/demand.
        The whole Maori Grievance Industry could have been nipped in the bud by the Labour Party in 1975 when they established the ToW Act.
        Since then, numerous Govt Ministers from all Political persuasions appointed to the ToW Tribunal have been growing Lettuces and the Rabbits are gloating about their weight increases.
        
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        October 22, 2022 12:15pm
- Colville
  
  Its just about control of the money.
  
  Māori owned hunting blocks in the Kaimanawas charge $75 per person per night for being there and I would expect a much higher charge if you want to walk Waikaremoana sometime in the future.
  
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  October 22, 2022 8:49am
- westernScientist
  
  I disagree Bendict, it is so Mahuta corp and get given a heap of tax payers money to build some massive resort style hotels, that will of course never get build.
  
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  October 22, 2022 10:01am
  - Nickc2
    
    You’re onto it today!
    
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    October 22, 2022 10:09am
- artemisia
  
  You guys are so cynical and negative. You must know that the Minister of Conservation and her department are completely on top of progress against targets, outcomes and budgets. Based of course on regular reports and briefings from Tuhoe. And that Poto Williams will never regard spending all the money as the only acceptable outcome.
  
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  October 22, 2022 10:08am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Guerrilla warfare training area. Nobody allowed.
  Keep out.
  
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  October 22, 2022 10:14am
- In Vino Veritas
  
  Ben, there have been several articles written about this. And DOC people have said they haven’t been allowed on the land to undertake repairs. All because the Tuhoe wanted their own youngsters to do the work. So get the money for the upkeep (I seem to recall gas hobs or similar were due to be replaced in several huts) from Government, and then use it to pay their own to do the work. And lo, it turned out that they couldn’t get anyone who could be bothered to go in and do the work. Because of course, there is no wifi, no fried chicken etc. And here we stand. Maori saying they are run down and should be demolished after Maori have let them become run down. Grifters since forever.
  
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  October 22, 2022 11:58am
Philview

This has probably been discussed but I read on the Politik website about the lady with a long association with the Labour Party who has been put on the shortlist by the National Party in Christchurch. She tried to become a Labour MP in 2017.
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October 22, 2022 8:24am
- Tauhei Notts
  
  This highlights a severe problem National has. That is, the selection of candidates.
  I envisage a landslide win to National in 2023. It is essential that National candidates in very safe Labour constituencies must be of the highest order, because there is a good chance they will win.
  
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  October 22, 2022 8:34am
- Nickc2
  
  There are hundreds of em trying to defect to National/ACT, even some of the Front Row of the current Govt. Dr. Sharma has set the exodus in motion.
  You won’t read about it Stuff or the Herald and all NZ TV Stations have imposed an embargo on reporting it. //
  
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  October 22, 2022 8:36am
  - fightingtemeraire
    
    Why the hell would National contemplate taking on the numpties from Labour’s Front Bench??
    
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    October 22, 2022 8:48am
    - Wayne Mapp
      
      It simply won’t be the case. You have to go back into the early 1980’s to find a Labour or National MP who said they would vote for the other side. Norm Kirk’s son on Clutha Dam, Marilyn Waring on the nuclear issue.
      Senior Labour and National MP’s have gone into third parties, but never direct to the other side.
      
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      October 22, 2022 9:22am
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  Yes, the fifth column is being repopulated inside National.
  
  Truly we are “governed” by a Uniparty.
  
  This deity is old enough to remember when it took whole weeks for a conspiracy theory to become accepted wisdom!
  
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  October 22, 2022 9:10am
- Tom Hunter
  
  Ready yourself for more of the usual shite about National being a “Big Tent” party, as if we’re still living in the FPP, two-party era.
  
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  October 22, 2022 10:02am
ClanMcleod

An essay from el gato malo re how the joy of life seems to be getting sucked out of our lives by the politicisation of everything and the associated bickering. All driven by career technocrats and bureaucrats.

the vast undercurrent of what some have come to call “the deep state” (a term falling into disuse because the deep state itself HATES the moniker and strives to see it consigned to the tinfoil hat bin) continues garnering ever more power and manipulative menace.

donkey vs elephant is a puppet show. the real game is being played on another board, one beneath the surface of electoral politics, because while democracy driven flavors of the month come and go, bureaucracy is forever and it has ALL gone gangrenous.

we have for so long allowed so many unaccountable agencies to determine what can be bought and sold and built and allowed and to allocate such vast sums of capital and steer and gatekeep entire areas of science that they have become odd chimeras of feudal rulership and endemic regulatory capture by the regulated. trying to find any daylight between them and their corporate partners has become impossible. it’s one blob. one beating heart.

this is the real illness.

and left unchecked, it will be a fatal one.

Secondary Sources: Innovation, Syria and Oil, Expectations, Econlolcats – WSJ
crony corporatism is the antithesis of free markets and free people. it is subtle subjugation posing as safety and self-serving circular reasoning posing as “proof of bonafides.”

“this must be a good regulation, even the banks/insurance companies/car makers/cattle ranchers support it!”

this is the worst kind of lie.

of course they do. it benefits them, pays subsidy, kills competition, and generates oligopoly among the pvivileged at the expense of new entrants. regulation and compliance regimes ALWAYS favor big companies and it is always cheaper to buy politicians to slant the playing field than to compete in the marketplace.

it’s easier to hand out trillions in green subsidies and grants than to develop technologies that can compete on a level field with existing ones.

The intrusion into every aspect of the minutia of our lives by bureaucracy is suffocation. It is an increasing rush to totalitarianism. We are effectively being run, not by politicians, but by the “deep state”. It isn’t some shady cabal meeting in smoke filled rooms. That’s a construct of the deep state itself to tie the term to the domain of the “tin foil hat conspiracy theorists” and therefore delegitimise it as a concept. But that is where the actual power lies. Entrenched bureaucracies that like cancer, keep growing while killing the host. Us.
Politicians come and go. Bureaucracies endure. National need to take a very large axe to the cancer currently embedded in Wellington and which is strangling the life out of the country.

Wayne Brown in Auckland appears to be on the right track. He’s the first politician in many years who, certainly for now, has impressed me.

A good read.

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/why-you-should-be-a-one-issue-voter
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October 22, 2022 8:30am
- Tom Hunter
  
  Yep, as I’ve said:
  
  any future “Right Wing” government that claims it’s a “Big Tent” for conservative, classical liberal and perhaps even a slight tint of libertarian thinking, owes its voters to not just slowly reduce government employee numbers but reduce the number, size and regulatory power of the state institutions they inhabit.
  
  If they don’t then they’ll just be weaponised further with vast sums of money and bodies by a future Labour-Green government. Incidentally – for those National people who only care about government spending as a % of GDP and taxes – that will also put paid to any future tax cuts. Actually that’s almost the case now: the giant spend-fest of lockdowns means you can probably look forward to new taxes and tax increases from a future National-ACT government. They’ll have no choice because they’ll have allowed Labour-Green to make the big choices for them.
  
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  October 22, 2022 10:07am
- cjn
  
  Trump tried to tackle the Deep State or The Swamp and was sucked down, down, down.
  
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  October 22, 2022 5:41pm
  - Ghost
    
    Trump is deep state, you don’t win a presidential campaign unless you are part of the establishment. He played his part well, destabilising and splitting the country.
    
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    October 22, 2022 5:48pm
Maggy Wassilieff

There seems to be a back story to the torture and murder of a young boy that this Government is hiding from the public.

In their press release calling for accountability over the killing of Malachi Subecz, the Maori Party informs us that the killer (Michaela Barriball) was related to the co-defendant of Malachi’s mother.

“Malachi was left in the care of a woman related to the co-defendant of his mother when she was sent to prison. That was his only connection to her.

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2210/S00157/te-pati-maori-call-for-mandatory-reporting-accountability-after-death-of-malachi-subecz.htm

During Wednesday’s urgent parliamentary debate on this killing, Jan Logie, Green Party, stated

” No thought was given to whether the relationship of Michaela to the co-offender might create an opportunity for Malachi to be used as blackmail or punishment.”

https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/hansard-debates/rhr/combined/HansD_20221019_20221019

On the 5th October, The Head of Oranga Tamariki promised NZ that a report of his Department’s involvement (lack of involvement) would be ready in
two weeks (October 19th).

Speaking to RNZ on 5 October, Oranga Tamariki chief executive Chappie Te Kani said those reviews would be completed “within a fortnight.”

On Friday, neither Oranga Tamariki nor the minister’s office would provide a new date, with Davis only saying: “I understand Oranga Tamariki are working to finalise” the report.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/10/malachi-subecz-death-te-p-ti-m-ori-calls-for-state-to-be-legally-liable-for-abuse-in-its-care.html

What is this Government afraid to reveal?
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October 22, 2022 8:42am
- Gravelroad
  
  They have no idea what to reveal or what to do.
  Listening to Mr Te Kani on the HDPA show a couple of weeks back, it was crystal clear that his first and only priority was to protect his staff.
  He came across as shifty and incompetent.
  
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  October 22, 2022 8:59am
ClanMcleod

Oh ffs. This country is really becoming a laughing stock around the planet.

New Zealand mandates jargon cutback

The Plain Language Bill will appoint ‘plain language officers’ to police politicians’ speech for sesquipedalianism

John Cleese must be devastated that he and the Monty Python team didn’t have this absolute nugget to shred mercilessly when they were in their heyday.
What a complete and utter waste of money, time and energy. Is there anything this bunch of incompetent morons masquerading as a government won’t screw up?

https://www.rt.com/news/565062-new-zealand-mandates-jargon-cutback/
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October 22, 2022 8:46am
- Nickc2
  
  The Plain Language Bill dictates that each sentence must contain at least three words/phrases of Te Reo and Aotearoa place names MUST be Maori.
  Willie Jackson is demanding that failure to do so must result in a compulsory Te Reo course be included in each offender’s punishment with any Fine be deemed Koha and go directly to the Labour Party’s Maori Caucus. //
  
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  October 22, 2022 9:00am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Seems fair enough…….//
    
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    October 22, 2022 9:59am
  - Geoff1
    
    Where does it dictate that?
    I must have missed it.
    
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    October 22, 2022 12:23pm
    - Nickc2
      
      The two slashes // indicate sarcasm Geoff and we’re allowed to be sarcastic on KB.
      
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      October 22, 2022 12:43pm
- westernScientist
  
  lol I wonder if the pigeon English bill actually uses the word “sesquipedalianism”
  
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  October 22, 2022 9:57am
  - david
    
    “Pidgin”. Puleeeease.
    
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    October 22, 2022 2:37pm
Master Mariner

It had to happen, Sooner than later with ASEAN refineries sending products to Europe.

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Asian-Fuel-Suppliers-Are-Sending-Everything-They-Can-To-Europe.html

This is going to mean sustained and increased prices for Diesel, Av Gas and Petrol etc for NZ.

Not being an economist, But I seriously cant see inflation easing until energy prices come down.
Mean time here NZ “Terms of reference for 2050 Zero Energy Strategy”,
https://www.interest.co.nz/public-policy/118118/energy-and-resources-minister-megan%C2%A0woods-unveils-terms-reference-energy

Never has there been a total disconnect between Reality and Fantasy and this leaves NZ in a Potentially Dire situation, Either un affordable or unavailable. Possibly both in the very near future.

On another note, I have been notified contractors are pulling out of Taiwan’s massive Wind farm projects ,”Due to invasion threats “. ?
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October 22, 2022 8:50am
- Cinematic
  
  The OCR isn’t nearly high enough yet to have a substantial impact on domestic inflation.
  
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  October 22, 2022 9:06am
  - All_on_Red
    
    Does it really need to be higher when the housing market is flat and has corrected?
    
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    October 22, 2022 9:16am
    - westernScientist
      
      It probably doesn’t matter much without the government stopping borrowing and handing it out. It is giving with one hand and taking with the other. Austerity sooner or later is the only way, the printed money needs to be removed from the economy either by inflating its value away or by increasing interest rates quantitative tightening and a reduction in government spending. Either way, government spending needs to be lower than inflation so that the price of goods and services can re-balance to the money supply, if they dont the NZD will crash and inflation will keep going up, even with increasing interest rates, going into a classic hyperinflation.
      
      Governments think they can magic up money to help people cope with inflation, which of course just increases demand driving prices up, causing more government spending to ‘help’ people, causing prices to increase. Counter intuitively this also drives supply down, imports become expensive because of the dollar, and anything local becomes untenable because suppliers can not afford to buy what is required to build products or services because their profits are eroded though inflation quicker than they can sell things.
      
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      October 22, 2022 9:56am
      - Matt Long
        
        A good question for government, how to get inflation under control, continue with our stupid social spending policies, keep the punters voting for us, and pay off the massive debt we are accruing without crashing the housing market, and killing the economy?
        I think Robertson thinks inflation isn’t such a bad thing, and Ardern is looking at the bigger Reset plan.
        
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        October 22, 2022 10:46am
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  Who would possibly have predicted that NZs massive market power would struggle to enable us to secure supply of oil?
  
  Energy security and supply chains are job one for a functioning country.
  
  Funny how easily we forget that NZ is dependent on trade, and that trade goes on ships.
  
  We like to pretend that NZ is a services economy, but we can’t eat software, and financial services do not keep the lights on.
  
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  October 22, 2022 9:13am
  - westernScientist
    
    NZ is not a services economy, sure there is an internal services money-go-round to generate tax and muh GDP, but make no mistake, NZ is a primary production economy. Milk, meat, wool, forestry, horticulture, aquaculture etc. Virtually (not all we do do other things, but they are comparatively small) everything else is just to support primary production and government. Without primary production NZ would be a fairly good way down the 3rd world list with nearly no ability to import anything at all.
    
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    October 22, 2022 9:47am
    - Nickc2
      
      Exactlt, NZ would be like Samoa but with imitation Coconut Palms and Aust supporting us.
      
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      October 22, 2022 10:08am
- MCōs
  
  NZ has always been vulnerable to international oil prices, as the oil shocks of late last century demonstrated.
  Even enough oil was produced locally that wouldn’t change because we would be paying whatever price the oil companies could get.
  Furthermore
  Even before the refinery was closed almost half of our petrol was refined offshore. Less so for diesel.
  BTW
  Yesterday I bought some 91 at $2.25 which was more than a dollar off the peak I paid a few months ago.
  
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  October 22, 2022 9:14am
  - All_on_Red
    
    Repeat after me three times;
    Limited supply means high prices
    Plentiful supply means low prices
    Here endeth the lesson
    
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    October 22, 2022 9:18am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    The price of diesel is scary. I can imagine a bunch of people ditching their diesel vehicles. I have not looked but I imagine second hand diesel vehicles prices have tanked.
    
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    October 22, 2022 9:53am
    - Matt Long
      
      I think you’re right, I’m see 2nd hand diesel Utes down 5 to 10k from where I thought they would be priced even a decade ago for similar aged models.
      Good time for buying coming up perhaps.
      
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      October 22, 2022 10:38am
    - PeeJay
      
      And higher diesel prices flow through to so many parts of the supply chain. Suspect we haven’t seen the back of the inflation monster yet.
      
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      October 22, 2022 10:40am
  - kowtow
    
    ‘Even before the refinery was closed almost half of our petrol was refined offshore.’
    
    Half of nothing is still nothing.
    
    If the balloon goes up all an enemy has to do is station a submarine anywhere between us and a marine choke point and then anyone owning horses and carts here will become over night millionaires ( in ren min bi , if you’re lucky enough to be able to get any) )
    
    Forget learning to code , farrier and ostler are the next big thing. Buy oat futures too.
    
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    October 22, 2022 2:04pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Buggy whip manufacturing to make a comeback.
      
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      October 22, 2022 5:41pm
- cjn
  
  We’ll be Ok. Fuel that we might have able to afford, or at least buy with our printed money will go to Europe to save them from freezing during the winter. We will feel good about that and they will reward us by buying our cheese which we won’t have the diesel to make. We are proudly part of the Collective West.
  
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  October 22, 2022 5:49pm
3-coil

Wellington night life seems to be finally recovering after the disastrous covid lockdowns, just spent a couple of days in the big smoke and it’s been humming. It was capped off by a stunning gig last night by British rockers The Darkness, up at the old union hall at Victoria University. It was the penultimate show of their tour down under, and what a concert! They’re playing their last gig tonight in Auckland – they’re white hot at the moment, don’t miss them if you can get there!
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October 22, 2022 8:56am
- Gravelroad
  
  “White hot”?
  Careful @ 3-Coil – could be construed as racist terminology.
  Cancel culture.
  
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  October 22, 2022 9:43am
  - Don Beckett
    
    Yes, but interesting. How can The Darkness be white hot? 😆
    
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    October 22, 2022 11:07am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Dr Gaurav Sharma’s Facebook. She could have stopped all of this by having a chat.
Do as I say, not as I do. It is long but well worth a read.
Dr Gaurav Sharma for Hamilton West
16h ·
🔴 Over the years many Labour MPs have triggered by-elections for one reason or another, but Labour’s motto remains “do as we say, don’t do as we do.”
Until 2 weeks ago the PM and the Deputy PM were out in Wellington promoting Labour MP Paul Eagle for Wellington Mayoralty and had no issue with a potential by-election if he had won. Given that the PM had already saved up money for the Rongotai by-election but didn’t end up needing it as Paul lost the Mayoralty, technically there is no added cost for the Hamilton West by-election as the money has already been kept aside by our fiscally responsible government.
Here’s a list of by-elections triggered by Labour in the past, with which they have had absolutely no issue spending taxpayer’s money:
▪️This photo is from the 2017 by-election in Mt Albert where I door knocked for then candidate Jacinda Ardern who went on to win an electorate seat for the first time. The by-election was called because Labour MP & LEADER David Shearer resigned.
▪️In the last few months Labour’s current MP Paul Eagle has been getting paid from taxpayers purse while he was running as a Mayoral candidate for Wellington. He also used the MP funding to send a letter to 20,000 houses in Rongotai asking for what local issues mattered the most to people – this was within days of announcing his bid for Mayoralty. Not only this, if Paul had won, a by-election for MP would have been triggered in the Rongotai electorate. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson went out of their way to endorse Paul Eagle for Mayoralty because they wanted their friend and Labour governing council member Fleur Fitzsimmons to run in the by-election and take over Paul’s Rongotai seat.
▪️Former Labour LEADER Helen Clark resigned in 2009 to trigger a by-election when she left for a new career at the UN. The election was itself won by David Shearer, who as I note above also left for his career at the UN in Sudan triggering another by-election in 2017 which was won by Jacinda Ardern.
▪️Paul Eagle had also resigned as the Deputy Mayor of Wellington because he ran for Parliament as a Labour candidate in Rongotai, and won resulting in a by-election in 2017 for Wellington City Council.
▪️Labour MP and former Labour LEADER Phil Goff ran for Auckland Mayoralty and triggered a by-election in Mt Roskill electorate in 2016 which was then won by Michael Wood.
▪️Labour Minister & MP Lianne Dalziel resigned from Christchurch East electorate to run for Mayor triggering a by-election in 2013 which was won by Poto Williams from Labour.
▪️Since stepping down as the Speaker Trevor Mallard has been sitting in the House with no Select Committee duties, no Bills to speak on, no constituent work. In the last 2 months he has been paid well over $25,000 to just enjoy his retirement. Soon he will be on the gravy train to be the Ambassador of NZ to Ireland. And don’t forget he is on the old Parliament contract which means he gets free business class flights for life.
▪️Also a quick reminder of government’s failed recent spending
– $51m spent on axed Auckland harbour cycling bridge project
– $500k in office rent paid after Auckland cycle crossing canned
– $66 million on Dominion Rd Light Rail report – $44million out of this is on external consultants
– $350 million on TVNZ/RNZ merger
– $200 million on Te Pukenga botched polytech reform
🔴 Just like MPs of Labour Caucus have been talking to me in private often leaking information, the members of Labour’s governing council have also been in touch with me of the course of action Labour is going to take. I was advised that because I have become a thorn in Labour’s backside by continually raising issues in the House, Labour plans to take a step by step approach to sideline me. The next step being the invoking of Waka Jumping rule to remove me from Parliament. But given the current state of affairs, Labour and the PM will wait until next year to invoke this rule 6 months before the General Election so that a by-election does not have to take place in Hamilton West. This is another way of silencing me and stifling democracy by taking away the voice of people of Hamilton West.
Based on this information and after spending time in the electorate talking to my constituents since I wrote my Op-Ed in August, I had no option but to resign. This has unfortunately triggered a by-election but it means that instead of being without an MP for 6 months as Labour know wants, the people of Hamilton will be able to elect an MP to continue to represent them.
I am running as a candidate in the by-election because I do want to send a message to the government that you can’t silence the voice of the common man – you have tried to shut me up at every avenue but I will continue to fight and stand up for myself, for the people of Hamilton West and New Zealanders across the country.
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October 22, 2022 8:57am
- I remember when
  
  Helen Clark triggered a by-election when she left to join UN.
  David Shearer triggered a by-election when he left to join UN.
  
  I wonder who will be next?
  
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  October 22, 2022 9:59am
  - pdm
    
    A definite trend for the Mt Albert Electorate.
    
    The next one is inevitable – when not if!!!!
    
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    October 22, 2022 10:37am
  - artemisia
    
    Mr Robertson won’t want to wait until 2023 election night concession. Ms Ardern will have to step down earlier so he actually gets to be the Prime Minister even if briefly. He surely cannot think he will lead Labour to a third term. Never going to happen.
    
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    October 22, 2022 12:31pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      NZ’s Gordon Brown
      
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      October 22, 2022 5:42pm
Im Right

I’m curious on what Labours strategy will be for their election campaigning next year as I can only see 2 things they could possibly ‘champion’ and run with….COVD and smearing National/Luxon (MSM have already been smearing Luxon, watch the Labour party ramp it up) with policy/laws they have no intention of implementing but will be headline stuff (National will cut benefits, National will raise GST etc etc this kinda outlandish stuff)
They CANNOT campaign on the big 4 platforms (Economy/Housing/Homelessness and Health) as all are worse than 2017 and worse since 2020!
Going to be a dirty election from the left, they have nothing else!
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October 22, 2022 9:03am
- westernScientist
  
  lollies, lots and lots of lollies scrambled everywhere….
  
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  October 22, 2022 9:37am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  They do ‘dirt’ better than anything else.
  
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  October 22, 2022 10:32am
  - blue collar
    
    They will attempt a biden …. Steal it …. Let’s watch electoral laws , vote counting and system changes very carefully …. Our kleensack are full of popcorn , labours will be illegal votes
    
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    October 22, 2022 11:42am
    - blue collar
      
      Black rock and the Israeli cobweb mob ….. she’s up to something .
      
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      October 22, 2022 11:43am
Warren

Trevor Mallard bowed out of Parliament with a final speech to the house saying some MP’s have become “lazy, petty” debaters and the Era of sweeping maters
under the carpet is coming to a end.
This from the Speaker of the House who helped the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern sweep sexual and rape allegations under the carpet when the Prime Minister was finding it hard to justify why she had a sex deviate working in her office, so for this peice crap and maybe the worse Speaker of Parliament ever needs to take a good look at himself as this is classic of the pot calling the kettle.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/130235613/trevor-mallard-takes-parting-shot-at-lazy-petty-mps-in-valedictory-speech?rm=a
What about the thousands paid out from statements he made of a staffer working in Parliament with the smear of being a sex deviate and rapist.
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October 22, 2022 9:07am
- Benedict Yu
  
  I’m glad to see him go.
  
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  October 22, 2022 9:56am
  - Nickc2
    
    No second opinion required!
    
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    October 22, 2022 10:02am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    He will be back in 3 years, what then?
    
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    October 22, 2022 10:33am
kevn

Go for it Dr Sharma… Just use the opportunity wisely.
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October 22, 2022 9:09am
- Inandout
  
  kev, Sharma has probably an IQ equal to Lange’s so this Labour concoction would be child’s play to him.
  
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  October 22, 2022 9:44am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I am hoping for a win by Sharma.
  I want to see him torment the fuck out of Labour running up to Election 2023
  
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  October 22, 2022 10:35am
  - Tauhei Notts
    
    That would be a great campaign strategy to take to the properties with Lake and river views in Hamilton.
    I am not so sure about the scungy areas such as Nawton and around Bader Drive.
    
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    October 22, 2022 11:46am
  - G152
    
    Be good if Doctor Sharma went into Oncology and set up a labour party only treatment program.
    They’d all be bald and peeing red and scarred left hands
    
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    October 22, 2022 12:09pm
- Ghost
  
  Has his Facebook been cleaned, first post showing up when I go there is from august.
  
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  October 22, 2022 12:14pm
  - Ghost
    
    Weird, must have been a glitch it’s all back now
    
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    October 22, 2022 1:06pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Already some folks are raising objections to the new NCEA literacy and numeracy requirements.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/477144/new-ncea-tests-could-jeopardise-maori-and-pacific-students-achievement-rates

Instead of seeing these requirements as some sort of barrier to cross, secondary school teachers should be welcoming them as a minimum standard which is required by young folks who are about to enter the work force or higher learning.
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October 22, 2022 9:21am
- PeeJay
  
  Do they ever think of the condescending message they send when they respond like this? I mean they all but say the test is too hard for poor wee pacific kids to get their poor wee heads around!
  
  For goodness sakes – there is no great secret to kids success. Why are Asian students generally at the top of the class? Are they born superior? Of course not – it’s because they generally tend to have parents that give an actual damn about their kids schoolwork and make sure that homework is always done, extra work is always done as they realise a good education and hard work is the key to a successful life. It’s about valuing education – not race. It just so happens that a lot of asian parents really value education. Is it really a surprise that hard work and parental encouragement results in top marks?
  
  The stats are the same regardless of race – if you went to Scotland, Ireland or any north European country where it’s less multicultural, the splits are similar between top and bottom – it’s more about socio-economic factors than race (I’ve always found that NZ based race stats are proxies for socio-economic but that’s another argument).
  
  In these countries where it’s less about race (or race can’t be used as the excuse because it’s less diverse), poor kids tend to have parents (or parent and hanger on) that don’t value education, so don’t put a big focus on it – big surprise their kids don’t value it and the cycle repeats. Parents who value education, tend to encourage their kids and, big surprise, they tend to do well at school (then university etc).
  
  The problem is that it is just so much easier to blame ‘the system’ I guess.
  
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  October 22, 2022 11:03am
  - NothingLeft
    
    Are they born superior? Yes. North east asians are the smartest gene pool on the planet and there is scientifically zero doubt that intelligence is mostly dictated by genes that are strongly dictated by your parents intelligence. Smart parents average smarter kids and kids with thick parents are mostly thick too.
    
    Until this horrible reality is accepted by delusional apologists pretending that human brains are a unique exception to universal rules of genetic variation and evolution, society will continue it’s worsening generational stratification by intelligence, with kids of poor (thick) parents mostly irrevocably doomed to shitty lives with poor prospects from conception.
    
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    October 22, 2022 5:57pm
Southern Raider

What is actual uptake likely to be of someone using public transport in another city to where they live?

What has been traded off by Waka to get the $1.3B budget?

Why did the Waka CEO need to mention in the press release they were consulting with Māori and Iwi. Do they not use the bus the same way everyone else does, would they need a special culturally appropriate transport card to use a bus?
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October 22, 2022 9:41am
- artemisia
  
  I was astonished at the NZTA CEO feeling it so important to mention one race group. How ridiculous.
  
  Not saying a national pay method for public transport is a bad idea, but honestly what is the actual cost in $$$ or productivity of having multiple pay methods? Because that is the so-called problem being solved. Oh, also a few people being annoyed.
  
  There’s this thing called a cost benefit analysis. I know, not popular these days.
  
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  October 22, 2022 11:20am
- kowtow
  
  I refuse to use their terminology , a ‘boat’ .
  
  It is still the NZTA.
  
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  October 22, 2022 12:16pm
I remember when

National Pest Pet Biosecurity Accord:
Its purpose is to regulate the domestic trade of high-risk pets (excluding cats and dogs).

So a programme that ignores the two major threat species.
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October 22, 2022 9:42am
ClanMcleod

There is a new, large Japanese study that is showing the increased risk of myocarditis death is not just in the young. It is in all age groups.

Conclusion SARS-CoV-2 vaccination was associated with higher risk of myocarditis death, not only in young adults but also in all age groups including the elderly. Considering healthy vaccinee effect, the risk may be 4 times or higher than the apparent risk of myocarditis death. Underreporting should also be considered. Based on this study, risk of myocarditis following SARS-CoV-2 vaccination may be more serious than that reported previously.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.13.22281036v1

Meanwhile NZ keeps jabbing. This is beyond malfeasance and gross negligence. It is physical assault at a very minimum. The people responsible are not inept, they are criminals.
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October 22, 2022 10:06am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Try debating ‘myocarditis’ with a fully vaccinated sycophant.
  They just go apeshit and start with the insults – terminating in “racist” of coarse.
  
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  October 22, 2022 10:41am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Total denial.
    
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    October 22, 2022 10:47am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Putting it mildly
      
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      October 22, 2022 11:59am
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    That’s another symptom
    
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    October 22, 2022 5:45pm
Alex

Have you noticed that Jacinda Ardern is the Death knell for British Prime Ministers.
Boris resigned less than a week after meeting her, and Truss survived just over a month after their planets collided.
What Star Trek is Jacinda on?
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October 22, 2022 10:20am
Maggy Wassilieff

National identifies where some of NZ’s lousy educational problems lie:

“The Government urgently needs to get back to basics to ensure that students begin their NCEA journey with the reading, writing and maths skills they need so they don’t continue to fall behind.

“This starts with students spending at least one hour every day on numeracy and literacy in primary school.

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2210/S00161/two-thirds-of-students-cant-do-the-basics.htm

I ask the year 9 pupils/students I have for my volunteer literacy stint how much essay/story writing they have done and the answer is invariably none, or a blank stare (wondering what the hell I’m talking about).

I recall having to write stories/ pieces in primary school on a regular basis…..”What I did in the holidays”, “my trip to the museum”, book reviews, etc…
all were read and marked by the teacher.

In my 2 years at a primary boarding school, I had to write 2 letters/week home to my father… one was read and corrected (if needed) by the class-room teacher; the other was always private.

When I went secondary teaching 20 years ago, my Yr 12 (6th form) Physics students had to submit a written report on a research investigation.
I recall one student querying why he had got a high grade when it was covered with red ink corrections….
I explained his physics and experimental work were good (hence the grade mark), but his spelling, grammar, punctuation and paragraphing were not.

He replied that I was the first teacher who had ever corrected his written work.

I think some of our teachers have been doing a lousy job with instructing their pupils how to write clearly, let alone providing them with opportunities to write.
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October 22, 2022 10:21am
- Matt Long
  
  Your assuming the teachers able to read, comprendé and right with correct punctuation/ let alone correct a pupils written work.
  
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  October 22, 2022 10:32am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    phull marx, mat…
    
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    October 22, 2022 10:44am
    - Gravelroad
      
      Any relation to Onya Marx?
      As Steve O (think it was) mentioned in a comment yesterday?
      
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      October 22, 2022 10:57am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Maggie Pie. She said her Dad gives her the jokes
        
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        October 22, 2022 11:01am
- Hollyfield
  
  I received two emails from the Ministry of Education this week, both inviting me to “facilitator lead training”. There’s no hope for students when teachers can’t spell, and it appears there aren’t even any standards in this area in the Ministry.
  
  Still, not as bad as the “led free” soldering wire I purchased recently.
  
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  October 22, 2022 10:34am
- kevn
  
  @Maggy… I am told that the primary curriculum is now 20% maori stuff. So that means 20% less of the other basic stuff. Not a winning formula.
  
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  October 22, 2022 11:38am
- info@cruzpro.com
  
  You have only to look at some of the blogs in KB to see incorrect words used.
  
  Coarse in place of course, to in place of too, etc.
  
  Some of that may be due to actions of predictive software but one should always proofread their blog entry.
  
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  October 22, 2022 11:51am
  - kowtow
    
    Bought for brought is vey common.
    
    Amazing how many people don’t know the diffeence between the vebs to buy and to bing.
    
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    October 22, 2022 12:14pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      one should always proofread their [sic] blog entry.
      
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      October 22, 2022 2:36pm
      - kowtow
        
        Unless won has deliberately dopped the ‘r” s to make a point.
        
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        October 22, 2022 3:34pm
      - info@cruzpro.com
        
        their
        ᴛʜâr
        adjective
        Used as a modifier before a noun.
        His, her, or its.
        
        Could be wrong. English is my second language 🙂
        
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        October 22, 2022 8:20pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        One should always read one’s blog entry.
        
        The possessive pronoun one’s is in agreement with the subject of the sentence one.
        
        However, what you wrote is probably also ok….
        using their a plural pronoun as a singular possessive or as an attributive adjective.
        
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        October 22, 2022 9:42pm
Gravelroad

FFS- what sort of feeble specimen of manhood is this?
But he got away with it – so all good.
Probably had a big smirk on his face when he left the court house – just like the teenage rapist displayed for all to see.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300715109/victim-rejects-200-payment-from-man-who-escaped-conviction-for-her-indecent-assault
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October 22, 2022 10:43am
Tom Hunter

Following yesterday’s post here, Bring Back Boris, it’s always refreshing to read Samizdata’s take on the Tory disaster, Controlled Flight Into Terrain. I liked this comment on the post:

From the outside, the appearance is that much of the problem in the UK is the same as the one in the US–The supposed “conservatives” are merely the opposition party wearing a different outfit in order to fool the rubes. Neither the Tories nor the Republicans really believe in the dog food they’re selling the public, and they won’t eat it themselves, either.

This creates a certain element of public cognitive dissonance, because what they say isn’t what they do, in power. So, you have this constant cycle of the two parties ineffectively opposing their supposed “enemies”, then blundering into power, where they then do… Exactly what they railed against. Which then leads to them being thrown out of power, empowering the left yet again, who screws things up by the numbers, and the cycle continues… It will go on until it doesn’t, and then it’ll be the whole sorry edifice that crashes.

I venture to predict that the US is going to see a “sea change that isn’t, really” with the voting in November. They’ll get a Republican-majority Congress, which will then proceed to do nothing at all about any of the Democratic Party-created issues, and we’ll have more of the same until the public grows disgusted with them and throws them out of power, where they’ll go back to their most comfortable position, being “opposition that really… Isn’t.”

Eventually, enough people will see through the charade, and they’ll all be thrown out. Likely, well after they blow everything up.

Sound familiar?
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October 22, 2022 10:48am
- kowtow
  
  Meanwhile the frontiers of each country are literally overwhelmed .
  
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  October 22, 2022 12:09pm
blue collar

Sharma and brown are the 2 most respected men in Nz right now .
Both hv stood up against the machine , are principled , strong , action their views , and not afraid to go against the flow .
That’s kiwi as
The silent majority , at least in the working man’s world , where the numbers are , are so relieved and grateful that finally some good men are doing something .
Evil prospers when …..
get Seymour n Luxon in n that’s that …. For the time being , and due to the majority and powerlessness of Luxon and Seymour … sharma and brown are all we hv
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October 22, 2022 10:52am
- MCōs
  
  “Sharma and brown are the 2 most respected men in Nz right now .”
  “sharma and brown are all we hv”
  
  How depressing is that
  
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  October 22, 2022 12:51pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    What you quoted is NOT what blue collar said.
    You are giving readers the wrong impression – out of context.
    How about correcting it, before the Mods do?
    
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    October 22, 2022 1:12pm
    - H. Upmann
      
      It may have been helpful if the original post was written in plain and clear English.
      
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      October 22, 2022 1:53pm
- Steve Todd
  
  For months now, I’ve sat silently by, while you continue to incorporate the abbreviation “hv” into your comments.
  
  What on earth do you have against the word “have”, blue collar?
  
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  October 22, 2022 2:18pm
thirteenstars

Liz Truss, despite being Britain’s shortest-serving PM with only 44 days in office, will receive a golden handshake of £18,000 ($36,000) and a salary for life of £115,000 ($230,000) per year, plus a taxpayer funded car and bodyguard.

Nuts.
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October 22, 2022 10:56am
- Benedict Yu
  
  There is probably no alternative given the law. She would need to voluntarily turn it down. Politicians don’t generally do that.
  
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  October 22, 2022 3:41pm
  - Steve Todd
    
    Politicians don’t generally do that.
    
    Would anyone, to whom such a package applied? Would you?
    
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    October 22, 2022 5:10pm
    - Benedict Yu
      
      No 🙂
      
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      October 22, 2022 5:38pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Not quite. The GBP 115k is an allowance to cover expenses such as a secretary, office, travel etc. Accounts & receipts to be kept; and she doesn’t have to spend it all.
  
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  October 22, 2022 5:50pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Killing the Virus. This is fact.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/545491349667859/permalink/1145415196342135/
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October 22, 2022 11:05am
- kevn
  
  @SteveO… Assume it must the current POTUS vegetable virus.
  
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  October 22, 2022 11:40am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I know that you know, that I know that you know who is the virus//
    
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    October 22, 2022 12:20pm
MCōs

Some guy in Thailand is sentenced to 192yrs for ripping off kids school lunchs.
Other people get peanuts for murder, or are out on bail and never go to trial.
Pays to have influential mates.
The wife of a guy I worked will taught at a school owned by a high powered policeman. He gave my mate a business card and wrote something on it, which gave him immunity from being ticketed on the highways.
And it worked.
Small thing, but that’s the sort of corruption you read about in the newspapers from top to bottom.
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October 22, 2022 11:10am
- MCōs
  
  https://aseannow.com/topic/1275473-former-school-director-gets-192-years-in-prison-over-school-lunch-scandal/
  
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  October 22, 2022 11:11am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

https://babylonbee.com/video/warning-signs-that-you-are-a-fascist
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October 22, 2022 11:19am
Surely Knott

Jack Tame’s in New York and his hotel is expensive and he’s not getting much for his NZ pesos. And he’s not happy.
Question why do so many climate change inequality angsting socialists flock on carbon spewing jets to the capitalist mecca of the USA. David Farrier, Lorde, Jack Tame or UK Henry Cooke as the economic and bureaucratic reality of the socialist government they promoted hits home.
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October 22, 2022 1:58pm
- kowtow
  
  Include there the very intrepid traveller , Ricardo the Green .
  
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  October 22, 2022 2:07pm
Gravelroad

Interesting reading here from Rotorua residents.
Does the Labour Party government have any care or respect at all for these loyal local taxpayers and ratepayers?
That this situation has developed and gone on unchecked so long is an insult to them.
And the Labour Party does just not give a toss.

Rotorua is a ‘ghost town’ due to emergency housing crisis, resident says
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October 22, 2022 2:12pm
- Gravelroad
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/rnz/300718827/rotorua-is-a-ghost-town-due-to-emergency-housing-crisis-resident-says
  
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  October 22, 2022 2:49pm
- blue collar
  
  Brenda’s unintended consequences again 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
  
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  October 22, 2022 3:13pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

https://dailypatriotreport.com/elon-musk-has-big-plans-for-the-twitter-workforce/
That will be great. Get rid of all of the pesky rabid leftie free speech censorers.
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October 22, 2022 2:32pm
- Inandout
  
  SO, I can imagine those rabid employees will attempt sabotage before they vacate, although I would imagine Musk has that worked out.
  
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  October 22, 2022 2:45pm
  - kevn
    
    @In… Plus all those bot accounts.
    
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    October 22, 2022 3:10pm
Ghost

An investigation has been launched after a patient died after leaving a Canterbury emergency department.

Chief medical officer Te Whatu Ora Waitaha Canterbury Richard French confirmed to Newshub in a statement a patient who presented to Christchurch Hospital’s emergency department (ED) last Sunday evening later died in the intensive care unit.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/10/investigation-launched-after-patient-dies-after-leaving-christchurch-hospital-s-emergency-department.html
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October 22, 2022 2:55pm
Jack5

Has Elon Musk sold his soul to the banksters?

Banks providing $US13 billion for his takeover of Twitter have abandoned plans to sell the debt to investors, reports Reuters. The agency says this is because of uncertainty around Twitter’s fortunes.

The banks instead plan to keep the debt on their balance sheets until there is more investor appetite.
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October 22, 2022 3:38pm
Benedict Yu

Good example of the madness in store for Wellington.

Wellington Airport expects passenger number to double to 2040.

So it has expansion plans. No surprise there – Auckland and Christchurch have expansion plans.

https://www.wellingtonairport.co.nz/vision/

However the new Mayor has vowed to stop this. She wants Wellington Airport to “reduce emissions”. Good luck with that 🙂

https://inside-wellington.org/2022/10/17/a-new-chapter-begins-for-wellington/

The glaring problem is that the Council has a 34 percent shareholding in the airport. It is taking regulatory action that will cripple the airport and reduce shareholder value.
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October 22, 2022 3:39pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Tory has to be very careful in what she says, to separate the shareholding/ directorship aspect of WCC from WCC’s role as a regulator (ie issuer of resource consents).
  
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  October 22, 2022 5:54pm
  - Benedict Yu
    
    “Tory has to be very careful in what she says…”
    
    Yes well good luck with that 🙂
    
    If she hates airplanes, and JET A1, and airports, well sell the damn shares. FFS makes my head hurt the stupid.
    
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    October 22, 2022 9:04pm
Aunty

Jesus wept. Even the third world now has faster trains than New Zealand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGvyhIk8_vs
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October 22, 2022 5:14pm
Takere

If you move your wharenui from Hauraki to Waikato to be repaired and then get it installed in the Auckland Museum. Does that give your iwi a right to claim ahikaroa over Auckland CBD and across Auckland in treaty claims displacing iwi from Auckland?

Majurey’s cunning plan(s).

An interesting “Development”.

Eke Panuku and H.U.D, Kainga Ora in Court soon?
A conflict of interest?
The Chairman of eke Panuku Paul Majurey and Ockham, Mark Todd, housing development get the green light for consents and government investment and the developments in South Auckland gets the bums rush.

This development by Winton …

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/130223791/property-development-company-winton-takes-kinga-ora-to-court-over-refusal-to-fasttrack-4b-carless-neighbourhood

Versus these ones … by Majurey and Ockham.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/new-multi-billion-dollar-village-planned-for-owairaka-mt-albert-by-marutuahu-ockham/OHN4SJNAJ5VSQMGCRTC5CKA4ZQ/

You wouldnt get away with this bs on a marae!

Oh. Majureys also the Co Governance Chairman of Aucklands Tupuna Maunga Authority. No a democratic board.
Here is an example of how it’s run.
The ‘Public’ are invited one by one to make oral submissions to the panel under these rules. It’s not public. It’s a closed door investigation, interrogation!

“Please note the following:

a. At the appropriate time your name will be called for presentation during the above time slot. If you are not present the Authority will move on to another speaker and your time will be lost.

b. The above timeslot is the time slot available for you.

c. Your verbal submission will be before the Tūpuna Maunga Authority members available for the hearing.

d. Your written submission will have been read by the Tūpuna Maunga Authority members prior to the hearing.

e. Each verbal submission can be presented for up to 10 minutes in total, including any questions from Tūpuna Maunga Authority members. So, it is for your judgment if you leave any time for questions.

f. Management will indicate when we have reached the 7 minute mark and 10 minute mark.

g. There is to be no repetition.

h. No recording is permitted throughout the hearing and given previous experience, this will be monitored.

i. Only verbal submitters will be invited to attend during their hearing time slot.

We attach an information sheet that sets out the protocols for the hearing.

If you have since decided you do not wish to present your submission, please let us know by return email. We will contact you on this email should any matters change, otherwise please send us a phone contact.”

Oh why not!

AUCKLAND TAXPAYERS ALLIANCE RUNNING A CAMPAIGN TO ‘DEFUND PANUKU’!”

“In the last financial year, Auckland Council’s property management and development agency spent $34 million on staff salaries and office space. To cover these costs, Panuku “recharged” the Council $14.5 million in staff time and received an $18.3 million handout from ratepayers.

Panuku employs 203 full-time staff but 9 of them are executives paid over $200,000 a year and 41 of them are lower-tier managers paid an average of $143,000 per year! That is a manager for every three staff.”

https://www.ratepayers.nz/defund_eke_panuku
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October 22, 2022 6:15pm
Ghost

Thanks labour for once again failing people

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/10/elderly-new-plymouth-woman-forced-to-stay-in-hotels-after-being-terrorised-by-k-inga-ora-tenants-next-door.html

A New Plymouth family says Kāinga Ora tenants living next door to their elderly mother are making her life a misery and the agency just fobs off their complaints.

The woman, who is about to turn 80, feels unsafe in her own home and the family has had to put her up in hotels to give her some respite from her neighbours.
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October 22, 2022 8:24pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  Sadly, this is widespread.
  
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  October 22, 2022 9:02pm
Tauhei Notts

The smiles on the faces of the wonderful Wellington players; if that didn’t bring a smile to your face, then you must live a miserable life.
Written by a person who bet heavily on Canterbury.
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