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2ic

Some alarming new data on the numbers of serious adverse events from the Covid-19 vaccines have come to light thanks to an OIA, referenced in this article on the NZDSOS website:
https://nzdsos.com/2023/05/30/how-many-adverse-events-in-nz/

Medsafe stopped their monthly Safety Report’s at November 2022, which showed 3,688 serious adverse events:
https://www.medsafe.govt.nz/COVID-19/safety-report-46.asp

The OIA, which was responded to on 12 April 2023, is now showing at least 13,858 serious adverse events! See page 2 of the OIA:
https://nzdsos.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/OIA-2-re-AEFIs-highlighted-Apr-2023.pdf

So we now have 10,000 more serious adverse event than records were reporting 6 months ago.

Over a year ago now I was following the monthly Safety Reports of the Covid vaccine, and comparing it to the serious adverse events reported from the influenza vaccine in 2019. The last post I made on that is here:
https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2022/03/general_debate_21_march_2022.html#comment-3148182

At that time, I calculated the incidence of serious adverse events with the Pfizer vaccine being 26.8 per 100,000 doses, which was around 60x more than the Influenza vaccine.

But with this new OIA – 13,858 serious adverse events out of (currently) 12,493,400 doses administered – equates to 111 serious adverse events per 100,000 doses, around 250x higher than the Influenza vaccine!

As I said in my previous post, the Influenza vaccine data is for doses distributed, not actually administered, but even if you allow for 20% not administered you still arrive at a figure of the Pfizer vaccine being about 200x more dangerous than the Influenza vaccine.

I realise adverse event reports aren’t proof of causality, but also consider that this is a passive reporting system, and it is believed only around 5% of adverse events get ever get reported.

In any case, it’s a massive safety signal that we don’t see with other vaccines like the Influenza vaccine, and it’s chilling that the Government and those in charge of our health system continue to remain silent on it.
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June 1, 2023 8:01am
- NK
  
  Australia has more than 220,000 Vax injured.
  
  When people stood up and protested against this debacle, they were called filth by Ministers and beaten by police batons.
  
  Chris Luxon praised the police in Parliament and was acknowledged by Trevor Mallard for his good work helping to deal to the filth.
  
  What else is there to say.
  
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  June 1, 2023 8:12am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Going by population, NZ should have 40,000 Vax injured.
    Who id hiding the numbers?
    
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    June 1, 2023 8:22am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Steve Otto – the same people who hid the data when they approved this experiment and the same people who hid the information that the vaccines were dangerous to young people in particular.
      
      Medsafe and the NZ government. Whether Medsafe was operating independently or under instructions isn’t known. But there was more than enough evidence available at the time to raise concerns and not approve this product.
      
      There is more than enough alarming evidence now available that any existing vaccination programmes should be stopped immediately while a full and THOROUGH investigation is held.
      Not the whitewash that is proposed in the Royal Commission.
      
      The terms of reference are designed to ensure nothing is found out. Just another attempt at appearing to ‘do something’.
      
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      June 1, 2023 9:59am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        “There is more than enough alarming evidence now available that any existing vaccination programs should be stopped immediately”
        
        This morning Covid vaccines still being shown on the idiot box. Showing young kids/babies. Who is behind this?
        Safe and effective is a lie. See that teen on the BFD with all of his blisters?
        
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        June 1, 2023 11:13am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        If Govt is pressured on these numbers I know what their response will be.
        “Australia has their numbers wrong, and are using a different program to us.”
        You can take that to the Bank.
        
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        June 1, 2023 11:18am
      - mawm
        
        We have a captured government and they have surrendered our sovereignty to a One World Government/WEF/UN or whatever you want to call it. And the noose around our necks is progressively being tightened. Daily it is looking to be a better option to move to one of the BRICS which has had about 80 other countries apply to join it. We’ll see what happens when they have their meeting later this year.
        
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        June 1, 2023 12:14pm
  - Nickc2
    
    It’ll all be different when the WHO assumes responsibility for managing pandemics worldwide eh?
    Yea, right
    NB: Talk around the Bizars is that the current Govt’s going to sign up to this shit. Cindy delivered a speech at the WHO recently.
    https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/05/22/currently-between-jobs-ardern-speaks-at-whos-76th-assembly/
    
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    June 1, 2023 8:29am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Nickc2 – of course they are going to sign up to it. That’s why our DG and deputy DG of health are both there. That’s why Ardern is there.
      
      This is what many of us have been warning about for the last few years and were called raving conspiracy theorists for it. There are very few (if any) conspiracy theories left.
      
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      June 1, 2023 10:02am
    - mawm
      
      Clan – my latest conspiracy theory is Luxon and Seymour know all about it but are deliberately avoiding the subject.
      
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      June 1, 2023 12:18pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        You would have to be very stupid, or very ignorant to not know about the premise of the WHO and the proposed amendments to this gross power grab.
        
        Let’s presume as a successful businessman and politician, Luxon and Seymour are neither ignorant or stupid. If it actually is a silly conspiracy theory you would think they would be calling it out, the fact they aren’t can only lead to the conclusion that as you say, they are deliberately avoiding the topic.
        
        It doesn’t augur well for democracy.
        
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        June 2, 2023 7:30am
    - sirknz
      
      It’ll all be different when the WHO assumes responsibility for managing pandemics worldwide eh?
      ——————————-
      
      But $tuff debunked that as a far right conspiracy theory with no basis in reality yesterday, they’ve never been wrong about this sort of thing ever…
      
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      June 1, 2023 12:58pm
  - Simon
    
    Ardern during the 2020 election said the jaxx wasnt going to mandatory. This was in anticipation of there being opposition (from National, and others) to any mandatory roll out. However National wiping their arses with the Bill of Rights and the general hysteria of the unjaxxed Labour was able to push for the jaxx to be mandatory.
    
    National were part and parcel of burning the unjaxxed witches. They really are cretins. National badly failed the test.
    
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    June 1, 2023 8:30am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      And did the test let ACT get away shot free?
      
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      June 1, 2023 12:07pm
    - mawm
      
      Someone will be along soon to call you a Luxon/National hater and that you can’t give any reason for it. //s
      
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      June 1, 2023 12:19pm
  - Lee C
    
    I think it was Martin Luther King Jr. who said:
    
    “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
    
    J’accuse.
    
    p.s. Get Vaxxed!
    
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    June 1, 2023 9:00am
    - Random T Person
      
      Get Boosted! Bishop forever lost any respect with that ridiculous tag. Idiot.
      
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      June 1, 2023 9:10am
      - Matt Long
        
        With respect to Mark Hanley’s comments yesterday, I regard the past behaviour of a person as the best indicator of their future behaviour.
        Bishop made his stand on mandates and boosters and has not resiled or apologised for the damage he has done. This is a good indicator he will be on the wrong side of future battles that pit the coercive nature of the state adainst the rights and freedoms of the individual.
        
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        June 1, 2023 10:14am
      - Matt Long
        
        “Mark Hanley
        Matt. Is it the case that you don’t want to answer because it will give away your devotion to the labour party?”
        Sorry Mark, I don’t have time to answer all your insightful questions immediately, if you want to present an argument for why someone’s stellar career with wokest corporations and state owned companies makes them the best politician, go ahead, I just work on their words and actions as policians.
        Your comment above sounds like what comes out from the proud former Labour voters here, that have embraced the woke in National and cannot countenance any criticism of National’s wokeness.
        Sorry if I hurt your feelings.
        
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        June 1, 2023 10:22am
      - Matt Long
        
        Finally can grassroots campaigns against bad political leanings work?
        Todd Muller has gone bless him, I think the cold reception at Federated Farmers National council might have given him the nudge he needed.
        Beef and Lamb’s leader has gone, He Waka Eke Noa, the terrible methane tax program promoted by Dairy NZ and about to be adopted by National looks to be gone.
        https://www.politik.co.nz/reality-shatters-arderns-dream/
        We don’t have to roll over and accept crap from any of them.
        
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        June 1, 2023 10:30am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        Yet you live Seymour
        
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        June 1, 2023 12:08pm
      - mawm
        
        Matt – this must include “libertarian” Seymour who advocates for abortion and euthanasia but suddenly individual sovereignty must be surrendered to the WHO. There is enough evidence readily available for him to change his mind, apologise and then fight for us. If not him who will? I dare not mention the “W” word.
        
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        June 1, 2023 12:26pm
      - Mark Hanley
        
        Like a labour party spin doctor, Matt Long (not so) cunningly responds to my questions on a different day at the back end of a different thread. I also note that despite abusing everything blue he can’t actually tell us who to vote for and why.
        
        Matt. I understand that giving away your allegiance to the Labour Party will diminish any shred of following you may have but most people are clever enough to have figured you out already so you needn’t worry about that
        
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        June 1, 2023 4:26pm
      - Matt Long
        
        G, I don’t love Seymour, overall the ACT package is less worse than National, who many of us fear will simply carry on with Labour’s agenda but with a lesser degree of incompetency.
        There’s good people in both National and ACT, which I wouldn’t say about those on the far left.
        Mark Hanley, get a grip, you’re getting worse than Mike or Riffer.
        
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        June 1, 2023 6:45pm
  - Stellaboxer
    
    Isn’t it strange how none of the bed wetters, masked covid warriors want to talk about their behaviour during the great Covid hysteria. Like Ardern its like it never happened but it did.
    
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    June 1, 2023 9:30am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Stellaboxer – I can understand it to some extent, I have plenty of former close friends who got jabbed.
      They are on a spectrum from people who were complete Branch Covidians, believed every word they read in the Whoreald or heard from Ardern’s pulpit of truth.
      Others who complied because they believed the jax was the magic potion that would ‘save’ the world.
      It has been fascinating watching the responses as the truth has started to emerge. Those I respect the most have put their hand up, admitted they were wrong and have been quite sheepish about the whole thing. I admire their honesty and don’t harass them about their choices at the time.
      
      But they are very few. Most clearly know but simply refuse to go near the subject, too embarrassed to talk about it.
      
      At the other extreme there are a couple who refuse point blank to acknowledge the evidence in front of their faces. Intransigent to the point of stupidity. Basically like every politician in parliament, Seymour being the chief hypocrite.
      
      There will be quite a few of them who are following orders to protect their cushy jobs and income. Again, I don’t like that, but as with friends who got the jab to keep their jobs, I understand it.
      
      I reserve my contempt for Ardern, Bloomfield, Seymour, Baker, Wiles, Hendy and all of the others who fully understand what they are responsible for and refuse to admit it, and the former friends who do the same.
      
      I can’t abide cowardice, it’s why Seymour’s position really bothers me.
      
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      June 1, 2023 10:18am
      - Matt Long
        
        I don’t think Seymour is a coward, I believe he thinks he is intellectually superior to people who question the safety of mRNA injections.
        
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        June 1, 2023 10:34am
      - Stellaboxer
        
        Indeed ClanMcleod I’m beginning to question why I would vote for anyone who was involved in the game of advocating the most repressive position. Seymour shouting that we should not bother with our own safety analysis just trust the US and start jabbing children or the complete silence when a section of society were “ othered “ for exercising their rights under the now thoroughly meaningless bill of rights. Where were the politicians?? Nowhere. I’m done with them.
        
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        June 1, 2023 11:50am
      - mawm
        
        Matt – If Seymour thinks he’s intellectually superior and knows better then he is a fool.
        
        Stellaboxer – I must agree with you. I’m sure we’ll see “W” riding in on his white steed to save us from the WHO and 3 Waters. His message will resonate with many.
        
        This will probably be a good election for National to lose. They can then reflect on what they want to be – Left/centre-left/centre-right.
        
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        June 1, 2023 12:33pm
  - Gravelroad
    
    @NK-
    Yes, that whole debacle severely shook my interest in any politicians.
    Most of them enjoyed the drama of being part of the “great pandemic of our lifetime” rhetoric and asked no questions.
    Luxon, Bishop and co rolled over like puppies to appease St Jacinda, Sir Bloomfield and the other opportunistic medical people in order to be part of the “historic” action.
    The public believed the propaganda about the hospitals being overrun with sick people who could easily die in their thousands, and got vaccinated for the common good – as instructed.
    These who asked questions were bashed and insulted.
    River of filth? Think again politicians. I’m not voting for anyone who supported that.
    
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    June 1, 2023 10:00am
  - Sacha
    
    I think there is quite a lot that could be said, but I would just point out that it is only recently that data has been collected and analysed, checked and released for public consumption.
    I hold no particular brief for Chris Luxon – but if everyone in New Zealand who supported the Government’s actions regarding COVID19 were to be condemned, there’d be few still standing today.
    Forgive, but don’t forget if such a situation arises in future.
    
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    June 1, 2023 2:03pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  The Vaccine is “Safe and Effective”
  Someone told NZ that, but unavailable for comment anymore.
  
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  June 1, 2023 8:24am
  - Simon
    
    Ardern was told to say that. She didnt have a clue. The clowns who pushed the jaxx shit onto the general population are still there. Doesnt matter if Luxon, or Hipkins are nominally in charge.
    
    Hence this Netzero – anti NZ shit from National.
    
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    June 1, 2023 8:34am
    - Vory v zakone
      
      “I was only following orders” will be her disclaimer. Perhaps later this year…
      
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      June 1, 2023 9:10am
- lastmanstanding
  
  As one who lived thru the 70s and 80s I see inflation becoming embedded as it did then. The RB will chase its tail with interest rates causing demands for increasing wages and salaries that will continue to drive inflation thru increased prices for goods and services. We already have a skills shortage so employers will pay more to retain their skilled workers.
  In the late 70s early 80s the Muldoon Government tried wage and salary controls price controls interest rate controls and none of them worked.
  It took the Lange Government aided by Douglas Prebble and Caygill to institute reforms that tamed inflation for the next 30 years.
  IMHO we lack politicans with the capacity capability and will of those people.
  
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  June 1, 2023 9:19am
  - thirteenstars
    
    Problem is, Labour has long cleansed itself of the apostate Douglas, and National has likewise quietly disavowed Ruth Richardson, which is why we have two parties addicted to big government albeit from slightly different angles.
    
    It’s ACT that has inherited both Douglas and Richardson, and it’s ACT that’ll promote serious reform given enough say.
    
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    June 1, 2023 9:44am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Politicians are too scared to use their capability lest they lose a vote.
    50 years on from the 70s and they are all wimps.
    
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    June 1, 2023 11:23am
  - Ian Boag
    
    It took the Lange Government aided by Douglas Prebble and Caygill to institute reforms that tamed inflation for the next 30 years.
    
    And Don Brash raising interest rates through the roof to squash inflation. And it did. Lange gummint and your heroes didn’t have much to do with that.
    
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    June 1, 2023 4:51pm
    - Matt Long
      
      I find myself agreeing wholeheartedly with Ian Boag on Milk Day, what kind of weird alignment of the stars is that?
      
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      June 1, 2023 6:49pm
- kevn
  
  @2ic… In NZ we give them a gong and accolades.
  
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  June 1, 2023 9:24am
- Loddenthinks
  
  They don’t just “remain silent on it”, they actively suppress it, and ridicule those who mention it and start asking questions.
  
  If only David Seymour wasn’t so pig-headedly ignorant on this, we’d get some serious questions asked in the House. I’m almost considering holding my nose and voting for NZF if the Great Charlatan made it an election issue.
  
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  June 1, 2023 9:37am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    What do the great Charlatan could scare the shit out of us and put greens NZF Lab TPM in power? You have got to be joking, he will do it, and say it’s okay cause TPM is not in cabinet, wake up, he is waiting for [Mod – deleted, stop attacking people]
    
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    June 1, 2023 12:16pm
- WaynelSexton
  
  The Science has changed.
  Turns out it’s not 99% effective at stopping covid19, but actually all it does is gives you heart problems and cancer.
  Kia Kaha New Zealand
  
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  June 1, 2023 10:02am
- krazykiwi
  
  Good comment, 2IC. I received a “Get Your Booster Now” flyer in the letterbox yesterday. I’m utterly flabbergasted at the denial of reality by our so-call health authorities.
  
  Related, I found this mashup today: https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1657021799652024324 … a record of the vilification of “The Unvaccinated”
  
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  June 1, 2023 12:26pm
- kisekiman
  
  Time to lawyer up and go after those responsible. I will put in $1000 to any serious crowd funding attempt to get this off the ground. I know Mark Hanley is dead serious about this.
  
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  June 1, 2023 9:12pm
Yvette

Since taxpayers fund the advancement of Maori language to the extent of $200 – $400 million a year, should that be itemised, evaluated, and accounted for before the same taxpayers fund Maori language lessons at 80kph or faster for a vocabulary probably about as limited as that now so glibly rattled off by television news and weather persons to be mostly incomprehensible, and a source of annoyance to viewers, who will soon have their angst increased on the roads with anti-Maori sentiments, especially on expressways – unless they are killed in the confusion, and by the time they arrive at the Pearly Gates will have become newly convinced racists and are immediately diverted to Hell as their Final Destination, while their relatives and friends are left to fight insurance companies and ACC?

Morning medication is due in a moment … and coffee
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June 1, 2023 8:03am
- Observant Octagenarian
  
  Well done – 140 words and not a single full stop!
  
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  June 1, 2023 8:26am
  - Jack5
    
    Agred: well done, Yvette. Rap for those with strong lungs. For a fellow adventurer in punctuation, try Gertrude Stein:
    
    https://www.writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/goldsmith/works/stein.pdf
    
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    June 1, 2023 12:52pm
- Greenheart
  
  What a great posting. Not only do I agree but found it entertaining to read. Reported by mistake. Sorry for that
  
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  June 1, 2023 8:58am
- Keith White
  
  As the meme saith:
  
  “Before morning coffee, hating everybody”
  “After morning coffee, feeling good about hating everybody”
  
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  June 1, 2023 9:48am
- Bloody Dago
  
  It’s indoctrination of the 15-35 age group that we are seeing perpetrated every second of the day in NZ. It’s content is not intended for any other age groups above that. Just ignore it, keep calm and jog on.
  
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  June 1, 2023 10:58am
- Mike
  
  No.
  
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  June 1, 2023 1:12pm
Mike

Happy World Milk Day!
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June 1, 2023 8:03am
- Yvette
  
  Just don’t tell the bloody Government
  They are milking Maori language road signage for all it is worth
  
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  June 1, 2023 9:20am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Rabbits.
Happy World milk day.
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June 1, 2023 8:04am
- Simon
  
  “White” rabbits otherwise it doesnt work.
  
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  June 1, 2023 8:09am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Nothing works for me anyway.
    
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    June 1, 2023 8:27am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    White? That’s must be racist.
    
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    June 1, 2023 8:27am
  - alex Masterley
    
    One of Jefferson Airplane’s finest works….
    
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    June 1, 2023 8:44am
    - In Vino Veritas
      
      And Grace Slick was on right in the zone singing it at Woodstock in ’69.
      
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      June 1, 2023 9:41am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        I just did a little google. Amazing that I know and remember these songs, but never knew the artist – until now.
        
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        June 1, 2023 11:30am
      - mawm
        
        Here she is – Woodstock 1969
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaHnbNRUuP0
        
        All those anti-establishment/anti-war Democrats now getting paid large salaries to push the establishment narrative and the war-is-good in Ukraine.
        
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        June 1, 2023 12:47pm
      - Mike
        
        mawm – why would you ruin a good buzz from the past by sticking up for Russian fascists?
        
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        June 1, 2023 1:14pm
      - mawm
        
        Mike – Did I stick up for Russian fascists? Or possibly I’m pointing out their hypocrisy on war and big government, and now your lack of comprehension.
        
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        June 1, 2023 2:40pm
      - Mike
        
        mawm
        I assumed you were joking when you wrote of anti-establishment or anti-war Democrats, of whom there were none in 1968 and even fewer today.
        
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        June 1, 2023 2:47pm
      - mawm
        
        Mike – I can assure all those “hippies” at Woodstock were very much of a counter culture which was reflected in their “alt clothing”, peace and love philosophy, music, communal living off the earth and, of course, anti-establishment and anti-war . In 1969 I was 18, it is my generation and I was the same.
        
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        June 1, 2023 6:37pm
Raphael

The MoE is continuing its witch-hunt against Bethlehem College.
They subjected them to an intense ERO last year, timed with Lal (who was a paid adviser to the then Minister) faking outrage at them being a Christian school.
Because the kids didn’t answer the right way, they’re getting another ERO review.

The Education Review Office has instructed us they will be visiting our school to once again review the emotional and physical safety of students, and four ERO staff will be onsite for three days between 6-8 June.
You may remember ERO carried out an extensive evaluation last year, which included focus groups with students and the nationally recognised Wellbeing@School survey with the entire Year 7-13 student body, meetings with staff, and open access to all our policies and files.
The results of that evaluation showed that we perform as well as, if not better than, most New Zealand schools. For example, 88 percent of our students said they felt safe at Bethlehem College, better than the 85 percent of students in 400 schools in a nationwide report. And 89 percent of our students said students get on well with those from other cultures, compared to 82 percent at other schools.
We have asked ERO why they are conducting another review and if they are applying the same focus to other schools, but we are yet to receive a clear answer. There is also no indication of whether, or how this review will be compared to other schools.
If we receive more information, we will let you know. In the meantime we are continuing to seek to work constructively with ERO. Your child might be randomly elected for a meeting with ERO. If so, you will be asked for permission for that meeting, and you will have an opportunity to ask questions if you would like to.
Finally, while I’m writing, I also wanted to let you know that the Media Council has just ruled that an article by Stuff about one of our school counsellors, Marli de Klerk, was unfair and breached their code of ethics. You can read about that here. This is the second Media Council ruling against Stuff’s reporting on our school, after they found an ethical breach in another story last year.
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June 1, 2023 8:04am
- peterwn
  
  Wonder if the Prime Minister and Minister of Education quietly told the Ministry to put the boot in just like with Charter Schools. Harassment will hopefully stop in October.
  
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  June 1, 2023 8:09am
  - Phronesis
    
    It probably wasn’t done quietly. If I was BC I’d be putting in a number of OIA requests around internal ERO communications. One of the advantages of the currently incompetent public service is that they seem to have forgotten how far the OIA reaches.
    
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    June 1, 2023 10:27am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Can’t this ‘influencer’ be shunted out of NZ and do some influencing in Fiji?
  Getting sick of the troubles.
  
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  June 1, 2023 8:31am
- Random T Person
  
  Odious Stuff had a correction/mea culpa buried somewhere on being pulled up by the Media Council for unbalanced reporting on BC.
  
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  June 1, 2023 8:40am
- Paulus
  
  As a local I can say that if we had many more schools like Bethlehem College the country would be a far better place.
  I assume as it has a Biblical name it is against all Socialist principles, and it has an excellent adademic record.
  
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  June 1, 2023 8:55am
  - Don Beckett
    
    Agree – 3 of my grand-daughters have attended BC.
    
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    June 1, 2023 11:14am
- Xquenda Choudhury
  
  Just as an aside, there are five Islamic schools in Auckland. I have some doubt that they are big on teaching gender diversity and the need to be inclusive of trans women. I wonder how often they are hsrrased by the ERO police? 😂
  
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  June 1, 2023 9:16am
  - In Vino Veritas
    
    No ERO personnel would dare harass them XC. Imagine the ramifications of being called an Islamophobe?
    
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    June 1, 2023 9:45am
- In Vino Veritas
  
  Probably don’t have a Kapa Haka group. That’ll set ERO off like nothing else.
  
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  June 1, 2023 9:44am
- Yvette
  
  Is a second harassing “witch-hunt” by ERO, because they didn’t like the answer their first inspection produced, more emotionally disruptive to the school’s students and staff wellbeing than any adverse factor that they are supposedly looking for?
  
  (38 words, some commas and a question mark)
  
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  June 1, 2023 9:55am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Speaking of Lal, I seen a pic of him standing behind Hipkins yesterday, Lal had his tongue for the world to see. I really am starting to wonder about Hipkins
  
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  June 1, 2023 12:20pm
- John Loveridge
  
  In what capacity was the odious Shaneel Lal advising the minister?
  
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  June 1, 2023 1:16pm
  - Raphael
    
    https://gazette.education.govt.nz/articles/education-minister-meets-youth-advisory-group/
    He was on the Youth Advisory Committee to Hipkins for 3 years. Meeting personally with the Minister.
    
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    June 1, 2023 3:53pm
pdm

Has anyone else received a warning from Stuff. I got my `Badge of Honour’ yesterday.

`Your account has been issued a warning

In accordance with our community guidelines your account has been issued a warning.

While we appreciate your involvement with the Stuff community, several of your recent comments have been rejected because they are in breach of our terms and conditions, notably they contained breaches that were: – offensive or prejducial. The usage of “Aotearoa” is in line with Stuff’s code of ethics which states: Te reo Māori, an official language of Aotearoa New Zealand, is a taonga with endangered status. Stuff has a role to play in the normalisation and revitalisation of the language. We actively encourage the use of te reo Māori in content. That extends to frequently using te reo Māori names for our brands and mastheads, including Puna for Stuff. Words that are in common usage will not be translated into English. Please familiarise yourself with these – https://www.stuff.co.nz/about-stuff/112492698/terms-and-conditions-user-submitted-content-and-comments – before commenting further. Continued breaches could result in suspensions or being banned from commenting.

To continue participating in discussions, please press the “Acknowledge” button below.’

Yes – I did acknowledge.

My comments were not offensive of prejducial (pity stuff people cannot spell) but just challenging of the direction their opinion piece took. Obviously I cannot add it here to defend my case because they axed it.
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June 1, 2023 8:05am
- Blog-aholic
  
  No, I do not use them or view them purely because they are so left biased and anti-opinion that they can die quietly without my help. They long ceased being journalists when they took the PJIF cash.
  
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  June 1, 2023 8:12am
  - Cinematic
    
    Yes, Stuff is hopelessly compromised and slowly going out of business as covid and other Labour advertising draws to an end.
    
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    June 1, 2023 8:29am
- Yabster
  
  and I thought they just mis report the news– if everyone didn’t use stuff it would soon go out of business…
  
  “Te reo Māori, an official language of Aotearoa New Zealand, is a taonga with endangered status. Stuff has a role to play in the normalisation and revitalisation of the language”
  
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  June 1, 2023 8:27am
- rouppe
  
  I’m on my third or fourth account with them. I’ve found that criticising their grammar and spelling isn’t appreciated. Also, longer posts have a greater chance of rejection.
  
  Having said that, I’ve had several that call Labour flat out liars let through. Naturally personal attacks on me by posters such as nigelmjo and nomadnik and mihaela soar are let straight through.
  
  Best bet is a quick statement of a single opinion with a link or two to content that backs it up. Send the Labour bots into a frenzy
  
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  June 1, 2023 8:29am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Close your account. KISS. Keep it Simple Stupid.
  
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  June 1, 2023 8:33am
  - pdm
    
    Steve I fancy myself as an armchair All Black and NZ Cricket selector so like to be able to comment on the odd sports article.
    
    Occasionally I venture into areas I know I shouldn’t. Then again if no one challenges Stuff New Zealand is Doomed – Doomed I say.
    
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    June 1, 2023 8:44am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Someone has to do it. Good job.
      
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      June 1, 2023 11:33am
- timl
  
  Yes, my “badge of honour” a couple of months ago. I refused to “Acknowledge” and cancelled my log in. I refuse to participate on a forum where a polite opinion that is against the prevailing narrative is not welcome.
  
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  June 1, 2023 8:34am
- Cassandra
  
  Don’t waste your time, mate. They’re not going to change but they will go broke. My government will not use Stuff for anything – no journalism fund, no advertising, no interviews. You’ll pick it up for 50 cents next year. That’s the company, not a paper.
  
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  June 1, 2023 8:36am
- Its only I
  
  Stuff and it comment section are an alt-left echo chamber.
  You have probably noticed the 5 or 6 “handles” who seem to be allowed to flood the comment sections with pro Labour propaganda.
  There is no way an ordinary user can get that many posts past the mods.
  I did a run of “isn’t Jacinda wonderfull” posts and managed to double my normal rate but nothing like the tight 6, “isn’t Judith Collins wonderful” were a third, late but mostly never.
  One thing Labour do extremely well is dirty politics. It can constantly fling shit at opposition or dissent via its social media army while operating in the safety of being out of range. Is does the same thing with the greens all the time.
  Those 6 “handles” were discussing Jamie-Lee Ross implosion before it was public news, how would they know?
  Labour will seed an idea, MSN will fill out that idea and yell down the street, Labour’s social media teams will make it seem the population are behind that idea and Stuff mods will filter the discussion with just enough post opposing the narrative…but with a tight 6 “correction” comments under it.
  
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  June 1, 2023 8:43am
- graham
  
  Wear your `Badge of Honour’ with pride pdm.
  
  I don’t have an account with Stuff and even if I did I would not be commenting there.
  
  I no longer visit their website, because their constant crusading, championing of “causes” and forceful pushing of agendas wore me out, and left me with the uneasy feeling that Stuff simply cannot be trusted to report on an issue fairly and without bias or prejudice. I would not trust them to report any facts that might go against their agendas, but which were credible and important nonetheless. Such facts would simply be ‘ignored’. And their censorship of your comments merely reinforces that.
  
  I no longer have any trust in Stuff and I will not visit their site on principle.
  
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  June 1, 2023 8:43am
- Bruce C
  
  10 or 15 years ago a man told me that watching the 6:00pm news was like having someone dump a wheelbarrow of manure in your living room every evening. I have 99.99% not watched it since. The last time I think was after my 17 year old son attended the parliament protests so that he could compare his reality with their lies. (They did not let me down). After being a lifetime Dominion (post) reader I cancelled my subscription maybe 8 years ago for three reasons. (1) It was frequently thrown in the gutter on rainy days, (2) The biased political reporting became insufferable. (3) Most content was easily accessible on line.
  A couple of weeks ago I deleted Stuff from my phone and iPad. They are massively biased, carry clear social agendas and are paid for propaganda. Readers are oxygen for online media. They sell your attention to their advertisers. My attention will never be their asset again.
  In every instance my quality of life has improved when I step away from biased media. Most notably for Stuff that is nothing but drivel.
  
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  June 1, 2023 9:04am
  - Bloody Dago
    
    Ditto BC – I know too many people who have gone through the same process and arrived at the “Stuff Drivel” conclusion. There must be an app to assist us all in the process soon?
    
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    June 1, 2023 11:26am
  - John Loveridge
    
    I can echo a very similar experience. My mental health has improved with each step away from the awful mainstream media in New Zealand.
    
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    June 1, 2023 1:20pm
  - Miritu
    
    Well done Bruce for disconnecting from Stuff (better late than never)
    I wish more Kiwiblog commenters would follow your example. Until then they are, in fact, helping Stuff survive for longer. Applies to all legacy media. There is no shortage of more informative and credible sources.
    
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    June 1, 2023 2:38pm
- Paulus
  
  Badge of Honour !
  
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  June 1, 2023 9:05am
- The Other Enoch
  
  Yep. Had a couple. Guess what happened when I asked them what was wrong with me quoting substantiated facts as against unsubstantiated facts? Nothing, complete silence.
  
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  June 1, 2023 9:09am
  - pdm
    
    I emaild a Mark Stevens at Stuff on such matters on 5 December 2022 with follow up 11 January 2023.
    
    I am still waiting for an acknowedgement and not holding my breath for a substantive reply.
    
    I think that ship has sailed.
    
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    June 1, 2023 9:47am
- Bobba Fret
  
  Always makes me laugh when they put up the message “Comments are now closed” after receiving only half a dozen comments that all go against what they want.
  
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  June 1, 2023 9:28am
- Xquenda Choudhury
  
  At the end of the day, you can’t force people to learn a language. If RNZ announced that 20 percent of its broadcasting was to be in the Maori language, I would support such a change enthusiastically.
  
  Mixing two languages in the same broadcast is frankly bonkers. Even in Wales, the success story of language revitalisation, 80 percent of residents can’t speak a word of Welsh. There are, sensibly, separate Welsh and English broadcasting and news reports.
  
  As for “Aotearoa New Zealand”, it is legitimate to object to to the country’s name being changed. Because that IS what they are attempting to do. Disagreeing does not make you racist.
  
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  June 1, 2023 9:41am
  - Matt Long
    
    We have two state funded Maori television stations, I don’t know how many radio stations, an internet thingy for streaming Maori anything they like, why do the English language stations need Maori at all. The people who listen to National radio would most likely switch off.
    
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    June 1, 2023 10:47am
  - Sacha
    
    Sometimes I get a communication that starts off (and sometimes ends) with
    Nga Mihi
    I assume it means something like Good Morning, or Good Day, so that’s what I read when I see those words.
    If you ask for a translation to some Maori words you get a sort of ‘spiritual’ reply which bears no relationship to the English context.
    
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    June 1, 2023 2:49pm
- Loddenthinks
  
  Downticked for clicking “Acknowledge”. It’s a simple task to set up a new account and comment in another name, as I’ve done several times.
  
  Don’t give in to the bastards!
  
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  June 1, 2023 9:42am
  - septic skeptic
    
    Better than “don’t give IN to the bastards” is “don’t GIVE to the bastards”. Delete the app and don’t visit the site. Ever. You won’t miss it after a week!
    
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    June 1, 2023 10:04am
    - Loddenthinks
      
      Good point well made!
      
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      June 2, 2023 12:56pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Tell them to take a hike, it will be your anti socialist posts they hate, meaning fake news or old white colonialism. I am band on fb for telling media to do their job, and they did, 105 million and counting says ban the anti woke
  
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  June 1, 2023 12:24pm
- sirknz
  
  I have two accounts that have both received suspensions despite having verified facts in them.
  
  Also, they don’t like it when you point out that their senior urinalists should be made of sterner stuff instead of crying about how someone won’t be interviewed by them.
  
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  June 1, 2023 1:22pm
- Ghost
  
  My account got banned a few years ago. Put a comment on an article, 20 minutes latter got an email from one of their political journalists asking me to provide them more details, told him I wasn’t going to do his job for him and linked him to a correspondence journalism course.
  
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  June 1, 2023 1:27pm
Tomtoddy

Newshub at it again. Deliberate misleading and callous headlines. ‘National to make women pay fee for contraception’. Intimating they don’t pay now but will under National.

Of course they are paying now and will till the first of July but why not take a crack at National with Luxon’s picture all over it.
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June 1, 2023 8:12am
- artemisia
  
  Was the reasoning about scripts for contraceptives because it is considered a choice rather than a health issue? If so, there could be an exemption for health reasons.
  
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  June 1, 2023 8:16am
  - rouppe
    
    The reasoning is that unless you have a community services card or super gold card the co payment stands.
    
    It would appear that no woman falls into either of those categories nor lives near one of the many pharmacies that don’t charge /sarc
    
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    June 1, 2023 8:31am
    - RoboRob
      
      All of this is true, but Luxon should never have gotten into the debate. A simple, ‘we think there are better ways to help struggling kiwis then toke perscription fee cuts’, would have done it.
      
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      June 1, 2023 9:07am
      - septic skeptic
        
        Agree. Their (his) political instincts are very poor. In a rush to criticize the budget they went off half-cocked.
        
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        June 1, 2023 10:07am
    - Ehlana
      
      Seems fine to me. We need to make medicine accessible for those who otherwise can’t afford it, so they don’t get worse and need even more expensive care and income support while they can’t work.
      But medicine does cost money, so if you can afford $5 per prescription, it doesn’t seem unreasonable to pay it. Especially as I don’t think the amount has increased for years.
      
      By the way, who are these “women” Newshub refers to? What about transmen? Why is Newshub excluding them?
      
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      June 1, 2023 9:17am
      - Xquenda Choudhury
        
        In Australia the Co payment for medicines is $30, but with safety nets for low income folk and high volume folk.
        
        Those co payments are used to finance medicine purchases.
        
        The folk here who celebrate “free” medicine will next minute be wailing about Australians having access to a wide range of medicines unavailable here.
        
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        June 1, 2023 9:45am
      - Ian Boag
        
        so if you can afford $5 per prescription, it doesn’t seem unreasonable to pay it
        
        So many places you could apply this sort of logic …
        
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        June 1, 2023 5:01pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Prescriptions only issued to adult Women so they are not given to a 13 year old girl.
    
    Control!
    
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    June 1, 2023 11:39am
    - Ian Boag
      
      So the girl can go through the trauma of an abortion … or should she have that option turned off too.
      
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      June 1, 2023 5:03pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        I never made the age consent law
        
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        June 2, 2023 9:53am
    - Ghost
      
      Kids are sexually active, do you want a kid to get pregnant then the tax payer pay to raise the child?
      
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      June 1, 2023 5:13pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        I never made the age consent law.
        
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        June 2, 2023 9:54am
- kiwikidsnz
  
  Why not ? Luxon has both feet embedded in his mouth on this & deserves everything he gets. His election success depends entirely on reengaging the swing 30 to 50yo female voters who deserted National with good reason after their Goodfellow dickheads candidate selection preferences & English refused to remove abortion from the Crimes Act. They also have sisters & daughters. They will see it as sexist misogynistic patriarchal BS & they’d be right.
  
  KB needs to get out of it’s echo chamber occasionally.
  
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  June 1, 2023 8:45am
  - Tomtoddy
    
    You may be right, KKsnz but you missed my point about a biased media.
    
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    June 1, 2023 9:04am
  - In Vino Veritas
    
    Women didn’t desert National for either of those reasons kiwi. And most of the farming regions that went Labour last election will flip back this next election. The farmers will have spelt out in no uncertain terms (to you, in their sexist misogynistic and patriarchal way) to their wives that no vote for Labour will be tolerated.
    
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    June 1, 2023 9:53am
    - kiwikidsnz
      
      https://www.roymorgan.com/findings/9262-nz-national-voting-intention-may-2023
      
      Good luck with those blue pills.
      
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      June 1, 2023 10:29am
    - SoloView
      
      @ In Vino
      “The farmers will have spelt out in no uncertain terms to their wives that no vote for Labour will be tolerated ”
      You are absolutely correct. I can not for the life of me understand why women think they have any rights to their own opinion.
      The right to vote should be returned to male landholders only./s
      
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      June 1, 2023 11:34am
    - Sacha
      
      Ya reckon?
      
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      June 1, 2023 2:51pm
  - septic skeptic
    
    Luxon’s handling of this is ludicrous from a political perspective. He has allowed the media to lead him by the nose into the contraception tar pit. For what? What does their current policy do for them politically? Nothing! Do I have it right, is it:
    1. No fees for oldies and Labour voters.
    2. $5 for National voters.
    
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    June 1, 2023 10:31am
- Ruahine
  
  Yep National hates ‘Maori’ and women. State Funded Media says so.
  
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  June 1, 2023 8:46am
- RoboRob
  
  Funny how the media treat National reversing a labour change as making people pay more, when Labour reversing Nationals tax cuts wasn’t a tax hike. Consistency, yeah nah.
  
  That said I think the political reporter on News Hub / AM show this morning was right. National / Luxon spend to much time explaining. Just say ‘we don’t think removing prescription fees for everybody, rich and poor, is a good use of tax payers money. We prefer targeted support.’. Now we have Luxon in a debate over whether contraception should be subsidised. The media are going to do this to National every time so they need to have careful and clear messaging.
  
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  June 1, 2023 9:05am
- Ghost
  
  Needs to be free for those on a community service card or gold card, $5 for the rest. Also should say that doing this would allow more prescription Medicine to be partially or fully funded.
  
  But as has been done lately National speak without thinking and have to fix their statements after the fact when labour and the media have got the sound bite to attack with.
  
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  June 1, 2023 9:23am
  - Yabster
    
    Theres that “free” word again – makes it sound like the magic fairies or “the Governtment” are paying- nope taxpayers are paying so its not “free”- fully subsidised by NZ taxpayerS is a better terminology….
    
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    June 1, 2023 12:09pm
- Bloody Dago
  
  TT – your taking comedians too seriously. Newshub = Total Bollocks at all times!
  
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  June 1, 2023 11:29am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Go and have a look at the article with the nasty signs beside Luxons head. Megan Wood has a twitter on it, it says I will just leave this here, 90% are anti her and Labour telling her she is a hypocrite for thinking it’s fine for 6 years for women to pay.
  
  Do all women pay only $5 for their contraception? I seem to remember them telling me how expensive it was, am I missing something here? Or is it just the pill that is prescribed and handed out like candy. 😃
  
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  June 1, 2023 12:28pm
slightlyrighty

So it appears that Tinetti’s Office informed the PM’s Office that it was scheduling the release of the School attendance data in Late January.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/05/prime-minister-s-staff-knew-education-minister-jan-tinetti-s-office-was-holding-up-attendance-data.html

Tinetti apparently misled the house in Feb. When she did so, the PM’s office had previously been made aware of the intention to withhold the data for 2 months.

So it appears that the PM’s office, and by extension, the PM himself, is donkey deep in a matter deemed serious enough to go before the Privileges committee.

If the Speaker had been aware of this before he made his ruling referring this matter to the committee, would he have done so?
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June 1, 2023 8:13am
- Random T Person
  
  This is why Chippie expressed confidence in his Education Minister. Because he’d have to express no-confidence in himself if he were to do same to Tinetti.
  
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  June 1, 2023 8:42am
  - Xquenda Choudhury
    
    I heard Hipkins on the radio last night. How can he have full confidence in her if she has been referred to the privileges committee? He also waxed lyrical about her having been a teacher and so was perfect as an education minister. Honestly an ex teacher is the last thing you need as an education minister.
    
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    June 1, 2023 9:49am
    - In Vino Veritas
      
      XC, that is the problem with Labour, anyone that has been “in education” (no matter that they were inept at whatever they did) must be good. Labour have been bottom feeders in appointing Ministers for the whole of their tenure.
      
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      June 1, 2023 9:55am
      - septic skeptic
        
        Yep. Imagine how awesome a minister Kelvin Davis would be – he was even a school principal!
        
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        June 1, 2023 10:24am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Exactly, would you want Davis to be there
      
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      June 1, 2023 12:32pm
  - rjay
    
    Different Prime Minister at the time.
    
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    June 1, 2023 9:58am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Pardon? Hipkins was sworn in as PM end of Jan, this crime happened in late Feb, the questions asked of Tinneti were when she was sworn in as minister after Hipkins stood down
      
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      June 1, 2023 12:34pm
- Paulus
  
  Wet Bus Ticket ready for Tinetti – puddle very shallow.
  
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  June 1, 2023 9:07am
  - Ghost
    
    I think she will be found in the wrong, but parliament will soon break for the election after the announcement
    
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    June 1, 2023 9:25am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Possibly, but all that she will have to do is give a public apology
      
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      June 1, 2023 12:36pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Media will report proceedings though, it will show Labour weaseling around things as usual, and MPs showing bias could end up in shit as well
    
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    June 1, 2023 12:35pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  This is very messy:
  
  Jacinda Ardern didn’t announce her resignation until 19 January 2023…… so Hipkins can hardly be responsible for Ardern’s failings to run her PM’s Office effectively or be aware of the deals that were being done between the PMO and Tinetti’s Office….or was Hipkins in on the deception?
  
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  June 1, 2023 9:27am
  - Nickc2
    
    Stand by for another bucket load of BS and obfuscation as Hipkins attempts to deny he knew of Tinetti’s lies to the house.
    Hang both the bastards out to dry.
    
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    June 1, 2023 9:32am
    - Loddenthinks
      
      Yes, I expect the MSM to be all over this like flies on shit.
      
      Is the // really necessary? Ok, //
      
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      June 1, 2023 9:44am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      And that’s why he is dropping to the least supported pm in 25 years
      
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      June 1, 2023 12:38pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Thats not true, she lied in parliament when Hipkins was minister, she became minister when Hipkins stood down remember.
    
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    June 1, 2023 12:37pm
- Keith White
  
  The Speaker is hostage to his chums and chumesses.
  
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  June 1, 2023 9:52am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  He will have known, and probably said to ignore it, forgetting that Erica can hunt like a crazed dog. No wonder Hipkins says he has confidence in such a useless minister.
  
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  June 1, 2023 12:31pm
NK

Dan Wootton has come out and said ITV ordered him not to cover the Meghan Markle saga, he called Megxit.

How many other truths are being withheld from us?
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June 1, 2023 8:16am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Who is Meghan Markle when the cat is not at home?
  
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  June 1, 2023 8:36am
Maggie Pie

RANDOM IMPERTINENT QUESTION

Is it likely Megan would ever use the same pic on Tinder
as she does for her Twitter bio?

https://twitter.com/Megan_Woods/status/1663776011136401410

OMG….the comments 😀
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June 1, 2023 8:27am
- In Vino Veritas
  
  [Inappropriate – this is not Twitter. mod.]
  
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  June 1, 2023 10:04am
kowtow

The Whoreald doing some heavy electioneering today , for Labour of course.

Front page banner and editorial “Is Labour really soft on crime” , then an article on the subject .

They conclude the Nats are because previously prosecutions / convictions dropped under them .

But in neither the article nor the editorial is there any mention of scrapping 3 S , emptying the prisons or the regime literally funding the gangsters with millions for drugs programmes .
Not to mention the regime confusion and lack of action on looting in Hawkes Bay.
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June 1, 2023 8:28am
- Prince
  
  Perhaps prosecutions dropped under National because there was less crime ?
  Just saying.
  
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  June 1, 2023 8:46am
  - RoboRob
    
    Yup, media reporting this everywhere and purposely missing the key detail under Key / National government.
    
    Reporters
    ‘Convictions dropped the most under the Key government’
    
    Reality
    Arrests down 40%, convictions down 34%. That means that there was less crime but those caught were more likely to be convicted. The exact opposite of the misleading reports.
    
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    June 1, 2023 9:12am
    - SoloView
      
      @Reality
      “Arrests down 40%, convictions down 34%. That means that there was less crime.”
      This does not necessarily mean this was less crime.
      Perhaps there were fewer arrests for doubtful things, (insufficient evidence etc) which would not have stood up in court.
      As a consequence the conviction rate rises.
      
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      June 1, 2023 11:49am
- Blog-aholic
  
  The Herald must be in line for some more money as they sure have ramped up the rhetoric.
  
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  June 1, 2023 8:48am
  - RoboRob
    
    Yeah , the who message is ‘yeah crime is bad but Key adn national were just as bad’. Which is obviously untrue.
    
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    June 1, 2023 9:14am
    - Ehlana
      
      It’s an attempt to convince you that the evidence of your senses is wrong.
      
      Of course, the evidence of your senses can be wrong. That is why you check with other people. But if you and everyone else you know are seeing boarded up shops wherever you go, and hearing ram raids reported daily on the news, it is reasonable to believe there is more crime.
      
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      June 1, 2023 12:05pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I think Tremain has hit the bullseye on this issue.
  
  https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/tremain-break-ins
  
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  June 1, 2023 12:42pm
- Chuck Bird
  
  For those who get the Herald online, the Herald is not allowing comments. They are monitored but most of mine get by even when I do not agree with the Herald. I will comment here later either way.
  
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  June 1, 2023 1:31pm
  - Chuck Bird
    
    My comment got published.
    
    Part of the problem appears the Judiciary giving light sentences. However, that may be a little unfair as the judges are constrained by the Sentencing Act. It is easy to Google. A new government will reintroduce 3 Strikes. I think they are also likely to change the Sentencing Act. Sometimes it is very unfair to blame a judge as the judge may want to give a longer sentence but does not do so because they believe it will likely be reduced on appeal.
    
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    June 1, 2023 2:25pm
Cassandra

New Maori school approved for Papamoa (Tauranga) will have 72 akonga. The Ministry usually closes schools when roll gets that low.
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June 1, 2023 9:00am
- Flossie
  
  What’s akonga?
  
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  June 1, 2023 11:15am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    An eel.
    
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    June 1, 2023 11:24am
Mark Hanley

It also doesn’t mention Labour’s strategy to ensure an ongoing supply of new gang recruits.

Allowing brown kids to skip school then go out into the world innumerate and illiterate leaves them few options to earn a dollar.

The best predictor for incarceration is illiteracy and innumeracy.
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June 1, 2023 9:00am
Paulus

I inadvertantly saw a full page headine in the Herald baby local written by somebody Coughlan (anotherIrish name).
I assume that he had been very heavily on the Bushmills because I have never seen such a disgusting full page headline.
I Skimmed a few paragraphs.
In many very very olden days such an article would be marked DTW (Disgusted Tunbridge Wells – to the unitiated).
So he does not like Luxon nor the Natioanl Party but if the Herald paid for it they should demand their money back.
Oh, I forgot, he who pays the piper calls the tune all $55 million plus.
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June 1, 2023 9:03am
- Keith White
  
  I say, don’t blame Bushmills! that’s whiskyist! 🙂
  
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  June 1, 2023 9:53am
- Paulus
  
  My apologies to the Irishman, Coughlan- my mistake the author was as bad, being Simon Wilson
  
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  June 1, 2023 1:24pm
- Jack5
  
  Is it a tradition or a myth? Bushmills a Protestant Irish whisky, Jameson a Catholic Irish whisky?
  
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  June 1, 2023 9:43pm
Swifty

There is no human right to have a house.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/opinion/132194066/morgan-godfery-human-right-to-housing-obscured-by-back-and-forth-about-density

There never has been.

It may well be highly desirable but it is not a human right. Saying so is a fiction. An invention.

It is made up.

Isn’t it so typical of the NZ left to just label something as a ‘human right’ as though it is a given and this artificially heighten New Zealander’s expectations of what they are just entitled to rather than having to work and sacrifice for it.

We’d do better as a society by having a good national debate on what human rights are, how they are determined and why.

The HRC could lead the charge, but I know they won’t – they are amongst the worst offenders at this deceitful ratcheting up of entitlements.

Entitlements which someone else has to work and pay for.
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June 1, 2023 9:03am
- Ghost
  
  I had no idea so googled
  
  The human right to adequate housing in New Zealand
  
  Framework Guidelines on the right to a decent home in Aotearoa
  
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  June 1, 2023 9:31am
  - Swifty
    
    Sorry, Ghost, I don’t understand your point.
    
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    June 1, 2023 9:48am
  - Taieri
    
    It seems that this particular human right is defined in Te Tiriti. A very useful document, Te Tiriti; it covers just about every aspect of human life. Time for the whole world to adopt its provisions…
    
    “Central and local government have obligations
    arising from the right to a decent home grounded
    on Te Tiriti. The obligation to respect places
    a responsibility on government to refrain
    from interfering directly or indirectly with the
    enjoyment of the right to a decent home grounded
    on Te Tiriti. The obligation to protect means
    that government must prevent third parties,
    such as private landlords, from interfering with
    the enjoyment of the right to a decent home
    grounded on Te Tiriti. The obligation to fulfil
    requires government to adopt all appropriate
    measures, including legislative, administrative
    and budgetary, to ensure the full realisation of
    the right to a decent home grounded on Te Tiriti.
    Breaches of these obligations may give rise to
    violations of the right to a decent home grounded
    on Te Tiriti.”
    
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    June 1, 2023 10:15am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    The !948 UN Declaration of Human Rights has one Article that mentions housing….
    Article 25 (1):
    
    Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
    
    The right is to an adequate standard of living…. not to the ownership/possession of a house.
    
    It seems our Dear Government has recently neglected a few other Articles:
    
    Article 13:
    Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
    Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
    
    and Article 19:
    Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
    
    and Article 26:
    Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
    
    https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights
    
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    June 1, 2023 10:20am
    - cmm
      
      C’mon Maggy you know very well that on every sentence there is the obvious, but maybe not written, caveat ” but this might need to be overriden for your own good because Nanny Knows Best”.
      
      Real Rights are those where people have freedoms and the rights are there to prevent the state from impinging on those freedoms. Real Rights come with the burden of responsibility. Sure, you have the right to a house, but you also have the responsibilities that come with it – such as paying the mortgage.
      
      Fake Rights are those that give people stuff but impose the burden on others.
      
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      June 1, 2023 11:02am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        I cover that…
        
        The right is to an adequate standard of living…. not to the ownership/possession of a house.
        
        The UN declaration of Human Rights does address the issue of Responsibilities in Article 29 (1)
        
        Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.
        
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        June 1, 2023 11:15am
      - Taieri
        
        Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible
        ————
        
        This statement is so broad that it’s virtually meaningless.
        It’s just a declaration of intent anyway.
        
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        June 1, 2023 11:25am
- In Vino Veritas
  
  People have a right to shelter Swifty. And in NZ, every NZ’r has that right. No one is denied the ability to buy, or rent a house. The issue is that the d0-gooders believe your last para. If they can’t afford it, it isn’t their problem, someone has to pay for a house for them.
  
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  June 1, 2023 10:11am
  - Swifty
    
    I could have worded my piece better IVV.
    
    Yes, housing is highly, highly desirable but doing our best to ensure people and families are housed is a choice we make as a community (and good on us for making it) it’s not some fundamental and sacred human right cast in stone and passed to us by a god, as some would have us believe.
    
    And it’s certainly way down the list of ‘rights’ compared to say the human right to be free from state coercion, control and fleecing us of our wealth to pay for election bribes and free to live our lives free from constant bullying and interference from jumped up little ex-student union politicians with Napoleon complexes who regards us as their playthings in their eternal quest for total control.
    
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    June 1, 2023 6:13pm
- Ian Boag
  
  There is no human right to have a house.
  
  Why would there be? We have plenty of perfectly serviceable cars and suitable spots for rough sleeping.
  
  Gets a bit hard when kids are involved, but them’s the breaks. Said kids have equality of opportunity anyway.
  
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  June 1, 2023 5:09pm
  - Swifty
    
    That’s a low reply from you Ian, with what I interpret as an insinuation that I’m happy with kids in cars.
    
    I’m not. Far from it.
    
    But the solution is not to ramp up everyone’s expectations that the state has a function to provide everyone with a house.
    
    The solution is for the government to enable a framework which allows the vast majority of New Zealanders to earn sufficiently to buy their own house or otherwise pay for their own housing.
    
    I’m just a few decades we’ve gone from high home ownership rates, relative to other countries, to very much the middle of the pack.
    
    Why is this do you think?
    
    Why is it that up until the 1990s the long run median house price was 3-4 times the median salary but now it is 8, 10, 12, 16 times depending on where you live in New Zealand?
    
    Why is that do you think?
    
    My personal view is that there may be more of a relationship between lower home ownership rates in New Zealand in the last generation or two and our current crime rates that we have thought hitherto.
    
    I think there are all sorts of social advantages of having as many people as possible in their own homes and feeling connected to their communities – but lefty politicians on the make running round on crusades claiming ‘housing is a human right’ and a right that we’re failing to provide doesn’t advance our situation one bit.
    
    It is in fact counterproductive – in that it creates unrealistic expectations in people while playing into the hands of those who wish to see an ever-larger state increasing its control over every detail of our lives – and to our ultimate detriment.
    
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    June 1, 2023 6:02pm
- Ian Boag
  
  Entitlements which someone else has to work and pay for
  
  The pension comes into that category too.
  
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  June 1, 2023 5:11pm
  - Swifty
    
    My parents are retired. Late 80s now. A few mil in the bank and living in their own Ryman unit.
    
    Could you please explain to me why New Zealand families are taxed to give my parents a pension they don’t need to live on?
    
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    June 1, 2023 6:06pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Now we know why Labour and the left want guns confiscated.
https://spreely.video/v/3760335582/Gun-Rights-Helped-WWII-Vets-Overthrow-Corrupt-Politicians
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June 1, 2023 9:09am
Yvette

The Ministry of Transport last year provided a policy proposal to Cabinet about changes to New Zealand’s road safety penalties regime, including fees or fines, recognising that many may be “too low to deter undesirable behaviour”.
It’s part of the Government’s Road to Zero programme, which aims for a “New Zealand where no one is killed or seriously injured in road crashes”
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/06/government-still-considering-tougher-driving-penalties-fines-for-motorists.html.

This is something that has always disturbed me
The question of a Government delaying matters which may save people from getting killed (if even by their own stupidity, or taking innocent victims with them) because preventative measures are unpopular and may tip a voter to vote for another Party.

Surely such measures of government are right and timely in themselves for the public good, not a whim of popularity for party politics to be a delaying factor – or does that redefine “dirty politics” to “disgusting life-threatening reprehensible politics”
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June 1, 2023 9:16am
Maggie Pie

Imagine living anywhere near this dump 🙁

Sims Metals have had 9 FIRES in the last 5 years!!
Why has nothing been done about it?

It’s good people like Cossie I feel really sorry for.
Having to constantly put up with shite like this. Hope he’s OK?

https://youtu.be/tMQZfRYAB-o
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June 1, 2023 9:18am
- In Vino Veritas
  
  Lol Mags, the scrap yard was probably there long before the Council gave consents to build houses around it. I guess there is a silver lining though, it could have been an area prone to flooding and consented by ACC.
  
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  June 1, 2023 10:18am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    If it is the place I am thinking of, I have been there a few times dumping scrap.
    There were small pipes running along the ground where you plugged in oxy and acetylene hoses for the gas axe.
    Imagine Worksafe checking that now, they would probably faint!
    
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    June 1, 2023 11:48am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Some schools closed, but workers still going to work.
  
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  June 1, 2023 11:44am
Swifty

It is quite misleading, deceitful even, for Labour and the Greens to be constantly calling for things to be made available to New Zealanders ‘for free’.

Free contraception, free prescriptions, free this, free that.

Nothing is free. Everything must be paid for, by someone, and if people don’t pay at the counter they’ll pay through their taxes.

Either way, New Zealanders pay.

I’ve now reached the point where I think it pointless to debate the ins and outs of making any particular ‘thing’ free to consumers, or not. Inevitably, anyone doing so is labelled heartless or cruel, devoid of compassion and akin to Hitler.

It’s just not worth the hassle.

The only really interesting matter I think we should be debating and New Zealanders more aware of is at what point will our ability to keep making things ‘free’ run out.

At what level of government spending will New Zealand turn into an economic basket case? At what level of taxation and borrowing will the left be satisfied with? Is there a point at which even they will not exceed?

I think if you ask the average Labour or Green MP these questions you’ll not get an answer. I don’t believe the majority will have even thought about it.

Wouldn’t it be a great thing if our news media put these questions to our politicians? How much spending is too much? How much taxation or borrowing is too much? Is there a point when you will say ‘enough’? That we just can’t afford to make any more things ‘free’.

Or, is there no limit? Can you just keep on making things free forever? That there are no constraints or risks?

I won’t hold my breath.
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June 1, 2023 9:22am
- Chris Nisbet
  
  How much tax is too much? Tax is love, my friend, so there’s no such thing as too much tax.
  
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  June 1, 2023 9:40am
- Prince
  
  Much of Govt spend has not been paid for by our taxes.
  Govt has increased our debt by over $100B (currently around $160B). So the ‘free’ stuff will be paid for by our children, their children etc.
  So, no problem, right ?
  
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  June 1, 2023 10:04am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Well yesterday it appears Labour will bring in a fertiliser tax, the day before it leaked that extra petrol tax on top of the 25 cents is coming, they already added tax to trusts, and dropped the possibility of CGT and a wealth tax after the election, we might get to peak tax soon
    
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    June 1, 2023 12:46pm
- cmm
  
  Spending money is something that should not be attempted by amateurs.
  It is far better to hand over money to Government Professionals who know what they are doing.
  
  You don’t do your own open heart surgery. No, you leave it to professionals. Don’t take a chance with spending either. Hand it over to the people with the experience.
  
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  June 1, 2023 10:23am
- cmm
  
  This is really a form of corruption that we see wherever the tax base shrinks and the beneficiary base increases. (Here I am using the widest possible definition of beneficiaries, including all those sucking on the public tit: university lecturers, school teachers, WINZ “customers”, people getting “free” prescriptions, WFF,…).
  
  Labour and Green want the cushy job and power that they can’t get on the free market, so they get this through voter bribery:
  
  Vote for us and we will take stuff away from Rich Pricks and give it to you.
  
  It is really no different to helping burglars, except they have made it legal.
  
  People know which side their bread is buttered on. If they are benefiting then they will turn more of a blind eye to waste, lying and incompetence.
  
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  June 1, 2023 11:14am
  - Ian Boag
    
    Here I am using the widest possible definition of beneficiaries, including all those sucking on the public tit: university lecturers, school teachers, WINZ “customers”, people getting “free” prescriptions, WFF,…)
    
    Pensioners should rate a mention based on what they cost ….
    
    university lecturers, school teachers
    
    Who needs education anyway …. 🙂
    
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    June 1, 2023 5:15pm
  - Ghost
    
    All those sucking off the public tit? So military personal as well? Doctors? Nurses? Surgeons? I’m sure you will go into the pharmacy next time and ask to pay the full unsubsidised price on your medicines, don’t want to be a hypocrite now do you?
    
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    June 1, 2023 5:23pm
    - Ghost
      
      Oh you are a hypocrite because you have been on subsidised medicine, as you stated when you were on Dabigatran. And you still don’t understand that not all prescriptions are free.
      
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      June 1, 2023 5:40pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Something free was taken from someone else.
  
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  June 1, 2023 11:49am
Vory v zakone

2023… The Year of The Whistleblower.
(Also, The Year of The Boomerang 👊)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hunter-biden-investigation-whistleblower-disclosures-allege-fbi-procedures-not-followed-chuck-grassley-james-comer/

#thebestisyettocome
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June 1, 2023 9:24am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Nothing will happen. The FBI is corrupt, so are the Bidens. I mean all of the Bidens, about 12 all together. All of those fake Companies that are not businesses.
  Joe was trousering money more than 40 years ago.
  I better shut up or I might get a visit from Hillary.
  
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  June 1, 2023 11:54am
Inandout

Wow, who would venture to that place called New Zealand? It seems so lawless and gang controlled.

https://nzissues.com/Community/threads/a-you-tube-warning-about-new-zealand.43672/
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June 1, 2023 9:28am
- cmm
  
  So this is happening in NZ, but all the good stuff is happening in Aotearoa?
  
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  June 1, 2023 10:25am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Send it to Chippie
  
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  June 1, 2023 11:57am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  More South Africans on radio comparing NZ with when they left SA for safer shores
  
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  June 1, 2023 12:48pm
Chris Nisbet

I’m so glad that we’ve all (well, legacy media at least) moved on from worrying about issues that are ruining the country, like 99 Waters, co-governance, the disaster that is our health system, our education system, ballooning debt and so on, and have become more focussed on the important issues like whether or not some politician referring to mothers and fathers is homophobic.
If we focus on the endless list of failures/destruction by this current government there’ll be a chance that people won’t vote them back in – far better to focus on real problems like National’s contraception policy (which must surely be racist!).
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June 1, 2023 9:37am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I think some middle managers in our Health system may be worrying about their futures this long weekend:
  
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/491097/te-whatu-ora-to-decide-fate-of-hundreds-of-jobs-on-friday
  
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  June 1, 2023 10:27am
  - Chris Nisbet
    
    Unfortunately, they admit that it’s not going to improve screening services…
    “The restructure will not impact on the delivery of the screening service received by the public.”
    
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    June 1, 2023 10:41am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    As long as it is Admin, not the workers.
    Admin are the freeloaders.
    
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    June 1, 2023 12:01pm
  - Paulus
    
    As I do not know who te-whata-ora is I could not care less if many lose their jobs, as I do not understand Maori.
    
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    June 1, 2023 1:27pm
Chris Nisbet

Chuckle. Wayne Brown doesn’t invite legacy media to some council media release, and they seem a little bit peeved about it.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2023/06/mayor-wayne-brown-snubs-major-new-zealand-media-organisations-for-auckland-council-update.html

Keep up the good work, Wayne!
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June 1, 2023 10:06am
- rangitoto
  
  Good on ya Wayne, no reason to have drongos there.
  
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  June 1, 2023 10:10am
- Maggie Pie
  
  Mayor Wayne remains unrelenting…..
  
  https://twitter.com/MayorWayneBrown/status/1664025037219987456
  
  LOL!!!
  
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  June 1, 2023 10:42am
- MCōs
  
  I listened to his speech online for a few minutes
  He’s a terrible speaker
  
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  June 1, 2023 10:47am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Been wurried about you Cossie. Thank goodness you’re okay.
    
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    June 1, 2023 10:54am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I don’t see why rabid leftie lying media should be selected.
  We may even get some truth – how terrible.
  
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  June 1, 2023 12:09pm
Prince

The wonderful world of Stuff…
Headline, ‘Councillor’s employee set up petition to remove CEO’.
Alternative headline if no petition:
‘Councillor blocks employee’s right to set up petition in his own time’.
Since when has a Councillor had a right to control his employee’s actions outside work ?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/southland-top-stories/132193092/councillors-employee-set-up-petition-calling-for-gore-ceos-resignation
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June 1, 2023 10:09am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/blenheim-event-a-great-success/
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June 1, 2023 10:14am
greybeard

I have been watching an excellent TV series called “The decades that defined us”.
The episode on the 1980s features Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.
Can we please have our own NZ versions of these two in October ?
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June 1, 2023 10:21am
Maggie Pie

Here’s something I didn’t know the answer to…..

‘When the government changes in October, will National be able to immediately get rid of Cuddles and replace him with a REAL policeman?’

Asking for a friend.
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June 1, 2023 10:35am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  He’s been appointed for a term of 5 years… It finishes in April 2025.
  
  I would think a New Government would try to avoid politicising the position and just let him serve out his term.
  
  https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/assets/DirectoryFile/Appointment-Commissioner-of-New-Zealand-Police.pdf
  
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  June 1, 2023 10:42am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Well blow me down!
    Yet another thing Cindy has foisted upon us 🙁
    
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    June 1, 2023 10:50am
  - Blog-aholic
    
    If National get the power Cuddles will not be sacked but he will be put under ALOT of pressure day after day after day to perform…..
    
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    June 1, 2023 10:54am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      And so he should. It is a high pressure job, not a five star hotel.
      
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      June 1, 2023 12:11pm
      - Paulus
        
        Police Commissioner is also a very highly paid position in the $500,000 p.a. I suspect or higher.
        
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        June 1, 2023 1:29pm
  - Inandout
    
    Maggy, did hear he is a relative of some sort but can’t be sure.
    
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    June 1, 2023 10:56am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      He is related to Ardern through second cousins.
      
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      June 1, 2023 12:52pm
      - Ghost
        
        They are not related
        
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        June 1, 2023 1:00pm
  - rouppe
    
    But the Minister can tell Coster what part of the criteria for reappointment will be.
    
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    June 1, 2023 12:13pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Well , Coster 5 year term is drawing to a close soon, so it might not matter, they won’t give him another term, problem is if Labour get to give him a second term first.
  
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  June 1, 2023 12:51pm
  - Prince
    
    Given recent history, Labour will reappoint him before the election.
    Meaning when National takes office, Labour has ‘a friend in high places’, or National have to spend a few $Mil to get rid of him.
    
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    June 1, 2023 1:22pm
    - artemisia
      
      Alternatively a different government can adjust departmental focus by changes to budgets, not necessarily upwards, monitoring contracted outcomes very very closely, and checking project and budget items in detail.
      
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      June 1, 2023 3:50pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Are we heading for a Coalition of Chaos?

Who would have thought that the party of Micky Savage and Peter Fraser would eventually collapse into one willing to assist the Maori aristocracy to cream off money intended for the disadvantaged, lending it to themselves with no strings attached, and appointing their mates and relatives to boards, councils and trusts?

https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/michael-bassett-john-tamihere-wants-a-coalition-of-chaos
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June 1, 2023 10:50am
- Blog-aholic
  
  Only to fill the coffers of the elite few who would see the country burn to fill them and theirs bank accounts. They are traitors to their own constituents and to New Zealanders as a whole.
  
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  June 1, 2023 10:55am
ClanMcleod

A couple of videos from a recent political event. First one, Shane Reti is asked about the proposed WHO takeover of world health responses etc.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/fEYrbdK8gydo/

Next one, Mr Reti is asked if he would enquire into why we haven’t had a safety report from Medsafe CARM (Centre for Adverse Reactions Monitoring) for the Covid jab for six months, and if he would make sure that injuries from the jab are properly investigated.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/AuCzE72okZsY/

Does this sound open and honest?
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June 1, 2023 11:13am
- mawm
  
  Reti needs to listen to Dr John Campbell – “countries that sign up to this ‘will be obliged to follow’ their recommendations”.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEMUQi2jU3s&list=UUF9IOB2TExg3QIBupFtBDxg&index=6
  
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  June 1, 2023 1:24pm
ClanMcleod

One of the best out there for truthful information re the covid circus. Coronavirus Plushie. This was a post yesterday re Seymour’s mental gymnastics as he tries to walk back his ludicrous lies regarding the covid situation.
The BFD re posted the full comments of Seymour during his interview with Sean Plunkett on The Platform earlier this week.

The comments in response to Weasel Seymour’s revisionism are worth reading:

https://thebfd.co.nz/2023/05/30/things-that-make-me-go-hmm-280/

Seymour basically admits in a response to one commentator that he was chasing votes – demonstrating that he’s just another unprincipled clown.

Here he is in an interview with Sean Plunkett, who still persists in deriding anyone not singing the praises of Pfizer as a “vaccine nutter”, explaining his statement:

https://theplatform.kiwi/podcasts/episode/what-has-covid-taught-us-about-the-role-of-government

Know them by their words. All you need to hear.
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June 1, 2023 11:17am
- mandk
  
  The nutters are the people who still believe that the Pfizer vaxx is effective, despite the undeniable reality that many who are double-vaxxed and twice-boosted still get Covid.
  
  And, as for the vaxx reducing the number of Covid deaths, the reality is that deaths have actually been prevented by improved post-infection therapies.
  
  Dare I say it, you have to wonder if Seymour is somehow in thrall to Pfizer.
  
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  June 1, 2023 11:57am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    I had to get my ivermectin from an animal products store. The health authorities saved my life by stopping my human ivermectin at the border, sending me an email telling me I was a naughty boy and destroying it.
    
    I owe them my life. //
    
    I finally (apparently) got the dreaded lurgy a couple of weeks ago. No, I didn’t test, but I was in the company of 3 people while I was in Auckland who tested positive. I got a blocked upper chest and a bit of a cough, so presuming at least one of their 3 tests might be accurate I proceeded to dig out my copy of the Zelenko and FLCCC protocols.
    
    https://covid19criticalcare.com/protocol/i-care-early-covid-treatment/
    
    Anyway, I followed the recommended treatment for early intervention. Ivermectin, Quercitin, Vitamin D, Vitamin C, aspirin, fluids. Had a hacking cough and phlegm build up for 4 days and a bit of a headache, felt a bit rough and tired. A bit like a mild flu or a bad cold.
    All symptoms gone within 7 days. Fully fit and a box of birds within 10 days.
    
    As for Seymour, I have no idea what he’s up to. He must believe that because so many people got vaccinated, they all must be on the pro covid narrative side, and therefore he doesn’t want to rock that boat and alienate potential voters.
    
    I think he’s read the room very badly. The comments on the BFD re his interview with Sean Plunkett at the start of the week, were 100% critical of him and his weak position.
    
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    June 2, 2023 7:52am
Maggie Pie

Caller to Kerry Woodham tells her she has a Teacher friend out in SA……
Says she has 7 year old kids coming to school who are not even toilet trained and hold their books upside down.

It begs the question. What hope Aotearoa?
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June 1, 2023 11:21am
- rouppe
  
  Those kids (should) have been in school for 2 years.
  
  Teachers have some responsibility if the child still doesn’t know which way is up for a book.
  
  But, in answer to your question, the earning potential for those children will be vastly less than what Hipkins thinks will be lost from raising the retirement age
  
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  June 1, 2023 12:09pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  What luggage is the book written in?
  
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  June 1, 2023 12:21pm
  - Mike
    
    Upper (suit)case?
    
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    June 1, 2023 2:43pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Jesus Mike, I got your sarc/satire!!!
      Good boy. Now go lay down 🙂
      
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      June 1, 2023 5:55pm
- cmm
  
  It looks like things are going that way in South Africa too.
  
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  June 1, 2023 12:24pm
thirteenstars

SA? South Auckland or South Africa?
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June 1, 2023 11:25am
- Maggie Pie
  
  Otahuhu silly!
  
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  June 1, 2023 11:48am
Rusty

Heard Chris Hipkins say Luxon/National’s view on the traditional family unit is outdated 1950s thinking.

I thought the traditional family unit of a mum, dad, and kids goes back thousands and thousands of years whenever this world began.

Also that would mean according to Hipkins that Maori who lived here for thousands of years and raised families with a mum and dad also have an outdated view of what a family is today.
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June 1, 2023 12:01pm
- oldfella
  
  … lived here for thousands of years…
  
  Nah, Rusty, longer than that. Haven’t you read the Maori creation story?
  ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was Kia Ora, Bro.’
  
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  June 1, 2023 12:19pm
  - Mike
    
    Not the Māori creation story, but a summary of that story might be wasted here. Here’s a good link for the open-minded few:
    https://teara.govt.nz/en/maori-creation-traditions#:~:text=In%20the%20beginning%20Ranginui%20(the,parts%20of%20the%20natural%20world.
    
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    June 1, 2023 1:27pm
    - Yabster
      
      lol such a hypocrite- you are always trashing christian creation “stories” but its only the open minded that can digest the Maori “story”? – which of course is complete bollocks… like most socialists you don’t practice what you preach milkdud.
      
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      June 1, 2023 2:27pm
      - Jack5
        
        Mike didn’t pick up the mistake in the Maori creation legend he quoted:
        
        For example, Tāne became the god of ~~the forests~~ reserve banks,
        
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        June 1, 2023 3:45pm
      - Mike
        
        FWIW, all origin stories are created equal. What I laugh at is the assumption that the grab-bag of middle eastern myths eventually codified in Genesis should be automatically seen as ‘normal’ (or even ‘true” for the seriously addled) compared to any others.
        Myths are integral to all cultures.
        
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        June 1, 2023 4:17pm
  - Rusty
    
    @oldfella,
    
    Just a figure of speech from me –I don’t know how long Maori has lived here. There is no written history from them to get an exact date.
    
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    June 1, 2023 4:37pm
    - Mike
      
      There is no written history recording the arrival of humans in any previously uninhabited lands. As in Eurasia, Africa, Americas and Australia, archaeology provides very good information about when humans first settled particular lands.
      
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      June 1, 2023 5:15pm
- Swifty
  
  According to Labour democracy has changed too.
  
  We have become more sophisticated apparently.
  
  Now having an unelected Maori-elite having veto powers is REAL democracy.
  
  When you think about it, it really is wise and sound thinking. Let’s throw out something that works, that people have aspired to for thousands of years, and let’s all return to unelected, tribal rule.
  
  Sounds good to me!
  
  //
  
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  June 1, 2023 12:44pm
  - Mike
    
    Do you have a good definition of democracy, Swifty?
    
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    June 1, 2023 1:29pm
    - Swifty
      
      Do you uptick your own comments?
      
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      June 1, 2023 2:42pm
      - Mike
        
        Should I answer your question with another question?
        
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        June 1, 2023 4:09pm
      - Swifty
        
        Do you downtick comments with all of your KB accounts simultaneously?
        
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        June 1, 2023 4:47pm
      - Mike
        
        Perhaps you could ask the moderators. It would seem exhausting to log out and then in again merely to place an uptick or downtick. How many accounts do you operate?
        
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        June 1, 2023 5:18pm
- Xquenda Choudhury
  
  “…Maori who lived here for thousands of years..”
  
  ??????
  
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  June 1, 2023 1:07pm
  - Mike
    
    That’s probably Rusty imagining what the PM might have said.
    
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    June 1, 2023 1:28pm
  - Rusty
    
    @Xqueda,
    
    I dont know — lets say a long time!
    
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    June 1, 2023 4:39pm
- Paulus
  
  Helen Clark and her close lady friends, like Margaret Wilson and Tizard, Minister for Auckland, were the recent leaders in the destruction of the family unit, as we have known it for many generations,even before the Treaty of Waitangi.
  
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  June 1, 2023 1:33pm
Xquenda Choudhury

So a colleague just tested positive for COVID. Not seriously ill but enough to be in bed. Not news I know. But this guy has had FIVE shots of the vaccine.

It just defies common sense that we are told the vaccine is “effective” when someone who has had 5 shots of the stuff caught the virus and us sick enough to be in bed.

No other ‘vaccine’ in history has this ‘effectiveness’. If the polio, typhoid, whooping cough, and measles vaccines had been this ‘effective’ they would have been binned.

I can’t believe that David Seymour, who I otherwise have a great deal of time for, keeps saying the vaccine is ‘effective’. The argument that the vaccine might reduce the severity of symptoms does not wash. That is not a ‘vaccine’. Your kids don’t get ‘mild measles’ after the measles vaccine. They don’t come home with only one leg paralysed after the polio vaccine and celebrate the vaccine as being ‘effective’.

Couple its uselessness with the cardiac damage risk, especially to young men, and the situation looks even more dire.
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June 1, 2023 12:54pm
- Blog-aholic
  
  It is absolutely effective.
  
  It was completely effective in allowing your rights to be stolen by Ardern et al.
  
  As far as being medicine? Not so much!
  
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  June 1, 2023 1:00pm
  - MCōs
    
    I would suggest you are talking through a hole in your head
    
    I was perfectly ok before I was infected with covid prior to Christmas.
    I has a CT scan just beforehand in Oct which showed nothing. Now there is a tumor that wasn’t there before.
    I’m not getting into an argument, but I don’t think any amount of panadol would have helped.
    End of conversation
    
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    June 1, 2023 8:30pm
    - Ghost
      
      Sorry to hear that MCōs, ignore the idiots and take care of yourself
      
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      June 1, 2023 9:08pm
- mawm
  
  Paracetamol is more effective in reducing the symptoms of covid than these vaccines.
  
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  June 1, 2023 1:37pm
  - MCōs
    
    Sure it can be sorted out with panadol in a great many cases.
    Well, the symptoms can.
    
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    June 1, 2023 4:01pm
- kowtow
  
  Its “effective” was purely political.
  
  They ( Establishment worldwide) locked us down in a knee jerk panic , copying the draconian , authoritarian and dictatorial CCP , with no basis in science and not in accordance with their own approved plans.
  
  The only way out was to pretend that once enough people had had the jab ( any jab ) we could/should get back to normal.
  
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  June 1, 2023 1:56pm
- greybeard
  
  And presumably your colleague could have infected many others , despite the 5 vaccinations .
  
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  June 1, 2023 2:37pm
  - Xquenda Choudhury
    
    No doubt.
    
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    June 1, 2023 3:00pm
- Chris Nisbet
  
  Why on earth did they have a test?
  
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  June 1, 2023 5:36pm
Swifty

What do we reckon?

Time to let Leslie Van Houten out after more than 50 years behind bars?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/charles-manson-follower-to-be-paroled/74QCFXBG6BAHJN6JMCEDB6GELQ/
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June 1, 2023 12:55pm
- Mike
  
  Writing as an individual – yes, well overdue.
  But that’s as nothing compared to what ‘we’ might think.
  
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  June 1, 2023 1:24pm
  - Swifty
    
    It was merely a figure of speech. Nothing was meant by it.
    
    If my writing upsets you so much perhaps you shouldn’t read it.
    
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    June 1, 2023 2:38pm
    - Mike
      
      Rhetorical flourishes are fine, although sometimes ‘we’ is difficult to distinguish from references to the Kiwiblog hive-mind.
      
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      June 1, 2023 3:29pm
Maggie Pie

JUST IN….

Reading Ginny’s press release earlier. Waxing lyrical about her achievements since being pressured to put her hand up to be Ninister for Nga-Pirihimana-O-Aotearoa. How Laboor have now reached their target of 1800 NewRecruits under her watch…. bringing the total number of officers to 10,700.

https://beehive.govt.nz/release/government-delivers-1800-additional-frontline-police

Well, my partner knows a lot of ex-cops thru his gun club.
He reckons they all say the same thing….no matter how many boots this government puts on the ground, until all frontline-officers are routinely armed with pepper spray, tasers, extendable batons, Gen5 Glock22’s….and their vehicles fitted with dash-mounted 12g Mossberg’s, they will continue to be ineffectual against criminal gangs and violent offenders generally.

I think you would have to say these guys are likely to know better than anyone what’s needed. My partner reckons not one of them believes Cuddles should be in the top job, and would’ve jumped at the opportunity themselves had they still been in the job.
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June 1, 2023 1:43pm
- Ghost
  
  1800 new cops means nothing unless they tell us have many have left, but anyway this was a Winston first deal with labour so nothing for them to take credit for
  
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  June 1, 2023 1:54pm
  - Xquenda Choudhury
    
    “More police” is not an achievement. It is like them boasting about ‘record health spending’. They treat us like morons.
    
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    June 1, 2023 3:02pm
    - Swifty
      
      Exactly.
      
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      June 1, 2023 3:25pm
    - Mike
      
      I can’t recall the last election where at least one party, and often more than one, wasn’t promising more police, as crime has evidently been spiraling out of control for at least 40 years now.
      
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      June 1, 2023 4:08pm
    - Ian Boag
      
      I guess if they had fewer police they could boast about the savings …
      
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      June 1, 2023 5:23pm
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, this is from 2021 so are there latest figures on resignations?
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/447956/police-union-urges-action-on-recruitment-as-officers-leave-force
  
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  June 1, 2023 2:24pm
- cmm
  
  I’m not sure our lot will get Glock 22s. 40 S&W is not a kind round.
  
  More likely 9mm. So perhaps a Glock 17 or 19.
  
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  June 1, 2023 4:16pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    My partners got 2.
    
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    June 1, 2023 4:40pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING TWITTER….

Iranian refugee and Green-Party MP refers to women as….”uterus havers”

https://twitter.com/golrizghahraman/status/1663804737429581831

Do you think it’s in the DNA?
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June 1, 2023 3:29pm
- Keith White
  
  Err, dunno… did biology and anatomy, not crystallography 🙂
  
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  June 1, 2023 3:44pm
- Mike
  
  Thinking the uterus is in the DNA suggests some confusion.
  
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  June 1, 2023 4:05pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Tired of winning yet milkey?
    
    LOL!!
    
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    June 1, 2023 4:38pm
    - kevn
      
      @Maggie… More like whining than winning.
      The perils of full time on-line work and googling.
      Endless humourless whinging and whining followed by evening wine.
      Only to start it all again tomorrow.
      
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      June 1, 2023 5:28pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Good Lord, Does the silly woman think that taking a contraceptive will stop someone from being raped?
  
  Is she unaware that pre-pubertal children can be raped?
  
  Is she unaware that post menopausal women who no longer need/use contraception are raped?
  
  Is she unaware that men can be raped?
  
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  June 1, 2023 7:35pm
Captain Mainwaring

So another ‘pedestrian’ has been injured when hit by a car on an Auckland motorway.
People walking on motorways are not ‘pedestrians’. They should be referred to as ‘idiots’.
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June 1, 2023 4:11pm
Blog-aholic

I see the Boucher has bowed out of running her personal crusade known as Stuff.

One doubts there will be much change given she got it for a dollar and inflation has killed the coins.
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June 1, 2023 4:21pm
- Jack5
  
  Stuff says today: “…current owner and publisher Sinead Boucher will become the Executive Chair and Publisher of the company.”
  
  On the face of it, a change in title rather than in control.
  
  Boucher is reported as saying the changes is part of preparations for “the next big disruptive force of the digital era – the advent of new generative AI technologies.”
  
  The companies register still has Stuff Ltd, of which the directors are Boucher and Dale Bridle, of Sydney. The owner is listed as Kenepuru Holdings Ltd, of Auckland. That in turn is listed as 100 per cent owned by Boucher.
  
  Bridle was chief financial officer and operations director of Stuff from 2013 to 2018 under its previous owner, Fairfax, of Australia. Bridle’s return to Stuff as interim chief financial officer was reported in July last year.
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/300894990/new-leadership-group-for-the-next-generation-of-stuff-announced
  
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  June 1, 2023 5:35pm
SmokerGuy

Megan Woods really is a piece of work, putting up a hand maids tale meme because National is saying they’ll keep the current prescription charge. Truly despicable people the lot of them. I mean when does the free shit end anyway, this government seems to think everything should be free for everyone. We’re already financially in the crapper, everyone wants something for nothing and to hell with the consequences.
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June 1, 2023 4:32pm
- rockape
  
  Now. Some smart person could rephrase this saying Labour are out to stop the poor and especially Maori BREEDING. Trying to wipe out the poor and the brown by giving them free contraception.
  
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  June 1, 2023 6:04pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Why did Megan Woods and her Labour Cronies keep the prescription charge on contraceptives for the 5.5 years they’ve been in power?
  
  Why didn’t Labour scrap the charge back in 2017 if they TRULY BELIEVED the Nats had been promoting human breeding farms?
  
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/491142/national-brands-labour-s-handmaid-s-tale-tweet-as-appalling
  
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  June 1, 2023 6:17pm
bjools

Listened to 2 parliamentary debates…
One yesterday and one today
As own a small business, providing services and products to other business’, it peeked my interest.

Yesterday…A debate about, formation of health and safety committees in the work place.
The absolute ignorance of the Govt. minister and members was astounding.
The bill was to allow any employee to demand the firm create a H&S committee. When asked, if (like me) you are a sole trader, do you have to form a committee of one chaired by yourself (as there minister could not answer WHO could demand it and do they NEED to be an actual employee.)
Examples were given, if the owner was also an employee, by law, is he excluded from the process.
Today
They are introducing a bill that business’ over a certain size will have to report their payment practices.
1. No thought as to how much that will cost.
2. There was to be a charge to small business’ to access the database.
All, as they kept saying…..to improve cash flowm for small business’.
My question……H O W?
In my experience 2008 till now.
The best way to improve cash flow, productivity and profits.
Lower taxes (income, ute tax, etc etc)
less regulation…especially of this kind.
allow business’ to actually form better relations, with a govt. that all B2B relations are fraught with disingenuous people.
On a personal note, it seems we are back to the Clark years, where the worst payers ….are the govt., for me…it has taken weeks for me to get an order number from Massey University.
This last under Clark and I was working for a different company.
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June 1, 2023 4:36pm
Maggie Pie

NewsHub tweets follow-up to my earlier GD post @8:27am today…..

https://twitter.com/NewshubPolitics/status/1664118211519078400

😀 😀 😀
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June 1, 2023 4:52pm
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  December 1, 2022 4:58pm
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    You really shouldn’t write like that Cap’n – there’s plenty of behaviour and policies to criticise without resorting to personal insults.
    
    Let’s not be like them.
    
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    June 1, 2023 6:15pm
Ghost

Well that will get the fire mike people up in a shitty

Mike Hosking was named the Sir Paul Holmes Broadcaster of the Year – also for the third straight year – as well as Best Talk Presenter (breakfast/drive).
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June 1, 2023 7:00pm
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  That is sooo FANTASTIC ghost!
  Although as even Mike himsel admits…without Kate he would be a nobody. She delivers hundreds-od-thosands of listeners directly to his breakfast show every morning!!
  
  And to completely dominate the airwaves, all ZB have to do now is replace that pair of woke boring leftard arsehats…. Romain Traverse & Tim Rockbrah. They are both such farking turn-offs!!
  I know Kate hates them both as well.
  
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  June 1, 2023 7:25pm
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  Brilliant. Anything that winds up the ‘wah wah, Mike wuz mean to our beloved Jacinda‘ crowd is fine by me.
  
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