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Warren

Latest Political Poll:
National and Act have a clear majority; Luxon closes the gap on Ardern in preferred Prime Minister rankings.
Chris Luxon and the National Party should be quietly confident going into Election year and the upcoming By – Election after being the first leader in 5 years to get close to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in the latest poll rankings.
But the present Prime Minister couldn’t resist playing the blame game after the poll rejected her and Labours policy by inferring that they are doing all the heavy lifting while National have nothing to offer.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/latest-political-poll-jacinda-ardern-managing-expectations-ahead-of-poll/UYKCDGTKCBADZDKAWECMCZPNCQ/
So the political circus has begun and it will be interesting to see how many of the Government’s MP’s that will be in line for the chop if these results continue at Election 2023 will enjoy their Christmas Celebrations after 61% of people that were canvased said they believed our economy crisis is about to get worse.
After watching our Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speak about the poll I believe she thinks she is invincible and the team of 5 Million will back her to return as Prime Minister in the 2023 General Election.
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December 6, 2022 8:01am
- nathie
  
  I believe she thinks she is invincible
  
  Will the PM “refute” the election result if Labour loses?
  
  Sure I might be over-egging things a bit but hear me out … not only does she think she is invincible, she has never shown the capacity to admit to being wrong (when many times she has been) and every time she is caught out she doubles down.
  
  (Check out Ardern aggressively denying reality with Barry Soper yesterday when he caught her out on the 3 Water entrenchment issue)!
  
  https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/heather-du-plessis-allan-drive/audio/barry-soper-political-editor-on-the-royal-commission-of-inquiry-into-new-zealands-covid-19-response/
  
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  December 6, 2022 8:43am
  - cmm
    
    I don’t know how much she thinks she is invincible.
    
    But when things go wrong, then it isn’t her fault. ie. she’s the victim here.
    
    We also saw this in the way that Autie Helen jumped to her defence on Twitter, saying that Cindy was let down by those around her.
    
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    December 6, 2022 10:00am
  - Than
    
    That interview with Barry Soper was a particular shocker. Ardern tried with a straight face to claim that it’s only “entrenchment” if it requires a 75% majority, its not entrenchment if it only requires a 60%, and apparently that’s always how it’s been understood. Sorry, but bullshit. Entrenchment is any requirement for a supermajority, no matter what the exact percentage.
    
    Typical slippery Ardern deceitfulness, trying to invent a distinction that doesn’t exist to avoid admitting fault.
    
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    December 6, 2022 11:03am
    - Kiwiguy
      
      I missed this interview and can’t seem to find a link to it. Anyone help? Thx.
      
      (Also: My fat fingers mistakenly hit the ‘Report” button. My apologies)
      
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      December 6, 2022 12:13pm
- cmm
  
  I cannot stomach watching One News with the sound on, and certainly not when Cindy is talking.
  
  If you really want to hear what Cindy is saying them watch with the sound off.
  
  The mouth might lie but the body language doesn’t.
  
  https://youtu.be/MnxAtvNWrk8?t=242
  
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  December 6, 2022 8:53am
  - RockyJ
    
    You are dead right. When she is asked a difficult question her eyes flick up to her left. This is a classic sign that her mind is fabricating an answer rather than retrieving information
    
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    December 6, 2022 9:39am
    - igm
      
      Cannot listen or watch her . . vomit inducing!
      
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      December 6, 2022 9:58am
  - Tom Hunter
    
    Heh. I’ve made a point of not watching or listening to any politician for about two decades now.
    
    I’m more interested in what they do but if I do feel the need to see what they say I read it – and not some journalist’s editing but the original speech or fully transcribed comments.
    
    Funnily enough I’ve never felt the need to do even that with Ardern or Luxon.
    
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    December 6, 2022 10:49am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Cool story bro, tell it again. Examples from your expertise in US politics would score bonus points.
      
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      December 6, 2022 2:51pm
- leoj
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Luxon, interviewed by Tim Dower this morning:
  
  Luxon is dull, speaks in monotone and has no fire.
  
  He and Goldsmith were late to the entrenchment party. They only jumped on the bandwagon after the matter was brought to their attention by the private sector.
  
  Response: Slow and weak, as usual.
  
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  December 6, 2022 9:07am
  - Chris R
    
    I heard the interview and consider he spoke very well indeed. Do you crave for the hysterical garbage which spews from the PM’s gob? If he has “no fire” his Polls are certainly incendiary at present!
    
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    December 6, 2022 9:28am
    - Ghost
      
      Ignore Leo, he’s just anti everyone but his guy.
      
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      December 6, 2022 9:34am
      - leoj
        
        “His” Guy?
        Totally wrong.
        I have no party to vote for.
        The entirety of parliament is a disgrace.
        They’re a cabal.
        Not one MP had the guts to go against Jacinda during the protests.
        We are being ruled by gutless, chinless wonders.
        
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        December 6, 2022 2:46pm
  - Right of way is Way of Right
    
    Don’t interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake!
    
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    December 6, 2022 11:04am
- Loddenthinks
  
  Given that several of the failed Labour poo-finger initiatives were pushed through despite Treasury advice that making the changes would be worse than doing nothing, I’d say Luxon’s onto a winner.
  
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  December 6, 2022 9:36am
  - Warren
    
    Well said I thought if anyone could stop the mud slinging Prime Minister it would have been Judith Collins but really Labour kept on throwing it until they finally won.
    Now they have had ample time to upset Chris Luxon and he has made mistakes, but he has been equal to the attacks and just moved on to another subject without embarrassment and tried to learn from the mistake.
    People have under estimated his ability to pick the right moment and now you can see by Jacinda Ardern blame game they have her in a corner that is getting tighter every day.
    
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    December 6, 2022 10:41am
- Thought Criminal
  
  Like crime, health and the cost of living crisis, Labour’s go to response is to gaslight New Zealand and say it isn’t real.
  
  Labour in a nutshell, make everything worse, deny it’s happening.
  
  And where is the media? They’re gaslighting cheer leaders saying things like “neck and neck in the polls”
  
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  December 6, 2022 9:43am
- lastmanstanding
  
  Whilst good news lets not get carried away. As I have posted before NZF is now highly likely to get over 5%. Winston will campaign against Maorification. NZF will take votes off grumpy Labour supporters but may also take votes off grumpy Nat supporters who feel the Nats arent saying and doing enough on the anti-Maorification front.
  Then there is the 11% undecided. Will they fall in line with this Poll?
  I believe the final result will be very close. Can you believe that 29% still prefer Cindy as PM. Shows just how delusional these people are and a danger to civilised society.
  
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  December 6, 2022 9:45am
- herb1
  
  Why are Maori allowed a free pass for outdated sexist attitudes when a non Maori expressing similar would have bought the house down.
  We have streets being renamed , statues torn down, males being expunged from history for doing and saying what was accepted and the norms of the day. But Maori get a pass and it’s ok for them to be sexist and racist.
  The attitudes and entitlements this Government is engendering in Maori will ultimately dwarf the harm caused to Maori by war and colonialism. There comes a point where the 83% will say enough
  
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  December 6, 2022 9:47am
  - herb1
    
    Somehow I misplaced this post as it was a response to blogaholics post about a lady Moxon comments about tikanga being the reason woman could have nothing to do with a building project
    
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    December 6, 2022 10:14am
O C Smith

As a long time reader of Kiwiblog and occasional poster have often wondered about regular contributors and would like to suggest that Kiwiblog allows a sticky page where individuals can post a personal profile. Details such as age, location, political leanings, religious thoughts, education, work history, community/personal interests etc etc
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December 6, 2022 8:01am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  What for? So they can be doxed, and have weirdos knocking on the door. Or rubbish dumped on the front lawn?
  
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  December 6, 2022 8:46am
  - O C Smith
    
    I did not suggest supplying residential addresses Steve
    
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    December 6, 2022 8:54am
    - graham
      
      You have to be VERY careful when disclosing any sort of information about yourself in any online forum, because in this age of Facebook, Twitter, blogs, online forums, onine hobby sites, and so on, it is far too easy to reveal more than you might want to or realise.
      
      Taken in isolation, you might be quite confident that the information you provide on Kiwiblog is insufficient to identify yourself. But chances are, you also post on other forums or sites, and it is unbelievably easy for people to glean snippets of information from multiple sources, join the dots and build up a pretty accurate portrait of who you are.
      
      I’m by no means heavily involved in social media and the like, but I worked out the identities of two posters on Kiwiblog some months ago, simply from joining the dots on Facebook posts they had made to a community group I belong to.
      
      It really is scarily simple in many cases and doesn’t require any great detective work. I wasn’t even trying to identify these people; I just saw some Facebook posts in the community group and the connection clicked. So be careful.
      
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      December 6, 2022 9:41am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Average person is OK, but there are many deranged nutbars out there.
        
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        December 6, 2022 10:26am
      - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
        
        Graham bro – I know what you did last summer……
        
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        December 6, 2022 12:07pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Once a bit of info is gathered, there is the Electoral Roll.
      I have had the same phone number for over forty years (some digits added to make it 7 numbers)
      Everytime I do something with spark my number goes back on the white pages online. I am aware of it and remove it.
      I just don’t like uninvited surprises.
      
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      December 6, 2022 10:32am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Well, as one who was subjected to a few years of nasty trolling on this blog, I’d caution against it if you have any concerns about your employment status, personal relationships, or political aspirations.
  
  But as I’m not too bothered….
  age: 69
  location: Kaiti Hill
  political leanings: Flexible
  religious thoughts: None
  education: Too much
  work history: Varied, (NZ Public Service)
  community/personal interests : Food, friends, plants, books, travel
  
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  December 6, 2022 8:47am
  - O C Smith
    
    Thanks Maggy that’s what I was asking for and of course it would be optional.
    
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    December 6, 2022 8:55am
    - Chris R
      
      I live in NZ half the year and am staunchly an ACT supporter and I am 70 years old. Can’t recall my blood type!
      
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      December 6, 2022 9:30am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Is it a one-way exchange of information?
      
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      December 6, 2022 9:41am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      You just said the right word, “optional”
      I’ve got it now, thanks.
      
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      December 6, 2022 10:34am
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    Maggy – I am disappointed you are not supporting Labour….well political leaning flexible means you could vote Labour in 2023 and that is all Cindy is asking in return for saving your life.
    
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    December 6, 2022 12:08pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      well political leaning flexible means you could vote Labour in 2023
      
      Indeed, I could..
      
      but in my neck of the woods politically flexible is code for being open to bribe$…
      
      And currently under this Labour Government I’ve not been on the receiving end of any large$$e.
      
      that is all Cindy is asking in return for saving your life.
      
      Did I ask to be saved?
      
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      December 6, 2022 1:03pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  There is simply no way I would disclose any of that information. Not while I am living and working in New Zealand anyway.
  
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  December 6, 2022 8:58am
- Sacha
  
  Good God! Are you joking?
  This is not wikipedia!
  
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  December 6, 2022 9:08am
- Ohm my
  
  I’m sure NZSIS know anyway, although it could save them a bit of digging and collation time.
  
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  December 6, 2022 9:25am
- Its only I
  
  Are you meaning people who create the topic/blog or those posting comments?
  
  How would you know the posted bio was accurate?
  
  Personally I can’t see the point, I’m more interested in the details of what’s said not the details of who is saying it.
  
  This is a very interesting, mostly pleasant (sorry it’s not all the time Maggy and others) often funny, conversation amongst familiar strangers.
  
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  December 6, 2022 10:11am
- RightNow
  
  We’re waiting for you to post your info first
  
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  December 6, 2022 10:14am
  - O C Smith
    
    No problem Right Now
    O C Smith
    Male
    Age: 70
    Live in Timaru
    2 children 2 step children, 9 grandkids
    Recently retired after 51 years in IT
    Atheist since birth
    Political Junkie
    Liberal Conservative
    Member National Party
    Generally Grumpy
    
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    December 6, 2022 11:09am
    - Jack5
      
      O.C., then you began in computing in the year of the first PC — well done:
      
      https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/personal-computers/17/297
      
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      December 6, 2022 10:04pm
      - O C Smith
        
        Started on an ICL 1901a small mainframe.
        
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        December 7, 2022 5:18am
- Philview
  
  I sometimes post on conservative sites overseas and have been asked before why no profile. I explain that that right leaning blogs in New Zealand have been put under police surveillance before and a couple of years ago journalists disclosed they had been investigating conversation threads and threatened to print names of commenters.
  
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  December 6, 2022 11:28am
  - O C Smith
    
    Suggests a bias in the media. Surprise surprise.
    
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    December 6, 2022 12:32pm
    - Philview
      
      That followed the Christchurch mass murders and seemed to be media angst about right wing radicalisation at the time. An easy target was centre right National Party supporters.
      
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      December 6, 2022 1:17pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Suggests to me an assertion (that the police only watch for ‘right leaning’ misbehaviour) without evidence.
      
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      December 6, 2022 4:25pm
- O C Smith
  
  Original post has developed the dreaded pink background, I withdraw. Thanks for all your comments all responses appreciated.
  
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  December 6, 2022 11:32am
  - Ghost
    
    Don’t worry about the downvotes
    
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    December 6, 2022 11:35am
  - Philview
    
    Keep going with your posts. I sometimes have off days where I leave a comment and don’t bother going back to check for replies. Particularly on somewhere like Stuff where the moderator is happy to allow rude replies if your politics don’t align.
    
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    December 6, 2022 1:26pm
  - O C Smith
    
    Only withdrawing my suggestion. No offence taken
    
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    December 6, 2022 6:22pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Doxxing was a rare, but popular, activity on Kiwiblog until our kind host introduced moderation of many forms of abuse.
  Other users’ entanglements and travails prompted me to adhere strictly to a policy of refusing to provide any personal details in comment threads.
  
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  December 6, 2022 4:22pm
Yvette

☂ Jacinda Ardern v Ryan Bridge on Entrenchment train-wreck interview –

1 – The Greens Party -not Us – did it and it was a total bloody surprise!

“I think the important thing here is that regardless we are taking ownership of this as a team,” Ardern said. “It was a SOP (Supplementary Orders Paper) that came from another Party but we as a team when it came before the House voted in favour of it. We agree that was a mistake, not because of the subject matter – we don’t want to privatise water assets, but because of the use of entrenchment.
… But Bridge pushed back, saying surely it is “important for people at home to know was this just incompetence, negligence, was there something machiavellian going on here that you did know about the provision but you’re now claiming…”
But Ardern jumped in saying, “sometimes these things are actually just simple – a mistake was made”.
“Again I think it is important to point out this was not a change or an amendment that was drafted by the Government or a Minister, it was from another Party,” Ardern said.

… Ardren pushed back on the interruption saying: “I think the context is useful Ryan because again, I think actually the context helps a little bit because we will have a number of amendments that will come through from other parties, a number of them for any given Bill there could be well over a dozen depending on the Bill. If it’s controversial, there can be hundreds.

“So this was put forward by another party. Yes, we voted in favour of it. Our view is we shouldn’t have done that.
…” I think I’ve still given as much explanation on this as I can without becoming repetitive,” Ardern responded.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/12/am-s-ryan-bridge-pushes-pm-jacinda-ardern-about-dumped-entrenchment-clause-in-three-waters-legislation.html

2 – Nanaia knew though, there had been “negotiations” with Eugenie Sage!

Nanaia Mahuta as the responsible minister, however, knew exactly what was going on. … …. At some point after that, the discussion between the Greens and Labour turned to a 60 percent threshold instead, something they could get over the line without needing any others.

Sage told RNZ there had been “negotiations” with the minister, but wouldn’t put a date on it. She defended putting up the amendment without proactively flagging it publicly, saying anyone who had read the select committee report would know the Greens’ position
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/479745/power-play-three-waters-anti-privatisation-blunder-adds-to-storm-of-controversy
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December 6, 2022 8:02am
- Akitio
  
  From a slightly different perspective, with all the hand wringing and head nodding, I wonder if Ardern knew what “entrenching” meant? Was this another GDP moment? Did it just slip past via ignorance?
  
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  December 6, 2022 8:21am
  - Yvette
    
    Akitio, hi
    No, as it was advised by a “3 Waters” Advisory Group and discussed by Cabinet back in April, so it should not have been a GDP moment
    
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    December 6, 2022 10:27am
- JJ56
  
  Two thoughts on the interview.
  
  First, it is well past time when an interviewer asks her to stop blathering as they bring her back to the point.
  
  Second the observation needs to be made that it is hard to call a team to account for a stuff up, that falls to the leader.
  
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  December 6, 2022 9:13am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Jaspinda is very good at diversions. The other day she was asked about comments between her and Luxon. In the very next sentence she said it was like asking the same between Key and Obama.
    See? Straight off topic.
    
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    December 6, 2022 10:38am
  - Right of way is Way of Right
    
    Why do you think she stopped appearing on Mike Hoskings show?
    
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    December 6, 2022 11:10am
- RockyJ
  
  What happened to Harry Truman’s dictum “the buck stops here?”
  
  Which brings up an interesting point to me which is how would Jacinda have responded to Hitler or Hirohito?
  
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  December 6, 2022 9:44am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  If National does it, the MSM calls it a U-turn. If Labour does it, it’s a mistake.
  
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  December 6, 2022 8:36pm
DeepBlue

Jancinda has tried to kill Covid as an election debate by announcing the Royal Commission.

How wrong she is. The opposition just need to say “why isn’t xyz included?’, ‘in power we will extend the RC to cover xyz”, ‘what are you hiding, you are not the most transparent government’ etc.
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December 6, 2022 8:02am
- Matt Long
  
  Well, I hope so, they appear to want to head off what may come out around their disinformation about vaccines.
  Check out how full of untriths some of the links at the bottom of this page are a year down the track. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/480133/doctor-slammed-for-texting-600-patients-misinformation-about-covid-19-jab
  I would love to have a Musk publish some internal traffic from New Zealand’s MSM, lotta interesting stuff there I’m sure.
  
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  December 6, 2022 8:33am
- RRM
  
  Jacinda’s whole parliamentary team of 120 were in lock step together on all of the big calls around covid. National trying to make hay out of the RC will be embarasing.
  
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  December 6, 2022 8:44am
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    yup remember Chris Get Vaxxed Bishop!
    
    The Nats also refused to meet with the “river of filth”(tm)
    
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    December 6, 2022 11:51am
- cmm
  
  National can’t make too much of a fuss because they are complicit and they will cop the backsplatter too.
  
  After all, they had that twit ~~“Light Up Another”~~“Get Boosted” Bishop running his mouth off. He has absolutely zero street cred and is a political liability.
  
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  December 6, 2022 8:58am
  - 70andstilllearning
    
    I think all political parties have their in house version of this type :
    “Be Sure Brain Is in Gear Before Engaging Mouth”
    
    “One of the most common causes of failures in communication is allowing our mouths to take action prior to our brain having its say.”
    
    http://newhorizonpartners.com/brain-mouth/#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20most%20common,are%20too%20casual%20in%20speaking.
    
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    December 6, 2022 9:15am
Blog-aholic

Bing, bong – wow lets take the time machine and head back to the 80’s – the 1880’s.

Stuff article is impressively ballsy:

“Lady Tureiti Moxon says it’s tikanga that women are not involved in building at sites such as Enderley, where a new health centre is being established.

The same tikanga had applied when building Te Kōhao’s Wairere Dr facility.
“Women were not permitted to go into the building until it was actually up and blessed, until the tapu was raised.”

“It should be viewed in the realm of Māori tikanga instead of the realm of is this right or wrong for women.”
It wasn’t about being sexist in a contemporary sense, Moxon said.”

If that isn’t the middle finger to New Zealand women of all natures then what is?
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December 6, 2022 8:02am
- alex Masterley
  
  A great leap back to the dark ages.
  
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  December 6, 2022 8:28am
  - Nickc2
    
    Will we be required to recite a Karakia each time we flush our toilets because the contents are passing into Maori custody under 5Waters?
    
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    December 6, 2022 8:48am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Permission to carry a bottle of water to drink?
      A karakia before drinking?
      Sounds stupid, but you just never know with these mind benders.
      
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      December 6, 2022 10:42am
      - Flossie
        
        There are so many things happening now that if it was suggested a few years back we would have all thought “No! That’ll never happen here!” Nothing would surprise me these days.
        Praying this government goes at the earliest opportunity.
        
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        December 6, 2022 11:24am
- Swifty
  
  So what she’s saying is “sexism is fine when it’s Maori doing it.”
  
  Righto. Good to know.
  
  PS Lady Moxon when you say “It wasn’t about being sexist in a contemporary sense” that’s where you’re wrong as that it EXACTLY what it is.
  
  Why not just admit it instead of trying (and failing) to dance around this fact?
  
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  December 6, 2022 8:45am
- Prince
  
  A return to the dark ages. But have no doubt what the over-riding judgement is – whatever gets us more money.
  
  “Just when you’ve got your head around the basic concepts of tapu and noa, Roa said it’s not always correct to treat them as opposites.
  “It’s not like that at all … it’s actually quite dynamic.”
  Things can change from moment to moment.
  “The understanding of that only comes with experience’
  
  In other words, we make it up as we go along.
  
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  December 6, 2022 8:50am
  - greybeard
    
    Like much of their so-called “culture” and most of their language.
    
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    December 6, 2022 10:15am
- TripeWryter
  
  Thirty or so years ago one of my daughters and her form year were going to a Maori event of some sort in Wellington.
  The girls were told that those menstruating could not enter parts of the event.
  My then 14-year-old daughter’s period had started. The shibboleth worried her: should she observe it (and thus announce to everybody her body was performing a normal function) or should she ignore it and thus risk embarrassment if she should be rumbled.
  She asked me what I thought. ‘Ignore it,’ I said. ‘It’s no-one else’s business.’
  She did. And so did all the other girls including young wahine.
  Interestingly her mainly-white state girls college never challenged the Maori shibboleth.
  
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  December 6, 2022 8:54am
  - herb1
    
    Lucky for Maori that none of the woman arriving on the first canoes , were menstruating , as they would have been told to exit the canoe.
    
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    December 6, 2022 10:19am
    - NothingLeft
      
      Historically most women menstruated very infrequently compared to modern women, they matured later, and were married off young and pregnant or breastfeeding most of the time. Modern pervasive gynecological health issues might have a lot to do with that huge change.
      
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      December 6, 2022 12:07pm
- David Garrett
  
  A good question would be what form of “health centre” were Maori women banned during construction thereof was found in New Zealand pre European occupation?
  
  Mind you, we now have Maori words for libraries and courthouses, so I guess anything is possible.
  
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  December 6, 2022 9:00am
  - MCōs
    
    The English language has words for names that originate in other languages too.
    For example that which Thais have always called a wat, is a temple in English.
    The NZ Embassy is located on Thanon Witthayu, aka Wireless Rd to expats.
    Even the name Bangkok is not common usage for the majority of Thais who refer to the city as Krung Thep or Krung Thep Maha Nakhon.
    
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    December 6, 2022 11:44am
    - Jack5
      
      There’s a difference between having dual names from custom and imposing language duality.
      
      The CIA World Factbook, one of the best sources of geographic information, says that in Thailand English is “a secondary language of the elite”. Can we assume Bangkok’s English names then are for tourists?
      
      In NZ, Maori names cannot be for tourists.
      
      The Woke are sometimes stupid in the way they promote Maori language to the 90 per cent who don’t speak it, and they are trying to force Maori words into (NZ) English, which is unnecessary and crass.
      
      An example of their pig-headedness is the change in road signs warning motorists they are nearing a school. “Kura” is being displayed above, and thus with priority over, “School”.
      
      When fractions of a second may count on a highway, it’s stupid to prioritise Wokeness above safety. From infancy, we learn in English to read from left to right, then from top to bottom. We notice the top word first.
      
      Next, Woke fools will make “whatinga ahi” dominant in fire-exit signs.
      
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      December 6, 2022 2:45pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  ““It should be viewed in the realm of Māori tikanga instead of the realm of is this right or wrong for women.””
  
  No. It should not.
  
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  December 6, 2022 9:01am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  What a shocker..
  
  Especially when there’s such a push for women to take up construction trades
  
  https://women.govt.nz/sites/public_files/Maori%20and%20Pasifika%20women%20in%20trades.pdf
  
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  December 6, 2022 9:04am
  - Paulus
    
    Why are we always seeing Pacifica named alongside Maori ?
    – are they not an ethnic grouping in their own right and should say so independently, except of being use by Maori as an add on.
    
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    December 6, 2022 10:34am
- Ehlana
  
  It was customary among Europeans that women did not attend University and were not admitted to the Bar. Many a man at the time would have said, in all sincerity and honest concern, that neither were fit places for women, that women had their own, sacred sphere and calling in life and that their entry into the male sphere would dishonour both sexes.
  
  I see Lady Moxon has been quite happy to take advantage of changing European customs with regard to the proper sphere of women. Why then is she so sure that Maori custom cannot change?
  
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  December 6, 2022 9:30am
  - cmm
    
    “It was customary among Europeans that women did not attend University and were not admitted to the Bar”
    
    It was customary they didn’t do any men’s work: building, hard labouring, soldiering,…
    
    It was also customary to get preggy and make babies. What’s the point of expending extensive educational resources on someone destined to become a mother?
    
    Of course things have changed now: diesel engines have replaced brute strength. Soldiering is less about physical strength too. Contraception and improved maternity care mean reduced family sizes and it is worthwhile investing in female brains.
    
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    December 6, 2022 10:36am
  - Swifty
    
    My old man has been an active member of The Wellington Club for decades – and for thirty years maintained an office directly opposite on The Terrace. As a young fella I’d regularly join him for lunches there and father/son dinners etc.
    
    The Club has been in existence since 1841.
    
    The Club membership had a custom, ie it was customary, that while women were very and openly welcome as guests, membership was limited to men.
    
    This changed in 1994, from memory, when after years and years of pressure and all sorts of name-calling, accusations and slurs from non-members the membership chose to open membership applications to women.
    
    I personally was in two minds over it all in that I thought it was right and proper that private citizens could operate a club or anything else according to the rules they voluntarily established and it was no one else’s business. And if people wanted a mixed-gender club then go and set one up!
    
    (I’ve got to say my view has only grown stronger over the years.)
    
    Because of this I now fully expect all those worthies who called Club members sexist pigs, dinosaurs, privileged men, etc to now turn their guns on to Maori sexism.
    
    Waiting……
    
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    December 6, 2022 2:01pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  I read that crap and had my usual urge to reply that you can believe whatever nonsense you like but don’t expect me to and it will get treated with the contempt it deserves.
  
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  December 6, 2022 9:48am
- graham
  
  In New Zealand, we are constantly told that sexism is wrong – unless it’s in the context of “Māori tikanga”, in which case it’s fine.
  
  In New Zealand, we treat women as equals, and afford them the same rights as men – unless they want to speak on a marae.
  
  In New Zealand, saying prayers in a public forum is frowned upon – unless it’s a “karakia” in which case woe betide anybody who doesn’t think it should be recited or doesn’t want to join in.
  
  I suppose this makes sense in someone’s world, but blowed if I can understand it.
  
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  December 6, 2022 9:50am
  - MCōs
    
    A karakia is not necessarily a prayer.
    
    Apart from that I’ve been at thousands of occasions where proceedings have kicked off with some sort of prayer.
    Nobody got wound up about it.
    
    Personally I don’t think that’s what this is all about.
    
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    December 6, 2022 11:55am
- Harry Knuts
  
  Lady Moxon, the 1880’s has called and they want their attitude back!
  Then again, the Marae is pretty much the same. Women can’t sit in the front row still on most marae’s, men only.
  It is sexist – plain and simple.
  
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  December 6, 2022 12:15pm
Yvette

☂ 3 – Labour – Hipkins and Ardern – try to make the entrenchment “mistake” look like National and ACT are obliged to do something!

Yesterday Hipkins said: “It is important to note the entrenchment clause only applied to maintaining public ownership of water assets. In order to protect against privatisation of these assets we will also be seeking political assurances from the National and ACT parties via letters that ask them to commit to public ownership.”
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/‘-mistake-has-been-made’-pm-fronts-three-waters-backdown

4 – Ardern claims she can’t be to blame at all, because she wasn’t even there?

Ardern said last week was not familiar with Sage’s provision, as she wasn’t in the House when it was voted on.
But Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta confirmed to Stuff that this was discussed in a caucus meeting which Ardern attended.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/130660392/a-mistake-controversial-three-waters-entrenchment-clause-to-go

And finally 5 – Repeat the same tactic

As meagre information about the appointment of Nanaia Mahuta’s younger sister, Tipa, to a pivotal role in Three Waters is gradually prised out of the government, it is becoming clear the Prime Minister has no intention of letting the public know exactly how that shell game played out.
What we do know is that Tipa’s elder sister transferred her power of appointment as Minister of Local Government to her Cabinet colleague, Kelvin Davis, in February 2021. He appointed Tipa to the chair of Te Puna – the Māori Advisory Group, which advises the new water regulator, Taumata Arowai, in May.
https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2022/07/19/ardern-dodges-questions-on-mahutas-conflicts-in-three-waters-and-is-slippery-on-the-role-for-ministers-sister/

This is the same context Jacinda is trying to pass off with the Entrenchment Debacle – someone else did it and now We will fix it (even although we organised it – or, at least, Nanaia Mahuta did!)
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December 6, 2022 8:03am
- JJ56
  
  The clause entrenches the Water Services entities, and is nothing about privatisation.
  
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  December 6, 2022 9:29am
mikenmildagain

Warmest greetings to the Finnish people on the 105th anniversary of liberating themselves from the despotic rule of Russian dictators.
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December 6, 2022 8:05am
- fightingtemeraire
  
  And two bloody wars with them as well.
  
  Russia got kicked in both.
  
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  December 6, 2022 8:44am
- Ghost
  
  Warmest greeting to kiwis surging through the despotic rule of labour dictators
  
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  December 6, 2022 9:30am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Labour Tyrant.
    
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    December 6, 2022 10:51am
  - MCōs
    
    Didn’t take long for someone to hijack the celebration.
    
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    December 6, 2022 11:59am
- Jack5
  
  Warmest greetings to Milky on his recent return to combat.
  
  An interesting relic of the Finnish-Soviet Union “Winter War” in 1939-1940 is this likely unique recording of Hitler in his private voice.
  
  A Finnish sound engineer against orders caught this discussion in 1942 between Hitler and Baron Mannerheim, Finland’s President and military commander.
  
  Hitler was marking Mannerheim’s birthday by this unofficial visit:
  
  https://youtu.be/WE6mnPmztoQ
  
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  December 6, 2022 11:07am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    New Zealand was at war with Finland from 1941 to 1944. New Zealand’s most notable contribution to the war was seizing the barque Pamir in Wellington.
    
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    December 6, 2022 4:16pm
slightlyrighty

https://www.todayfm.co.nz/home/opinion/2022/12/rachel-smalley-pharmac-issues-media-ban-on-today-fm-and-across-entire-mediaworks-network.html

This government has no shame, and pharmac needs to be called out for this as well…..
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December 6, 2022 8:05am
- Inandout
  
  slight, you would think after the Twitter exposure that cancelling a news media would be seen as frankly stupid.
  
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  December 6, 2022 8:34am
- Warren
  
  The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern doesn’t do embarrassment she has no shame because it is never her fault it’s always someone else’s.
  Finally the team of 5million are starting to wake up and see how she has manipulated the media for her own purpose.
  
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  December 6, 2022 9:05am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Pharmac especially needs to be called out, hopefully by the Public Service Commission. The role of journalists is to break stories. Instead Pharmac tried to censor them so it could have its stage managed release of the story with their chosen media outlet.
  
  Anyway, New Zealanders still have the worst access to funded drugs in the OECD. I get that we are not as rich as Australia, but hell – look at the eye watering money that is wasted by the Government on absolute rubbish. I would rather it was spent on medicines.
  
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  December 6, 2022 9:09am
  - slightlyrighty
    
    This particular drug was only approved for use in the US in 2019, and in the EU in 2020.
    
    So I do give credit to Pharmac in getting this drug in a timely fashion. However, politicising the launch and pimping the sick to make themselves look good, and the government by association is, IMHO, reprehensible.
    
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    December 6, 2022 9:15am
    - alloytoo
      
      Wait for Labour to claim National never funded it.
      
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      December 6, 2022 10:32am
- redeye
  
  Good share slightly. Take the PR spin from this government and they have literally nothing.
  
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  December 6, 2022 9:15am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  The Labour Govt and Pharmac are saying we will be told what they say we need to be told, and that is all.
  Control rears it’s ugly head again.
  
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  December 6, 2022 10:54am
- Harry Knuts
  
  These people forget who employ them. Us the taxpayer and yes, they are answerable to questions posed. Arrogant to assume otherwise.
  Media bans should be forbidden by anyone employed as a public servant to this management level.
  
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  December 6, 2022 12:20pm
Matt Long

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/non-religious-voters-becoming-larger-share-electorate-skew-overwhelmingly-one-way
As the West becomes more secular/pagan the Overton Window is going to go leftist, welcome to the worker’s paradise of New Venuzuela.
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December 6, 2022 8:06am
- Matt Long
  
  Someone made some rascist comments about Chinese people being callous toward injured children a few days ago offending BY, the issue is not race based but culture based, there’s no reason why urban communists would care for their neighbors, no Golden Rule in their culture. The Party is the highest value.
  
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  December 6, 2022 8:09am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    As a free speech defender, I support the right of every commentator here to risk offending me 🙂
    
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    December 6, 2022 8:14am
    - Alan Wilkinson
      
      Beware of Maggie!
      
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      December 6, 2022 9:53am
    - Alan Wilkinson
      
      Beware of Maggie!
      
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      December 6, 2022 9:53am
      - Alan Wilkinson
        
        Kiwiblog misbehaving again with another outage. Seems to happen in US timezone evenings.
        
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        December 6, 2022 10:01am
    - Sol Invictus
      
      Excellent comment! If only more people had your attitude.
      
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      December 6, 2022 7:33pm
  - kiwikidsnz
    
    Feel free to offend me too.
    
    Don’t judge a people by their politicians (you wouldn’t want others to judge NZdrs by the current Govt either), love of family & especially children is the fundamental Confucian ethos.
    
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    December 6, 2022 8:29am
Maggy Wassilieff

Remind me what Jan Logie ever did in Parliament

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/12/senior-green-party-mp-jan-logie-announces-she-won-t-stand-in-2023-election.html
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December 6, 2022 8:09am
- Inandout
  
  MW, when I see the name Logie I think of Australian TV awards.
  
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  December 6, 2022 8:40am
  - G152
    
    Isnt a logie the result of spitting?
    
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    December 6, 2022 11:01am
- 7kiwi11
  
  Who?
  
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  December 6, 2022 8:44am
- Gravelroad
  
  @MW –
  Don’t know.
  And she doesn’t seem to know, either.
  Just a bit of waffle about love etc.
  And people keep voting for the Greens no matter how feeble they are.
  
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  December 6, 2022 8:46am
- In Vino Veritas
  
  Jan who? I suspect if you asked 500 random people from around NZ, a hefty majority of them will have never heard of her. Lol her bio says she “worked” for the NZ University Students Association.
  
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  December 6, 2022 8:47am
- nathie
  
  What! She was actually in parliament all this time? Hadn’t heard a peep from her and assumed she had retired one or two elections ago!
  
  (Must be hard to leave the trough)!
  
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  December 6, 2022 8:49am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    In Parliament all this time and nobody noticed.
    At least not avoiding Parliament like the plague like someone else does.
    
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    December 6, 2022 11:00am
- cmm
  
  The perfect example of a useless list MP.
  List MPs like this are just counting tokens for voting. We could save a lot of money by just giving the Party Leader more votes.
  
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  December 6, 2022 9:14am
  - Ehlana
    
    A better idea would be for Party list places to be filled by those who were not successful in being elected in an electorate, in descending order of % of votes won. For example, Invercargill was won by Penny Simmonds by 224 votes. She got 44.45% of the votes cast. Liz Craig got 43.89%, which would probably be one of the highest vote shares of non-winning candidates for her Party, so she would become a list MP.
    
    That would require everyone to stand in an electorate and encourage them to work hard to appeal to their electorate voters.
    
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    December 6, 2022 10:28am
    - marcw
      
      My suggestion for reforming MMP would include requiring all those standing for election to register in an electorate, and to be eligible for appointment to a list position, to obtain at least 10% of the the votes in that electorate.
      
      This would cull out the no-names and time wasters such as Logie.
      
      Exemptions could be considered for party leaders and the Speaker.
      
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      December 6, 2022 11:11am
- Bob
  
  She drew a salary far higher than any which the privates ector would pay her, for what…. IDELNESS!
  and she is not alone in that aspect of parliamentary MP’s
  
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  December 6, 2022 9:34am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Makes you wonder why she’s voluntarily standing down
    
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    December 6, 2022 8:48pm
I remember when

“Forget where you come from in Africa, more like which planet”: Nana Akua, GB NEws presenter.
Ngozi Fulani (Marlene Headley).
“She said the exchange left her feeling traumatised.
What?
She runs a domestic abuse charity.
Come on!”

Once again the news media gets manipulated for an attention seeker’s benefit.
At least there seems to be a worthwhile end purpose.
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December 6, 2022 8:09am
- kowtow
  
  A domestic abuse charity for “Afro Caribean’s”
  
  Sounds racist , innit.
  
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  December 6, 2022 8:40am
- Swifty
  
  I’m noticing that more and more these days.
  
  When I grew up ‘traumatised’ was parents seeing their children killed or kids growing up in a war zone.
  
  Now some are claiming trauma when asked some simple questions.
  
  It makes them look like an idiot – or worse, on the make.
  
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  December 6, 2022 8:59am
artemisia

So the Chief Ombudsman is to take a look at whether freedom of information requests are being delayed or ‘managed’ by certain departments, including politically.

One thing the review could do is gather information from the site fyi.org.nz. Data is right there, including a record of how long the response took and how complete it was. Folk who put OIA requests through via the site can and should respond to the review’s invitation to requesters – good bad or indifferent. Fast and easy as the data is there already.

(Noticed Inland Revenue is not among the departments under scrutiny – my experience with IRD and the OIA has been good and timely, so well done them.)
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December 6, 2022 8:10am
- Master Mariner
  
  Thanks Artemis, Will follow up and do now.
  
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  December 6, 2022 9:18am
Matt Long

Wow, really, Consultants ripping off the taxpayer, no proper oversight?
https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/130626096/double-dipping-contractors-pretending-to-work-full-time-for-more-than-one-government-agency
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December 6, 2022 8:11am
- Swifty
  
  Where’s the management oversight?
  
  Or are these government managers just rubber-stamping any old timesheet or invoice that floats across their desk?
  
  FFS, it’s their job to scrutinise!
  
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  December 6, 2022 9:01am
Maggie Pie

Just how concerned should we be? 🙁

ZB reporting New Zealand is home to one of Chynah’s 100+ ‘overseas offshore monitoring police stations’.
Claims the station is run by Nantong Security Bureau, Jiangsu.
Exact location currently unknown.
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December 6, 2022 8:12am
- TripeWryter
  
  Well, the trouble I have with the story is this: the group making the report say ‘believe’ and ‘likely’.
  If you’re going to make the story more solid you need it to be stronger than that.
  I’m not saying China doesn’t.
  
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  December 6, 2022 8:25am
- Frank the tank
  
  I’d hazard a guess in either Pakuranga or Epsom.
  
  Just saying.
  
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  December 6, 2022 8:29am
- cmm
  
  Exact location unknown?? It’s pretty hard to hide in NZ.
  
  Every diplomatic outpost, from every nation, has some form of intelligence function. Whether that is caused “police” or “spies” or CIA is really just spin.
  
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  December 6, 2022 9:30am
artemisia

The enterprises crying out for workers will find that their vacancies disappear with a different government. That would be due to the thousands of public sector employees and contractors lining up for sandwich-making jobs as their teams are shut down.

Of course they will realise that the dole pays better and is a lot more fun than making sammies at 6 am, so they will score a holiday before that new government starts ‘managing’ their job seeking and their income.
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December 6, 2022 8:12am
- NothingLeft
  
  Hopefully the ex public servants fired by next govt will jump on a plane. Their presence and influence in NZ is positively destructive, and we are better off by far if they emigrate.
  
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  December 6, 2022 11:56am
Matt Long

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11494991/Switzerland-BAN-electric-cars-roads-power-shortages.html
Electric cars are great until you have no power.
Wait until CCP style Social Credit determines who can drive and where,with a centralised digital currency to help determine who can buy and what.
http://www.social-credits.org/uncategorized/a-digital-currency-for-sustainable-development/
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December 6, 2022 8:15am
- Matt Long
  
  The Herald is setting the scene for this now,
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/the-front-page-how-can-new-zealand-find-social-unity-again/XL4LOV7DQNGHBI2ER2PREIM3HM/
  They don’t seem to be aware that their own disinformation campaigns have been the most corrosive of our society.
  
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  December 6, 2022 8:18am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    Two classes of citizens. “Yep, Yep that is what it is.”
    
    Even Judith Collins went mad, advocating that the unvaccinated be refused entry to supermarkets.
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300418752/covid19-nz-judith-collins-comfortable-with-supermarkets-and-airlines-barring-unvaccinated-people
    
    So, no we are not going to achieve “social unity”, not until:
    
    (1) This government goes, and its key policies are thrown in the trash can, and
    
    (2) A new Government apologises for the actions taken during the pandemic – especially the vaccine mandates and the prevention of citizens coming home.
    
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    December 6, 2022 8:27am
    - burt
      
      (3) The gag on the media that stops them reporting adverse reactions and health issues caused by the vaccines are lifted.
      
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      December 6, 2022 8:42am
    - hmmokrightitis
      
      Couldn’t agree more BY. Every single party, every single MP, all of them supported the draconian measures that were put in place.
      
      Not a single one advocated for bodily autonomy. Least of all the party that proclaims itself the party of freedom.
      
      Until someone grows a pair and apologises, this country will never heal.
      
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      December 6, 2022 9:28am
    - TP4Shore
      
      Not defending Judith or Chris Bishop, but they made calls based on the information they had at the time. I bet knowing what they know now, they would not have made the call to demand people be vaxxed.
      
      I myself got two jabs as, frankly, being a business owner I had to choose between a bad choice and a less bad one. It was only after the second (and my reaction to it) that I questioned whether I had made the right personal call.
      
      In hindsight, knowing what I know now, I would never had taken a vaccine. But hindsight is a wonderful teacher.
      
      We certainly should not have allowed the vitriol directed to those who were unvaxxed. Nor the mandates. But we were lied to by a government hell bent on power and manipulation.
      
      We were allowed to not get the jab. Until we weren’t.
      
      2020-2021 will go down in history as a shameful period in our history. We were all gaslighted on a global stage.
      
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      December 6, 2022 3:10pm
  - Gravelroad
    
    @ Matt Long.
    What a load of cobblers in The Herald.
    Typical lefty, impoverished thinking.
    New Zealanders are generally getting on with their lives as best they can despite the government’s campaign to use fear to treat us like a bunch of kids.
    Time to grow up NZ Herald – focus on achievement rather than manufactured grievances.
    
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    December 6, 2022 8:30am
  - Harry Knuts
    
    That’s called tone deaf by the Ferald.
    
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    December 6, 2022 12:24pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  … and each citizen has a “carbon budget”.
  
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  December 6, 2022 8:28am
  - Master Mariner
    
    Yep, And as always tends to happen, ” Some will be more equal than others”.
    
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    December 6, 2022 9:54am
TripeWryter

I do hope that Craig Jepson, the Mayor of Kaipara, is able to prevail in his effort to keep his council meetings secular.
I see that The Great Kiwi Clobbering Machine of our conformist media and activist Maoris are ganging up on him because of his refusal to allow a councillor to utter a karakia before meetings.
Dame Naida Glavish says she and other Maori leaders are going ‘to hui’ with him whether he wants it or not.
Bullying?
There is absolutely no reason for any meeting in New Zealand – whether around a council table or in a meeting room in the government bureaucracy or in Parliament itself – to begin with a karakia, a Hail Mary or Our father, or some other religious utterance.
Meng Foon the other day said – of course he would – that Maori needed a safe space in which to ‘honour Te Tiriti’.
That’s fine: there’s nothing to stop the councillor concerned from reciting a karakia in her own kitchen.
She can do it on her marae. She can do it in her church.
This seems to me as much about embedding tikanga and Te Ao Maori into this country’s public life as it is about praying to different gods not worshipped by other people.
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December 6, 2022 8:22am
- Swifty
  
  Very well said TrypeWryter.
  
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  December 6, 2022 10:27am
- Ehlana
  
  People of many different faiths and none come together in many public functions. Starting with Christian prayer has been deemed offensive to non-Christians. But removing all expression of any faith can be just as offensive to people of faith – it often looks like imposed atheism.
  
  I would suggest the answer is to open the Council chamber, perhaps 15 minutes before the meeting starts, for any person who wishes to do so to make their own (silent) prayer or karakia before the meeting. This recognises that many spiritual practices are properly conducted in the place where the meeting is to occur and provides the opportunity for people of faith to bring their “whole selves” to work.
  
  Those not wishing to participate may be silently present, or arrive after the designated silent time, at which point the meeting starts.
  
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  December 6, 2022 10:37am
  - All_on_Red
    
    That sounds reasonable but it is the thin edge of the wedge.
    If we are to be secular, then we stick to that.
    They can do their Prayers elsewhere but not on Council or Govt property.
    We need to stamp this out.
    
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    December 6, 2022 12:23pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Paniora still gave her karakia, in her maiden speech.
  
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  December 6, 2022 11:30am
Benedict Yu

Has there ever been a weaker Prime Minister?

“”Some have taken issue with some of the comments. I do not believe that was what the Minister was trying to do or say, but I can see how people may have taken issue with some of them.””

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/12/jacinda-ardern-has-spoken-to-willie-jackson-about-media-merger-interview-that-raised-eyebrows.html

It is pathetic.

What would a Minister need to do to be dismissed, if threatening a journalist for asking questions does not do the trick?
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December 6, 2022 8:22am
- Gravelroad
  
  Yes, Ms Ardern is a very weak leader.
  She is allowing herself to be made to look a fool by one of the least intelligent MP’s on the ticket.
  Thought she was better than that……
  
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  December 6, 2022 8:35am
  - Prince
    
    Why ?
    
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    December 6, 2022 8:55am
  - Colville
    
    Ardern is allowed to be weak by an unquestioning sycophantic media. Without the media assistance Ardern PM would not exist.
    
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    December 6, 2022 9:14am
- In Vino Veritas
  
  I can see! Said the blind woman to her deaf son.
  
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  December 6, 2022 8:49am
- Swifty
  
  Good grief, if that’s how Jackson talks on national television you can only wonder at what he says in private.
  
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  December 6, 2022 9:05am
  - Random T Person
    
    You should have heard what he said on radio!
    
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    December 6, 2022 10:06am
- TP4Shore
  
  You think she is actually in charge? The Maori caucus are running the show and hold all the cards.
  
  Makes you wonder what they have over her to command that level of control.
  
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  December 6, 2022 3:12pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING

How the mighty have fallen…..

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/12/05/jacinda-arderns-popularity-plunges-lowest-level-crime-wave-grips/
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December 6, 2022 8:23am
- Harry Knuts
  
  The truth will always prevail, just not with the NZ MSM while they’re getting their PIJF payments still.
  
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  December 6, 2022 12:27pm
- mogg
  
  Yes but why stop at crime, every area of government is failing, the lies are coming thick and fast.
  Last night a mental health professional was saying that a shortage of beds for acute patients meant that people were dying before they could get treatment. Angry said that acute beds were no longer needed because people were being treated in the community. Needless to say his stupid comment went unchallenged.
  
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  December 6, 2022 1:06pm
I remember when

Is it a side effect of Covid.
Two Six Nations rugby coaches gone overnight.
That is 33.3% of the total number.
At least the All Blacks achieved a similar result by strengthening the support team.
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December 6, 2022 8:24am
Frank the tank

So Ardern publically rips both Jackson and Mahuta over the last 24 hours. Let’s be honest it smelt of desperation, petulance and a good old hissy fit by the PM.

Going to war with Iwicorp will tear this government apart.

Grab the popcorn folks.
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December 6, 2022 8:31am
- Nickc2
  
  Let’s hope the Mahuta and Jackson fiascos are sufficient for her to call a Snap Election or announce her retirement at her 4PM front up on 5Waters this afternoon.
  
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  December 6, 2022 9:41am
- Swifty
  
  Labour are falling apart.
  
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  December 6, 2022 10:28am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Jaspinda can be quite a handful when there are no cameras or mics.
  
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  December 6, 2022 11:34am
- Harry Knuts
  
  The Māori Caucus are going rogue and defy Cindy and she’s trying to look like they are a united team still. I call BS and that the Māori Caucus has little respect for Cindy. they are only keeping her there cause she’s still top 2 of the preferred PM rankings.
  
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  December 6, 2022 12:29pm
  - TP4Shore
    
    They need her to have any chance of getting re-elected. Mahuta and co are the power behind the Labour Party. She will be gone as soon as she is no longer useful. UN job? Without support at the highest level, she will likely end up back in the family business.
    
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    December 6, 2022 3:18pm
kevn

@Maggie… ‘Are Falling’. The slump will continue, downwards.
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December 6, 2022 8:32am
Yvette

Covid-19 inquiry: Govt looks for “lessons” as Opposition seeks to expose flaws
One approach may be spin, while the Opposition could reveal problems ‘we’ would learn lessons from

The government hopes a Royal Commission into its Covid-19 response will provide the strongest possible playbook for any future pandemic.
“Playbook” clue is a give away to spin

from the same RNZ general website page this morning –
Prince Harry says UK royal household plays ’dirty game’ by leaking stories
Spin: because it is Prince Harry himself “leaking another dirty story”

and still same RNZ website page –
“Very puzzling”: Experts appalled Asian needs being ignored in health planning
Health practitioners and experts are concerned that Te Whatu Ora has failed to address Asian needs in latest plan

and heading the article –
While the 2018 census showed Asians were 16 percent of Aotearoa’s population[almost up to the 17 percent that are Māori], and was projected to reach 26 percent in two decades, the word Asian appeared just once in the report of over 100 pages.

See? – Truth not spin – in catering for Māori Exceptionalism, little Andrew Little has ignored other groups who should be Us.
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December 6, 2022 8:37am
- rangitoto
  
  Ginge and whinge are really making me cringe. Glad I don’t have netflix.
  
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  December 6, 2022 9:50am
  - Ehlana
    
    Netflix serves suggestions based on previous viewing. Making both of them easy to avoid.
    
    I’d really like to know, though, whether Netflix is actually making a profit from them.
    
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    December 6, 2022 10:50am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  We had a ‘playbook’. Called the Pandemic Plan. Which was left in the bottom drawer.
  
  What makes Jaxxie think any ‘playbook’ coming out of the Inquiry will be treated any differently?
  
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  December 6, 2022 8:58pm
Rusty

Didn’t Winston Peters predict a snap election next year?

Going on how bad the polls are for Jacinda and Labour he could be right.

Not sure how many snap elections NZ have had but I don’t think they favour the incumbent govt.
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December 6, 2022 8:43am
- MCōs
  
  Why on earth would the government call a snap election?
  It’s usually down from a position of strength or in the case of Muldoon when he alleged he’d lost control of the house because Marilyn Waring had, or was going to, cross the floor.
  The UK has a five year team and snap elections are not uncommon, but there’s no way they’ll risk one at present.
  
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  December 6, 2022 3:10pm
RoboRob

The only thing Labour seem any good at is politics. Very cleaver announcement of the royal commission. Sucks all the oxygen out of the poll results announced last night and distracts from 5 waters nicely. Timed to come out after the next election so the results don’t matter to labour.
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December 6, 2022 8:47am
- rockape
  
  Most people don’t care about an enquiry not due to report till mid 24 !
  
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  December 6, 2022 10:21am
Libertarians are right

Mark this date: 06/12/22
The Stuff Cartoon has an anti Labour (Willie specifically) cartoon today.
It’s only taken five years.

I’m sure the Left will point to this one cartoon to prove that Stuff does go after both parties.
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December 6, 2022 8:56am
- Colville
  
  yeah one out of the last 1800? days.
  But at least its one!
  
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  December 6, 2022 12:09pm
Tomtoddy

Felt groggy Sunday afternoon and Monday morning. Took a RAT test and result was positive. Feeling very miserable. Had delta exactly a year ago so the gods are not treating me well.
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December 6, 2022 9:05am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Sorry to hear that. I have escaped it so far.
  
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  December 6, 2022 9:10am
- Sacha
  
  Keep taking the vitamins and zinc! Hot showers ,warm bed, plenty of water. Panadol sos. Help your body fight the virus.
  We are all at risk of getting repeat visits.
  Stop wasting money on tests – you know if you’ve got the flu!
  IMO, one of the deadlier sins of the current government was that it didn’t direct the MoH to issue preventive advice to the population right at the start. Building up immune systems would have. saved a lot of misery.
  
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  December 6, 2022 9:25am
  - cmm
    
    Yup, they kept dumbing everything down and making things into a single message around vaccination.
    
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    December 6, 2022 9:50am
  - Ehlana
    
    Building up immune systems means getting plenty of rest, eating fruit, vegetables and wholegrains, moving more, drinking water – and only you can do it for yourself and your children. Personal responsibility is not a vote winner.
    
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    December 6, 2022 10:52am
  - NothingLeft
    
    Recent studies (backing up others done in 2020 and 2021) suggest everyone taking cheap and super safe vit D supplements could have prevented about 1/3rd of covid deaths, as most informed people knew from very early on. That’s a couple of million people. How can anyone trust or defend a medical/govt establishment that leaves such low hanging fruit on the tree for no good reason?
    
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    December 6, 2022 11:52am
- hmmokrightitis
  
  Just getting over my first lot. Was around 48 hours of feeling like shit, bounced back fast but lingering (2 weeks after first positive) issues – tiredness, shortness of breath.
  
  The weirdest thing – as I havent had flu in well over 30 years – was the sweats as my body fought the infection on the first night I tested positive. Truly epic sweats. The gorgeous blond mopped my fevered brow and suggested it was beyond man flu.
  
  Love that girl.
  
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  December 6, 2022 9:33am
- alex Masterley
  
  Bugger. Youngest tested positive saturday. He is on house house arrest till Friday. He is coming through OK given the noise eminating from his room when he is online with his mates.
  I am testing every day. Negative so far. Taking vit supliments to keep the nasty at bay.
  
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  December 6, 2022 9:46am
  - fernglas
    
    Brace up and get on with life. It’s a virus. You get it. You feel like shit if you’re unlucky. Why are you New Zealanders still so obsessed with Covid? Is it because Ardern scared you so much? Or because Michael Baker is such an important spokesman for the country? The rest of the world has moved on. Why is it so hard for you?
    
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    December 6, 2022 10:09am
    - kevn
      
      @fern…. We used to know it as ‘the flu’.
      
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      December 6, 2022 10:55am
    - Colville
      
      Why would anyone want to catch it tho?
      Fact is it CAN be nasty and its pure random if you are the “lucky” one.
      
      A few precautions seem sensible to me.
      
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      December 6, 2022 12:13pm
    - alex Masterley
      
      Fern, I am not worried about it. I have had the vid and a summer flu in the last couple of weeks. The summer flu was worse than the vid.
      However, I have to keep my staff happy which means I am testing daily and taking the vits.
      
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      December 6, 2022 2:29pm
- rangitoto
  
  I tested positive a couple of weeks ago, first time I’ve had it that I know of. As an oldie, the doc prescribed Paxlovid over the phone, although it was already starting to subside. Took the course but I don’t really know if it made any difference. Without testing, I would have thought it was just a normal head cold.
  
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  December 6, 2022 9:57am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I am convince that some of us have had Covid and not even known – vaxed or unvaxed.
  Got a runny, sniffy nose this morning. Have a Rat test (we have 20. One box of 5 for each person in the house) Nah, fuck it, just a sniff.
  
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  December 6, 2022 11:43am
  - Don Beckett
    
    Haven’t had it – that I know of. Unvaxxed – no mask – been around plenty of people who went down with it next day. Did the Vit.D & zinc thing.
    One possible exception – in October 2021 woke up one morning, slightly sore throat, slightly headachey, swollen glands – lasted 3 days, did nothing. Wife or friends never caught anything, so I think it was nothing. Doctor reckoned I should get a blood test, because they have very little information on how the unvaxxed fared. Might do it, just for a giggle – BUT $120 cost is no fun for an 80 y/o Pensh. 😆
    
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    December 6, 2022 2:22pm
- Harry Knuts
  
  I’m surprised you still have to test?
  Can’t wait till this whole testing and reporting is binned. We never used to test for flu viruses.
  
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  December 6, 2022 12:33pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

PM Ardern to make live announcement at 4pm, be questioned over Three Waters.
I guess they are writing the questions and answers now.//
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/livestream-pm-ardern-to-make-announcement-be-questioned-over-three-waters/ar-AA14UeEd
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December 6, 2022 9:12am
- RoboRob
  
  Is she about to announce she is standing down to focus on her family?
  
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  December 6, 2022 9:17am
  - kevn
    
    @Robo… We wish.
    
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    December 6, 2022 9:36am
  - cmm
    
    I suspect that if someone is to take a hospital pass it has to be now.
    
    Cindy really does not want an election loss on her CV. It really doesn’t fit with her self-view. Nor does a tanking %.
    
    It would fit much better in her head to bail out now. Then she can tell herself “See, as soon as I left Labour went to hell. I must be awesome.”.
    
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    December 6, 2022 9:45am
- Nickc2
  
  Tova, Jess, Katie, no not you Barry, we didn’t issue you with any questions.
  I’m picking this will be stage-managed in 5Waters favour to the enth degree. She can’t afford to look bad this close to the West Hamilton bi-election and Parliament going into recession for 2022.
  
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  December 6, 2022 9:25am
- Warren
  
  Like the misinformation that Jacinda Ardern our Prime Minister spouted yesterday when talking on the RNZ /
  TV One merger, RNZ will fall over if this is not Allowed.
  This is scaremongering at best and the media allow her to press accusations that can’t be backed up.
  
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  December 6, 2022 9:29am
  - Tricati
    
    I was disappointed not one journalist asked ‘how can RNZ fail as the government funds it’.
    Its comments like this that clearly show the woman is out of her depth and a light weight.
    
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    December 6, 2022 11:06am
- DimChappie
  
  Old news I think, this was the Covid royal commission announcement, see date on your link and comments.
  
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  December 6, 2022 9:35am
- 70andstilllearning
  
  Get the drift of your comment Steve – but the links time stamp?
  “Yesterday 3:45 pm” 🙂
  
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  December 6, 2022 9:40am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    You are correct. I have fucked up. It came to me by email, I just read it quickly and threw it on here.
    Sorry everyone, it was yesterday. No announcement today.
    
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    December 6, 2022 12:12pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I think it will be an announcement about an announcement, to be announced next week, or maybe one day.
  
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  December 6, 2022 11:45am
- Ghost
  
  That was yesterday, usual post cabinet stand up
  
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  December 6, 2022 11:49am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Yeah, I just read 70andstilllearning’s comment above.
    I screwed up.
    
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    December 6, 2022 12:14pm
    - 70andstilllearning
      
      A refreshing and (dare I say it) – straight forward statement. Ever thought of offering mentoring services to our government’s parliamentary members? Understand consulting contract’s are quite lucrative these days! 🙂
      
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      December 6, 2022 1:58pm
Sacha

Poor Hippy is looking sicker by the day, and Robbo is AWOL so who would take over . . . . . . . ?
Oh, of course! The Foreign Minister.
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December 6, 2022 9:28am
- Tricati
  
  Interesting Robbo been missing from Heather’s show 2 weeks in a row now – Finding it hard to keep up the BS maybe?
  
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  December 6, 2022 11:07am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  That’s the last thing we need.
  Nek minut we will have new faces on our coins and notes.
  
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  December 6, 2022 11:48am
Maggy Wassilieff

Apart from running the household accounts, I have little knowledge of high or low finance…

so can anyone explain how 3(5) Waters will be financed and supported … and how can our PM know that the 3 Waters set-up will be less costly to us than the current set up?

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/qa-who-should-pay-for-desperately-needed-three-waters-work
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December 6, 2022 9:51am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Kiwiblog just went awol again prob causing this double post.
  
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  December 6, 2022 9:58am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Ah…
    
    so not my lap-top, then.
    
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    December 6, 2022 10:00am
    - Alan Wilkinson
      
      Happened to me too above. Outage lasted several minutes.
      
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      December 6, 2022 10:03am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Clear the cache on your comp/phone.
    You will have to log in again.
    
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    December 6, 2022 11:55am
- Ghost
  
  Our council looked at the governments work for 3 waters and worked out we would be paying considerable more under 3 waters with it by 2050 costing $5,000 a year for 3 waters rates.
  
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  December 6, 2022 10:04am
- Ehlana
  
  No, Maggy. They can’t. And you’re not supposed to notice that.
  
  Would you lend your money to an entity that could at any time receive an instruction from a newly emerged mana whenua group, which it has to put into effect, even if the effect is that the entity is unable to meet its contractual obligations to repay you?
  
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  December 6, 2022 10:55am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  They can bend it and twist it as much as they like.
  In the end, the NET Taxpayer will pay.
  
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  December 6, 2022 11:51am
Maggy Wassilieff

Is anyone surprised that one of NZ’s fastest growing ethnic groups is being overlooked by the new Health Entity, Te Whatu Ora?

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/480153/call-for-asian-views-to-be-canvassed-for-healthcare-planning
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December 6, 2022 10:03am
- Jack5
  
  The views of ethnic-Asian New Zealanders are definitely needed, given the new Therapeutics Products Bill, which appears to lift Maori remedies towards equivalence with prevailing Western medicines.
  
  As posted a few days ago, but relevant to Maggy Wassilieff”s post, so I repeat:
  
  In parallel, the “Associate Minister for Health (Maori)”, Peeni Henare, announced a “workstream” of “rongoā” (Maori medicine). This Maori advisory group will:
  
  –“explore the interface of the Therapeutic Products Bill and rongoā. The group will also explore whether rongoā matters are being addressed through other Government work programmes.”
  
  The bill establishes the role of Therapeutics Product Regulator, whose duties will include having “capacity and capability to give effect to the principles of te Tiriti o Waitangi/the Treaty of Waitangi and take account of matauranga Maori [Maori knowledge] and Maori perspectives in relation to therapeutic products”.
  
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  December 6, 2022 10:33am
- Swifty
  
  *and especially when there’s money to be made by the middle-men and women and the ‘service providers’.
  
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  December 6, 2022 10:37am
- Harry Knuts
  
  It’s cause they aren’t indigenous Maggy. Māori Caucus will not entertain any other ethnic race to be included. they’re hot on the heels of fighting to reduce immigrants to NZ too. It’s a happening…
  
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  December 6, 2022 12:36pm
- Prince
  
  Is Te Whatu Ora the new Maori health entity, or the one that’s supposed to represent all of NZ ?
  
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  December 6, 2022 2:41pm
  - Ghost
    
    Te Whatu Ora Is Health New Zealand
    Te Aka Whai Ora Is Māori health authority
    
    Te Google gave me the answers
    
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    December 6, 2022 2:59pm
Jack5

Could NZ learn from Taiwan on fighting mobile-phone fraud?

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63075729
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December 6, 2022 10:15am
Warren

Latest Political Poll has Labour , National locked in head- to- head battle
says RNZ.
You have to wonder what sort of shit these people are smoking or taking as it not what most people are seeing from almost all media sites around New Zealand.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/480135/latest-political-poll-has-labour-national-locked-in-head-to-head-battle
Is this Jacinda Ardern Cyc’lops trying to lesson the blow of this poll or can we say this is more misinformation from a tired and out of their depth Government.
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December 6, 2022 10:25am
- NothingLeft
  
  RNZ are not 4th Estate, they’re 5th column.
  
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  December 6, 2022 11:46am
  - mogg
    
    Excellent comment, every media outlet is now full of lefty activists.
    
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    December 6, 2022 1:20pm
Paulus

Am delighighted that Pharmac have reached a provisional agreement re Trikafata for those suffering from a terrible disease and giving them, it is a claim, of up to 27 more years of life.
Normal annual costs are reported at $330,000 per person, so whatever a final cost agreement has been reached, this is one hell of a lot of money for what is believed to be some 350 people.
I totally support Pharmac and their expertise, but what else could the total of up to 27 years per sufferer buy ?
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December 6, 2022 10:29am
- cmm
  
  “I totally support Pharmac and their expertise,”
  
  Pretty much nobody does. Feelz overrides facts.
  
  Sure, it is nice to think we can do everything for everyone but the reality is that we cannot.
  
  If we’re spending $9 per patient just on this one medication we’re probably spending close to the same again on the rest of their care that is prolonged by taking the meds.
  
  That ends up probably around $20M per patient. $7bn for 350 patients.
  
  The question isn’t really what’s the best we can do for these 350 people, but what’s the best we can do for society with $7bn.
  
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  December 6, 2022 10:45am
  - kevn
    
    @cmm… 7bn. Buy us all an electric car?
    A whole bunch of people scored ‘free/heavily subsidized’ electric bikes.
    
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    December 6, 2022 11:18am
    - Colville
      
      $7Bil? = 10,000 state houses.
      
      How many lives would that change?
      How many kids would be saved from a life in gangs/prison?
      
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      December 6, 2022 12:17pm
  - MCōs
    
    I remember when some political party accused another of setting up death panels to decide who should live and who should die.
    “The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of a “death panel” so the bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.”
    
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    December 6, 2022 3:41pm
- Ian Boag
  
  Pharmac has a rule-based thing based on “qalys” – years of quality life from an intervention. The first rationing step is the total funds available, then I guess the qaly thing comes next.
  see …
  https://pharmac.govt.nz/assets/cost-utility-analysis-explained-2015-08-v2.pdf
  
  I would guess that Pharmac have negotiated a low enough price that the qaly sums work. IIRC the only time that Pharmac were told to do something was when Key told then to fund Herceptin. There was a bit of pushback from this as most people realised this approach was going to drastically increase the price of drugs. AFAIK it hasn’t happened again.
  
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  December 6, 2022 2:42pm
All_on_Red

Well, good news for Elon Musk as Apple return to the platform and restart advertising. In fact they intend to increase the spend to $100m per year.
They are Twitters largest advertiser.
Guess some were wrong about Twitter going bust. They seem to be managing fine without those 5000(!) staff they let go too. Quite amazing the low hours they worked and the perks they got. Would love a Chef at our office.
https://www.westernjournal.com/twitters-largest-advertiser-returns-platform-now-fully-resumed-spending/
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December 6, 2022 10:41am
- Inandout
  
  AoR, also Amazon and another major have gone back. The old advertising dictum: ‘you put your advertising dollars where they get the most exposure’.
  
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  December 6, 2022 10:58am
  - All_on_Red
    
    He’s cleaning out the pedos too.
    The Pro Groomers amongst us probably hate that the most- they don’t admit it though
    I guess they hide behind ‘other’ objections…
    https://hotair.com/david-strom/2022/12/05/pedophiles-finally-being-kicked-off-of-twitter-n515701
    
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    December 6, 2022 11:27am
- cmm
  
  If they had withdrawn for valid market reasons then they would not be coming back.
  
  But they withdrew for wokeness. Now that virtue signalling isn’t working they’re back into it.
  
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  December 6, 2022 1:51pm
- Tom Hunter
  
  I love Ace of Spades dealing to all the assholes claiming that this is not a 1st amendment issue because all the parties to it – including the Biden campaign and the Democrat National Committee either were or are private entities themselves.
  
  I especially like it when he sticks it to those Real Rightwingers(TM) making this argument, like Pope David French:
  
  If the president has one of his non-government-worker friends — one of his “Wise Men,” as they used to call the group of grayheads that clustered around a president — to deliver his demands to Twitter, does that make it “non-governmental action,” Davey? After all, the Wise Men he sent over to make his demand doesn’t have a formal place in government. That satisfies your infantile devotion to technical formalism, right, c0cksucker?
  
  Oh, and by the way, I guess Davey missed the part where The FBI told Twitter to be on the lookout for “Russian hacks and dumps” and specifically mentioned Hunter Biden as a target.
  …
  Obviously he would make a completely different argument if Trump were making demands of Elon Musk.
  
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  December 6, 2022 2:17pm
Swifty

Luke Malpass rip’s apart Willie Jackson and the whole RNZ and TVNZ merger:

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/130665771/spare-willie-jackson-a-thought–the-new-public-media-plan-is-barely-defensible

What a great bloody shambles and a criminal waste of New Zealanders hard-earned taxes.

Labour, you suck.
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December 6, 2022 10:57am
- MCōs
  
  Willie Jackson must be a nightmare for Labour. Every time he gives an interview his mouth runs away with him.
  He lives around here and he spoke at a public meeting. After awhile I started to wonder what his point was.
  
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  December 6, 2022 12:58pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Six more days of Parliament sitting. Let’s see who is ducking for cover, and who is slinging shit.
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December 6, 2022 11:08am
rangitoto

Just realised Chris from Clickspring had posted a new episode of his series on reconstructing the Antikythera mechanism last month. It’s the best thing on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlN-QFkDkvE&list=PLZioPDnFPNsHnyxfygxA0to4RXv4_jDU2&index=12
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December 6, 2022 11:24am
- Its only I
  
  One of the better parts of ewes and toobs.
  
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  December 6, 2022 1:29pm
CAKE FACE1

Willie was stunning and brave in the interview, and completely correct.

Imagine you paid upfront in full for a particular service, but then the pesky provider fails to deliver you what was agreed, despite pocketing your moolah?

Labour has paid the Team of $55 million good money in advertising and subsidies for propaganda purposes.

Willie’s quite reasonable expectation seems to be that the Team of $55 million should be Labour lickspittles, and bow and scrape to the government. This seems only fair and reasonable, given the sums paid to secure this outcome.

It is hard to understand the Team of $55 million being so ungrateful.
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December 6, 2022 11:49am
- Jack5
  
  A moderate tiff in one interview doesn’t prove the bought media are turning on their paymasters.
  
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  December 6, 2022 2:08pm
Ghost

The baby at the centre of a legal dispute over the use of blood from people vaccinated against Covid-19 has already received a blood transfusion, the High Court has heard.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/130671351/baby-at-centre-of-vaccinated-blood-case-has-already-had-a-transfusion-court-hears
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December 6, 2022 12:43pm
- mandk
  
  I still haven’t heard any clinical reason why the parents’ wishes should not be accommodated.
  
  All I have heard is that the doctors and blood services people would find it a bit of an inconvenience.
  
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  December 6, 2022 1:43pm
  - cmm
    
    100% power play.
    
    Sure a minor convenience but nothing compared to what they do to support various preferences that people have.
    
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    December 6, 2022 1:53pm
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    They have omitted to claim tikanga – that would guarantee victory.
    
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    December 6, 2022 4:04pm
Ghost

I bet that hurt

Broadcasting Minister Willie Jackson has acknowledged his comments in an interview concerning plans to merge TVNZ and RNZ were a “misstep” and he has apologised.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/im-sorry-willie-jackson-apologises-for-trainwreck-interview-on-public-media-merger/K6DFZBE45NGHRMQXC6PK2A3TTI/
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December 6, 2022 12:47pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  If you come across like a moronic thug in public you probably are one. Trust this Government?
  
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  December 6, 2022 1:12pm
  - CAKE FACE1
    
    Willie shouldn’t apologise.
    
    Willie is the only minister in the government literally trying to get value for money.
    
    The government has invested huge money into the Labour lickspittle propaganda machine.
    
    Who would be so disingenuous to argue that Willie shouldn’t demand a return on this huge investment?
    
    The Team of $55 million are being ungrateful.
    
    Of course, you could argue that the corruption of buying the Team of $55 million with government bribes is inappropriate, but that’s a separate issue from getting value for your kick-back dollars.
    
    Go Willie!
    
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    December 6, 2022 1:38pm
- Tom Hunter
  
  Heh. Will have to check over at The Daily Blog to see if “Bomber” has taken this onboard and changed his opinion that Jackson was just joshing with Tame.
  
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  December 6, 2022 2:11pm
- Gravelroad
  
  Got the message from upstairs (propaganda dept) that he is making the boss look incompetent and weak .
  Apologise or expect a smaller pay cheque.
  
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  December 6, 2022 3:03pm
CAKE FACE1

Cindy said that the Three Waters entrenchment clause was “not necessarily something I would be aware of”.

It later emerged that she was in caucus when this entrenchment clause was discussed…

Did she support 60% entrenchment clause in the caucus meeting?

I heard her interviewed by both Mr Soper and Mr Bridge. She wouldn’t give a straight answer to their questions.

I hope there is some leak from the Labour party caucus, because at the moment, this issue is not clear.

The issue is important because it speaks to the honesty (or dishonesty) of Cindy.

It’s a shame Dr Sharma is no longer in the Labour caucus! He would tell us…
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December 6, 2022 12:59pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  First she lied, now she tries to hide it. Not fit to be an MP let alone the PM.
  
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  December 6, 2022 1:17pm
- mandk
  
  She wasn’t just in the caucus meeting; she chaired it.
  
  There is no other possible conclusion.
  
  She lied.
  
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  December 6, 2022 1:40pm
  - Matt Long
    
    It’s plausible deniability, she’s too stupid to follow the discussion in the meeting she was chairing.
    
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    December 6, 2022 8:36pm
- Nickc2
  
  I believe if we want the truth, it’s going to come from Mahuta and/or Jackson.
  IMO, the Govt is divided: Maori Caucus vs the Rest. I think the Maori Caucus know they are out on their arses at the next election and all the Maorification of NZ they have done will be repealed by a Nat+Act Govt.
  Cindy on the other hand is prepared to stick to her lies to the bitter end in order to protect her transition to a cushy job at the UN/WEF/Black Rock. The rest of the Non-Maori Caucus know the writing’s on the wall and are busy updating their CVs with the exception of Phil Twyford who doesn’t know what a CV is.
  
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  December 6, 2022 1:52pm
Ghost

Mauna Loa Eruption, HI – USGS live stream
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December 6, 2022 1:01pm
- alex Masterley
  
  It is as good as the live streams of the recent Icelandic eruptions. Although I dont think many on the big island are hiking up to the site to watch it live as they did in Iceland
  
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  December 6, 2022 2:35pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.
https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/ngapuhi-leader-goes-on-rampage-against-co-governance/
https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/How-acedemics-can-capitulate-1.pdf
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December 6, 2022 1:07pm
Maggie Pie

REMINDER TO THE GROUP:

‘PRINCESS-OF-CHAOS’ tonite 9pm TV2.

“Watching Len Brown have sex is actually funnier than you think” 😛

– Russell Bailey (Reviewer NZ Listener)

We’re having friends round for dinner to watch it on the big screen.
Should be an absolute HOOT!

https://youtu.be/fP0xyYfMQ0k
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December 6, 2022 1:21pm
- All_on_Red
  
  I think the expression is ‘Trainwreck Porn’
  Personally I will pass…
  
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  December 6, 2022 1:34pm
- Ghost
  
  Pass, but I guess you will give us a blow by blow review
  
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  December 6, 2022 1:40pm
  - MCōs
    
    Did you mean to say blow job by blow job, but didn’t want to upset any children reading the blog?
    
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    December 6, 2022 2:02pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  What sort of sicko’s would actually ‘downtick’ the post anyway?
  
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  December 6, 2022 1:47pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Goodness,
  will you feed your guests before the viewing or afterwards?
  
  I hope they have strong stomachs.
  
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  December 6, 2022 3:39pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    We’re getting Chinese Takeaways 😛
    
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    December 6, 2022 3:58pm
curry4me

Trump calls for termination of Constitution to overturn 2020 election (msn.com)
Trump calls for termination of Constitution to overturn 2020 election.

This is MSNs take on Twittergate. I’m sure RNZ, TVNZ, Stuffed, and The Ferald will be all over it in 5,4,3,2,1.
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December 6, 2022 1:26pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x32zJwyHr78
Secret Hospitals Built for Murder: the Truth Behind Massive ‘Anti-Lockdown Protests’.

Jaing just died. The protests continue. Will the presitator try to pin the blame for the forced organ harvesting on him?
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December 6, 2022 1:26pm
Diogenes

A friend of mine went to see Jordan Peterson speak in Christchurch a few days ago. (I wish I had known he was here.)
She said two things stood out particularly for her.
a) A significant proportion of the large crowd appeared to be in the 20-40 age bracket, and many of those were dressed in suits.
b) There was an obvious hunger for what Jordan had to say. They applauded loudly and regularly at his comments.
She was both surprised and hugely encouraged. If this was indicative, perhaps an unexpected groundswell may be occurring, flying below the radar.
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December 6, 2022 1:43pm
- Inandout
  
  Dio, he was on Sky last night with an Aussie woman interviewer. Man that fellow speaks sense.
  
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  December 6, 2022 1:59pm
  - mandk
    
    That’s why wokesters and ctrl+left people hate him.
    
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    December 6, 2022 2:12pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Few knew he was in town for the very relevant reason that his five minutes of fame expired some time ago.
  
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  December 6, 2022 4:35pm
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    Enquiring minds want to know if you downtick your own comments?
    
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    December 6, 2022 4:45pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Meanwhile, in the real world, far far away from Milkys Mums basement and his lies, Petersons world wide tour is sold out and his You Tube channel has had 480 million views
    Sounds famous to me
    
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    December 6, 2022 6:12pm
  - mandk
    
    That would be why his YouTube channel has almost 6 million subscribers, his latest video has been watched by more than 200k people in the 13 hours since its release, dnd his other releases often attract more than 1 million views.
    
    How many followers do you have, mma?
    
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    December 6, 2022 6:18pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Oh, if only I could master the art of the dog-whistle as some skilled rhetoricians can.
      
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      December 7, 2022 6:16am
Maggie Pie

Pass The Sick Bucket 🙁

Never thort I’d say it…but there’s someone even worser than John Campbell.

This guy makes my flesh crawl 🙁

https://twitter.com/ideNZcity/status/1599537788294426624
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December 6, 2022 2:04pm
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, you must forgive him now he is happily married to Ryan of real estate.
  
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  December 6, 2022 2:30pm
- mandk
  
  Being interviewed on TVNZ must be pretty much the same for Arden as visiting a kindy or a snowflake convention.
  
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  December 6, 2022 2:57pm
- Gravelroad
  
  Yep, he’s a smarmy crawler all right – but no one is worse than John Campbell.
  
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  December 6, 2022 4:29pm
DimChappie

Even the folk over at the Daily Blog are saying it’s time for Cindy to go:

https://bit.ly/3HdpTZB

Reactionary Bratwurst December 6, 2022 at 6:42 am
“It is gonna be a hard pill to swallow but Jacinda is becoming unelectable. No longer a shiny new thing on the block, but worn out and lackluster. Sadly for Labour, they are all worn out and lackluster coupled with arrogance. Non of that makes them relatable, approachable, or electable. And to think that these people got a full majority not even three years ago.”
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December 6, 2022 2:13pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  The political cycle moves faster these days than 40 years ago. Now national has finally settled on some kind of leader it is probably labour’s turn to try the revolving door approach to leadership once more.
  
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  December 6, 2022 4:33pm
Ghost

Cheers Kirstie, thanks for the laughs

Kirstie Alley died following a “battle with cancer,” according to her family. She was 71.

“We are sad to inform you that our incredible, fierce and loving mother has passed away after a battle with cancer, only recently discovered,” her official Twitter account said.

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/kirstie-alley-dead-71
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December 6, 2022 3:06pm
Maggie Pie

Twitter awash with comments calling into question Jacinda’s appointment of Professor Tony Blakely to chair the Covid-19 Royal Commission.

People are saying she’s IMPORTING one of Australia’s most prominent Covid alarmists to justify her tyrannical behaviour and there’s nothing independent about it.

One even ventured that she may as well have asked Pfizer to do it.

Just saying.
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December 6, 2022 3:28pm
- MCōs
  
  He’s a Kiwi.
  
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  December 6, 2022 3:49pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Come on Cossie…that’s like saying 501’s are New Zealanders.
    
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    December 6, 2022 4:00pm
    - MCōs
      
      He was only at the University of Melbourne for 5-1/2yrs.
      Prior to that he was at Otago for 20yrs where he’d previously studying medicine.
      Personally I would have gone with Sue Gray for a thoroughly unbiased enquirer.
      She wouldn’t need to call any of those annoying trained professionals; just print out stuff from the internet.
      
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      December 6, 2022 6:32pm
      - graham
        
        I’ll bet that last part sounded absolutely hilarious in your head …
        
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        December 6, 2022 7:45pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        But seemed a reasonable approach to you, graham…
        
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        December 7, 2022 6:14am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    But does he meet Paul Holmes’s definition of a real New Zealander?
    
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    December 6, 2022 4:29pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Reared in the Waikato
    (Surprise, surprise).
    
    https://www.stpauls.school.nz/news/collegians/kiwi-professor-leading-voice-australias-covid-19-response
    
    (Ozzies call him a Kiwi Professor, Jacinda calls him an Australian)
    
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    December 6, 2022 7:22pm
    - Maggie Pie
      
      And a great friend of Hellun’s hubby… Pete Davis.
      
      Says he was just a poor white boy who worked for years in New Zealand doing ‘health-inequalities-research’
      
      LOL!!
      
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      December 6, 2022 7:43pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Appointing a medic rather than a judge to chair it indicates public health to over rule civil rights.
  
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  December 6, 2022 3:57pm
  - Matt Long
    
    Keep in mind the purpose of the commission is to give Labour a big shiny red tick.
    
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    December 6, 2022 8:44pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  AND THIS JUST IN….
  
  https://twitter.com/RebelNews_AU/status/1599965798940176384
  
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  December 6, 2022 4:35pm
  - kevn
    
    @Maggie… The anointed ‘Fixer’.
    ‘Safe and Effective’. FFS.
    On ya bike pal.
    
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    December 6, 2022 5:18pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Here’s Tony Blakely and Michael Baker discussing/comparing Oz & NZ’s response to Covid back in July 2022.
  
  https://theconversation.com/how-are-australia-and-nz-managing-the-rising-covid-winter-wave-and-is-either-getting-it-right-187020
  
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  December 6, 2022 7:45pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/300758064/secondary-teachers-to-strike-in-term-1-after-rejecting-disappointing-pay-offer
The best thing that could happen for teachers is for the govt to get rid of all the maori language shit.
THEN start talking about pay rises and conditions.
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December 6, 2022 3:51pm
Maggie Pie

With the announcement that ‘Gib-Board’ will rise in price by more than 15% next month, I suggested to my partner’s mother she might be better to buy a few pallets of that, rather than fix a TD @ 5.2% for three years.

Just a thort.
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December 6, 2022 4:53pm
- mogg
  
  Good rate, good timing, but bond prices are in decline. Equities can’t stay in the doldrums forever.
  RBD are down 56% on the year, is KFC a better bet than ‘giboard’???
  
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  December 6, 2022 5:40pm
Ghost

Thousands of coronial files and post-mortem reports are caught up in a cyber security incident at the Ministry of Justice.

The hack didn’t target the ministry’s systems directly, it said. Rather the external company affected provides IT services to a third-party provider the ministry has contracts with.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/12/thousands-of-coronial-files-post-mortem-reports-caught-up-in-ministry-of-justice-hack.html
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December 6, 2022 6:29pm
Alan Wilkinson

Wellington Council worried that 3 Waters, climate alarmism and rate rises may not be popular:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wellington-mayor-tory-whanau-fears-for-personal-security-from-future-rates-rise/MEOBLE65CJA7PPAIWKMWY7IJAE/
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December 6, 2022 6:54pm
Maggie Pie

ORAL QUESTION #12

National saved the best for last….

It was hilarious watching Nanaia trying to Pole-Dance on the head of a pin 😀
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December 6, 2022 7:27pm
NZer In Exile

China To Double Coal-Fired Power Plant Capacity…Aims To Avoid European, US Blunders:

https://notrickszone.com/2022/11/25/china-to-double-coal-fired-power-plant-capacity-aims-to-avoid-european-us-blunders/

Meanwhile brain-dead morons of the far left ignore reality and commit their counties to huge harms by energy suicide.
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December 6, 2022 8:29pm

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