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iMP

Welcome to Christchurch where yet again another un institutionalised mental health sufferer viciously beats or stabs to death an innocent person they did not know. Safe streets no longer, random insane people roaming around attacking and murdering innocent people.
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November 13, 2022 8:14am
- CJames
  
  Ah but as long as they weren’t a special person and they did it with kindness, the government won’t care. It has its own agenda to follow – enriching the broreaucracy top of the list. The problems of the plebs (sorry non-Labour voters) aren’t important.
  
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  November 13, 2022 8:26am
- iMP
  
  “ Homeless woman Barbara Campbell was kicked to death in Christchurch by a schizophrenic rough sleeper who had been in and out of mental health care for two decades.”
  
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  November 13, 2022 8:28am
  - Bob
    
    you can thank a past Minister of Health….Helen someone? for this situation!
    
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    November 13, 2022 9:37am
    - Ghost
      
      And how many health ministers have there been since then? How many governments since then that could have addressed the problem?
      
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      November 13, 2022 9:39am
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Proper institutions cost money. A meagre NIMBY economy based on isolation related preciousness can’t afford the proper infrastructure.
        
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        November 13, 2022 9:16pm
    - Jack5
      
      One influence has been moving care and supervision of many mentally ill people from traditional hospitals into community residence.
      
      For most, this is better and humane, but there are down sides from lighter surveillance and care.
      
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      November 13, 2022 9:55pm
- lastmanstanding
  
  A Government that fails to keep its citizens safe from harm by other citizens in a failed Government.
  
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  November 13, 2022 9:51am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    The Ministry of Health think if they keep ignoring the problems, the problems will go away. Simple really.
    
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    November 13, 2022 10:15am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  No no, didn’t they hand over 2nilkion to stop this
  
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  November 13, 2022 4:31pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  People who should be institutionalized for the safety of themselves and the public has been an issue since the eighties.
  
  Speaking to enthusiastic idiots of the loony left, I’m often told “we’ve tried that (institutions) and it didn’t work”. Apparently people regularly having their heads cut off or smashed in because “Satan told me to do it” or similar, is acceptable collateral damage.
  
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  November 13, 2022 8:08pm
Mike H S

On the bright side, Mrs S and myself are celebrating 52 years of marriage. Got married on Friday 13th. No superstitions in this family.
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November 13, 2022 8:18am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  13 is a number my Partner has in her family.
  13 is her birthdate, 13 is also her sister’s birthdate.
  Her Mother died on the 13th (we all reckoned she planned to pass on that date)
  Her association with number 13 is uncanny. Invoice numbers end in 13.
  It is everywhere around her.
  
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  November 13, 2022 9:01am
  - Mike H S
    
    We have also lived in houses that are number 13.
    
    Thanks to all the well wishers.
    
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    November 13, 2022 11:28am
- mandk
  
  Congratulations to you and Mrs H S, Mike.
  
  Wishing you many more November 13s.
  
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  November 13, 2022 9:10am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Congratulations Mr and Mrs Mike!
  
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  November 13, 2022 9:19am
- Tauhei Notts
  
  In my younger days Friday 13th was referred to as Black Friday.
  Nowadays, with the Americanisation of our world it is the last Friday in November.
  
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  November 13, 2022 9:47am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    25th is a good day to stay home in the US.
    I predict much violence on that day. American Black Friday was always a mess, but this year, I see problems.
    
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    November 13, 2022 3:33pm
- lastmanstanding
  
  Hearty congratulations Mike. Mrs LMS and I celebrate 50 years in February 2024. Only seems like yesterday. They were halcyon days in the 70s. Life was so much slower and less complicated. No computers no emails no social media. We wrote letters and memos. I tell the young ones that I had a secretary who I dictated letters and memos to. Connie would dutifully take down my rantings and ravings in short hand and type up the draft and put them in my in tray.
  By the time I got to proof read them I had calmed down and would call her to come in and she would take down a more measured version.
  Today of course you press send and the rantings and ravings are gone. I think in our day the system prevented a lot of harm that happens today.
  
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  November 13, 2022 9:58am
- Jethrod
  
  4 x 13 =52
  
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  November 13, 2022 10:44am
- jonno1
  
  My apologies for hitting the wrong button, please add it to the pluses. We are similar at 53 years. Life’s good.
  
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  November 13, 2022 11:25am
  - Countrygirl
    
    The same as us!
    
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    November 13, 2022 10:10pm
- Mike H S
  
  I do have to laugh that I got a down tick on that post.
  
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  November 13, 2022 11:30am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Screenshot for the future. You are happy, but a miserable downticker’s head is exploding. You got a ‘badge’
    
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    November 13, 2022 3:42pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Well I just got a downtick as well.
      Get your hand off it downticker!
      
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      November 13, 2022 3:52pm
- Observer of Life
  
  Congratulations MHS.. no mean feat that. Nothing wrong with the number 13.
  
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  November 13, 2022 11:58am
Gulag1917

The lunatic fringe strike again.
“He says it’s a battle that began when armed police and two ecologists had arrived unannounced at the family’s homestead back in September 2018 to exercise a search warrant to undertake an ecological investigation.”
https://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/news/features/130418930/the-trouble-with-a-lofty-view-from-above
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November 13, 2022 8:22am
- peterwn
  
  So the Certificate of Title indicating that he owns the farm is meaningless. The farm is now part of the ‘Conservation Estate’ especially when the Council etc tweak the complicated rules to overcome the court ruling.
  
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  November 13, 2022 1:22pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Have to say it. “Fucking loopy commie Greens”
  
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  November 13, 2022 3:54pm
hullkiwi

Congratulations to the Black Ferns to retain the World Cup.

However, Thank God for the TMO, who got 3 out of 3 big cslls right, the on field officials were poor. The ref was inconsistent & applied rules inconsistently. For example
1. Advantage applied only to give England advantage & tries, but not NZ;
2. Diving into rucks England were allowed to, but not NZ who were penalised;
3. Offside – both back lines infringed regularly

Rules I don’t understand & I was surprised to see like the use of the maul with truck & trailer. Such instances were used by both sides to score tries. Several times the ball was “out” of the maul, but the player was able to hold on to the maul or in some cases, rejoin the maul. All instances that was cynically putting the rest of the forward pack off side.

Last night smacked of British tinkering with the rules, so the game suits the style of players and game the British want to play.
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November 13, 2022 8:40am
- Gravelroad
  
  Yes, congratulations to the Black Ferns.
  Agree about the referee. I was beginning to think there must be different rules for the women’s game – such were the puzzling calls made – and not made.
  
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  November 13, 2022 8:58am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Gravelled I too was left wondering if there were different rules for the women’s game.
    
    Did anyone else notice major omissions from last night’s game? Namely, any NZ government representative. No Jaspinda, and no Robbo (Minister of Sport), by contrast Luxon was in the crowd and posted on Facebook. So, is it a case we only get behind NZ, when we are certain NZ will win, and the government doesn’t want to be associated with a team that might lose on home soil?
    
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    November 13, 2022 9:12am
    - amospicton
      
      Anyone else think it was odd that there was no mention of the players’ weights? Commonly referred to and useful in the mens’ game. It would have been interesting to know if the English were actually larger than our girls. Doesn’t seem to be allowed to criticise in any way either. That said, great drama.
      
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      November 13, 2022 10:23am
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Not sure there were too many post game partially clad player interviews either.
        
        Presumably that was an oversight, given NZ Rugby & the MSM’s insistence on ‘equity’ between Men’s & Women’s rugby.
        
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        November 13, 2022 6:02pm
    - Paulus
      
      Jaspinda was on AirForce1 on to a photo shoot in Phnom Phen – in Cambodia, called an APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Council) meeting.
      She is the only Woman Present at the meeting so she will love that.
      The fact that she also stands out is tha she knows sweet fa about economice as we know, and how much of our money will she give away to look big ?
      
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      November 13, 2022 10:46am
      - hullkiwi
        
        Yes, and have you read/heard her excuses, and the lame “I caught the last 20 minutes on my phone”.
        
        She flew RNZAF 1, she could have left after the match. It was no different to the verbiage Allen gave the NZRU about the clash in Japan. If it is important…..but there wasn’t a single cabinet minister present….
        
        Instead, they took to social media this morning for damage limitation!
        
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        November 13, 2022 2:06pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Nah. I read that horizontal Harris was representing the Democrat Party – and maybe the United States.
        I’m not sure, neither is she.
        
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        November 13, 2022 3:57pm
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        And she reckons she is going to Vietnam to tak trade. Why? Vietnam is in the TPP, no need for her to waffle, does this mean she will just miss another week in the house
        
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        November 13, 2022 4:35pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Sporting the popup Kate Sheppard hairstyle for the photo occasion?
        
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        November 13, 2022 8:45pm
      - Old.Mickey.Blue.Eyes
        
        her priority was meeting with Klaus Schwab from WEF.
        
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        November 13, 2022 10:56pm
    - OlderChas
      
      Not happy to be out in public without a huge security cordon maybe?
      
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      November 13, 2022 11:00am
    - MCōs
      
      Grant Robertson, Min of Sport was there. Keri Allan was there.
      I was there! In the same photo as Grant Robertson, but some distance away.
      I’ve followed rugby all my life, I’m still bamboozled be the laws of the game and how they are applied.
      My son, on the other hand, knows them out of necessity & he’s terrible company to watch a game.
      https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck34KwpSxwm/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=
      
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      November 13, 2022 1:47pm
      - hullkiwi
        
        I’ve played/followed rugby all my life too. I played at high school when mauls became the vogue in the 1970s (prior to that everything was a ruck). Then the 1980s, when first Auckland and then the ABs made the maul a weapon to score tries with from anywhere on the field. I was under the impression that truck & trailer, rejoining/hanging on to the maul and using the maul for deliberate obstruction were meant to have been a ting of the past. However,last night everything that I thought had been banned was there on full displayed, and it provided 4 tries.
        
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        November 13, 2022 2:13pm
  - Dodger
    
    The referee was Hollie Davidson from Scotland Rugby
    
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    November 13, 2022 2:58pm
- Opie
  
  Yet another rugby match ruined by a nonsensical red card. But I’m sure the team of 5 million don’t care.
  
  That was an accidental head clash pure and simple. How do you get sent off for that?
  
  England were going to win about 40 nil untill it became 14 on 15.
  
  So with a one player advantage they just snuck home – as is often the way in sport, the best team doesn’t always win.
  
  I will say though that the nz defence at the end was outstanding against the line out drives.
  
  Also, Sam Kane could take some captaincy lessons from Ruawhe (sp?) Damont. A true leader
  
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  November 13, 2022 9:04am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Opie, it was a late tackle (albeit committed) that took out Woodman, it was a shoulder charge without arms, and it also had a head clash. Under modern rules, it is an instant red card. Under the same rules, the yellow card was also correct. What was not a correct call was allowing the English wing to return to the field. She showed clearly all the signs of a head knock and by continuing to play, she was only endangering herself.
    
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    November 13, 2022 9:18am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      A person with a bang in the head should never come back on, for their own safety.
      Both off I reckon.
      Yeah, but then we lead to stockcar footy like gridiron. Helmets please.
      
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      November 13, 2022 4:04pm
  - Tony Stuart
    
    How do you get sent off for that? Because that’s the rules, whether the contact is intentional of not. Head to head contact with force starts at red card level, and will only be reduced if there are mitigating factors, of which there were none; both players were upright throughout until Portia Woodman went down unconscious from the contact. It’s highly dangerous play, regardless of whether it’s intentional or accidental.
    
    The onfield and TV officials got that call 100% correct. The English player should have gone lower, and has only herself to blame.
    
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    November 13, 2022 9:24am
    - pdm
      
      Inv in most of the head clashes I have seen (in the tackle) the ball carrier is often as culpable as the tackler yet is never carded.
      
      Why?
      
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      November 13, 2022 9:47am
      - Opie
        
        Yep, I wondered the same.
        
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        November 13, 2022 10:16am
      - crikey
        
        This was not one of “the most”.
        
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        November 13, 2022 1:02pm
    - Opie
      
      It may be the rules but it’s ridiculous. They are basically saying you can’t tackle front on, unless the tackler bends over and exposes their head. Attacker leads with the hip, knocks out the tackler and no one is sent off?
      
      That tackle wasn’t late, it can’t be a shoulder charge as it was chest to chest.
      
      The point is this, the game is being dulled to the point where you may as well play touch.
      
      Do the league method where it goes on report unless its a swinging arm. That way the games outcome is not so badly affected.
      
      Rugby has stolen most of leagues rules anyway….
      
      Anyone supporting this has never played the game.
      
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      November 13, 2022 10:23am
      - hullkiwi
        
        Woodsman was without the ball. She had off loaded it. Making the tackle late.
        
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        November 13, 2022 12:31pm
    - Dodger
      
      Same as Brodie Retallick. Not intentional but accidental as the opposing player dropped lower just as Retallick made the tackle.
      
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      November 13, 2022 3:03pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I thought the Referee was playing for the British – just wearing the wrong colours.
  
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  November 13, 2022 9:04am
  - mandk
    
    You obviously know little about national rivalries in the UK, if you think a Scottish ref would favour an English team.
    
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    November 13, 2022 9:14am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      The Ref supports England, and any other team that plays NZ
      
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      November 13, 2022 10:31am
      - riffer
        
        As someone of Scottish heritage I can assure you that is not going to happen.
        
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        November 13, 2022 10:53am
      - crikey
        
        Bullshit.
        
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        November 13, 2022 1:05pm
  - hullkiwi
    
    I agree.
    
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    November 13, 2022 9:19am
- rouppe
  
  One big missed call, I think, was in the play resulting in the penalty to England which led to the stolen lineout.
  
  There was helter-skelter activity and I swear an England player stuck her hand out and caused a deliberate knock on, which is usually a yellow card.
  
  Completely missed
  
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  November 13, 2022 9:16am
  - hullkiwi
    
    The other call that was wrong, was the lineout penalty against NZ for collapsing the maul near the end. The English player was brought down by her own team.
    
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    November 13, 2022 9:57am
- Bob
  
  the worst demonstration of ‘tinkering with rules’,was the ‘Rose’ player who wasted time with a bootlace problem while her team mates held an onfield conference; ignoring the instruction from the Ref to PLAY. This is a penalisable offence within the rules, but is never used; northern teams excel at time wasting which detracts from the flow of the game.
  A penalty try to the opposition for such behaviour within the 22 field area, and a free kick to the non offending team in the mid field area – between 22’s-would soon stop this nonsense.
  
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  November 13, 2022 10:06am
  - Opie
    
    Wayne Smith coaching Master class as well, changing the maul and line out defence strategy at half time.
    
    Ian foster would have just sat there like a deer in the headlights
    
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    November 13, 2022 10:30am
  - OlderChas
    
    Make a rule something like: Ref calls play after one minute of stoppage. Injured player, or one with a bootlace problem must leave the field immediately. After calling play – the ref starts silently counting in seconds. For every second, the restart is moved ten metres up the field. If the 10 metres takes play over the goal line – it becomes a try. Watch players scurrying to get on with the game!
    
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    November 13, 2022 11:07am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  What’s attracted little comment (that I’ve seen) is how many points were left on the field, ie missed conversions & at least one penalty. The Black Ferns should not have been clinging on by their fingertips at minute 79.
  
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  November 13, 2022 5:33pm
Captain Mainwaring

What the Hell is Sharon Murdoch on about this morning?
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November 13, 2022 8:44am
- riffer
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  I suggest you read this to get an understanding. Our emissions record isn’t great. It’s one thing to say we shouldn’t try and reduce it because we are but a small player. It’s another thing when we are actually doing a lot worse than many other countries.
  
  https://environment.govt.nz/publications/new-zealands-greenhouse-gas-inventory-1990-2020-snapshot/#gross-emissions-since-1990
  
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  November 13, 2022 8:55am
  - Mike H S
    
    We are not doing worse than China, India, USA and a good number of other countries. What NZ pumps into the atmosphere China would surpass in a day easily.
    
    NZ should not be ruining its economy and lowering the standard of living of its citizens to fulfil a perceived obligation that will make the PM look good.
    
    There is a huge amount of data out there produced by scientists who disagree with AGW but they are not getting any attention. We need an adult conversation about the whole issue with freedom of speech and respect for those who would swim against the tide. We desperately need that discussion.
    
    Sadly, in this woke world, it is not going to happen, and we will all suffer as a result.
    
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    November 13, 2022 9:09am
    - riffer
      
      It’s not about total amounts. That’s an absurd notion. We can do better than we are. Way better.
      
      Happy to have an adult conversation about it.
      
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      November 13, 2022 10:54am
      - NZer In Exile
        
        But you climate cultists can’t have an adult conversation about it. You’ve been censoring serious climate scientists since this flaky hypothesis got wings in the lying grifting media.
        
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        November 13, 2022 8:48pm
  - Benedict Yu
    
    What do you suggest?
    
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    November 13, 2022 9:10am
    - riffer
      
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      Well we all hope that technology will show us a way forward. But ultimately, the problem here is the constant growth model that modern capitalism requires. It means sustainability and environmental management takes second position (or worse) to increasing profit. Short term profit becomes more important than thinking about how to ensure profit will always endure.
      
      So, for mine, I think we need a major paradigm shift around how we view the capitalist model. Change from such a short term, increase profit for this year compared to last year, to a model where we look at a 20, 30, 100 year profit model. Sure, its not as compelling to shareholders, but ultimately, the wealth will be greater in the long run. And we might just end up with a better society and place to live in for that.
      
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      November 13, 2022 9:16am
      - hullkiwi
        
        Riffer the problem in the world is population. By 2050 it will be 10bill.
        
        20% of the world’s methane comes from rice production. How is the world gaining to address that if the world goes vegetarian, and the largest percentage of global population growth is in those countries that grow rice.
        
        The report is a production of Victoria University, the same “academics” who have been writing nZ’s environmental policy for the last 20 years. These people are the “children” of the same Victoria University that gave us the Values party, and policies that are backward and are not in line with policies in Europe.
        
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        November 13, 2022 9:30am
      - Bob
        
        riffer, perhaps we could remove the desire of the unmotivated to live a capitalist lifestyle without the accompanying personal effort; i.e get rid of ‘welfare as a lifestyle choice’; then the country would be able to live within its productive means.
        
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        November 13, 2022 10:09am
      - amospicton
        
        Oh right, the economic model that has lifted billions out of poverty, improved living standards and life expectancy immeasurably, demonstrably the best system ever developed is the problem? Without ‘constant growth’ we go backwards at a rapid rate.
        
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        November 13, 2022 10:27am
      - The Housekeeper
        
        Reward those who don’t breed.
        
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        November 13, 2022 12:00pm
      - Nickc2
        
        Maori won’t stand for that. They know full well that those who currently call themselves Maori will be an extinct species in 30-40 years and their elites want the money and assets NOW eh?
        
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        November 13, 2022 12:40pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        “Well we all hope that technology will show us a way forward.”
        
        You don’t decommission the lifeblood of modern civilization (fossil fuels) on the “hope” that some replacement technology will save the day. That’s supremely retarded.
        
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        November 13, 2022 8:51pm
    - riffer
      
      Don’t get me wrong; I am not saying profit is bad. I am saying that constant growth is unsustainable as it neglects the fact that resource is not unlimited.
      
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      November 13, 2022 9:17am
      - rouppe
        
        Constant growth is required because of the constant growth of the population.
        
        The answer is then obvious.
        
        Yet the most recent example of nature trying to thin the herd was met by a moral panic that not one person must die…
        
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        November 13, 2022 9:27am
      - Benedict Yu
        
        “I am saying that constant growth is unsustainable ..”
        
        Most economists would disagree. GDP is the total value of the domestic production of all goods and services. Note – VALUE, not quantity. Switzerland became rich selling world class services (banking, insurance etc.). Are you suggesting there is a limit to the value of those services? Even in New Zealand, the service sector makes up most of the economy.
        
        The other thing to remember is that environmental degradation is inversely related to wealth. Have you been to India? I have. About 600 million people live day to day – literally. Do you think they care about the environment?
        
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        November 13, 2022 9:37am
      - NZer In Exile
        
        There is not going to be an ever expanding “plague” of humans.
        
        The population is leveling off as people inevitably gain more wealth. The number one thing that we could do now to accelerate this goodness is to get cheap contraceptives into the hands of women in poor countries.
        
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        November 13, 2022 8:54pm
    - RightNow
      
      We already have the technology – nuclear energy.
      It’s just a matter of time until there’s no other choice. Especially as Europe goes into winter with inadequate energy supplies.
      
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      November 13, 2022 12:18pm
      - Ian Boag
        
        And the country that is building the most new nukes – by a country mile – is China.
        
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        November 13, 2022 12:51pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        France has been 70 to 80% nuclear powered for decades.
        
        I’m not totally sold on nuclear due to the current real world waste disposal issues. However, going full nuclear (preferably advanced) would be better than societal collapse due to the foolish reliance on expensive and ineffective “renewables”.
        
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        November 13, 2022 8:58pm
  - Taieri
    
    I suggest you read this to get an understanding.
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    I suggest you acquaint yourself with statistical data regarding NZ population increase in the corresponding period to get an understanding of what causes emissions.
    
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    November 13, 2022 9:15am
    - riffer
      
      Look, I am not disputing that. The problem is, that there are finite resources on this planet. We cannot continue to use them like we will never run out. We need to find a way to get off this planet and population the galaxy before the planet isn’t very easy to live on any more.
      
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      November 13, 2022 11:14am
      - Lance
        
        I agree our future is in space. There are vast resources in the asteroid belt and other planets and moons.
        Constantly underfunding space programs need to stop, we either regress and stall as a species (the Greens are happy for this to happen), requiring serious population control (like that’s going happen) or we expand our horizons.
        
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        November 13, 2022 12:38pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        The Finite Resources argument always falls down because it assumes that mankind will stop innovating.
        We have Resources for thousands of years (and the population is about to start really falling).
        The UK alone is sitting on 500 years of Natural Gas but they would rather Grannies died every Winter.
        Its crazy.
        
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        November 13, 2022 2:23pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        There are finite resources (A shitload actually. Note: We dwell on the mere surface of the 30% land part of the earth), and there is infinite human ingenuity, which is how we got to the current highest point of human wellbeing!!
        
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        November 13, 2022 9:02pm
    - Nickc2
      
      The Cat’s out of the bag! John Kerry (United States special presidential envoy for climate) finally admits Climate Change is all about money.
      Who would have guessed?
      https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/11/john-kerry-confirms-climate-change-is-all-about-the-money.html
      
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      November 13, 2022 1:02pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        When Coca-Cola is the sponsor of the latest Climate-Change talkfest – COP27, then I reckon we can all guess that it’s ALWAYS been about the money.
        
        https://www.worldobesity.org/news/health-organisations-call-on-the-unfccc-to-protect-cop-from-corporate-greenwashing-following-coca-cola-sponsorship
        
        Anyone remember Enron?
        https://thebhc.org/enron-and-kyoto-protocol-us-climate-change-policy-making-1990s
        
        Carbon Credits didn’t invent themselves.
        
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        November 13, 2022 1:44pm
  - mandk
    
    Our per capita emissions have dropped by about 20% since 1990.
    
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    November 13, 2022 9:17am
    - Chris Nisbet
      
      20%? Pfft. They’re apparently going to drop 100% in the next 30 years.
      The good times are over, folks. Our government is literally trying to wreck our country. They’re not even trying to hide it. e.g. They proudly declare that agriculture production will reduce 20% in an effort to _increase_ global nitrogen emissions (replace our low emissions with higher emissions from another country).
      Check out the nonsense in this article.
      https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/05/analysis-what-will-be-in-climate-change-minister-james-shaw-s-plan-to-tackle-climate-change.html
      
      It is insanity. None of this will make the slightest difference to the ‘climate’. They know this, and we know this. They know that we know, and still they do it, and still we let them.
      
      The only way to reduce emissions to zero will be to commit suicide, and our leaders are on a mission to make that happen.
      
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      November 13, 2022 10:58am
      - riffer
        
        But we can’t continue to use resource and create emissions like we have done. It’s okay for those who only have, say 10-20 years left on this planet, but those who have to come after are going to have a fairly shitty time of it compared to those born in the 1940s and 1950s. As someone born in the late 60s, I have noticed there is no way I am going to have the lifestyle my parents have had.
        
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        November 13, 2022 11:15am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @ riffer,
        
        you may not have the lifestyle of your parents, but there are millions of Chinese, Indians, South Americans, Africans, Pacific Islanders and Europeans who are currently enjoying better lives than their parents did, and if their children make the most of their educational opportunities, then they are unlikely to have a shittier future than anyone else.
        
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        November 13, 2022 1:18pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Riffer
        Yes we can because nothing is changing much at all.
        Its all very gradual. Anyone who says contrary to that is a Science Denier.
        Besides, even if the whole world does what the Alarmists want us to do, how much will that reduce the temperature?
        
        PS when are the climate morons going to wake up to the fact that only rich countries can deal with pollution so maybe they should stop wrecking our economy and making us poor.
        Its almost like they have another reason for doing so.
        
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        November 13, 2022 1:19pm
      - artemisia
        
        @riffer
        
        According to the World Bank, China in the last few decades lifted nearly a billion citizens out of poverty – 75% of the world’s poor. That’s a lot of people looking at a better (or actual) future.
        
        Not everyone would condone how China did it but there’s nearly a billion folk who would say that’s nitpicking.
        
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        November 13, 2022 1:32pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Riffer you are labouring under the delusion that CO2 is the control knob for the average temperature of the earth. There is no testable evidence for that position. Creating models based on a mere hypothesis isn’t proof.
        
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        November 13, 2022 9:05pm
  - Spam
    
    Why are reductions measured against a baseline year of 1990, particularly given that the original Kyoto agreement was 1997?
    
    It is because the likes of Germany had shut down their coal-fired power stations (for economic, not environmental, reasons), and wanted to get ‘credit’ for them.
    
    NZ never had the level of emissions that other countries had, because we had large amounts of renewables.
    
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    November 13, 2022 9:19am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      “Why are reductions measured against a baseline year of 1990,…”
      
      IIRC the EU negotiated that baseline. It was the year after the fall of the Eastern Bloc in 1989 and the reunification of Germany. Germany shut down much of the dirty industry in the former East Germany. It was then able to bank millions of emissions credits.
      
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      November 13, 2022 10:02am
  - alloytoo
    
    I think it’s time to review AGW climate model for predictive ability, or the lack thereof.
    
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    November 13, 2022 9:21am
  - rouppe
    
    How much of that increase is due to higher Indonesian coal imports because there isn’t enough gas supply because no one is touching that resource anymore?
    
    Plus if our emissions have risen 20% they have gone from 0.09% to 0.108% of global emissions.
    
    Big fucking deal
    
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    November 13, 2022 9:24am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      “How much of that increase is due to higher Indonesian coal imports because there isn’t enough gas supply because no one is touching that resource anymore?”
      
      Maybe there is not enough gas but I doubt that is a result of the ban on offshore gas exploration. Those exploration efforts, if successful would have led to gas coming online in the 2030s and 2040s. IIRC we will pretty much run out of supply from current sources by the mid 2030s.
      
      In opposing exploration, Labour and the Greens are assuming that when the supply is exhausted we will simply stop using gas in New Zealand. Why else would they oppose looking for more of the stuff? Far more likely we will be importing LNG from Australia.
      
      As you can see from this chart, Australia is going nuts on gas exports. Exports will exceed $100 billion in the 2022/23 financial year.
      
      https://www.ceicdata.com/datapage/charts/ipc_australia_natural-gas-exports/?type=area&from=2010-12-01&to=2021-12-01&lang=en
      
      https://www.appea.com.au/all_news/media-release-importance-of-new-gas-supply-to-australian-economy-underscored-by-another-upgrade-for-record-breaking-lng-exports/#:~:text=The%20REQ%20report%20showed%20oil,eclipsed%20the%20%24100%20billion%20mark.
      
      I have said many times – natural gas will be a golden fuel for at least the next two decades. The investment in gas facilities in Australia is on a scale that is simply staggering.
      
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      November 13, 2022 10:09am
      - riffer
        
        Between 1990 and 2020, gross emissions increased by 21 per cent (13.6 Mt CO2-e). This is mostly due to increased methane from growth in the dairy cattle population and carbon dioxide from road transport.
        The Waste sector had the only overall reduction in gross emissions, with a decrease of 17 per cent (0.7 Mt CO2-e) due to ongoing improvements in the management of landfills.
        
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        November 13, 2022 11:16am
      - NZer In Exile
        
        “Between 1990 and 2020, gross emissions increased by 21 per cent (13.6 Mt CO2-e).”
        
        Yes there would be reason to crap one’s pants if we could prove Co2 controls the climate to any worrying degree. There is no evidence for this.
        
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        November 13, 2022 9:07pm
  - Tony Stuart
    
    Yet the Beehive claims we are now the world’s most sustainable traders, our dairy sector is the most carbon efficient in the world, and our red meat sector is among the best.
    
    So why is the Government determined to send farmers to the wall?
    
    https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/new-zealand-ranked-first-sustainable-trade-index
    
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    November 13, 2022 9:26am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      To look good at the UN?
      
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      November 13, 2022 10:10am
    - Bob
      
      Tony there are no farms and farmers in the sectors of the NZ economy that supports the Labour base. All these residents see is a farm with acres of grass, large tractors big houses with swimming pools -fire pools actually- often two cars, or six if the children are at secondary school/university in the city.
      Such farmers are seen to be ‘Rich Pricks’ -Cullenisim- and therefore should be crucified economically.
      
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      November 13, 2022 10:17am
  - backster
    
    Doesn’t look too bad to me. Did the other countries include methane in their emissions.
    
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    November 13, 2022 9:48am
  - DenisPurdy
    
    I read it the bit you linked to and not surprisingly, we are supposedly so terrible because of our cows emitting methane. This ignores the fact that methane is the “irrelevant greenhouse gas”:
    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/04/11/methane-the-irrelevant-greenhouse-gas/
    Apart from which, how is the methane from domesticated cows deemed evil when the same thing from their wild auroch ancestors would not be? .. or from wild wildebeest or deer or termites or wetlands? Biota have produced methane for 100 of millions of years and the world survived. The fact that some of the current biota are owned by humans doesn’t change the biological fundamentals.
    
    Believing the drivel in that report is the mark of a shallow ignorant mind.
    
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    November 13, 2022 10:34am
- PHC
  
  I think it’s a Chicken Little reference.
  
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  November 13, 2022 9:00am
- Nickc2
  
  Who the fuck is Sharon Murdoch? I’ve never heard of her. Is she important and if so, who says so?
  
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  November 13, 2022 9:01am
  - riffer
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    She’s a cartoonist who sets off people on here because she takes a leftish point of view of politics.
    
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    November 13, 2022 9:11am
    - Nickc2
      
      Oh, I see, she’s a Left-leaning Cartoonist who specialises in making like-minded Left-leaning non Cartoonists laugh at her drawings.
      Do you laugh at her drawings riffer?
      
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      November 13, 2022 9:22am
      - riffer
        
        Sometimes. When they are funny. Mostly I find them sad.
        
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        November 13, 2022 11:17am
    - dubya
      
      ‘Leftish’, that made my morning!
      
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      November 13, 2022 9:31am
      - pdm
        
        `Leftish’ is a significant understatement dubya.
        
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        November 13, 2022 9:51am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      She’s no cartoonist. Cartoonists are funny.
      She’s a hard left activist.
      
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      November 13, 2022 9:42am
      - Benedict Yu
        
        Yes exactly. ALL governments do things that deserve to be made fun of. She does not do so. That is why she is a failure and should be derided.
        
        Just think of the available subject matter that she ignored:
        
        David Clark on his bike during lockdown.
        
        Jacinda – “single source of truth”
        
        Trevor Mallard turning on Barry Manilow at the Parliament protest.
        
        Phil Twyford and Kiwibuild
        
        Mahuta and the relatives….
        
        … and on and on and on… but no she is only there to mock Luxon.
        
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        November 13, 2022 10:17am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      Aren’t cartoonists supposed to be comedic? It should be impossible to detect the political leanings of any excellent political cartoonist. Everyone should be open to being parodied. Yet with this one, she never parodies the Government in her cartoons, despite the enormous wealth of subject matter available.
      
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      November 13, 2022 10:13am
    - DenisPurdy
      
      She is vile, nasty, (nasty, nasty, etc) leftist who despises free speech. Her carton slandering David Seymour over his defense of free speech (it shows him being kissed by Hitler and a KKK member as I recall) was the most disgusting and utterly unfair political cartoon that I ever seen. Those of us who believe in free speech have every reason to loathe her with a white hot loathing.
      
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      November 13, 2022 10:47am
      - Ghost
        
        So you believe in free speech except for her. I don’t bother with her cartoons, doesn’t interest me, but it seems people who hate what she does just love to go look at them so they can then bitch about it. Stop looking.
        
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        November 13, 2022 10:51am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Just don’t look at it. If you come across something that triggers you, just don’t let it get in your head, and dismiss it.
        Just like all the downticks, I don’t care. Tick away you morons.
        
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        November 13, 2022 11:10am
      - riffer
        
        Gotta agree with you on that one Steve. If you don’t like downticks, this ain’t the place for you.
        
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        November 13, 2022 11:18am
      - ISeeRed
        
        @Ghost, DenisPurdy said or implied nothing of the sort. Free speech includes the right to freely critique the free speech of others. You know, like you just did, and I’m doing now, and what you’re welcome to do with mine.
        
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        November 13, 2022 7:01pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Journalists pride themselves on ‘speaking truth to power’. The definition should apply to Ms Murdoch, since she is a political cartoonist.
      
      The current holder of power is the Labour government. I’m perplexed as to why she spends so much time focused on National & its leader.
      
      Surely that’s a fail?
      
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      November 13, 2022 5:00pm
  - Taieri
    
    Who the fuck is Sharon Murdoch?
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    A mediocrity without a hint of talent…
    
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    November 13, 2022 9:17am
  - mandk
    
    I think her greatest contribution was when she was employed to pick up dog shit.
    
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    November 13, 2022 12:23pm
- Paulus
  
  Any morning you mean !
  
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  November 13, 2022 10:48am
Tasman devil

But remember be kind.
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November 13, 2022 8:44am
Surely Knott

Stuff article property developer kitty Merriman complains about the cost of traffic management. She says staff likely earn $ 30 an hour and get charged out at $100 an hour.

“However, wages are not necessarily where the excessive costs come in. Merriman conducted a forensic examination of her supply chain and found that between the traffic management firm, the subcontractor and head contractor, a 100% margin was being added the true cost.”

How can Merriman do a “forensic audit” of her own supply chain, and from that determine her suppliers costs and markup?

Has she got a copy of their accounts? All she’s given is a 30$ reckon on their wage vs $100 charge out but does that include the other employee costs like recruitment and KiwiSaver and the cost of the specialised truck they arrive in, the trucks driver, the time it takes for them to get to her job, petrol, insurance for vehicle & company, acc , rising interest, head office costs? How does she know what their Markup is? What markup is she expecting to make on her own development?

Then she says “She believes this is an industry-wide problem that has come about due to the legal requirement for traffic management.

Most developers are following a legal requirement and don’t know any better, and so they just pay? “

That makes no sense on one hand she says it’s a legal requirement and then she says they are ignorant and don’t know any better than to t pay. What does she know is there a better but still legal way?

Traffic management is very expensive. It should be examined to see if we can find smarter safer ways to do it. But this article contained no facts that would help do that.
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November 13, 2022 8:56am
- dubya
  
  It’s unusual that a simple main contractor, subcontractor chain would add a 100% margin to traffic management. Ms Merriman is being ripped off, if that is the case. Both the head contract and subcontract agreements should state an agreed margin for variations (usually road crossings are a provisional sum because they’re prone to finding services in different places to those shown in the records).
  
  That said, traffic management is very expensive. I’ve shut off lanes of Queen Street before, the council fee itself isn’t too bad. It’s everything else that is insanely expensive. Sometimes Traffic Management companies over-specify the road type to ream the client/keep staff busy (I.e. a quiet cul de sac shouldn’t require the same TMP as a four lane arterial).
  
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  November 13, 2022 9:40am
- rouppe
  
  … Safer ways to do it
  
  And there is the problem. Ultimate safety is expensive. That’s the point she’s making.
  
  Back in the day, motorway mowers were a bloke who brought a mower to an area, and mowed the berm. Sometimes a moron driving that road didn’t take care and people got injured.
  
  After that signs cautioning of a mower in operation were used, the colour of which is supposed to tell drivers to be extra cautious. Still, people drove into the back of mowers, or the truck.
  
  Things have escalated to the point where the full length of the area being mown is lined by cones, a lane is closed, there is a safety truck with driver, a mower truck with driver, and the whole operation takes three times as long as it used to.
  
  There’s your cost
  
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  November 13, 2022 9:41am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Don’t forget the road cone spacing expert, the road cone inspector, and the road cone guards. Some thing they are doing nothing, but their jobs are the most important.
    
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    November 13, 2022 10:42am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      *think
      
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      November 13, 2022 11:12am
    - riffer
      
      It’s the legacy of Health and Safety legislation that was brought in after people died. Both Labour and National have contributed to that. Now, if you want to do anything on a road you must have a traffic management plan. I was involved in a lot of motorcycle runs for charity. The rules around that have made it difficult, and run the risk of costing more than the amount of money you can raise.
      
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      November 13, 2022 11:21am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Health and Safety are keeping stupid people alive.
        They are in the business of putting small businesses out of business. I have experienced them first hand. Why does an engineering business with 6 on the floor and 3 in the office need 10 fire extinguishers of two types? A rag with solvent on it gets a spark from a welder and starts burning. Chuck it on the floor and cover with a sheet of ply or steel. Last thing you want is an idiot with an extinguisher blasting a burning rag all around the workshop.
        Common sense is not that common anymore.
        Oh, we had to have a fire drill every 3 months and all sign a book. Fuck.
        
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        November 13, 2022 12:01pm
- Bob
  
  The article is very accurate.
  This waste of money ‘cones activity’ was a ‘make work’ programme from the Lange government.
  
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  November 13, 2022 10:20am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Read an article this morning about Countries reducing or quitting coal use.
Strangely NZ was not mentioned, wonder why? Is it because NZ are hypocrites? We leave our coal in the ground and import it?
Someone needs to point this out to Jaspinda – the rest of the World does not give a fuck about NZ.
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/sustainable-future/the-countries-leading-the-way-on-quitting-coal
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November 13, 2022 9:17am
- Taieri
  
  https://www.newsroom.co.nz/sustainable-future/the-countries-leading-the-way-on-quitting-coal
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  Wishful tinking a plenty in this article…
  
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  November 13, 2022 9:42am
- Nickc2
  
  the rest of the World does not give a fuck about NZ
  Ah, but Cindy wants a job at the UN.
  There are plenty of little countries around the World that are little more than Back-Waters who have Marxist Dictators working for the UN and our Cindy can’t even get on the UN’s Shortlist for a job.
  We peasants are suffering as a result of her ambitions. She doesn’t give a fuck about us. It’s all about her and her drive for a One World Marxist Govt where there’s a role for herself.
  
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  November 13, 2022 10:04am
- Paulus
  
  But we are still importing Indonesian Coal at a higher rate than ever before.
  
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  November 13, 2022 1:14pm
alloytoo

Is 3 waters Jacinda’s Apartheid moment?

Seems we should all remind her that this is what she will be remembered for.
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November 13, 2022 9:25am
- Nickc2
  
  She’s too dumb to notice. Some Kindy-Kid needs to draw her a picture.
  There you go riffer, get Sharon Murdoch on the job eh?
  
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  November 13, 2022 10:08am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Ooooooh, that’s mean!
    
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    November 13, 2022 11:16am
  - riffer
    
    I remain to be convinced that the bitching about Māori having a right of veto over water rights is more to do with certain political parties having an unstated agenda to privatise water.
    
    I do find it interesting that giving an equal say to Pākeha for Māori is considered apartheid.
    
    I don’t often agree with Martyn Bradbury (I find him a bit of a tosser) but he has a point when he says that our systems of power and control are all white, our dominant culture is white, our benefitting from colonialism is white, our purposeful laws aimed at taking more Māori land were white, our confiscations are white, our dominant narrative is white, and that any attempt to rebalance the damage caused by taking 90% of Māori land in less than a century and any attempt to live up to the promise of the Treaty must be denigrated and appallingly decried as apartheid.
    
    Co-Governance is the EXACT model that National and ACT developed. 3 Waters was an attempt to serve two masters, the Waitangi Tribunal ruling into water ownership triggered by Key selling 49% of the hydro assets and the need to find a way for Local Councils to fund water infrastructure.
    
    I have yet to hear a coherent argument that will address the infrastructal problems we are facing.
    
    All I hear is patch protection and Māori bashing.
    
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    November 13, 2022 11:29am
    - riffer
      
      First line should read:
      
      I remain to be convinced that the bitching about Māori having a right of veto over water rights ISN’T more to do with certain political parties having an unstated agenda to privatise water.
      
      I can’t be arsed being placed in a moderation queue for an hour or two by editing it though.
      
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      November 13, 2022 11:30am
    - Nickc2
      
      IMO, Martyn Bradbury wouldn’t know if the Town Hall Clock was up him until it chimed.
      The fact that we have more White Politicians than Maori has little if anything to do with White People. Maori have been free to stand for Electoral Office since forever. White Politicians even made compulsory Maori Seats available to Maori while they could choose between voting for a Maori Representative or voting for anyone for that matter (note, one person, one vote).
      The word apartheid is relatively new to NZ Politics and any bias in its implementation has been initiated by this Govt’s Maori Caucus and must be resisted at all costs.
      3Waters is a classic example of reverse apartheid being introduced into NZ Politics and just look at who’s pushing it eh?
      
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      November 13, 2022 11:51am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Trouble is that an equal half is elected, and the other half (Moari) is appointed. That is what the Moari Elite want. It is somewhere in the 3 articles of the Treaty. I can’t find it.
      
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      November 13, 2022 12:05pm
      - MCōs
        
        Apart from anything else your spelling is incorrect *Māori*
        How long have you lived in New Zealand?
        
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        November 13, 2022 1:55pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        @MCos. I spell it as I pronounce it.
        Moari. Mow are ree
        
        [Mod – you can stop misspelling it]
        
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        November 13, 2022 4:10pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Read the comments I post about stop co-governance Riffer.
      You don’t have to agree with it, but the webpage has a lot of unknown things in it.
      
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      November 13, 2022 12:08pm
    - Benedict Yu
      
      “….an equal say to Pākeha for Māori …”
      
      There is your problem right there. You are defining people based on their ethnicity.
      
      If we regard everyone as citizens, the entire narrative changes. I am a New Zealand citizen. So is my Maori neighbour two doors down. And his white partner. And their two half brown half white kids. Do you really want to allocate us different rights based on our ethnicity?
      
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      November 13, 2022 12:13pm
      - MCōs
        
        Peter Thiel is a New Zealand citizen too. He’s only even been here for five minutes. I read the other day he’d just got Maltese citizenship to add to German and American.
        Do you think he should have equal rights to tangata whenua, people of the land, in all those countries?
        I’m a Kiwi. I could have acquired a UK passport stating I’m a British Citizen without even going there if my father had been British not my mother.
        
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        November 13, 2022 2:14pm
      - Benedict Yu
        
        “Do you think he should have equal rights to tangata whenua, people of the land, in all those countries?”
        
        Yes. We don’t have second class citizens.
        
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        November 13, 2022 2:53pm
      - MCōs
        
        Wasn’t talking about you, but pointing out how meaningless merely citizenship on it’s own can be.
        A Thai friend of ours who was living in NZ left for Australia the moment she got citizenship to be with her husband.
        
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        November 13, 2022 5:38pm
    - NoFax
      
      Every citizen gets one vote and each vote is of equal weight. If one group, based on race, gets more votes or more “say”, which actually means decision making, then that’s the problem. We can’t have two types of citizenship in the country based on race. That’s apartheid.
      
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      November 13, 2022 3:04pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Vote of equal weight, and height.
        If you don’t comply, you are looked down upon.
        That is “apartheid”
        
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        November 13, 2022 4:15pm
      - Benedict Yu
        
        “We can’t have two types of citizenship in the country based on race. ”
        
        Or whether of not they decide to get vaccinated for a virus.
        
        Journalist: “Aren’t you creating two classes of citizens?”
        
        Jacinda: “Yep yep that is what it is”.
        
        If she can go that route on vaccination status she can go there on ethnicity.
        
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        November 13, 2022 5:26pm
Maggy Wassilieff

What do all the managers at Kaianga Ora – Homes and Communities do?

“Written Parliamentary Questions from Housing Minister Megan Woods show a Government department that is out of control with bureaucracy. It has hired an additional 275 managers since June 2020, 133 in the past year alone.

“The cost to taxpayers for all these extra managers is eye watering. Managerial salaries have gone from $58,351,708 in 2020 to $103,695,178 annually in 2022. The average salary is around $175k.

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2211/S00108/kainga-ora-blows-out-on-staffing-costs.htm
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November 13, 2022 9:41am
- Taieri
  
  What do all the managers at Kaianga Ora – Homes and Communities do?
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  They manage…
  
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  November 13, 2022 9:43am
  - Bob
    
    They manage…
    to waste as much time as possible to ensure that there will be something in the ‘intray’ to also ignore tomorrow.
    there completed the sentence for you!
    
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    November 13, 2022 10:23am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      I think they just email each other. Niece in Brisbane wanted to ask her friend something, so emailed her. The friend was on the opposite side of the office – they could see each other ffs.
      
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      November 13, 2022 4:27pm
- Nickc2
  
  Come the day of reckoning, all these extra Leeches will have to be paid out and that won’t be cheap.
  Megan Woods is doing her job in ‘trashing the joint’ before they are out on their fat arses.
  
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  November 13, 2022 10:16am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    Not these days.. public servants employed in recent years do not get big redundancy pay outs.
    
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    November 13, 2022 12:16pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Can retired people like me get a part time job there?
  Not as if it is physical work. I can lift a ream of A4
  
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  November 13, 2022 11:18am
- GJM
  
  Having dealt with KO, the staff sure doesn’t help delivery. It takes ages to get a decision and the design process is 3 times longer than a private developer. Time is money, and explains their bill costs.
  
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  November 13, 2022 9:18pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Anyone missing our dear Prime Minister yet?
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November 13, 2022 9:42am
- Ghost
  
  Why, does she do anything when she is here?
  
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  November 13, 2022 9:48am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Avoiding Parliament. November 15, 16, 17.
    62 days she has avoided Parliament because of overseas travel.
    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/11/prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-jets-off-to-southeast-asia-racking-up-the-air-miles-for-summit-season.html
    8 day trip.
    
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    November 13, 2022 11:33am
    - Paulus
      
      She does not get shouted at overseas but here she now hides behind closed doors and security guards.
      Good thing she deliberately ducked out of the Rugby Cup as she may have been surprised to find that she may well have been booed, shouted at, or whatever.
      
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      November 13, 2022 1:19pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        All 3. Booed, shouted out, or asked a question from a journalist.
        Nope, that’s not going to work…..
        
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        November 13, 2022 4:30pm
- Bob
  
  why? is she ‘lost again’
  
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  November 13, 2022 10:24am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Yeah, like a hole in the head.
  
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  November 13, 2022 11:19am
Handyman

Not even the green party believes New Zealand’s efforts will reduce global temperatures, even if we destroy our farming industries. We are told it is all about “doing our bit” as part of the global community.
Surely if it is worth destroying the New Zealand economy to reduce emissions, then we should also “do our bit” by allowing mining for the minerals needed for the green economy.
Doing otherwise would make New Zealand a first rate hypocrite. But I guess as long as we are a “world leading” hypocrite that is OK.
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November 13, 2022 9:50am
- Benedict Yu
  
  I have concluded that Green MPs do not understand how the lithium and cobalt required for EV batteries is sourced. Or they choose to be willfully ignorant. When did you see a green MP advocating for an end to child labour in the Congo to extract lithium?
  
  Same with the steel for wind turbines. Do they know that steel is made using a blast furnace and coking coal? And that the West Coast of New Zealand produces high quality coking coal? They seemingly do not have the intellect or the required understanding of science to join the dots.
  
  Another example is the new Wellington mayor who intends to stop Wellington Airport expanding because of climate change. Good luck with that.
  
  If Wellington Airport reaches capacity in 2030, the price of landing slots will rise. Cost of flying to Wellington will increase. International flights from Australia will pivot to Christchurch and Auckland.
  
  Air travel is forecast to DOUBLE by 2040. And there is not a damn thing the Wellington mayor can do about it. All she will achieve is to accelerate the decline of Wellington.
  
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  November 13, 2022 10:26am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  @ Handyman.
  The left like NZ being ‘first’ at everything
  Win at all costs, but we seem to be losing. 6th Labour Govt in NZ and this one is the worst. Import coal – but we have coal. No more gas/oil exploration. We have that under our feet for fuck’s sake.
  We have “WATER”!!!!! No more hydro.
  But hey, Jaspinda will get to United Nations – and fuck you lot.
  
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  November 13, 2022 4:37pm
SmokerGuy

Absolutely loved watching the rugby last night. Just so awesome to see a team at that level showing so much passion and authenticity, it’s impossible not to feel proud to be a kiwi seeing the way they conduct themselves on and off the field. Men’s sport has lost something in the last 15-20 years, it’s become boring and very sanitised. They could learn a lot from the Black Ferns (and other teams in that tournament).
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November 13, 2022 10:11am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Yes I am not really into rugby but even I enjoyed it 🙂
  
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  November 13, 2022 10:19am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I enjoyed. Did not enjoy the Anthems and the Haka. Is it necessary?
    
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    November 13, 2022 4:39pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Women doing the haka? Isn’t that agin the Maori tradition?
      
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      November 13, 2022 5:07pm
- Piticus
  
  What I enjoyed most was the wonderful type of rugby the black ferns played. In contrast the English basically had the boring rolling maul as their only source of ‘go forward’ and try scoring. It was so good to see the entertaining brand beat the boorish brand !!
  
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  November 13, 2022 11:24am
  - MCōs
    
    Back in the good old days the ABs were 10am rugby specialists too.
    Win a line out; first five kicked the ball out again further down field; win the lineout blah blah blah
    It was winning rugby, if a little tedious.
    The rules were changed to stop that drudgery and we all grizzled.
    The English women’s team have a winning formula within the rules of the game.
    
    Until it didn’t work.
    If the rules stay the same the other teams better figure out how to counter the white tide.
    The Blackferns pinched the ball from their throw in otherwise they would have lost.
    
    The old time ABs had other less than legal methods. Ask Bill Beaumont while he’s out here.
    
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    November 13, 2022 2:32pm
    - MCōs
      
      ‘10 man’ that should read
      
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      November 13, 2022 5:21pm
Philview

KB may have discussed this but I was interested to read a discussion on another site that the Republicans picked up 51% of popular vote compared to Dems 46%. The discussion referenced this site http://www.realclearpolitics.com
If the information is correct then the NZ media are misrepresenting the facts by reporting that the US has emphatically rejected the Republican Party.
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November 13, 2022 10:16am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  “NZ media are misrepresenting the facts”
  That’s terrible. How long has this been going on?//
  
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  November 13, 2022 11:38am
- Paulus
  
  Yes, but of course it is the media who want you believe what they say.
  
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  November 13, 2022 1:21pm
- CommanderC
  
  Yep even CNN has the running vote count — scroll to the bottom, its 51%-47% with 90% counted
  
  https://edition.cnn.com/election/2022/results/house?election-data-id=2022-HG&election-painting-mode=projection&filter-key-races=false&filter-flipped=false
  
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  November 13, 2022 3:39pm
Bob

NZ media are misrepresenting….
surely not Philview! our media misrepresent?????
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November 13, 2022 10:25am
Takere

So!

Who’s taking bets!

Nanaia as the Local Government minister appoints a Statutory manager to Auckland council within the next 6 or so months!?

Its a Masterstroke of a plan!

Remember Tainui – Waikato still have their treaty claim for Auckland yet to commence! That was lodged in December 2020. And then there’s the 3 Harbours treaty claims too to come!

Tainui – Waikato are a party to all of those settlements!

So why not take the ‘Gold Plated’ ivory tower as well!
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November 13, 2022 10:41am
- Ghost
  
  Won’t happen
  
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  November 13, 2022 10:44am
  - Takere
    
    Because why?
    
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    November 13, 2022 10:49am
    - Ghost
      
      Because there is no reason to do it. The concept of appointing one just because labour don’t like what is being done is just stupid. It won’t happen
      
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      November 13, 2022 10:57am
      - Takere
        
        Massive debt of more than 257% of revenue, $11.5b+. AT’s transport network is a massive cost blowout, $14.8b and expected to surpass $29b and then there the CRL $4.4b on the back of a napkin costs blow out. Oh and dont forget the current budget blowout of $270m.
        
        Its a perfect reason too, because its happened …
        
        “Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta today announced the reappointment of four commissioners to the Tauranga City Council.
        
        “As the Council continues to face substantial infrastructure and funding challenges, it is clear that ensuring certainty for Tauranga is more important than ever,” Nanaia Mahuta said.
        
        “The reappointment of the current Tauranga Commissioners will provide crucial continuity and stability as they work across the city and wider Bay of Plenty region. I look forward to seeing them deliver on the 2024-34 long-term plan and investment…”
        
        These are the exact same problems that Auckland has but are substantially worse.
        
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        November 13, 2022 11:04am
      - Ghost
        
        Labour would lose all Auckland seats in next years election if they did so. It won’t happen, and there is no justification for it
        
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        November 13, 2022 11:20am
      - riffer
        
        Won’t happen. The Tauranga example was due to inability of their city to come up with a plan. I cannot see the current Auckland council not being able to come up with a plan.
        
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        November 13, 2022 11:33am
      - Nickc2
        
        I beg to differ Ghost. I believe it’s quite likely to happen just because Labour are stupid.
        
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        November 13, 2022 12:13pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Won’t happen because we have an adult in charge now.
    
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    November 13, 2022 11:41am
- Paulus
  
  Look at how the appointment of Commissioners have done to Tauranga.
  It’s CBD is a demolition mess now empty with only new Council operations and offices left to be built, along with a Maori Civic Centre and Museum which nobody wanted anyway, which us why Mahuta did this.
  Watch out Auckand.
  
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  November 13, 2022 1:25pm
Jack5

Turbulence in the cyber finance world …

Crypto currency’s reputation takes another smack with news that more than $US370 million of funds are missing from the collapsed American crypto exchange, FTX.

The exchange filed for bankruptcy on Friday, signalling the end of the multi-billion-dollar fortune of its founder, 39-year-old Sam Bankman-Fried, who now faces investigations by American authorities.

The Wall Street Journal reports FTX was using billions of dollars of customer money to fund risky trades by Alameda Research, a digital-currency Bankman-Fried also founded.

About $US371 million in crypto assets seem to have been taken without permission, alleges the “crypto analytic” firm Elliptic. More than $US220 million of tokens were quickly converted to the “stablecoin” dai or to ether, the second-largest crypto currency.

“Stable coin” is crypto currency linked to conventional currency or other conventional assets.

The WSJ suggests that Bankman-Fried’s might have antagonised the “crypto world” by advocating for crypto regulation.

“In particular, he made an enemy of Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance, the world’s biggest crypto exchange by trading volume. Zhao, usually known just as CZ, was an early backer of FTX. Last weekend, he tweeted that Binance was dumping more than $US500 million worth of FTT, a token created by FTX.
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November 13, 2022 10:45am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Sam Bankman-Fried? That’s his real name? Or just a very big hint?
  
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  November 13, 2022 5:10pm
  - Jack5
    
    The question has become: where is Sam Bankman-Fried now?
    
    Argentina? The Bahamas?
    
    Wonder if he’s heard of Kim Dotcom at Glenorchy?
    
    https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/12/sam-bankman-fried-reportedly-denies-fleeing-to-argentina-says-hes-still-in-the-bahamas.html
    
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    November 13, 2022 9:51pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.
https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/its-out-a-vote-for-national-is-a-vote-for-continuation-of-co-governance-part-2/
https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/National-Will-Continue-With-Co-Governance-Part-2-3.pdf
Jaspinda”s treason – Graham Adams.
https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Graham-adams-on-Ardern-Treason.pdf
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November 13, 2022 11:00am
Surely Knott

Questions re Kate Hannah, Director of the Disinformation’s project’s bio which states, ” Hannah is a 2022 International Visitor Leadership Program alum, participating in a program focused on Disinformation in the Pacific.”

Is this the American International Visitor Leadership Program which appears to be an American world leader programme and J. Ardern is the top leader they mention as an alumni.

“The International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) is the U.S. Department of State’s premier professional exchange program. Through short-term visits to the United States, current and emerging foreign leaders in a variety of fields experience this country firsthand and cultivate lasting relationships with their American counterparts. Professional meetings reflect the participants’ professional interests and support the foreign policy goals of the United States.”

“Among over 225,000 official visitors brought to the US under the IVLP since 1940, more than 320 current and former Heads of State, thousands of Cabinet-level ministers, and many other distinguished world leaders in government and business have seen first-hand how Americans live, work, learn, and play. At any given point during the year, approximately 250 IVLP leaders are on projects in the United States.”

“More than one-fourth of the United Nations member states have an IVLP alumnus as head of state or government, among them (past and present):
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand

Interesting. Is Kate Hannah a ” current and emerging foreign leader…”

Her bio: https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/our-expert-advice/speakers-science-forum/speakers-science-forum-2022/speakers-science-forum-misinformation/

The IVLP programme: https://eca.state.gov/ivlp
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November 13, 2022 11:24am
- stiff cheese
  
  From your link:
  – “Hannah is a cultural historian of science and technology who focuses on Covid-19, racism,
  misogyny, and the far right. ”
  
  1. Wonder what she says about the Far Left? — do they even exist in her mind? Are they a threat too?
  
  “[Hannah is] part of the Te Pūnaha Matatini team that won the 2021 Prime Minister’s
  Science Prize for their work in supporting Aotearoa New Zealand’s Covid response… ”
  
  2. So a bauble from Ardern for supporting Ardern.
  Yeah, just throw out Nu Tirini’s pre-existing pandemic response plan, and cobble together a new one, on the hoof — that’s how you follow “The Science”. /sarc
  
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  November 13, 2022 12:58pm
kevn

@SK…. Comomonly known as an ‘influencer’.
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November 13, 2022 12:12pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  We need to help “influencers” when that travel through the middle east.
  They are far more important than helping those in poverdy.
  Fuck.
  
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  November 13, 2022 5:20pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Here we go again. If Wood and Genter are involved it will be a disaster. Nothing will get done except more money wasted on designing.
Remember a cycle bridge?
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/most-significant-city-shaping-project-govt-calls-on-aucklanders-to-give-feedback-on-waitemat%C4%81-harbour-crossing/ar-AA142vkw?
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November 13, 2022 12:18pm
- Hollyfield
  
  I don’t understand why they are asking for our feedback.
  
  They don’t want our feedback on anything else.
  
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  November 13, 2022 12:58pm
  - Paulus
    
    Of course they want feedback – so that they can say that this what you wanted – even if the decision was made before asking anyway.
    
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    November 13, 2022 1:41pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Ahhhh! That wrap up smear thing?
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzA-V_1lk40
      
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      November 13, 2022 5:30pm
  - hullkiwi
    
    Yes, they want the feedback of 1.7mill people (to confuse what they really want to deliver) plus all the feedback of cycle groups worldwide (very important as the outcome will be weighted by their submission – the first cycle plan was).
    
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    November 13, 2022 8:16pm
- Ghost
  
  Easy option is to just finish the work National did on the second crossing. Or wait for flying cars..
  
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  November 13, 2022 1:01pm
  - Ehlana
    
    Or, you know, visit west Auckland and discover the second harbour crossing has been operational for years.
    
    Then see if you can find someone who knows what number comes after 1 & 2.
    
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    November 13, 2022 3:50pm
Jack5

The Green sabotage of NZ farming continues apace and Guy Trafford, at the interest-dot-co site, looks at grass-into-pines devastation in the east of the North Island.

https://www.interest.co.nz/rural-news/118415/guy-trafford-wonders-why-government-effectively-incentivising-agriculture-reduce
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November 13, 2022 1:13pm
Maggy Wassilieff

What are they dining on at COP27?

https://joannenova.com.au/2022/11/its-bugs-for-you-and-beef-medallion-for-us-cop27-is-a-hypocrisy-junket/

(Actually, that $100 Angus beef medallion on beans with a sludge cream sauce doesn’t look too appealing)
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November 13, 2022 1:54pm
- tf78
  
  Apparently it’s really a “Reset” meeting with ideas to use the covid restrictions for “Climate Change” – what a wonderful future we have in front of us. Roll on 2023 elections.
  
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  November 13, 2022 6:00pm
Nickc2

Question without notice:
Will the Labour Party offer Ruby Tui a safe seat for the 2023 elections? I bet they’re cursing themselves that Hamilton West’s Bi-Election nominations are closed eh?
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November 13, 2022 2:33pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Something from American voting webpages that Batman calls ‘far right wing’ or ‘extreme right wing’ Kari Lake is a bit fucked off.
https://libertyonenews.com/kari-lake-takes-on-voting-machines-calls-to-return-to-paper-ballots-getting-louder/?
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November 13, 2022 2:44pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Another about Kari Lake. It all sounds like 2020 again.
https://dailyheadlines.com/heres-an-update-on-kari-lakes-race/?
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November 13, 2022 2:46pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Something different. Having a drone with forward and under sensors, I was onto this thing for the blind 5 years ago. Thing was, I did not know where or how to make this fly (no pun) Bringing the idea to someone raised possibilities that it would get stolen.
Back to the drone. MavicPro. Somehow people crash them. You have to be an idiot or turn the sensors off. I have flown it over water here and in Hawaii and Alaska. I can even make it follow me.
https://independentminute.com/2022/11/11/if-you-see-someone-wearing-these-shoes-this-is-exactly-what-you-need-to-do/
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November 13, 2022 2:56pm
DimChappie

The Three Waters select committee plans to expand Te Mana O Te Wai power to coastal and geothermal water, greatly boosting mana whenua power and the potential for disruption at the Water service entities:

https://twitter.com/drjakesmith/status/1590931258137546752?cxt=HHwWgMDU9Zrjj5QsAAAA
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November 13, 2022 4:39pm
zubrick

meet winner of miss america contest “BRIAN” https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/23118943.issue-day-trans-teen-brian-wins-miss-america-title/
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November 13, 2022 5:09pm
- info@cruzpro.com
  
  It makes me want to cry.
  
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  November 13, 2022 8:00pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

I am appalled by how much coverage the MSM gives to UFC, all of it positive. It’s essentially cage fighting.

In an era when so much attention is paid to the long term consequences of accidental head contact in rugby, the lack of matching concern paid to a sport where two people are trying to beat the living shit out of each other is staggering.

It’s almost as if the media can’t join the dots.
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November 13, 2022 5:29pm
Taieri

“(…)Cyclists’ numbers must increase by half in three years and by 340 percent by 2035

Public transport use needs to go up 60 percent and 210 percent over the same timeframes.(…)”

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/05/analysis-what-will-be-in-climate-change-minister-james-shaw-s-plan-to-tackle-climate-change.html

I suggest that these targets are not ambitious enough and would recommend that pigs start flying immediately. Into the stratosphere, and take the Minister for the Climate Change with them…
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November 13, 2022 5:29pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  “Public transport use needs to go up 60 percent and 210 percent over the same timeframes.”
  
  So what is he going to do? MAKE US use PT? He can Foxtrot Oscar. I would not use PT where I live if I was paid to do it.
  
  Hopefully in 12 months he will be gone.
  
  Here is an idea James Shaw: “Set a carbon price. Oh that’s right you have. We have had an emissions trading scheme for 15 years. After you have done that just FO out of our lives and let people make their choices.”
  
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  November 13, 2022 5:39pm
  - Chris Nisbet
    
    “Make us use PT?” Good question. Free people choose the mode of transport that suits them best. The only way I’d use PT is if there was no other option, and probably not even then. There will be many like me.
    So I would suggest that Shaw _will _ force us. He will do things like make fuel too expensive, make it too difficult to use the mode of transport we prefer (I.e. ICE cars). He will have to make it illegal to purchase/drive/sell/park ICE cars. Maybe some kind of horrendous road tax. Freedom of choice will have to be limited. If EVs were what we wanted we’d be buying them now. If we wanted to ride the bus we’d be doing it now.
    He’s a big govt guy, not a freedom of choice guy. He will interfere in the market.
    And remember, this is only the beginning. He’s picking the low-hanging fruit. The real pain comes _after_ he’s taken our transportation options away.
    Don’t forget – National are ‘fully on baord’ with this suicide mission. How will they convince me that I prefer to ride on a bus, or convince my wife that she wants to cycle to work in the rain?
    
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    November 13, 2022 6:38pm
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    Shaw is living in la la land. PT as it was pre Covid and is not coming back anytime soon, either in NZ or in any major city in the world.
    
    With out understanding what was happening in front of them, namely, during the lockdowns the world turned on the internet to work from home, and people are not going back to the office in a hurry. Meaning cities like Auckland which operates operates 60mill passenger km with its bus services & carried less than 40 mill bus passengers in 2021-22, is carry less 1 passenger per bus service km.
    
    Yet in May, the previous council signed up to Goofy’s/AT’s/Transport Blogs Congestion Free Network programme renamed Climate Action Targeted Rate (or Transport Emission Reduction Plan = TERP). This added $55 per year to everybody’s rates bill. But why?
    
    What are the extra services we want, and to go where?
    
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    Have to get some busses first with drivers. ZAT has been canceling buses due to a lack of staff.
    
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    November 13, 2022 9:27pm
Benedict Yu

https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/23120704.climate-march-edinburgh-thousands-take-capitals-streets/

So folk in Scotland are demanding more action on climate change. Close to 100 percent of these folk are living in houses heated for the next 5 months with natural gas.

They are like the school kids here. No ideas about WHAT should be done and no understanding about what it means for them. No natural gas means and end to modern civilisation in most of Europe. the UK switched from coal to gas. What do they advocate? Going back to burning trees?

The UK cannot switch to heating every home with electric heating powered by renewables. If it could, the market would deliver that outcome.

These protestors should be careful what they wish for. It could be a very chilly experience.
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greybeard

American electoral results are as accurate and believable as the supposed 1969 first “Moon Landing” ( and the supposed subsequent American-only “Moon Landings” ).
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