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NeverMindTheBollocks

“In 2023 there’s no logical reason to retain a King on no stronger basis than who his mother was, who his father was and so on …”.

Precisely the same argument applies in respect of special rights for Maori, for which Morgan is a passionate advocate.

O the irony!

http://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/131063365/morgan-godfery-royal-psychodrama-means-only-one-thing-for-nz–a-republic
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January 27, 2023 8:01am
- Wayne Mapp
  
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  The analogy is wrong at so many levels.
  To begin with the Treaty of Waitangi provides specific protection for maori lands, forests, fisheries and other treasures.
  Any conceivable government of New Zealand is going to provide specific support for Maori language and culture. Te Reo is an official language. Kura Kaupapa schools and Kohanga Reo have been funded for many decades.
  Most treaty settlements provide for a specific Maori/iwi role in conservation and heritage.
  Specific parliamentary seats have existed since 1867.
  To pretend there are not specific Maori interests that are protected by law is to deny the reality of living in New Zealand, pretty much since its founding.
  
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  January 27, 2023 8:59am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Hi Wayne, I acknowledge the Treaty as written and understood at the time. I have no problem with full and final settlements.
    
    I do have a problem with co governance, since it undermines democracy. Morgan is certainly one of those arguing for different rights for Maori; by definition this is purely based on bloodlines. So, I’m happy with my analogy.
    
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    January 27, 2023 9:16am
    - lastmanstanding
      
      I say we are all of different tribes but we are all one people. What say you.
      
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      January 27, 2023 9:24am
      - Nickc2
        
        We are all NZers FFS! Any deviation is not only devious, it’s also self-indulgent (Mahuta Corp) on the part of those who endeavour to claim stuff that was never theirs in the first place. 3/5/6/#Waters anyone?
        
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        January 27, 2023 4:51pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Emphasis on “final” No topups anymore, they have had enough. Topups are only for buying votes anyway.
      
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      January 27, 2023 9:37am
      - Ehlana
        
        Hi Steve
        
        I understand the reason for the top-ups in the current round of settlements is to keep equity between the tribes. No tribe would go first into the settlement process if they might end up with less than another tribe.
        
        But I have also been told, by people with longer memories than mine, that we have been down the road of settlements before, only to have the claimants return and demand more.
        
        We should ensure that the whole truth is told about the history of our country. But we also need to recognise that the people of New Zealand today are not responsible for the wrongs of yesterday and should not be endlessly penalised for them.
        
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        January 27, 2023 10:51am
      - lastmanstanding
        
        Some tribes have had 4 and 5 Full and Final Settlements. The problem is every generation comes back for more saying they want an inflation adjustment. Its like me selling my house then every few years asking the new owner for an inflation adjustment. Crazy.
        
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        January 27, 2023 11:01am
      - Loddenthinks
        
        Which “full and final settlements” are you referring to? There have been many, for the same tribes, the same areas and the same grievances.
        
        Expect there to be many more, not to mention the disingenuous and unconstitutional shenanigans such as went on at Ihumatao.
        
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        January 27, 2023 11:11am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Ehlana.
        “claimants return and demand more.” That is how ‘welfare’ works.
        Give a man a fish and all that rubbish.
        
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        January 27, 2023 1:12pm
      - Unity
        
        And forests and fisheries were not in the Treaty. They were in an earlier English draft but weren’t put in the final Treaty. Also the earlier English draft didn’t say ‘and all the people of New Zealand’ but the final Treaty (in Maori) did.
        
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        January 27, 2023 1:40pm
    - Wayne Mapp
      
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      My comment was not really directed at co-governance, but rather the somewhat sweeping statement that there are “no special rights”, when quite clearly there are, and have been for many decades.
      National has recognised the special rights of Maori/Iwi in relation to the Waikato River and Whanganui River. Also for Taiapure and matatai in respect of fisheries.
      In my view the opposition to co-governance ought not to be used as a stalking horse to pretend that Maori don’t have any specific rights, when the facts and practice show quite clearly that they do exist.
      
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      January 27, 2023 9:43am
      - Yabster
        
        thats your problem on a lot of issues it seems Mapp- just because something exsist “like” special racist rights doesn’t mean they should does it.
        
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        January 27, 2023 9:53am
      - Cassandra
        
        Indeed special rights do exist but many are totally inappropriate, granted by National to appease Maori not because it was the right thing to do. Doug Graham started the whole shebang to avoid “blood on the streets”. You’re not old enough to remember that, Wayne. And I note that you’ve not mentioned Urewera and Tuhoe. The full and final settlements of the 1930s and before counted for nought – these won’t either. Bending over backwards has not worked. For a reasonable solution there must be two reasonable sides – there’s only one and that’s the end of being reasonable.
        
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        January 27, 2023 10:21am
      - Taieri
        
        National has recognised the special rights of Maori/Iwi in relation to the Waikato River and Whanganui River.
        ———–
        
        Let’s rephrase it, to better reflect what’s happened…National has GRANTED the special rights…
        
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        January 27, 2023 10:48am
      - thirteenstars
        
        “just because something exsist “like” special racist rights doesn’t mean they should does it.”
        
        But that’s always been the conservative ideology: the appeal to the status quo, to tradition, regardless of any moral analysis.
        
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        January 27, 2023 12:40pm
      - ISeeRed
        
        Mapp demonstrates why we’re doomed under a future National government.
        
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        January 27, 2023 1:45pm
      - 70andstilllearning
        
        ” “We need to take a bit more time to articulate what we are doing and why we are doing it,” he said of co-governance.
        
        Hipkins said he does not intend to re-visit existing co-governance arrangements. “I made a commitment yesterday and it was an easy commitment to make, to never use race relations to divide New Zealanders.” ”
        
        So the new PM is going to “talk” (rationalise their view of?) about co-governance but not do anything about things done in the name of co-governance over the last couple of years because he doesn’t want to use “race relations to divide New Zealanders” . Got it!! Not the first time since Monday he’s suggested not re-visiting the past.
        
        https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/new-prime-minister-chris-hipkins-speaks-after-first-cabinet-meeting-as-cpi-released/BTDW4JCEOFHPNF2A3HPGMFHLGU/
        
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        January 27, 2023 2:02pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        The Treaty was a one page document. It’s intent is plain and clear. One people under British rule. If people want Maori property they need to reach a mutually agreed price and do a proper buy/sell transaction.
        
        Wayne, where pray tell does National think it gets a mandate for the kind of constitutional captains’ calls you are attempting to justify? Or do you think people vote for a kind of temporary dictatorship that can rule by fiat?
        
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        January 27, 2023 6:36pm
    - kowtow
      
      But they’re never “final” .
      
      Two get relativity top ups , recently again .
      
      ‘The $170 million settlement in 1997 was the tribe’s fifth.’
      
      https://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/complaint-industry-still-rambles
      
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      January 28, 2023 11:00am
  - RoboRob
    
    ‘To begin with the Treaty of Waitangi provides specific protection for maori lands, forests, fisheries and other treasures.’
    
    No it doesn’t. Thats the modern interpretation. It says….
    
    Her Majesty the Queen of England confirms and guarantees to the Chiefs and Tribes of New Zealand and to the respective families and individuals thereof the full exclusive and undisturbed possession of their Lands and Estates Forests Fisheries and other properties which they may collectively or individually possess so long as it is their wish and desire to retain the same in their possession; but the Chiefs of the United Tribes and the individual Chiefs yield to Her Majesty the exclusive right of Preemption over such lands as the proprietors thereof may be disposed to alienate at such prices as may be agreed upon between the respective Proprietors and persons appointed by Her Majesty to treat with them in that behalf.
    
    i.e. Ownership of the property, that they may sell and that the government may preempt.
    
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    January 27, 2023 9:16am
    - Wayne Mapp
      
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      “lands, estates, forests, fisheries,and other properties” which clearly encompasses more than real property. In any event you also have to refer to the maori language version, which can’t simply be ignored. And do as the Court of Appeal has done for decades, which is attempt to synthesis the two texts.
      
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      January 27, 2023 9:48am
      - Yabster
        
        yeah the court of Appeal- they do a great job Mapp…
        
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        January 27, 2023 9:54am
      - RoboRob
        
        lol, you think that “lands, estates, forests, fisheries,and other properties” clearly encompases more tha real property? All the listed are are property and the fact the line ends with ‘and other properties’ clearly shows that ‘lands, estates and fisheries’ were being referred to as property.
        
        Anyway it doesn’t matter. What I was saying was that specific protection for maori lands, forests, fisheries and other treasures is not true. It doesn’t protect ‘other treasures’ and the protections granted are the same as those given to all English citizens, so nothing Maori specific. The generous intent by the crown was clearly the ‘incorporation’ of Maori into the commonwealth.
        
        Re Maori wording.
        I have to ignore the Maori version as I cant read it myself and would therefore rely on other interpretations. And as many are busy twisting the wording of the English version I must assume the same is in play with the Maori version.
        
        Anyway, it is clear that the english version actually covers the intent of the crown. The alternative to the treaty was what happened in other countries, which was far worse.
        
        I am proud of our treaty but hate the twisting of it
        
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        January 27, 2023 10:11am
      - Wayne Mapp
        
        Yabster,
        Do you seriously think it would be possible to pretend that the legal protections on the specific issues I mentioned could actually be reversed?
        I am sure you know that is simply not possible. And neither is it reasonable to characterise those things as “racist rights”.
        
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        January 27, 2023 10:43am
      - Wayne Mapp
        
        RoboRob,
        
        Just because you can’t read the Maori text doesn’t mean that others can’t.
        
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        January 27, 2023 10:45am
      - Jack5
        
        Stuff, like the NZ-only edition of the Guardian, continues to provide a platform for Morgan Godfery.
        
        He’s a former trade union official and Labour Party staffer who until recently was, and maybe still is, paid by Otago University to teach entrepreneurship, the antithesis of socialism.
        
        When you go to the Guardian web site from an NZ internet address, you find an NZ version of the news site. It’s not a formal NZ edition, but a tailored version.
        
        If you go to the Guardian web site via VPN, which disguises your country, you get choices of US, Australian, and UK editions, but no mention of an NZ edition.
        
        So Godfery in the Guardian is for NZ consumption only.
        
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        January 27, 2023 10:59am
      - RoboRob
        
        @Wayne Mapp
        
        The ‘Maori version says different’ arguement is a problem. The only people capable of translating the Maori version are also those that have a vested interest in it saying certain things.
        
        Since English reading people can hardly agree what the English version says trying to base an arguement on the Maori version is just stupid. If there was a Klingon version I am sure that the Klingons would say the interpretation is something that favours them too.
        
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        January 27, 2023 11:34am
      - NZer In Exile
        
        “other properties” = real land based stuff actually owned. Like huts, kumara pits etc etc.
        
        Woke florid thinking wasn’t a thing back then.
        
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        January 27, 2023 7:11pm
    - Unity
      
      As I said above ‘forests and fisheries’ were not included in the final Treaty. They were in an earlier English draft. Even the final English draft from which the Treaty was transcribed into Maori did not include ‘forests and fisheries.
      
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      January 27, 2023 1:42pm
  - Swifty
    
    Wayne,
    
    I wonder if you might help me with something.
    
    Yesterday on LinkedIn Mike Jaspers was promoting co-governance, saying that the treaty requires it and socking it to anyone who commented against it.
    
    Just in the last few short years I’ve been hearing from certain quarters that ‘the treaty demands/requires equity’ that ‘Maori never ceded sovereignty’ and, again just very recently, from this 6th Labour Government that ‘the treaty demands/requires co-governance.’
    
    (I’d add at this point that in my untrained reading of the Treaty it says no such things, but that’s another matter.)
    
    If these points about ‘equity’ and ‘co-governance’ etc are correct as proponents claim, then presumably they are saying that the points were always correct but it’s just taken us 170-180 years to realise it.
    
    If that is the case, then why do you think that none of the previous five Labour governments raised these issues before?
    
    To my knowledge not once did Savage, Fraser, Nash, Kirk, Rowling or Lange ever campaign on it. Never to my knowledge did any of them claim co-governence is required by the Treaty. Nor that the Treaty demands or requires ‘equity’.
    
    In fact, at least one of those named specifically warned against it. I am informed that in 2000 Lange specifically said ‘you can have tribal sovereignty or you can have democracy but not both’ – that they are incompatible.
    
    (I note too this week that at least one crown entity has come out openly and claimed that ‘Maori never ceded sovereignty’ which surprises me as I thought it the official position of the NZ Government that they did and that only the Crown holds it.)
    
    So, might you have any thoughts on whether you think Jaspers and this current Labour Government are correct in their claims and that previous Labour governments were quite wrong – or is it more likely, as evidenced by past Labour Government and PM behaviour that all this is are modern inventions.
    
    Modern interpretations that have only been conceived recently – i.e. they are made up.
    
    Any thoughts?
    
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    January 27, 2023 9:44am
    - RoboRob
      
      Hi Swifty
      
      When I went to find the treaty to reply above the first all said something similar to what Wayne said. These were government sites. I then realised that what they were doing was not displaying the actual treaty, rather ‘interpretations’ of the clauses. In the interpretations that all used the phrase ‘Maori retain sovereignty of..”. Later down the page or on other pages the actual treaty wording is displayed. I wonder how long until only the interpretations are shown?
      
      It’s simply not the case and if you think about it the Crown would never have written a treaty that didn’t require sovereignty go to the crown exclusively. These interpretations are written in a way the mirrors the desire of the progressive left.
      
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      January 27, 2023 10:00am
    - Wayne Mapp
      
      Swifty
      In my view Maori did transfer sovereignty. Even if you take the Maori text of governance, it contains the essence of sovereignty. The right of Crown to govern. Not just over the settlers, but over all people in New Zealand. If it had only been the former, there would never have been much debate on February 5, 1840. Maori never expected to govern the settlers in any event.
      Maori also knew they were giving to the Crown all the rights of international relations, customs, tariffs, etc. All these things are the essence of sovereignty.
      As for co governance, the treaty does not envisage that, except on things of specific Maori interest,. I mentioned above the issues of specific rivers, fishing and some aspects of conservation.
      
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      January 27, 2023 10:54am
      - Loddenthinks
        
        Sovereignty and co-governance are incompatible. Wake up, grow up or wise up.
        
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        January 27, 2023 11:14am
      - RoboRob
        
        We are in agreement on everything up to co governance 🙂
        
        Co governance and sovereignty are mutually exclusive. At the time of the treaty there would have been zero consideration of co governance.
        
        Maori had interest in their property (food sources & land). That was covered by the same ownership as all other citizens. There was NO interest in conservation. That is part of the brown washing of Maori history. Maori were not the great conservationists.
        
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        January 27, 2023 11:38am
      - Swifty
        
        Thanks Wayne.
        
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        January 27, 2023 12:47pm
      - Unity
        
        Maori were not a cohesive society and they didn’t know what sovereignty was. There was no one person overall in charge as there would have been if there was sovereignty. They were a mish mash of people from all over the Pacific and couldn’t even agree with each other on anything. They were marauding up and down the country killing and eating each other. Taking over land etc from the weaker tribes. You are reading an earlier draft Treaty Wayne. To know exactly what the Maori Treaty (the only one that matters) said you need to read the so-called Littlewood Treaty which was the final draft before it was transcribed into Maori.
        
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        January 27, 2023 1:47pm
    - Ehlana
      
      It may well be that at least some of the chiefs envisioned some form of governance partnership when they signed the Treaty – that they would continue to rule their lands, with the British ruling enclaves of foreigners, similar to the colonies in Hong Kong and Macao.
      
      But we are not living in the 1840’s anymore. Ideas on governance have changed since then. History has shown us that governance by a self-perpetuating elite (heriditary or ideological) never serves the best interests of the rest of the population. People, including many Maori, have campaigned at home and abroad, fought and died so that ordinary people can have an equal say in governance – one person, one vote. Surely that is the ultimate co-governance?
      
      Even if we all agree that the Treaty did indeed mean that, can it really overrule the system of government that we have evolved since then? On what basis? That the chiefs didn’t agree to any changes? Elites don’t generally want to give up power, privilege and unearned wealth. Why should the common people hand it back to them?
      
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      January 27, 2023 11:02am
  - Yabster
    
    yeah and why is English not an official language, Maori are over represented in parliamnet- so no need for the Moari seats. Maori culture/language is fine- but how about iwi and maori promote it- ie why is it the Govt job? Certainly don’t push it on anyone (maori included who don’t want to learn about it)
    
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    January 27, 2023 9:51am
    - Loddenthinks
      
      The Royal Commission that recommended we adopt MMP also recommended we abolish the Maori seats, correctly stating there will be no need for them.
      
      Since then the number of Maori seats has increased, and I’ll wager a pound to a pinch of goat poo that after March 31 this year, gerrymandering (as referenced in the separate article today) will lead to a further increase in that number.
      
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      January 27, 2023 11:17am
      - Jack5
        
        Re Swifty’s mention of Mike Jaspers in Swifty’s 9.44 post above …
        
        This from a Stuff report in May, 2020:
        
        Andrew Campbell has been chief press secretary since May of 2018, when he replaced Mike Jaspers, whom Ardern had inherited from former Labour leader Andrew Little while in Opposition.
        
        https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300009641/inside-the-spinroom-who-is-who-in-the-governments-pr-team
        
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        January 27, 2023 2:52pm
    - kowtow
      
      English is the official language de facto .
      Parliament , the courts , etc are all conducted in English.
      
      Maori is “de jure” an official language , along with sign (?)
      
      Tp rove what utter rot and window dressing this de juure situation is ;
      
      Get arrested and demand that the arresting officer address you in both sign and Maori , afterall they’re official languages …………
      
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      January 28, 2023 11:06am
      - Nickc2
        
        Good luck with that!
        Yesterday, I spent most of the day in an Analysis Ward in my local Hospital. What appeared humurous to me at the time and in vogue with kowtow’s post was that except for myself and a part Maori guy in the next bed, all were foreigners whereby they talked to their friends and visitors in foreign tongues.
        However, then the Dr did his rounds, and they all addressed the Dr in perfect (but accented) English. Even an Indian lady addressed the Indian Dr in English. The part Maori guy also addressed the Dr in English (no kia ora’s or bros).
        Strange eh, or was it just me looking for something to pass the time?
        
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        January 28, 2023 11:28am
  - Simon
    
    “Any conceivable government of New Zealand is going to provide specific support for Maori language and culture.”
    
    Any language/ culture that relies upon force and coercion aint gonna make it.
    
    Aside from anything else the vile British Empire didnt intend partnership with anyone. Forget english vs maori language understand the nature of British Empire.
    
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    January 27, 2023 10:11am
    - RoboRob
      
      As I mentioned above, there is no way the crown wanted to share sovereignty. There is no such thing as a partnership in the actual treaty, that is wording used by the well intentioned over the years that has ended up being written into laws. In my opinion it’s a foolish concept that is now beginning to cause major problems in the running of the country. The reason we ‘need’ co governance is because of the partnership that is written into all the government departments.
      
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      January 27, 2023 10:43am
  - Frank the tank
    
    Some points:
    1). Whether the Treaty gave specific protections such as those should be debated alas we let progressive judicial activists determine that for us with the adoption of one interpretation over another.
    2). The OP is correct in his summation. We are now in 2022 not in the 1850s. The world has changed and therefore we should take this opportunity to decide whether we should be applying laws on the basis of a 1850s treaty.
    3). Either we continue down this route of an ethno-oligarchy similar to South Africa and Zimbabwe and watch our best and brightest end up in other countries or we accept we are a true democracy and structure our laws and government to fit this model.
    
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    January 27, 2023 10:33am
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    Daft specifying rights to an indefinable group rather than specific individuals. Not only daft but flagrantly unjust to both the favoured and unfavoured.
    
    It is simply posturing and virtue signalling.
    
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    January 27, 2023 2:01pm
- lastmanstanding
  
  News just out that Robertson wont contest Wellington Central and will be list only. I suspect their polling is showing they will lose this seat so Robertson is bailing so he doesnt lose it.
  
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  January 27, 2023 11:13am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Probably leaving it for a greenie, I suspect Robertson is off
    
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    January 27, 2023 11:33am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Robertson and Ardern leaving NZ politics summed up perfectly here.
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW1U4bcbUkI
    
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    January 27, 2023 12:58pm
Yvette

Co-governance work set to be put on hold
Willie Jackson says he’s leaning towards putting the Government’s co-governance work on hold next year

An election-year halt on co-governance work is the likely outcome when Cabinet meets this month to decide the next steps to fulfil commitments under the United Nations’ Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Māori Development Minister Willie Jackson received the first draft of a declaration plan in June, which was expected to be signed off by Cabinet and then publicly released for consultation with all New Zealanders.

But Jackson wasn’t comfortable with the proposals put forward and knew Cabinet wouldn’t agree to it, so asked the governance group set up to consult and draw up the plan to go back and try again.
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/co-governance-work-looks-set-to-be-put-on-hold

• So how long was the consultation with the cherry-picked Maori Elite?
• How long has Willie Jackson had a group trying to edit the Elite response into something acceptable to present to his Cabinet colleagues?
• Has Jackson actually done that presentation yet?
• And is preparation of a proposal to be publicly released for consultation with all New Zealanders going to actually take the timeline beyond this year’s Election?
• And how long a document itself is deemed suitable for public consideration, if it is to take an Ardernity of roughly two years to prepare it? It all isn’t going to fit into a snappy Jacindian slogan, is it?

If Government is going to can co-governance work between now and the Election, shouldn’t there be a statement to explain where it has progressed to so far, and exactly what Labour proposes to do in picking it up after the Election, perchance they manage to win?
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January 27, 2023 8:01am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Willie Jackson will be toast in October 2023.
  
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  January 27, 2023 8:54am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    I thi k he is toast now, have you seen him lately? No show at Ratana
    
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    January 27, 2023 9:43am
  - pdm
    
    One can hope Steve.
    
    My Party Vote will not be going anywhere near a Party that is likely to help him get re elected.
    
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    January 27, 2023 9:51am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Where is Jackson? We heard he had a reaction over covid which sounds like bullshit, he has not been sighted since Arderns demise, he was also a no show at Ratana
  
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  January 27, 2023 9:42am
  - DeepBlue
    
    Talking to Te Māori Parti?
    
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    January 27, 2023 10:10am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      The threat of a split to the Māori parliament may be happening, media said he was in hospital with covid, I tend to not believe this type of shit, he had it before and was fine. He may well have been sidelined
      
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      January 27, 2023 11:35am
  - Biscuit
    
    G, I saw him on a vid from his home the other day.
    
    Apparently he has had Covid.
    
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    January 27, 2023 12:54pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

When I heard the protest leader’s UK accent as he decries the proposed airport at Tarras on climate change grounds, I asked myself – what method of transport did you use to come here?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/131068359/say-no-to-planned-otago-airport-academics-urge
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January 27, 2023 8:02am
- Widogast Corwin
  
  It is nuts. Similarly, the Wellington mayor is set to stop any expansion of Wellington airport because of ‘climate change’.
  
  The mid scenario forecast is an increase in air travel of about 50 percent by 2050.
  
  https://www.eurocontrol.int/article/aviation-outlook-2050-air-traffic-forecast-shows-aviation-pathway-net-zero-co2-emissions#:~:text=Thirty%2Dyear%20forecast%20(2022%2D2050%20highlights)&text=The%20'most%20likely'%20scenario%20forecasts,19.6%20million%20at%20high%20growth
  
  Also, people are not going to decide to fly to New Zealand because there is an airport at Tarras. Planes that otherwise would have landed at Queenstown and Christchurch will go to Tarras. They will do so because it makes economic sense. A basic airport at Tarras will cater for folk flying into the South Island as tourists. It will have lower landing fees than Christchurch.
  
  Thee clowns lack any critical reasoning skills.
  
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  January 27, 2023 9:41am
- Jack5
  
  A problem with the Tarras airport plan is that the Christchurch Airport, which is majority owned by the the Christchurch Council owns it.
  
  Meanwhile, Christchurch City Council’s maintenance company, City Care, isn’t paying a dividend to the council this year. This is because it’s prioritising repayment of a $56 million loan from another Christchurch City Council company, Christchurch City Holdings.
  
  The loan allowed Citycare to buy an Auckland property-maintenance company Spencer Henshaw for $71 million.
  
  The Tarras airport proposal looks to be empire building by Christchurch City, which meanwhile squeezes hard its citizen ratepayers.
  
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  January 27, 2023 11:12am
- CaptainCompromise
  
  I heard someone with a good suggestion the other day, apparently invercargill has a really long runway so reinstate the train to Kingston and have a ferry up the lake. 2.5 hour scenic ride for the tourists which also goes towards Milford Sound. Seems like a fun idea.
  
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  January 27, 2023 1:37pm
Tomtoddy

Amy Brooke gets it right, as usual. https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/01/destructive-jacinda-calls-it-a-day/

What most of us Kiwibloggers would like to say and how we would say it.
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January 27, 2023 8:05am
- Simon
  
  Cindy’s true calling a midwit WEF propagandist promoting banal unworkable utopia porn on behalf of the rich.
  
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  January 27, 2023 8:20am
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Simon: “Cindy’s true calling a midwit WEF propagandist promoting banal unworkable utopia porn on behalf of the rich.”
    
    I would modify that slightly, as follows:
    
    “Cindy’s true calling a midwit WEF/UN/woke lunacy propagandist promoting banal unworkable utopia porn on behalf of the envious lower-level rich.”
    
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    January 27, 2023 7:16pm
- Scott
  
  Tom toddy thanks for that link. Amy Brooke writes about Jacinda’s unpopularity. I wonder if we have in depth data about how unpopular she is?
  Some people really don’t like her. On the other hand some people, especially women, thinks she’s marvellous and she saved us from covid.
  
  Is she for example the most unpopular PM in history?
  
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  January 27, 2023 8:20am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Those women who thinks she is marvellous really like being locked in their homes because of a mandate?
    
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    January 27, 2023 9:00am
    - Scott
      
      Steve Otto – I would say that some people were so frightened by covid and government messaging around covid that they will do anything to keep “safe”. Even today here in Masterton there are people walking around with masks on the street. Someone said covid cases are up and so on goes the mask. I even saw a child the other day wearing a mask.
      
      Covid has become something of a way of life for some people. They have been conditioned to be afraid by Jacinda’s government. They still truly believe that Jacinda saved 80,000 people from covid.
      
      So yes if Jacinda was still the Prime Minister and she said that it is advisable to stay home because of covid then many New Zealanders would heed her advice.
      
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      January 27, 2023 9:11am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Those people are still out there. Saw a guy in Glenfield Mall Tuesday. Two masks and a full face shield. He may have been taking the piss.
        
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        January 27, 2023 9:40am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Back to the Mall a few weeks ago. I had one of my MAGA hats on. I was asked why does a New Zealander want to make America great again?
        Told him it stands for Make Ardern Go Away! He nearly fell over!
        
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        January 27, 2023 9:48am
      - marcw
        
        There are some people who have an immune-compromised status, and choose to take whatever (small) actions to help protect themselves in the community. Perhaps you should stop judging what others do when you have no idea of their circumstances. Don’t act so arrogantly.
        
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        January 27, 2023 10:14am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        If there is anyone you think is worth helping re the masks thing Scott, show them this.
        
        https://www.smh.com.au/national/farce-mask-its-safe-for-only-20-minutes-20030427-gdgnyo.html
        
        From 20 years ago. There were going to fine anyone $100,000 if they were selling masks as a protection against airborne viruses. Even the claim that they work for 20 minutes is only true for droplets, not for the viral particles.
        Best description there was it’s like trying to keep mosquitos out with a chainlink fence.
        
        Masks do nothing to stop the spread of a virus. They might make stupid or brainwashed people feel a bit better. But they offer pretty much zero protection.
        
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        January 27, 2023 1:23pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        marcw – if people are immune compromised and/or are worried about being infected then best they stay home. The normal masks that people wear do NOTHING to protect them.
        
        The N95, if properly fitted, MIGHT help a bit, but a virus can enter through your ears or eyes anyway.
        Stay home, keep the home well ventilated, never go into crowded places, keep your distance from others. It MIGHT keep the virus at bay. For a while.
        
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        January 27, 2023 1:28pm
    - Widogast Corwin
      
      “Those women who thinks she is marvellous really like being locked in their homes because of a mandate?”
      
      Yes I met a few. High paid public sector jobs. Get to work at home in a nice house. Lunch with the husband every day. Walks in the park. So yes I can tall you that there are people who loved the lockdown.
      
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      January 27, 2023 9:45am
      - Cassandra
        
        Records show that live streaming is now at its highest weekday afternoons. It’s not just lunch.
        
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        January 27, 2023 10:27am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        They must have been given a saline vaccination.//
        
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        January 27, 2023 10:33am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Same with teachers, particularly in the UK. They fought tooth and nail to stay away from schools. Nothing to do with health, they just enjoyed it.
        
        Like the kids who were using coke I think it was, to trigger a positive test so they could get out of school for a week.
        
        There are certainly a class of useless bureaucrats who would have been in heaven during lockdown.
        
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        January 27, 2023 1:30pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Also drives a large sole-occupant SUV with idiotic virtue signalling stickers on it?
        
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        January 27, 2023 7:17pm
- Gravelroad
  
  @TT
  I am already starting to hear from friends and acquaintances about “what a nice young man this Mr Hipkins seems to be”.
  Surely New Zealanders are not going to be sucked in again?
  Mr Hipkins will do what the party says re policy and will be smoothed over as the next best thing to Jacinda.
  He is an opportunist – on a charm offensive to win an election in order to keep pumping socialist imposed upheaval.
  
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  January 27, 2023 8:21am
  - Swifty
    
    He thinks if he says ‘New Zealand’ a few times and starts doing what he should have been doing since the beginning then all will be forgiven.
    
    Hey, maybe he’s right.
    
    Maybe Labour are such expert bullshitters they might fool enough New Zealanders for yet another term.
    
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    January 27, 2023 8:31am
    - Debsta
      
      Let’s be honest swifty, they don’t have to work THAT hard to fool a big chunk of the NZ population sadly.
      
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      January 27, 2023 9:01am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Worked last time, and she knows that we know that she is a liar.
      
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      January 27, 2023 9:43am
  - Its only I
    
    I’m not hearing anything good at all. Some of the local Ardonites have got past the grieving stage and are now angry and some are very embarrassed at being conned. [Mod – stop trying to create nicknames, thanks] hipkin looks just as fake and staged as Jacinda, a not so masterful manipulator who has just one thing on his side, New Zealand left-wing MSN pushing for their preferred party in GOV.
    
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    January 27, 2023 8:38am
    - Its only I
      
      Sorry Mod-It wasn’t actually my invention its become widely used around here and is the cleanest version there is…by some considerable margin. I didn’t know Ardonites had it in them! Good on them though.
      
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      January 27, 2023 8:56am
  - Stellaboxer
    
    Hipkins is like an arsonist that sets your house ablaze then turns up passing himself off as a firefighter.
    
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    January 27, 2023 8:39am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Off topic but this guy, from the 60s.
      Like George Wilder? Criminal who kept escaping and headed for the bush.
      On one occasion when the Police were trying to hunt him down, George actually helped the Police to look for himself! NZ folk hero. He left sorry notes to people he stole food from. Remembered but Howard Morrisons song “The Wild(er) NZ boy.”
      https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/jailbreakers-wild-journey-that-made-him-an-unlikely-kiwi-criminal-turned-folk-hero-george-wilder/NIEAI5SEJICRIFJD5BNOTW7YDM/
      Enjoy NZ History.
      
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      January 27, 2023 10:50am
    - kowtow
      
      And who charges you for the water .
      
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      January 27, 2023 1:50pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Pertinent Tremain cartoon from Bassett, Brash and Hide:
      
      https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/tremain-pillion
      
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      January 27, 2023 7:20pm
  - slightlyrighty
    
    “A nice young man” is not a qualification for high office.
    
    In Fact, in the 14th century, nice “was used to refer to a stupid, ignorant, or foolish person.”
    
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    January 27, 2023 8:52am
    - pdm
      
      Whether Hipkins is nice or not seems to open to dispute too.
      
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      January 27, 2023 9:54am
  - john1234
    
    People are dumb shits. Half of them have an IQ of 100 or less.
    Chippie presided over one government clusterfuck after another. He picked up Police off Potato and has changed nothing. He ran education through the polytechnic merger disaster, and has overseen the lowest literacy and numeracy ever in schools. His achievements are nil, exactly as you would expect from someone whose entire life work experience consists of politics.
    Yet some people will still vote for him because “he seems like a nice young man.”
    Jesus wept.
    
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    January 27, 2023 9:08am
    - lastmanstanding
      
      Which is why I keep repeating we should have an IQ test and a politicial knowledge test before citizens are allowed to vote. Hell we dont let people drive cars or pilot planes without a test. Voting is as least as important and can in the wrong hands cause as much harm.
      
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      January 27, 2023 9:32am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Lower Voting age to 16.//
        
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        January 27, 2023 10:54am
    - Its only I
      
      Jacinda was untouchable, Hipkin isn’t.
      
      There are a hundred warehouses full of very dry ammo National/Act can use.
      
      By warehouse I mean Labours MSN sites, by ammo I mean articles about what was said and done and recorded for ever in time.
      
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      January 27, 2023 10:35am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      john1234 – never forget his crowning achievement.
      
      He was the covid 19 minister who was in charge when information warning of potential danger to young people from the jab was deliberately removed.
      Nobody in the media has brought this up yet. Nor any of the opposition parties which is totally bizarre.
      
      https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/thomas-cranmer-covid-and-our-kiwi-kids-part-1
      
      It seems a lot of people want this malfeasance swept under the table.
      
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      January 27, 2023 1:36pm
  - Widogast Corwin
    
    “Surely New Zealanders are not going to be sucked in again?”
    
    Quite possibly IMO.
    
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    January 27, 2023 9:47am
- Brian McDonald
  
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  Drivel with no balance prepped for the usual bait takers, another jelly welly.
  
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  January 27, 2023 8:54am
  - Local Miller
    
    Maybe you should work through it and itemize the bits that are drivel.
    I’ll not hold my breath waiting for your list.
    
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    January 27, 2023 10:43am
  - NZer In Exile
    
    46 down-votes and counting. You were saying about drivel? 😄
    
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    January 27, 2023 7:23pm
- Paulus
  
  Wow – what an accurate read.
  
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  January 27, 2023 8:55am
- nathie
  
  From Amy Brooke’s article:
  
  The consensus is that Ardern is quitting as she was due to lose the next election catastrophically. Her popularity has skydived as the accumulation of damage her far-Left government has done is increasingly obvious, not only the litany of failed undertakings and profligate government spending – but the quite shocking attack on our democratic principles.
  
  Amy Brooke is right, the Ardern Labour Govt is indeed a far-Left government.
  
  I hadn’t thought about that until now. However this is evident in their extreme actions (ban this, ban that, impose change without consultation let alone without campaigning on it. Unleash Police violence on citizens not seen since the 1981 Springbok Tour. Ardern channels Orwell’s1984 to remind us that she is “kind”).
  
  Labour are no longer a centre-left Govt.
  
  Hipkins has inherited a far-left Govt.
  
  If Labour does win the election, it will be totally reliant on the far-far-left Greens and the far-far-left Māori Party. They will pull far-left Labour even more to the left.
  
  It will be a disaster to the stability of NZ, its race relations and economic prosperity.
  
  As the graffiti on the outskirts of Paekākāriki when heading north used to say for years and years …. Vote Labour Out!
  
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  January 27, 2023 9:35am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Some of us knew Jaspinda could be trouble after her “comrades” speech in 2009.
    
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    January 27, 2023 10:58am
  - mawm
    
    nathie – “It will be a disaster to the stability of NZ, its race relations and economic prosperity”.
    
    ^^ This 100%.
    
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    January 27, 2023 11:43am
  - rockape
    
    I suspect Labour in its current form and the Greens for that matter have seen the last of the Government benches FOR EVER! I await the formation of the equivalent of the Lib Dems in the UK to be the next electable party other than National ACT.
    
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    January 27, 2023 1:57pm
- Individual Responsibility
  
  Cheers Tomtoddy – I didn’t realise that Amy Brooke used to contribute to Christchurch Press, and other then print media, as Agnes-Mary Brooke, her name back in late last century-early this century.
  She was forthright then too, and saw through and exposed the leftist bs when few others did. Her commentary then, and now, is reminiscent of the late Warren Berryman (who died far too young at 64 years of age) and partner Jenni McManus, amongst the last of the truly investigative journalists in NZ.
  I stand to be corrected, but I understood Amy may have been at The Dom Post during the same time as Karl du Fresne, when it stood for fairness, balance, and truth.
  
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  January 27, 2023 12:25pm
kowtow

In an appalling case of police brutality in Memphis Tennessee , 5 police officers are alleged to have brutally assaulted a black man after a traffic violation. He died.

Our Te Media Pardy hasn’t lost it’s shit over this case .
I wonder why ever not.
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January 27, 2023 8:09am
- Ghost
  
  What’s it got to do with New Zealand, we have enough crime here to report on
  
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  January 27, 2023 8:48am
  - Matt Long
    
    What’s it got to do with NZ? If any of the cops concerned were white the morally superior media would be calling for riots and screaming WWACIISMMM!!!! That’s what.
    Black on black criminal brutality by police, white on white, black on white or any asian victim and Nothing to See Here.
    
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    January 27, 2023 8:58am
  - Libertarians are right
    
    You are totally correct. So why did they report on George Floyd’s death?
    
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    January 27, 2023 9:22am
    - Ghost
      
      I was just googling to see when it was first reported. I haven’t found yet a story about his killing before the protests. The earliest articles seem to be about the New Zealanders protesting and Jacinda commenting on it
      
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      January 27, 2023 9:29am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Floyd was going to die anyway, with or without the cop having his knee on Floyd’s neck He had enough Fentanyl and Meth in his system to jump start a bulldozer.
        
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        January 27, 2023 11:04am
  - kowtow
    
    Ask our msm , they led their news on tv and the papers and radio were full of Fentanyl Floyd, as was coverage of the show trial of the arresting officer.
    
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    January 27, 2023 7:39pm
    - Ghost
      
      Na, I don’t have an axe to grind to try and use the death of a man to attack the media.
      
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      January 27, 2023 7:58pm
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  Heh, I saw the pictures of the police officers. Was interesting. Did not fit with BLM narrative.
  
  This image will make sense of the post; https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64420124
  
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  January 27, 2023 4:01pm
  - Ghost
    
    Na, plenty of black men killed by white cops in the USA that are not reported in NZ. They don’t all get global protest that cause them to be reported outside of America
    
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    January 27, 2023 7:58pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  I see that the US website Slate, denounced yesterday by resident pseud Tom Hunter as ‘ye olde progressive’, has a useful article about this incident:
  https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/01/tyre-nichols-death-police-charged-with-murder.html
  
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  January 27, 2023 9:28pm
Tomtoddy

https://youtu.be/4-br-n9xTOc For those who didn’t see Al Gore go nuts at Davos. A raving lunatic giving exaggeration a bad name.

This guy was a heartbeat away from leader of the free world??? What??
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January 27, 2023 8:10am
- My
  
  Yeah got 40 secs into the intro where she says Al has been leading the climate change global conversation for 40 years.. If that’s the case he is a dismal failure.. Lucky there was a Fox news link in the side bar so got the quick version along.
  https://youtu.be/6-n6_pRYTo0
  Some great lines..
  “saying it to a room full of people who got to Davos on a private ”
  ”These are guys that ran for power, couldn’t get is so they are seizing it another way.”
  
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  January 27, 2023 11:18am
CAKE FACE1

Yesterday this YouTube video was posted, which has a body language expert analysing Cindy’s resignation speech.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rrv9qRHZ24

What he points out was how often Cindy pursed her lips during the speech – it was very noticeable.

This is what pursed lips this usually means to body language experts:

“Pursed lips are a classic sign of anger, including when it is suppressed. It is effectively holding the mouth shut to prevent the person saying what they feel like saying. This may also be an indication of lying or withholding the truth as the person stops themselves from telling the truth.”

Was Cindy very angry? And was Cindy was lying or withholding the truth?

I wonder if there is something we aren’t being told about the real reason for Cindy’s resignation, since obviously Cindy couldn’t lie straight in bed…

Curiouser and curiouser…
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January 27, 2023 8:18am
- Brian McDonald
  
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  What do body language “experts” note for obsessives with ex-PMs? About as valid as “lie detector” tests for the bewildered.
  
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  January 27, 2023 9:03am
  - Yabster
    
    what do they note about murderers….?. Probably very good liars and don’t have a lot of empathy….
    
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    January 27, 2023 10:03am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Lying by omission. Old trick of hers.
  
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  January 27, 2023 9:04am
Matt Long

As has been shown many times, nations with high mRNA injection rates have had plummeting birth rates. Is it a problem? Do we really care if this guy and people who like him practice voluntary eugenics on themselves? https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc-anchor-lectures-viewers-importance-getting-fourth-covid-shot-heres-deal-moron
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January 27, 2023 8:20am
- ClanMcleod
  
  The good news is, the more shots he takes, the less time he’ll have on the planet.
  
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  January 27, 2023 1:46pm
Mike

It’s Holocaust Remembrance Day!
Not recognized in Russia, but they have a special holiday today to mark the 79th anniversary of the lifting of the siege of Leningrad.
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January 27, 2023 8:32am
Maggie Pie

After fives years of Cindy’s divide & destroy campaign, it doesn’t leave Skippy a lot of time to turn things around. It’s too late for him now.
What ALL politicians need to do is start catering exclusively to the people who make this county great, safe, livable and clean….then we’d be on the road to recovery.
Instead, all Labor has ever done is give priority to life’s losers, who like to ruin everything for everybody else 🙁

Just saying.
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January 27, 2023 8:35am
- Mike H S
  
  And it appears from reports in the Herald that the change-over was all planned prior to Christmas. Hence why it went so smoothly.
  
  Transparency to the fore once again.
  
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  January 27, 2023 8:47am
  - Yabster
    
    Chippy has admitted he knew before Xmas- so would Grunter- deals done way before Cindys crocodile tears…
    
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    January 27, 2023 10:04am
- Stellaboxer
  
  Maggie I’ve always thought of the left as a negative force, always wanting to out what’s wrong and tear everything down.
  
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  January 27, 2023 8:48am
  - Ian Boag
    
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    a negative force
    
    Yep. State houses, free (sort of) healthcare, universal pension, free education, sickness benefits …
    
    One could go on 🙂
    
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    January 27, 2023 8:56am
    - cmm
      
      Free?
      
      I thought you were a grown up.
      
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      January 27, 2023 9:36am
    - Gravelroad
      
      Come on, Ian Boag- I always thought you were something of a brainy dude. Then you go and post something like that.
      Yip, yip, it’s only the gallant Labour Party which has ever provided housing, healthcare, pensions, education etc.
      Really?
      
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      January 27, 2023 9:41am
    - Yabster
      
      Free?- -fucking sums up the left lol
      
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      January 27, 2023 10:05am
    - Swifty
      
      And what paid for it all? Without which none of this would be possible in anything remotely close to currently.
      
      Free enterprise. Capitalism.
      
      The very thing that the left spit on and abuse.
      
      The thing they claim is the cause of all modern ills.
      
      The left really are Kant’s dove:
      
      “The light dove, in free flight cutting through the air the resistance of which it feels, could get the idea that it could do even better in airless space.”
      
      The dove thinks that it could do better without resistance from air – air being the very thing that helps keep them aloft.
      
      Lefties need their goddam heads read.
      
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      January 27, 2023 10:35am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Anything ‘free’ was taken from someone else.
      Not hard to comprehend.
      
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      January 27, 2023 11:11am
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Boag, that would be the old centre left who were generally sane. Not so the current loony left.
      
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      January 27, 2023 7:27pm
- Its only I
  
  Its their primal union DNA.
  They have a simple pattern, divide then side, confuse and create dependence and dominate at all costs.
  Nothing is ever wrong in the left-wing world because they are doing the political equivalent of Gods work and war is dirty sometimes.
  
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  January 27, 2023 8:49am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Someone has to take one for the team.
  
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  January 27, 2023 9:11am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Jessica was asked how he went on the ground, clearly not good going by her words, not seen as some sort of hero, seen as boring, and she says he is suffering from popularity of the Ardern style
  
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  January 27, 2023 9:47am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I think Hipkins will continue on the same destructive path.
  
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  January 27, 2023 11:08am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    He walked out of the meeting with business and suggested it may happen, two faced leftie
    
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    January 27, 2023 11:39am
Simon

Will National close down NZ on Air? Used by Labo to make corrupt payments to MSM for favorable stories.
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January 27, 2023 8:38am
- Yabster
  
  They should gut the place – but I doubt they will.
  
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  January 27, 2023 8:52am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Melissa Lee has just stated that National will not merge RNZ and TVNZ and will put more $$$$$ into RNZ.
  
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018875309/national-party-labels-tvnz-rnz-merger-costly-waste-of-money
  
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  January 27, 2023 9:07am
  - fernglas
    
    Good. I quite like RNZ. I’ve been listening to it since I was a kid, and, to be honest, I consider myself wise enough to form my own opinions about its current affairs content and just enjoy a form of media that doesn’t constantly insult my intelligence. TVNZ, on the other hand, is complete shit.
    
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    January 27, 2023 9:23am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I’ve been listening to it since I was a kid,
      
      As have I…
      
      But over the years I stopped listening to it in the afternoons, and then in the evenings (6pm-midnight).
      
      Now, I only tune in for the News & Weather….and perhaps something in the very early hours (3am-5am) if I’m awake.
      
      These days I prefer silence or ambient background noise throughout my day.
      
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      January 27, 2023 10:12am
    - mandk
      
      I quite like to listen to NewstalkZB, but I don’t expect the taxpayer to fund the station.
      
      Is there a good reason why I should subsidise your listening preference?
      
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      January 27, 2023 10:33am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        The new merge propaganda company will not be receiving advertising dollars, it will be completely funded by the tax payer, uttterly ridiculous
        
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        January 27, 2023 12:11pm
    - GJM
      
      So you won’t mind paying a subscription for it then, since it is of benefit to you? I don’t see why I should pay for far left ethno propaganda and then pay again for something I want to hear or watch.
      
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      January 28, 2023 9:19am
  - septic skeptic
    
    That’s disappointing. Funding red radio won’t help win the argument that we need to move to equal rights and opportunities, less government and more reward for self reliance and personal responsibility.
    
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    January 27, 2023 10:06am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I thought Melissa was smarter than that. Is she just saying this to gather votes?
    
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    January 27, 2023 11:18am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Sack the lot of them, and re-employ on a case by case basis. Get rid of the commie deadwood. Sure it will cost, but measure that cost to future damage by the media.
  
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  January 27, 2023 9:13am
northern

Could DPF give us a professional response to this dismissal of political polls please?
https://theconversation.com/this-election-year-nz-voters-should-beware-of-reading-too-much-into-the-political-polls-198508
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January 27, 2023 8:50am
- Opie
  
  Start with this one…
  
  https://www.roymorgan.com/findings/9152-nz-national-voting-intention-december-2022
  
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  January 27, 2023 9:13am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Most Kiwis will have made their minds up where their vote is going, and will not be swayed by dodgy polls. And dodgy they will be. Labour s desperate.
  A professional response would be useful.
  
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  January 27, 2023 9:17am
- JackRabbit
  
  This election year, NZ voters should beware of reading too much into the political polls.
  
  Why THIS election year?
  
  Will the polls show Labour on 30% but romp in with 50.01%?
  
  Do they want to sway voters into to thinking that Labour slipping to 27.5% (Roy Morgan) is NOT predictive of Labour losing?
  
  Is Hipkins going to dish up lots of nice spin platitudes amplified by the obedient media and romp in to win despite ill feeling towards how Labour treated NZ?
  
  Is there a new variant in the wind?
  
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  January 27, 2023 9:34am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Looks like the new variant is dying out, numbers well down, all without much problem
    
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    January 27, 2023 9:50am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      G – the next one will be along very soon. Vaccinating during a pandemic with a leaky vaccine forces the virus to mutate.
      It was warned about many times. It was known about long before covid.
      
      one of the great fears in any vaccination campaign is that the vaccine can wind up becoming the driver viral evolution and making the virus more dangerous. this is a special concern around imperfect (so called “leaky”) vaccines that are non-sterilizing. such vaccines do not stop spread or contagion of the virus. this means the virus will have lots of chances to replicate.
      
      when you combine this with a vaccine that reduces severity of cases and prevents deaths in the vaccinated, it’s a bit of a perfect storm. you get full spread but break the evolutionary gradient towards mildness that viruses tend to follow (and that protects humanity from them).
      
      https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/are-leaky-vaccines-driving-delta
      
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      January 27, 2023 2:14pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    JackRabbit – well you’ll be pleased to know our good buddies at Pfizer have it under control. They are going to create the variants for us, AND, have the relevant “vaccine” available to “save” us!!
    
    Pfizer Doing Gain-of-Function Research to Mutate Covid and Make More Vaccines, Says Pfizer Executive in Explosive Undercover Video
    
    “One of the things we [Pfizer] are exploring is like, why don’t we just mutate it [Covid] ourselves so we could create – preemptively develop new vaccines, right? So, we have to do that. If we’re gonna do that though, there’s a risk of like, as you could imagine – no one wants to be having a pharma company mutating f–king viruses,” Walker said.
    
    https://dailysceptic.org/2023/01/26/pfizer-doing-gain-of-function-research-to-mutate-covid-and-make-more-vaccines-says-pfizer-executive-in-explosive-undercover-video/
    
    You can’t make this shit up. Go get your booster!
    
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    January 27, 2023 2:02pm
    - JackRabbit
      
      Thanks ClanMcleod, but that is kind of admitting they created Covid in the first place.
      
      If you are capable of modifying the virus, it implies you have access to the equivalent of the “source code” or genetic material used to create it.
      
      “We can’t stop the Ramraiders, but we can retrain them to only RamRaid Fish and Chip shops.”
      
      “King Kong is completely natural, not made by Jurassic Park or in a lab, despite conspiracy theories. He is unstoppable, but if you like we can reprogram him to have 7 toes and blond hair.”
      
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      January 27, 2023 2:28pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Apparently you can buy pathogens from other labs……….
        
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        January 27, 2023 2:42pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  northern – ‘The Conversation’ is another propaganda outlet purporting to be a “serious” media platform. It’s a joke.
  Funded by guess who?
  
  https://theconversation.com/us/partners/the-bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation
  
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  January 27, 2023 1:53pm
  - JackRabbit
    
    So their article “NZ voters should beware of reading too much into the political polls” is a warning they are going to rig the polls.
    
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    January 27, 2023 3:03pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Yep, the nexus of neo-marxist scum.
    
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    January 27, 2023 7:28pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

What’s the bet that Elton John hasn’t got a clue where Aotearoa is?
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January 27, 2023 8:50am
- Ghost
  
  Why would he, even according to stuff he is touring New Zealand
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/300792272/elton-john-touches-down-in-auckland-following-energetic-first-show-in-new-zealand
  
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  January 27, 2023 8:53am
  - 70andstilllearning
    
    Ummm! Just scanned (eyeball1 & word searched) a number of $tuff front page articles where I would have expected to see a good smattering of NZ pidgin print – couldn’t find much, just good old, well known english or maori place names! There were a few formal references – yes (e.g. Waka Kotahi NZTA, Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media (ANZPM) ) and a minor slip by McCulloch (Waka Kotahi only) in the weather article live feed – but nothing substantive really.
    Perhaps I just thought I’d seen these pidgin names previously or has the nPM’s PR department (newprimeministerspublicrelationsdep) sent out an edict in the last couple of days – no more bs, we need our credibility back?
    
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    January 27, 2023 10:48am
Sol Invictus

If you struggle understanding the concept of gaslighting try an editorial in the DomPost this morning by a Labour acolyte and treaty lawyer:”Co-governance is not controversial” Silly me – and there I thought it was! Didn’t realise it was guaranteed by the Treaty. So glad this Brahmin leftie has explained it to me.
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January 27, 2023 8:51am
- JackRabbit
  
  Perhaps all that co-governance was written in the treaty in Lemon Juice so it was invisible. ///
  
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  January 27, 2023 9:36am
Warren

And this idiot wanted to be Prime Minister, everything he touches turns to shit and you only have to look at our roads and Motorways to realize his limitations as he can’t even get potholes that are dangerous on our roads fixed.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/01/minimum-wage-hikes-have-very-small-impact-on-inflation-workplace-relations-minister-michael-wood-says.html
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January 27, 2023 8:58am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Everything!
  “AT said in a statement the Penrose train station will be closed on Friday due to the current stage of the Rail Network Rebuild and no trains will be running on Saturday.”
  He suggested Aucklanders drive to Mt Smart for the Elton John Concerts. Where will all of those cars park? No forward thinking again.
  I’m not sure about buses.
  
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  January 27, 2023 9:26am
  - 70andstilllearning
    
    AT work on the idea that AKL moves to the provinces this weekend. Forget that many provincials move to AKL for the weekend. 🙂
    
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    January 27, 2023 11:04am
- oldpark
  
  @Warren
  What would he know when he made the inflammatory comment regarding NZs protesting at Parliament against compulsory vaccinations for Covet.He called the NZs “A RIVER OF FILTH”.
  
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  January 27, 2023 9:37am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    oldpark – it was much more than that. Some of his finer comments.
    
    ……there is a river of filth, there is a river of violence and menace, there is a river of anti semitism, there is a river of Islamaphobia…..there is a river of genuine fascism…..
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJyU3_5l9xU
    
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    January 27, 2023 2:37pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Apparently there is a river of rain as well. More dramatic you see. Good for scaring a generation of children into accepting neomarxist self destruction.
      
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      January 27, 2023 7:30pm
Maggie Pie

Pity the 40,000 poor souls heading to Mt Smart for Elton tonite.
No trains, no buses, but AT have kindly made 750 free-carparks available. LOL!!

As my partner’s mum often sez….”A wet arse and no fish”
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January 27, 2023 9:02am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Red hot Chilli peepers in Dunedin under the roof and a beautiful barmey night
  
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  January 27, 2023 9:53am
  - greybeard
    
    Balmy.
    (sorry).
    
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    January 27, 2023 10:45am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Thanks
      
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      January 27, 2023 12:12pm
Opie

Haven’t seen much chat around this roy morgan poll?

https://www.roymorgan.com/findings/9152-nz-national-voting-intention-december-2022
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January 27, 2023 9:14am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Taken before Chucky self selected
  
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  January 27, 2023 9:53am
- Frank the tank
  
  The sheep in the media were told to ignore because it was before the leadership change.
  
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  January 27, 2023 10:39am
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    Tank – Even our DPF uncle ignored it….
    
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    January 27, 2023 11:13am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Level headed voters never ignored it, Hipkins is raving on but saying nothing just like Cindy, Jessica not so much McKay said on the ground he is getting no cut through seen as boring after Cindy
      
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      January 27, 2023 11:29am
Grunter

I suspect Sir Bob Jones’s prediction a while back that Nat/ACT will get 60% of the vote in the Oct election is about bang on. Remains to be seen how much is ACT v Nats. ACT is positioned well to continue to pick up more as voters decide that 50%+ to Nats is not what they want. Potentially ACT will hit 20% – maybe that is more than where Labour ends up. Hipkins will quickly be found out and the slide will continue.
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January 27, 2023 9:23am
- Ghost
  
  I expect we will have an earlier election
  
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  January 27, 2023 9:32am
  - Colville
    
    I doubt it.
    Polls show Labour would get trounced if they went now so they will back themselves to ride it out till October and hope for a miracle.
    
    Edit: UNLESS Willie J pulls the pin on them……!!
    
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    January 27, 2023 10:08am
    - Frank the tank
      
      Will only be on the basis of the Maori Party polling > 5% and taking all the Maori seats from Labour. At this stage Mahutacorp pulls the lever.
      
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      January 27, 2023 10:41am
    - 70andstilllearning
      
      Wille et al very very quiet at the moment – anything could happen after the nPM’s revelations next week (Wednesday I believe?).
      
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      January 27, 2023 11:10am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        Huh ?
        
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        January 27, 2023 12:14pm
      - 70andstilllearning
        
        @ G …. Who knows what this means?
        “Hipkins said he had regular conversations about Willie Jackson, when asked about the MP’s future. “Willie is an absolutely passionate advocate for Maori.” ”
        https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/new-prime-minister-chris-hipkins-speaks-after-first-cabinet-meeting-as-cpi-released/BTDW4JCEOFHPNF2A3HPGMFHLGU/
        “On Friday, the Prime Minister will meet with ministers “to go over the reshuffle I intend to announce next week.” ”
        
        https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/01/25/live-chris-hipkins-to-announce-cabinet-reshuffle-next-week/
        
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        January 27, 2023 12:45pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    You might be right on that Ghost.
    There is a new Sheriff in town.
    
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    January 27, 2023 11:30am
  - cmm
    
    “I expect we will have an earlier election”
    
    Why? What are the pros/cons for Labour?
    
    Pro: If they are sliding and expect to slide more by election day, then going early reduces the carnage.
    Pro: If Hipkins can get a dead cat bounce and get them into a winning position for a short while (until his true uselessness becomes apparent) then going early might squeeze them through. But is that likely?
    However….
    Con: If they are going to lose either way, then they might as well keep the current gig alive as long as possible.
    Con: If Hipkins really is good, maybe he can claw back Labour support over the next 7 months.
    
    I think it is too late for the Pros to have a positive effect, so they just need to ride it out.
    
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    January 27, 2023 11:32am
- Widogast Corwin
  
  I hope you are correct. 20 percent for ACT would be fantastic but it seems optimistic.
  
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  January 27, 2023 10:08am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    After 5 years of our Lovely New Zealand being destroyed, there will be a few surprises.
    High Act vote – you may be right. Many who will just never vote National could divert their votes to Act in protest against the commie Labour and Greens.
    You can not ruin New Zealand and expect to keep on fucking us over.
    
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    January 27, 2023 11:35am
- Opie
  
  The only concern will be if national green and the race based losers could also govern, leaving act out of it.
  
  Act ain’t perfect, but they are the only hope of making this country liveable.
  
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  January 27, 2023 10:14am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Grunter – Nobody takes Bob Jones seriously…60% yeah right…
  
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  January 27, 2023 11:14am
Skippytony

Just lodged my first ever formal complaint with TVNZ over the little salt gun episode.

Now off to have a play on the Broadcasting standards website.
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January 27, 2023 9:31am
- Colville
  
  Good man!
  
  assuming you identify as male… 🙂
  
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  January 27, 2023 10:09am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Is it any coincidence that a woman in Upper Hutt was shot in the face yesterday with a BB pellet?
  
  https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2023/01/upper-hutt-woman-shot-in-the-face-by-a-bb-gun-while-walking-down-the-street.html
  
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  January 27, 2023 10:16am
  - cmm
    
    For those that kept on going on about violence in “Trump’s America”, perhaps this is what we should expect in “Chippy’s NZ”?
    
    The technical pedant in me really gets irked about air rifles being called BB guns.
    
    Real BB guns throw (by gas or direct spring ejection) a round BB ball which might be metal or plastic. They are low powered and inaccurate. Most won’t go through a pair of jeans.
    
    Air rifles are often called BB guns, but really are not. They fire skirted pellets in rifled barrels and are much more accurate and, typically, are far more powerful – some reaching well over 1000 ft per second. Most are capable of cleanly killing rabbits and possums. Some are even capable of killing larger animals such as pigs and deer. All will cause nasty, and potentially fatal, wound on humans.
    
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    January 27, 2023 11:14am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Shot my mate in the leg with a slug gun.
      Then because we were mates, I dug it out for him.
      Can’t remember why I did it. It was 60 years ago.
      
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      January 27, 2023 11:41am
Maggie Pie

“Hello, Police, I want to report a rape”

https://twitter.com/Baskerville448/status/1618296514916540417
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January 27, 2023 9:37am
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, the chap dining didn’t want a bar of it and may well have said ‘fuck off’.
  
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  January 27, 2023 10:37am
  - Yabster
    
    “fuck off and go and do some actually police work”….
    
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    January 27, 2023 11:02am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/my-interview-with-sean-plunket-on-the-platform-and-how-it-came-about/

https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Group-Claims-Sport-Northland-Breached-NZ-Bill-Of-Rights-Scoop-News.pdf

https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Blog-template-on-sport-Northland.pdf

How long before the Human Rights Commission replies, of will Julian Batchelor have to use the Official Information Act?
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January 27, 2023 10:00am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  “Sport Northland have recently
  adjusted their trust deed to recognise Te Tiriti o Waitangi and have changed their
  board structure to that of co-governance, due to these factors ……… we have
  unfortunately have(sic) made the decision to decline your facility booking.”
  Julian Batchelor said, “Clearly, it is our views on co-governance that was given the
  reason for declining the hire.
  So Sport Northland have to do what the Board Members say, using the Treaty as an excuse. What is wrong with this picture?
  
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  January 27, 2023 10:07am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  From One New Zealand Foundation yesterday:
  “Todays Maori cannot be in, “A Partnership or Co- Governance with the Crown”, because their tangata Maori ancestors agreed in 1840 to become British Subjects with the same rights as the people of England, and under English Law and a British Subject cannot be in Partnership with the Crown”. FACT!
  
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  January 27, 2023 10:13am
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Plenty of documented evidence from years subsequent to the Treaty that it was widely accepted the Brits governed NZ and everyone was to have the same rights and opportunities as British citizens.
    
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    January 27, 2023 7:34pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

From Stop Co-Governance Wednesday. Richard Vobes in England. His Daughter came to NZ. She caught Covid and recovered. That means natural antibodies, but the Vaccine had to be taken, enforced by Jaspinda.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JzKOVj24ls&list=TLPQMjQwMTIwMjPC4syNqc4HYg&index=3
Watch to the end for his comment on Jaspinda.
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January 27, 2023 10:30am
Maggie Pie

Don’t know if it’s just me, or maybe it’s just a sign of the times, but noticing an awful lot of pop-ups appearing from… ‘Financial Advisers’
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January 27, 2023 10:32am
- septic skeptic
  
  It all depends on what you have been googling recently Maggie.
  
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  January 27, 2023 11:04am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    If i had 50cents every time someone said that to me this week, I’d have $6.30 by now.
    
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    January 27, 2023 11:24am
MCōs

Tweet of the day
https://twitter.com/drdougsuth/status/1618126719269109760?s=61&t=UJFsBLpgzIheKVSmFb4OAg
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January 27, 2023 10:34am
- Frank the tank
  
  Good ‘dad’ joke Cosy
  
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  January 27, 2023 10:45am
Its only I

I wonder if Labour will pass around an internal memo not to talk to media or answer questions because they have this one in the bag, like they did the last election cycle?
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January 27, 2023 10:37am
Tauhei Notts

I’ll be attending a family birthday on Sunday, but several family members are still distraught about HER resignation so I’ll have to stick to the weather and everybody’s health.
Talking about the weather; the 20 days from 20th January used to be the best weather for a holiday. Certainly not in 2023. Usually it gets above 30 in that period. Humidity? It is too cold to be humid. Today I need a jersey! Grass growth? My cockie friends tell me the pastures are waterlogged.
It is all about climate change.
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January 27, 2023 10:40am
Bridgenag

BUGS –= the new beef

https://open.substack.com/pub/boriquagato/p/kitten-corner-wheres-the-beef?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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January 27, 2023 10:47am
TripeWryter

On Auckland’s North Shore is a reserve: Rewi Alley Reserve.
Near the children’s play area – two or three swings, a slide, some jungle jim gear – is a homage to Rewi Alley, QSO MM. He’s memorialised with a large, imposing bust atop some sort of monument that describes him.
Ever since I was a boy I’ve been puzzled by Rewi Alley, the former New Zealand World War 1 decorated soldier who went to China in the 1920s.
He helped Mao Tse-tung (Mao Zedong) overthrow the oppressors of the Chinese proletariat and fling off their chains and put said oppressors in front of firing-squads.
Then he helped Mao chain up the Chinese people all over again with a different set of oppressors. That was their Liberation.
He must have known what Mao and his Communists were like. And because he spent the rest of his life in China he must have approved probably because he was of a class that benefited from the Chinese people being enslaved.
David Lange’s government made him a companion of the Queen’s Service Order.
The reason for the foregoing is it’s a rotten day here in Auckland. I woke up early and found myself reading Josie Pagani’s column on Stuff.
I don’t read a lot of stuff in Stuff including Mrs Pagani’s offerings. But Karl du Fresne recently wrote that she was the most clear-eyed contributor Stuff has. This morning Sean Plunket lamented that she has ties to another radio network and so can’t be on his show.
Anyway, this morning Mrs Pagani reminisced about how ‘Uncle Rewi’ had inspired her as a child to become a Left-winger.
I’ve never understood the Left’s willingness to make excuses for Communist tyrants and their tyrannies and their crimes against humanity.
Perhaps it was down to my Roman Catholic upbringing. Perhaps, too, my Polish brother-in-law who with his family endured the horrors of Soviet labour camps as a boy.
Perhaps it was also my reading about Ho Chi Minh and his Vietnam war – freeing the people from their colonialist and capitalist oppressors and replacing them with new ones.
The Left could jeer from the footpaths at the thousands of people who marched along Queen St, Auckland, behind Archbishop James Michael Liston in protest against the Warsaw Pact’s invasion of Czechoslovakia.
The Czechs, you might remember, were in 1968 trying to live a little more freely and independently of their Communist masters in Moscow.
I could go on.
But back to Josie Pagani. I don’t think I followed her column all that well; it’s the galloping alzheimer’s, probably.
But she was remarking on how the Left are so preachy. Are they what!?
I call the Left the Pharisees and the Sin-Inventors of our age.
They’re like that fourth century Syrian ‘saint’ who sat atop a pillar for decades so he could look down on the rest of the people and point his judgmental fingers at them and condemn them for not being good enough.
They preach. God, do they preach! They are virtuous. They are holier-than-the-rest-of-us. They know what’s best for us.
They want to dictate with all the fervour of priests, preachers, and apostles The Right Way To Live. Thou Shalt Believe in Climate Change. The Shalt Believe that Eating Animal Flesh is Wicked. Thou Shalt Not Drive a Vehicle That is Powered By Petrol, or Diesel.
Thou shalt …
Thou shalt not …
Just like organised religious churches.
Anyone who doesn’t think like them is Sexist, Misogynist (especially Misogynist even if they don’t know what it really means), but never Misandrist (‘cost that means shitting on blokes for being blokes), Racist (especially Racist), Phobes of various kinds, Deniers of various kinds, Ignorants, Bigots …
Judging, condemning, finger-pointing, self-righteous.
I’m sure you could insert your many own.
When I finished reading her column – it was also partly about Bots writing Left-wing columns – I felt relieved that a Left-winger was beginning to see her fellow Sin-Inventors as they really are.
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January 27, 2023 10:49am
- DeepBlue
  
  (TW your comment is not ‘galloping alzheimer’s’.)
  
  Pagani broke free of the left tribe since they cancelled her a few years back. It’s well worth reading her.
  
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  January 27, 2023 1:01pm
  - TripeWryter
    
    DeepBlue: thanks, I didn’t know that.
    
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    January 27, 2023 1:52pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  Being woke is to be a member of a death cult.
  
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  January 27, 2023 7:38pm
Captain Mainwaring

New subject for the day:
Has that odious prick Mallard left for Ireland yet?
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January 27, 2023 10:52am
- Ghost
  
  He takes up the position this month.
  
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  January 27, 2023 11:05am
Maggie Pie

See Robbo has announced he’s going on the party list this election, leaving his Wellington Central Electorate.
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January 27, 2023 11:00am
- cmm
  
  Yup, he must have been taken aside and given a heads-up.
  
  Herald writes: “The electorate is a safe Labour seat and will likely be won by the party in 2023.”
  
  What they don’t write is:”But Robbo could fuck even a safe seat up!”
  
  His reasoning is plausible, but doesn’t really wash. After all, Cindy held an electoral seat – as well as being a mum.
  
  As Labour is polling at the moment, few, if any, Labour MPs will be selected from the list.
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/grant-robertson-to-retire-from-electorate-run-on-party-list/JLIHK5NRXJDFVIBRAOBJR4WCQY/
  
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  January 27, 2023 11:23am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    My partner reckons he knows they’re well and truly f–ked so making sure he can still get the salary.
    LOL!!
    
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    January 27, 2023 11:27am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Or they are leaving the seat open for a cup of tea with the vulgar Greens
      
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      January 27, 2023 12:18pm
      - Maggie Pie
        
        Little Jimmy Shaw?
        
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        January 27, 2023 12:37pm
      - JackRabbit
        
        No, they mistakenly think that by resigning now, they are out of the spotlight, and they can avoid prosecution for all the wrongful deaths, injuries, fraud and deception.
        
        Such naivety.
        
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        January 27, 2023 3:00pm
    - JackRabbit
      
      Or perhaps like the others, he mistakenly thinks that backing out now, makes him immune to prosecution.
      
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      January 27, 2023 2:37pm
  - JackRabbit
    
    As Labour is polling at the moment, few, if any, Labour MPs will be selected from the list.
    
    This he can silently but divisively be excluded from being an MP, (oh drat I missed out ///) and silently slip away into the night, hoping to be forgotten and taken off the ~~Christmas Card~~ Nuremberg 2 subpoena list.
    
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    January 27, 2023 2:41pm
- 70andstilllearning
  
  Given the Wellington recent local body election result can’t imagine he thinks it’s not still a safe Labour seat, but better to “retire” after the election either which way.
  
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  January 27, 2023 11:24am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I wonder if there will be a scramble for other list only positions now.
  
  Looks like the top boys are getting into position before the underlings in Labour.
  
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  January 27, 2023 11:25am
  - cmm
    
    In 2017 the Labour polling was so low that it was about 50/50 that Labour would get any List seats and it was looking highly likely that Andy Little, the party leader at the time, wasn’t even going to be an MP!
    
    Are they in a better position at the moment?
    
    If Robbo is giving up a safe seat, to go list under these conditions it is essentially a resignation without resigning (a bit like a suicide by cop).
    
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    January 27, 2023 12:11pm
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      They will lose a shit load of electorates, and safe Labour seats will be interesting, otherwise many will be safe on the list now
      
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      January 27, 2023 12:20pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Upper Harbour needs to go back to blue.
        
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        January 27, 2023 12:38pm
      - JackRabbit
        
        I would suggest that losing the election is the furthest thing from their minds right now.
        
        They are fast sidling out anyone who was in a position of authority over the Covid response and Pfizer vaccine ponzi scheme.
        
        By the end of the year, there will be few left who were in any position of authority in the Covid years. I wouldn’t be surprised if Chippie bows out, citing a need to get back with his wife and spend time with his kids. I would not be surprised if he has his exit strategy already planned. And for that matter Little.
        
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        January 27, 2023 2:52pm
Don Beckett

https://twitter.com/i/status/1618419406878433281

How’s this from Pfizer? Mutating the covid virus so they can have a vaccine ready for when they release it.
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January 27, 2023 11:04am
- All_on_Red
  
  https://babylonbee.com/news/pfizer-introduces-new-mascot-clotty
  
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  January 27, 2023 11:54am
- Bridgenag
  
  Posted already
  
  https://open.substack.com/pub/stevekirsch/p/bombshell-new-project-veritas-video?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
  
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  January 27, 2023 12:55pm
- NothingLeft
  
  And outside of Fox news (Tucker did a good piece on it today) all US MSM are united in ignoring it, whilst google is trying to suppress searches relating to it. Only platform where it is spreading (15 million views now) is Musk’s twitter. Pfizer clearly has editorial control over almost all media + big tech, making them all completely untrustworthy.
  
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  January 27, 2023 4:36pm
Handyman

My interpretation of the treaty was that it was a good faith agreement signed in 1840 which suited all parties and none signed under duress.
From a European perspective it was stating that Maori tribes maintain ownership of what they already have.
However, it also states that British law will apply to all New Zealand, including Maori ownership. In other words, the treaty was saying, Maori ownership was treated as if it was owned by Pakeha with its law-based protections.
You can tell this was the understanding at the time based on Maori behaviour. They did not behave as if there were separate rules for Maori. For example, they gave up slaves and eating people based on British law. That was a huge sacrifice for Northland Maori at the time and hugely preferable to the recent past where 25% of Maoris had been killed by tribal warfare.
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January 27, 2023 11:06am
Bobba Fret

Does anyone else think Claire Szabo (ex Labour party president) will be given the safe Labour seat of Mt. Albert vacated by Jacinda?
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January 27, 2023 11:22am
- alex Masterley
  
  I dont think that will happen.
  Helen White is a list MP resident in the electorate and has some visibility.
  Clare Szabo does not live in the electorate and has no visibility.
  Also our last three MPs, Helen Clark, David Shearer and Jacinda Ardern have all been residents so i dont see that changing.
  
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  January 27, 2023 11:29am
- DeepBlue
  
  Apparently Szabo moved to Wellington in 2022. I suggest she could be the new Wellington Central candidate.
  
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  January 27, 2023 12:52pm
slightlyrighty

So. Grant Robertson is going List Only.

and it now seems that Julie-Anne Genter is going to stand in Rongotai as a candidate.

The election in Wellington just got a lot more interesting. Will the damage to Labour caused by Eagle, and a high profile Green Candidate, will that split the electorate vote enough for a strong Canter Right candidate?

Has the swing from Labour to National been enough to put this electorate in play?
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January 27, 2023 11:25am
- cmm
  
  It would have to swing very, very hard.
  In 2020, Grunter scored 27k votes, Willis 8.5k and Jimmy Shaw 8.4k.
  
  Perhaps a cup of tea with the Greens? After all, Greens are a better fit for the Wellington Office Worker type than Labour.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellington_Central_(New_Zealand_electorate)
  
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  January 27, 2023 11:47am
  - Libertarians are right
    
    I think slightlyrighty is talking about Rongotai, not Wgtn Central.
    
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    January 27, 2023 12:10pm
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      James Shaw is the greens candidate, snd very popular
      
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      January 27, 2023 12:25pm
- cmm
  
  I suppose this is also an easy way out for Robbo if Labour loses (as is likely):
  * If he is list only, good chance he doesn’t make it in anyway if Labour does very poorly.
  * If Labour does poorly, but he does get selected off the list, he can resign without forcing a by election.
  
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  January 27, 2023 11:51am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Labour will have polled individual seats, they did it well in advance of the last election, they may well know the greens will take it
    
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    January 27, 2023 12:27pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Greens will spilt seats for Labour again, Boyak getting media help today from Nelson where the greens get a large vote, expect Nats to take it back, Nats an Act are to take seats like Wellington Central, it will take the greens to split the vote badly, snd the Nats to stand snd hope Act don’t stand living the door open, these two parties have to start working together
  
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  January 27, 2023 12:24pm
Chris Nisbet

If The Treaty really does guarantee co-governance with Maori, this is _not_ a reason to implement co-governance, it is (another) reason to toss the thing into the bin.
IMHO.
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January 27, 2023 11:34am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  See http://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi
  
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  January 27, 2023 12:46pm
BeaB

Do David Fisher, Alison Mau and all the writers in the media and The Listener who are banging on and on about how nasty we were to Jacinda really thinking the morons responsible for the really nasty stuff are reading their articles and hanging their heads in shame?
Simple solution. If you don’t like what you are reading stop reading it.
And to all those patronising writers lecturing us, just go away and learn how to be proper journalists instead of besotted cheerleaders.
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January 27, 2023 11:40am
- TripeWryter
  
  BeaB: they’re beyond redemption.
  
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  January 27, 2023 1:54pm
Sparrow

How the Treaty fits into 2023 is possibly one of the most important issues facing NZ. My interpretation of the Treaty has been that it was drawn up to protect Maori. The British government never intended for New Zealand to become a colony this position was supported by the missionaries. The European population in 1840 was vastly outnumbered by Maori and consisted of whalers, sealers fortune hunters. What changed was Wakefield who pushed the colonisation of New Zealand. The rest is history.
I am prepared to be shot down by KBs who are more knowledgeable than me. I think it was Anne Salmond who made the comment “We are talking past each other”. I guess her name could raise the blood pressure of some.
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January 27, 2023 11:40am
- Taieri
  
  How the Treaty fits into 2023
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  It doesn’t. It is a document drawn and signed in 1840 in order to address specific concerns existing at the time. Nearly 200 years later it’s no longer relevant. A country has been created since. A modern, developed country with an established system of government, where there’re no tribes fighting each other, and where all citizens have the same opportunities to thrive. Or to fail if that’s what they choose…
  
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  January 27, 2023 12:16pm
cmm

What I am finding rather funny is that the only way Hipkins can make a fist of it is to pin all the shit on Cindy and throw her under the bus.

To sell Hipkins as refocused, reprioritised, refreshed and reenergised etc they have to say Cindy was unfocused, confused and lack luster.

They cannot keep running the hagiographies for Cindy because they offer the comparison with Hipkins and essentially tell us Cindy was awesome so, by extension, Hipkins is worse.

Nope, they have to say “Cindy, oh, that old thing. Pretty rubbish really. Nothing to do with the Labour Party. No, here is the Fresh New Labour you will vote for: Hipkins! Refreshed and renewed Hipkins, not worn out, boring old Cindy.”

When the chooks start pecking it turns into a bloodbath – fast.
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January 27, 2023 11:41am
- mikenmildagain
  
  I think you casting this as an unsolvable dichotomy severely underestimates the ability of politicians to be all things to all people.
  
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  January 27, 2023 11:54am
  - cmm
    
    No, you have to be enough to enough people. Trying to be all things to all people generally ends up with the one-size-fits-nobody problem.
    
    What I was pointing out (and I think clearly enough for you to understand), is that they can’t have it both ways.
    
    They cannot keep Cindy elevated to sainthood and simultaneously sell Hipkins as a new “refresh” that fixes everything that is broken.
    
    It’s the same problem that they have in car sales. They push the 2022 model as being the most awesome thing ever, until the new 2023 model comes along. Then the square headlights of the 2022 model are out of date and the round headlights on the 2023 model are what you must have.
    
    As the saying goes in car sales: There’s nothing as old as last year’s model.
    
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    January 27, 2023 12:34pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Isn’t it funny they are trying to move to the centre where ACT and Nats have, do these morons not realise their Marxist regime is not trusted?
  
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  January 27, 2023 12:28pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Need some chook eggs blown and filled with mustard.
  Or maybe it is better to let them fight?
  
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  January 27, 2023 12:50pm
BeaB

Rats. Sinking ship. Who will be next?
Sad to see that they too knew they became the government first because of Winston and then Covid.
They must be slow learners because we knew that all along.
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January 27, 2023 11:42am
Ghost

Three young people convicted of murder have successfully appealed their life imprisonment terms and had their sentences reduced.

Christopher James Brown and Georgia Rose Dickey, who were aged 19 and 16 when Jack McAllister, 19, was stabbed to death in Invercargill in 2017,

The appeals were heard last July.

The other, unrelated, case before the court was Katrina Roma Epiha, who was just shy of 19 when she fatally stabbed Alicia Nathan, 32, at a Christchurch house party in 2017.

In each case the terms of life imprisonment and were quashed and replaced with fixed sentences – 15 years for Dickey, 12 years for Brown and 13 years for Epiha. Their minimum periods of imprisonment before each could go for parole were also reduced to reflect their reduced overall sentences.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/131080736/teenage-murderers-get-life-sentences-quashed-prison-years-slashed
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January 27, 2023 12:01pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Shocker. The judges think they know better than the Parliament of the people.
  
  Sack’ em
  
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  January 27, 2023 8:24pm
Hugh Jarse

Labours polls must look absolutely shocking if even Wellington Central is looking dicey. What message is this sending to the Labour voters. Oh dear, how sad, never mind 😄
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January 27, 2023 12:02pm
- MCōs
  
  The last time there was a change of government a number of high profile former ministers resigned from parliament, including the defeated PM & Min of Finance.
  The same thing could happen in the very likely case of NAT/ACT winning the coming election.
  If Robertson is list only this will avoid a by election if he resigns.
  
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  January 27, 2023 12:20pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  I note no result of Stuffs poll yesterday asking which party do you think is best equipped to fix the cost of living crisis
  
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  January 27, 2023 12:31pm
  - jon
    
    Poll produced an inconvenient truth no doubt!
    
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    January 27, 2023 2:19pm
cmm

So it seems the “hate crime” we were beating ourselves up about wasn’t.

Any event impacting on Muslims is immediately labelled a “hate crime”.

Now I’m not at all suggesting hate crimes do not occur, but the Muslim activists and media are far too keen to push the hate crime button.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/131079714/insufficient-evidence-to-charge-teen-accused-of-jumping-on-newborn-mum
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January 27, 2023 12:02pm
Swifty

So, yet again last night RNZ put on a piece on the desirability of the living wage. This was in the context of a possible further increase to the minimum wage.

Yet again, only interviewed a business owner who thought it a good thing and paid her staff the living wage at minimum.

Yet again, failed to offer any sort of counter-argument or interview a person prepared to point out the negatives.

Yet again, only read out listener texts in support.

Yet again, read out a listener text which pushed the ‘if they can’t pay the living wage then they shouldn’t be in business’ line.

Not once do we hear the arguments about minimums set too high can cause job losses.

Not once do we hear that minimums set too high can lock the young, and/or unskilled out of the market.

Not once do we hear the arguments that society and the people concerned are far better off getting into work, any work, even at a low wage, then pick up the skills and behaviours that mean within 6-12 months better offers come along.

Not once do we hear the downsides of the notion that we can legislate our way to prosperity.

And, just for a chuckle, never do we hear from those who support the ‘if you can’t pay the living wage then you shouldn’t be in business’ line – that therefore the government should immediately suspend any and all payments to any private organisation who without taxpayer support could not do so.

Let’s start with the NZSO, myriad other arts, dance, music organisations, hundreds of ‘service provider’ businesses that purely rely on taxpayer money.

After all, we should be consistent in our policies shouldn’t we?
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January 27, 2023 12:05pm
- artemisia
  
  When the ‘living wage’ became a thing, back in the day, The Treasury’s analysis was that the principal beneficiaries were young single workers and government revenue.
  
  The original calculation parameters didn’t last long. The first time they were applied for the new ‘living wage’ there was panic in the ranks at the new higher amount, and the calc was quickly scaled back.
  
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  January 27, 2023 1:03pm
- Taieri
  
  Let’s start with the NZSO
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  I’d start with consultants, “working” groups, commissions and all other snout-dipping institutions that serve no useful purpose.
  At least the NZSO provides some pleasure.
  
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  January 27, 2023 1:17pm
- Simon
  
  Why isnt National undertaking to close RNZ down?
  
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  January 27, 2023 1:49pm
  - Ghost
    
    Why do you want them cancelled?
    
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    January 27, 2023 1:58pm
rangitoto

Chippy’s NZ

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2023/01/one-arrested-two-on-the-run-after-offenders-flee-police-carjack-motorists-at-gunpoint-in-palmerston-north.html
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January 27, 2023 12:07pm
All_on_Red

Kari Lake fans will like this.
The evidence is mounting that the Result isn’t correct.
‘new information was presented to the Arizona Senate Elections Committee by Maricopa County Republican Committee (MCRC) Vice Chair Shelby Busch.
“We received just a few weeks ago, January of 2023, the system log files from the tabulators that were used in Maricopa County on Election Day, along with the redacted CVR records. Through an analysis, we were able to determine that a quarter of a million ballot feeds [were] misread by those tabulators,” Busch explained. “There are approximately two tabulators in every polling Center, which means there were 446 tabulators with a quarter of a million voter attempt failures.”
Also;
‘Lake’s team also says that as many as 40,000 ballots were illegally counted due to signatures not matching.’
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/01/24/theres-another-huge-bombshell-in-kari-lakes-election-lawsuit-n1664474

Lakes opponent won by 17,000 votes. Its going to be a brave Judge who orders the Election to be re-done.
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January 27, 2023 12:12pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Katie Hobbs knew the machines were rigged. She was responsible for the vote counting process. Kari Lake won.
  All of this counting machines rigged needs to be sorted before the 2024 vote.
  
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  January 27, 2023 1:01pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  What was the result from the ‘investigations’ into alleged voter fraud in Arizona in the 2020 elections?
  
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  January 27, 2023 3:13pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Your google machine broken again Mike?
    
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    January 27, 2023 4:14pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Thank you, Steve. I found this helpful summary:
      
      The 2021 Maricopa County presidential ballot audit, commonly referred to as the Arizona audit, was an examination of ballots cast in Maricopa County during the 2020 United States presidential election in Arizona initiated by Republicans in the Arizona State Senate and executed by private firms. Begun in April 2021, the audit stirred controversy due to extensive previous efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn the election and due to assertions of rule violations and irregularities in the conduct of the recount,[1] leading to claims that the audit was essentially a disinformation campaign.[2][3][4] In June 2021, Maggie Haberman of The New York Times and Charles Cooke of National Review reported Trump had told associates that based on the results of the audit, he would be reinstated as president in August 2021.[5] By early August, no evidence of widespread fraud had surfaced.[6]
      From the beginning of the audit, several concerns surfaced, including how the audit was being conducted, its legality, the conduct of auditors, and security issues at the site.[7] The audit spawned interest in pursuing similar efforts in other states, causing the United States Department of Justice to warn Republican legislatures of potential violations of federal law.[8][9] Conspiracy theory issues also arose as many commentators across the political spectrum, including Republicans, characterized the effort as a sham or “fraudit” that was an element of the big lie that the presidential election had been stolen from Trump.
      The auditors released a report in September 2021, finding no proof of fraud and that their ballot recount increased Biden’s margin of victory by 360 votes.[10][11][12] County election officials released a final report in January 2022 finding that nearly all of the auditors’ allegations of irregularities were false or misleading.
      
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Maricopa_County_presidential_ballot_audit
      
      But it would appear that the Arizona crazies are convinced that this time the fraud will be uncovered.
      Oh, and for All_on_Red: LOL!
      
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      January 27, 2023 4:36pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Quoting wikipedia again? You know it’s a rotten pile of propaganda run by anonymous far left activists???
        
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        January 27, 2023 7:40pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

Meanwhile, those poster-boys and girls for vehicle electrification are hoovering up the oil & gas revenue like there’s no tomorrow.

Hectoring hypocrites!

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Norway-Sees-Oil-And-Gas-Tax-Revenue-Triple-To-Record-89-Billion.html
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January 27, 2023 12:23pm
- kevn
  
  @Never… Great for their Superannuation Scheme. Like it could be in NZ with all the capped energy.
  
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  January 27, 2023 12:46pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Interestingly, Norway invested all the revenue from their share of the North Sea oil, while the Brits pissed theirs away on day-to-day expenditure.
    
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    January 27, 2023 3:14pm
Diogenes

“The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by human hands … Those who make them will be like them, and so will all who trust in them.” ~ Psalm 135: 15-18

If we make anything an idol, we will take on its characteristics. We will follow what it dictates, and parrot what it promulgates. Its demands become our dogma, and ultimately a driving force of our life. This is a dogma that cannot questioned, otherwise the idol will fall, and that must not happen.

How do we know if we have made something an idol? Just see what happens to us when it is threatened or taken away. Our world falls apart. The inability to cope with that is what gives the idol its power.

Every idol is created by someone or something, who or which becomes priests that may not be questioned. Their dogma is the source of their power, and fear is one of the powers they use to enforce that. Control becomes everything.
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January 27, 2023 12:25pm
Swifty

So, after a few days thinking about it I have now reached the conclusion that Ardern was pushed.

It’s been abundantly clear for months that the likelihood of an Ardern-led Labour victory in October has dropped massively since 2020 and still dropping weekly. I’ve personally believed their defeat a near certainty.

There are many, many people reliant on their incomes and political favours from a Labour Government – and a National/ACT victory would be a bad outcome for them, personally. Here I include Labour Cabinet members, the wider Labour caucus, party officials and spin doctors, and the interest groups who do so well under a Labour administration – the unions particularly but more than just them.

They will have seen the writing on the wall and they know which side their bread is buttered on.

They will have known that to replace Ardern, have her depart, and then start afresh with a new leader who is all bright and sparkly (and guaranteed very favourable news media coverage as we have seen) and saying that ‘it’s a new era’ and ‘the past is the past, now we’re going to reprioritise and focus on the things that matter’ is their only practical way of trying to create some space Labour and public’s anger over how Labour has treated them.

As long as Ardern was PM, she could never, while retaining even a shred of credibility, get up and say “Sorry, I’ve been wrong all along, 3 Waters is wrong, co-governance is wrong, we got large chunks of Covid wrong, we screwed up the economy and look at food prices now, we’ve dropped the ball on crime…. but now we’ve realised it, we’re going to reset and everything will be right from now on.”

She’d look an idiot, or worse a liar, and people would hurl even more righteous fury at her saying “we’ve been telling you that you were wrong all along.”

A new leader can though. They can subtly pin the sins of the village onto the scapegoat and drive the goat into the desert taking all the village sins with it.

I think Ardern has been spoken with last year, and was presented a plan that she has willingly accepted, knowing that unless she does Labour’s electoral success is doomed.

She might also have welcome the resultant relief from all the stress, especially of a looming defeat.

It will all be organised down to the tiniest detail and, in return for her acceptance, she will be supported by ‘Saint Jacinda’ narratives and endless PR on her supposed strong points that of her empathy, kindness etc (and steering absolutely right away from her actual results).

I argue that the fact that within 24 hours of her announcement, even less in some cases, all the left-leaning news media pundits and assorted academics and opinion columnists were in full spin mode putting it all down to misogyny – was a clear sign of narrative pre-planning. Pre-seeding of narrative lines and tactics.

Remember, Ardern never mentioned misogyny – but within 12-24 hours damn near every writer was mentioning it.

Yep, she’s been pushed. It’s Labour’s only hope.

And now many, many folk in and around the NZ Labour Party will be nervously chewing their fingernails hoping their plans will work out.
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January 27, 2023 12:46pm
- Swifty
  
  Or, alternatively, Ardern just recently rocked up to her Labour Party colleagues, totally out of the blue and said the she’s going to resign and they just replied “Oh really? Oh gosh, that’s a surprise, we’ve never thought of that!”
  
  Pull the other one, it’s got bells on.
  
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  January 27, 2023 1:33pm
- Loddenthinks
  
  I think you’re spot on with a number of points, however if she was pushed I wonder who it was that did the pushing?
  
  One of the rumours going round is that she was planning to demote some of Maori caucus – Mahuta in particular and most likely Willie Jackson, and that they weren’t having a bar of it. Certainly when Ardern made the announcement she was distressed, and it looked to me as though she’d heard the bad news and drafted something about 30 minutes beforehand.
  
  With regard to defeats though, you’d think she’d be used to them since she couldn’t win Auckland Central off Nikki Kaye in 2 attempts, and had to go to Aunty Helen’s safe-as-houses electorate when she bailed to the UN.
  
  Mind you, she’s risen massively, in her own eyes, since then, so the fall from grace would be further and harder.
  
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  January 27, 2023 4:37pm
softail 1450

Diogenes, “If we make anything an idol we will take on its characteristics”
Sounds great, now where can I buy an Ilon Musk statue?
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January 27, 2023 12:49pm
Loddenthinks

Another young, fit, professional athlete dies suddenly – this time an NFL player from Detroit (BBC couldn’t quite spell Detroit but no matter). I’m sure it’s just a coincidence. Another one…

https://www.bbc.com/sport/american-football/64420844
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January 27, 2023 12:50pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  I’m sure you are already aware that sudden cardiac arrest as a leading cause of death in athletes has been known about since the 1930s.
  
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  January 27, 2023 3:16pm
Maggie Pie

Does anybody actually know why this moronic Labor/Greens government allowed Marsden Point to be shut down?
Just reading where it produced 70% of the country’s fuel, bitumen for roads, CO2 for the beverage industry and refined aviation fuel.

My partner recons it was an act of sabotage 🙁
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January 27, 2023 12:56pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Typical Labour wrecking NZ. Marsden should have been purchased. Nope Labour even filled some pipes with concrete.
  The whole idea is to turn NZ communist. That is Jaspinda’s dream.
  
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  January 27, 2023 1:09pm
  - Taieri
    
    The whole idea is to turn NZ communist.
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    With all their faults otherwise, communist countries used to build industries.
    
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    January 27, 2023 1:21pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      “Thing Big” NZ? Muldoon was criticised heavily for that. But we got all sorts done. Hydro Electrics. It also provided employment.
      Not communist, but similar outcome.
      
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      January 27, 2023 1:55pm
      - Jack5
        
        China’s industrialisation and modernisation under Communism has been spectacular.
        
        In the Anglosphere, we for a long time blamed the rise of rivals on copying: first the Germans, then Japanese, now Chinese.
        
        Yet China now leads the world in number of international patents being registered.
        
        I still much prefer to live in a free country.
        
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        January 27, 2023 3:19pm
  - NothingLeft
    
    Marsden was a bit of a white elephant, But in it’s absence NZ needs large strategic fuel + oil product reserves. Probably a year’s worth to make us resilient to global crises.
    
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    January 27, 2023 4:40pm
- Taieri
  
  Does anybody actually know why this moronic Labor/Greens government allowed Marsden Point to be shut down?
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  You’ve already answered this question. Because it is moronic.
  
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  January 27, 2023 1:19pm
- kevn
  
  @Maggie… For a mere 400 mil NZ could have owned it outright.
  
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  January 27, 2023 2:43pm
DimChappie

Sean Plunket interview with Julian Batchelor of Stop Co Governance. How are we expected to debate co-governance if this group cannot hire a public venue? Julian is right in the spotlight now.

https://theplatform.kiwi/podcasts/episode/julian-batchelor-from-stop-co-governance-blocked-from-hiring-a-public-venue
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January 27, 2023 1:02pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Sport Northland Board has been hoodwinked by Treaty supporters.
  See my posts above about co-governance.
  
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  January 27, 2023 2:01pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Fauci tried to disprove Lab theory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z41DZGk1560
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January 27, 2023 1:32pm
Swifty

If Hipkins has all the answers how come they didn’t pick him back in 2017?
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January 27, 2023 1:37pm
Maggie Pie

Wonder how ELTON intends getting to Mt Smart tonite?

And imagine if that WIG gets wet….it looks rude enough already!
😀 😀 😀

https://twitter.com/sunriseon7/status/1616963984179044354
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January 27, 2023 2:06pm
- Taieri
  
  Wonder how ELTON intends getting to Mt Smart tonite?
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  On the pushbike?
  
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  January 27, 2023 4:20pm
- Ghost
  
  Boat? Up the flooded streets, passed the toilet paper, watch out for the needles and he’s there.
  
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  January 27, 2023 4:25pm
Jack5

Does Andrew Becroft, the Children’s Commissioner have an unfairly big influence on the NZ justice system and the safety of law-abiding citizens?

The Court of Appeal in quashing life sentences of three young people convicted of murder:

“”The Children’s Commissioner suggested, and some of the appellants’ [lawyers] submitted we should create a special category for young persons,” the judgment said.

“We must, however, not trespass upon Parliament’s domain… Our judgment does not have the effect of creating a special category for young persons convicted of murder.”

Although being a youth was not by itself enough to establish an injustice to avoid a life sentence, mitigating circumstances of the offending and an offender’s personal circumstances could count on top of their age, the Court said.

Becroft has talked of NZ’s advanced ways of dealing with youth offenders.

With ram-raids up and down the country, with mobs of kids bashing citizens in Christchurch, with car theft rampant … the NZ reforms are really working for the community, aren’t they?

Life sentences quashed:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/483200/court-of-appeal-quashes-life-sentences-for-three-young-convicted-murderers

Becroft on NZ youth justice:

https://www.youthcourt.govt.nz/assets/Documents/Publications/Youth-Court-playing-to-win-youth-offenders-out-of-court.pdf
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January 27, 2023 2:36pm
- greybeard
  
  “BeSoft”, not “Becroft”.
  
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  January 27, 2023 3:25pm
Ra Henare

and now for something completely different to todays cesspit of political ranting.

Tattoos on younger females. Ugggggg

Personally I think that visible tats are a trend like mini skirts, hot pants or hair being died purple.

As I said to a 16 year old daughter of a friend who is keen to get lots of tats(and piss off her mother)

Me: do you know of the Moana Lisa?
Her: yes.
Me: Would you throw roof paint over it to make it look better.
Her. A long long pause: I never thought about it like that.

Seems to me that a chain of Tattoo removal shops will be springing up soon, as those impressionable minds realise that they have screwed up.
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January 27, 2023 2:48pm
- fightingtemeraire
  
  I was told by a surgeon that when they operate on cancer patients and remove the glands in the armpit area that operate as a filter, on people with tats they find them full of the ink that has been used,
  
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  January 27, 2023 3:27pm
- rangitoto
  
  You would have to be a special kind of stupid to deliberately have toxic materials embedded in your skin.
  
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  January 27, 2023 3:34pm
- fightingtemeraire
  
  The removal of tats is a long and more painful process than getting them.
  
  It is a world wide trend to be tattooed especially for the females.
  
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  January 27, 2023 4:52pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

LGWM’s first delivered project is … drum roll please, maestro … a pedestrian crossing across SH1. More of a Let’s Get Wellington Stopping kind of thing.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/wellington/131081229/after-seven-years-lets-get-wellington-moving-finishes-first-construction-project
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January 27, 2023 3:03pm
CAKE FACE1

A quick question to kiwiblog.

Twitter et al used to have an approx one minute video, where Kommissar Kate Hannah (of the sinister and disturbing Ministry of Truth Disinformation Project) gave the tell-tale signs of women white supremacists. From memory she listed women interested in yoga, knitting, interior design and healthy food as potentially dangerous. Blonde children with plaided hair likely had white supremacist parents.

Anyway, I wanted to show this clip to a friend. I can’t find it anymore.

Have the Disinformation Kommissars vaporised this clip from the internet, 1984 style?

“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed -if all records told the same tale — then the lie passed into history and became truth. Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. ‘Reality control’, they called it: in Newspeak, ‘doublethink’.” [1984, Eric Blair]
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January 27, 2023 3:15pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Try this:
  
  https://odysee.com/@voicesforfreedom:6/kate-hannah-advice:f?src=embed
  
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  January 27, 2023 4:12pm
- Diogenes
  
  Cake Face: Is this the clip you were looking for regarding Kate Hannah? Warning: It’s a Twitter from Cam Slater supposedly quoting Kate.
  https://twitter.com/kaiviti_cam/status/1587664955410501633
  
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  January 27, 2023 4:18pm
  - CAKE FACE1
    
    Thanks guys, that was the clip I was looking for…
    
    I’m still a bit suspicious that fruit loops like Kate Hannah et al might be vaporising stuff from the internet…
    
    I’ll take my tin foil hat off now…
    
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    January 27, 2023 4:27pm
Maggie Pie

And to think these are the very SAME people telling you to put on a mask for their health……

https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1617894385563348993
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January 27, 2023 3:23pm
- Ghost
  
  Strangely I just don’t feel like eating tonight now.
  
  Warning, Maggie’s video may cause your stomach to go on strike
  
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  January 27, 2023 3:28pm
Ghost

Well done Wānaka

A self-proclaimed Christchurch “Christian leader” claims people who confronted him in Otago during a rant as part of his so-called “repentance tour” are possessed by demons.

Lincoln Russ, who describes himself in his Facebook bio as a leader who’s “gathering Christians in Christchurch to build God’s kingdom on Earth”, angered people in Wānaka this week after roaming around with a microphone making claims about seeing “demons cast out of people” and that homosexuals needed to repent.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2023/01/self-proclaimed-christian-leader-lincoln-russ-shut-down-in-queenstown-w-naka-after-ranting-about-repenting-of-homosexuality.html
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January 27, 2023 3:49pm
Ghost

But but, that Jacinda lady fixed it……

New Zealand’s Human Rights Commission will voice grave concerns about children and teens in emergency housing, to the United Nations in Geneva.

Human Rights Commission (HRC) chief commissioner Paul Hunt said he expected the UN’s findings would be a “global, public embarrassment” for New Zealand.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/01/damning-report-highlights-significant-human-rights-breaches-in-new-zealand-s-emergency-housing.html
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January 27, 2023 4:16pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Documents. The worm has changed!
https://thegoptimes.com/fbi-shock-biden-announcement-gop-pounces/
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January 27, 2023 4:50pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Oh no! Everyone has gone to have their craft beer shandy before jumping on the trains.
https://thegoptimes.com/fauci-funded-monkey-experimenter-faked-data-costing-taxpayers-millions-of-dollars-2/
Fauci needs to be in jail. Even in jail he would still have influence.
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January 27, 2023 5:10pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Wind turbines cause whale beach deaths? Well sow my dick off.
https://thepatriotchronicles.com/news-for-you/was-bidens-wind-project-really-what-killed-the-whales/
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January 27, 2023 5:20pm
Warren

Is this case a wake up call for the public in New Zealand, with Judges overturning murder victims sentences because of age .
Is this also a legacy of the the weak and leniency policy of former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/three-teen-killers-have-life-prison-sentences-quashed-and-non-parole-terms-reduced/GBBF2NQPXFGLZLDBJ6EPZTQIIM/
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January 27, 2023 6:16pm
Maggie Pie

You can bet those poor residents flooded out of their homes in Henderson will be pleased that the Labor-led Council spent 7 mill on cycle-lanes in their suburb over the last 4 years, rather than improving the drainage infrastructure.

What a pack of cnuts!!
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January 27, 2023 6:18pm
- Gravelroad
  
  @MP:
  Thank goodness for 3/5 Waters then. That’ll fix it and prove all the critics wrong eh.
  The storm water drains will be renewed soon as latest cycle lane is up and running.
  Love it that Auckland Transport closed down all the trains on a very busy weekend.
  TV1 reporter indignant that the AT spin department hadn’t bothered to return his call for info on how people were supposed to get to the Elton John concert in the rain.
  AT obviously needs a bus load more PR staff supported by consultants LoL!
  
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  January 27, 2023 6:37pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    The rain has been absolutely terrible all day Gravel!
    I doubt there’d be a suburb in Auckland that hasn’t been unduly affected.
    
    Even here we lost Sky reception during the first set of the Men’s-semi of the AO 🙁
    
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    January 27, 2023 6:47pm
    - Gravelroad
      
      We have lost sky here too – in the South Island – with no rain.
      
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      January 27, 2023 6:52pm
- MCōs
  
  I would suggest that $7mil spread over 4yrs would go nowhere towards upgrading the storm water system.
  Maybe the money wasted on the America’s Cup might have been a start.
  Anyway.
  Since when did you ever give a bag of beans about the people in Henderson?
  
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  January 27, 2023 9:08pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    What’s with the agro Cossie?
    Remember how concerned I was about your wife’s sprained wrist last year….well that’s the sort of caring person I am.
    
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    January 27, 2023 11:17pm
Ghost

Damn, good luck

Comedian Dai Henwood says he has been diagnosed with stage-four bowel cancer.

In a message posted on his Instagram on Friday, the 44-year-old said he was diagnosed with the disease almost three years ago and has been receiving treatment since April 2020.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/300794205/comedian-dai-henwood-reveals-very-tough-bowel-cancer-diagnosis
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January 27, 2023 6:37pm
Ghost

So wait a minute. This lady is deemed an overstayer because last time she was here the government closed the boarders and she couldn’t return home. PATHETIC. Good that she can now come but bloody hell

An 80-year-old British grandmother is “devastated” to have been prevented from meeting her new Kiwi grandson after being told en route to New Zealand that she was not authorised to enter the country, despite having been granted a New Zealand Travel Authority (NZeTA).

https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-troubles/300793973/devastated-uk-grandmother-denied-boarding-en-route-to-nz-after-nzeta-approval
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January 27, 2023 6:43pm
Ghost

Judge orders Paul Pelosi attack video released

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV9YHl8SXPE
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