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Warren

Well isn’t Ginny Anderson the joke of the year, been a Cabinet Minister for just over 3 months and has all the answers on the Mongrel Mob and calling Nationals latest answer on gangs “just a reheat” of what took place in the 2020 General Election and a ” pretty lazy move.
Minister Anderson wants to take a good look at herself, Labour and the Prime Minister Chris Hipkins and ask herself and those with the same view why have we got more Gangs and gang members, Major Crime,Ram Raids,Sexual with Common assaults and Fraud in New Zealand now in record numbers if this Labour Government was on top of the problem.
I will tell you why because all Labour have achieved in nearly 6 year is to divide New Zealander’s and hide crime with trying to hide their want of keeping the Maori population out of our Prisons at the expense of hard working honest New Zealander’s.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics.html
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June 19, 2023 8:01am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  “Join a gang, get more time” is another joke. The Justice Dept has no balls.
  
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  June 19, 2023 8:17am
- Warren
  
  https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/06/police-minister-ginny-andersen-attacks-new-zealand-s-prison-system-says-it-s-no-place-for-m-ori-offenders.html
  
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  June 19, 2023 8:22am
  - cmm
    
    Perhaps she would prefer the way Maori offenders were treated before the Colonialists came and spoiled all the fun?
    
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    June 19, 2023 8:40am
- Simon
  
  Keeping Maori out of prison is anti-Maori. Maori girls and women are disproportionately victims of crime in NZ.
  
  Doubling the prison population is the most pro-Maori policy a NZ govt could enact.
  
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  June 19, 2023 8:24am
- I remember when
  
  “Pretending to be tough.”
  Is that the same as pretending to be “Open and Transparent.”
  
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  June 19, 2023 8:38am
- RoboRob
  
  Heard some university professor ‘expert’ saying the you couldn’t legislate gangs away and that polis had been campaigning hard on crime for decades with no results.
  
  Strangely 6 years ago I would have agreed with him however Labour have actually proven him wrong. They have successfully legislated in ways that have fostered gangs and massively increased gang membership. The way I see it, if you can legislate in ways that help gangs grow it stands to reason the opposite is also true.
  
  Funny the media would roll this guy out when National annouces gang policy.
  
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  June 19, 2023 8:57am
- Paulus
  
  Hope Anderson gets a high list seat as there will not be many of them !
  Doubtful.
  
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  June 19, 2023 9:37am
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    Paulus – Ginny will defeat Chris “Get Boosted” Bishop with twice the majority.
    
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    June 19, 2023 10:08am
Opie

Old mate has had a busy week!

Sleepy Joe in full dementia laden meme generation mode:

https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1669841532700983299

Creepy Joe trying to get one last grope in:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj-mnOkwplI

And he is going to run unopposed to lead the democrats next year?
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June 19, 2023 8:01am
- emmess
  
  Not sure
  I heard RFK Jr on Joe Rogan, the other day and he was quite impressive
  
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  June 19, 2023 8:18am
  - General
    
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/double-talking-vaccine-scientist-refuses-debate-rfk-jr-despite-15-million-charity-pot
    
    Elon getting in there backing Joe up. Mark Cuban then fails to read the situation and disgraces himself.
    
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    June 19, 2023 10:19am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I think he meant ‘God save the Queens’
  
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  June 19, 2023 8:19am
  - kowtow
    
    For a guy who makes huge theatre out of being a Plastic Paddy Stage Irishman , it was a very strange thing to say , demented even.
    
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    June 19, 2023 8:37am
  - I remember when
    
    He meant ‘God save Queens.’
    Saving a small piece of the US as a reminder of what used to be.
    
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    June 19, 2023 9:13am
  - Jim
    
    Maybe Joe Biden meant the trans woman who got her bangers out on the Whitehouse lawn to celebrate Pride
    https://youtu.be/KWSy77yCeRo
    
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    June 19, 2023 4:52pm
  - Ghost
    
    Na, it’s, god save the queer man.
    
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    June 19, 2023 4:54pm
- slightlyrighty
  
  I feel for Biden. He needs to move on. The Dems need to get him to step down and anoint a successor.
  
  That successor cannot be Harris.
  
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  June 19, 2023 9:44am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I too, find it disgusting that the Democrat use this man in his condition. That is all they have.
    I have seen dementia/ alzheimers in a family member. It is not good to deal with a person who tries hard but can’t reason. My Partner’s Father. At the end he died in a resthome, on a mattress on the floor so he did not fall and hurt himself.
    I was the only one left who he recognised. RIP.
    Shame on the greedy Democrats for doing this.
    
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    June 19, 2023 11:37am
    - goNZ1
      
      Putin and Xi are being increasingly emboldened by Biden and his stooges – this isnt going to end well….
      
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      June 19, 2023 2:57pm
  - NothingLeft
    
    He and his family will go to prison unless he retains power.
    
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    June 19, 2023 11:59am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  There is a Kennedy in the Dems race, I think he might have polled at 20% to be the leader
  
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  June 19, 2023 11:30am
Opie

Here is a member of our parliament (and leader of the race based party) enjoying a no doubt taxpayer funded jaunt overseas, including scoffing his face with white man’s food. Looks like a few mates are there too… have they been allowed some taxpayer largesse also?

https://twitter.com/DavisAndrew88/status/1670188808430813185

The optics of this are terrible, given his proclamation that his people are doing it so tough. He’s obviously doing OK though .

Why was he sent to Cambridge to discuss the commonwealth, in the same week he called King Charles the head of a terrorist organization?

The more I see of this guy, the more racist I get.

He is a disgrace to parliament, let alone maoris.
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June 19, 2023 8:02am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Legend in his own lunchbreak.
  
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  June 19, 2023 8:22am
- kevn
  
  @Opie… Clown and we paid for the jaunt.
  His bariatric surgeon will not be happy.
  This type of food is not what the doctor ordered.
  
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  June 19, 2023 8:30am
- I remember when
  
  Once Rawiri settled into his Cambridge speech it was quite powerful and should be watched by all to understand what their arguments are.
  The constant reinforcement of these ideas will be hard to counter if not strongly debated so that the weaknesses are exposed.
  Cultural cringe is becoming an important weapon.
  Failure to engage, will result in those not prepared to spend the time to learn all of the facts, accepting his arguments.
  Like the great cheese chase, once speed takes over it is difficult to stop.
  
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  June 19, 2023 9:35am
- General
  
  Andrew Davis is a well oiled tweeting machine. No longer acting HRC I see. lmao @ that gag he was running with.
  
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  June 19, 2023 10:22am
ClanMcleod

So NZ is now officially an apartheid country, started with medical choice, now it’s race. Excellent.

Auckland surgeons must now consider ethnicity in prioritising patients for operations – some are not happy

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-surgeons-must-now-consider-ethnicity-in-prioritising-patients-for-operations-some-are-not-happy/ONGOC263IFCF3LADSRR6VTGQWE/

Time to check emigration options.
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June 19, 2023 8:04am
- wreck1080
  
  We’re being hit by maori interests from all sides.
  
  Maori commit more crime against us, maori get preferential educational opportunities and scholarships, now maori also get to queue jump for surgery, … and maori entities don’t have to pay as much tax, they get payouts from the government for being maori, maori have disproportionate political power …. it just goes on and on.
  
  I’m getting fed up with this nonsense. The promotion of maori to first class citizens does mean that my family and I are now second class citizens because our skin colour is incorrect.
  
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  June 19, 2023 8:07am
  - kevn
    
    @wreck… Don’t say or think you are second class citizens.
    
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    June 19, 2023 8:33am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I have to suffer more hand/arm pain with cubital tunnel because I am white?
    I need my other elbow done asap.
    
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    June 19, 2023 8:35am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    “they get payouts from the government for being maori”
    
    The majority of Maori do not get payouts from the government for being Maori.
    
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    June 19, 2023 8:59am
    - Matt Long
      
      There are special grants available for Maori in almost every feild, many won’t take them.
      I remember saying to my cousin, “you could get that” about one, he wasn’t interested.
      
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      June 19, 2023 9:40am
      - Grumpy Silver Haired Female
        
        Our governments have always supported aspirations of Maori. Even as far back as the 1970s there were special grants to allow Maori to attend university. One of my flatmates in 3rd year was on his 7th year of a 3 year degree, funded by a Maori bursary. Lovely man, he did eventually graduate and became a farm advisory officer.
        It’s a fact that in order to to change one has to want to change and more money from government won’t make it happen.
        
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        June 19, 2023 11:09am
- Chuck Bird
  
  Something similar has applied to the flu vaccine. Free for Maori and PI at 55 and other not till 65.
  
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  June 19, 2023 8:08am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Chuck – if it’s the bivalent shot then be thankful you’re not eligible. Seriously. Unless you’ve got major underlying health issues, don’t go near it.
    
    Actually, just don’t go near it.
    
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    June 19, 2023 8:10am
    - Chuck Bird
      
      It is AFAIK a flu vaccine that was given long before Covid 19.
      
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      June 19, 2023 8:31am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        It changes every year. Last time I went to Alaska I had the NZ flu vax and when I landed up there I got the northern hemisphere version at cost. Don’t remember how much, about US$80 maybe.
        
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        June 19, 2023 8:37am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Chuck – ask them before you get it.
        
        Here’s the data proving that the bivalent shot makes you more prone to catching covid.
        
        This is the summary:
        
        In conclusion, this study found that not being “up-to-date” on COVID-19 vaccination by the CDC definition was associated with a lower risk of COVID-19 than being “up-to-date”. This study highlights the challenges of counting on protection from a vaccine when the effectiveness of the vaccine decreases over time as new variants emerge that are antigenically very different from those used to develop the vaccine. It also demonstrates the folly of risk classification based solely on receipt of a vaccine of questionable effectiveness while ignoring protection provided by prior infection.
        
        https://merylnass.substack.com/p/latest-cleveland-clinic-preprint
        
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        June 19, 2023 8:58am
      - rouppe
        
        @clan that’s twice now.
        
        He’s talking about the influenza shot, not the bivalent covid shot
        
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        June 19, 2023 9:08am
      - Burtland
        
        news update from from Michael Plank ….
        
        weve got COVID, Flu and RSV floating around
        Flu vaccinations are running at 10% of eligible population, COVID 15%
        COVID vax wont stop you getting it but may reduce severity
        more hospitalizations from RSV & Flu than COVID
        
        https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018894922/winter-illness-cases-creeping-up
        
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        June 19, 2023 9:13am
      - NZer In Exile
        
        “may” reduce severity.
        
        Isn’t that the word they use on those silly ads pushing patently stupid woo?
        
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        June 19, 2023 6:09pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      rouppe – after going for a tetanus shot after getting a dirty fishing hook through my leg, but finding out much later that my shot also included the vaccine for diphtheria and pertussis, neither of which I asked for, I will be double checking everything any doctor is trying to get into my body.
      
      Said it before, trust once lost is hard to get back. Cheers Ardern.
      
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      June 19, 2023 11:07am
      - rouppe
        
        Agree. I got the bivalent influenza shot a couple of months ago.
        
        I ummed and aahed for some time, especially since I’ve never had the flu both in years I’ve had a shot and in years I haven’t.
        
        Upon deciding to do it (mainly because I’m shit scared of ending up in a hospital at the moment, they’re a complete cluster) I specifically asked whether there was anything else, in particular covid, in the shot.
        
        The answer was no, so I went ahead…
        
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        June 19, 2023 11:51am
      - mawm
        
        Clan – for some unknown reason tetanus toxoid (booster) is no longer available. It has been so for at least 15 years (that’s when I went for a booster and found out I could not get just toxoid). Is is it to get as many vaccinated with an allegedly superior diptheria vaccine? I don’t know. Maybe an OIA request would get an answer.
        
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        June 19, 2023 12:02pm
  - Ruawai
    
    And Covid anti viral, 50 and over for Maori, 65 and over for non Maori.
    
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    June 19, 2023 8:52am
  - RoboRob
    
    /Controversial ?
    
    I don’t have a problem giving the flu vax to Maori and PI for free! I Maori and PI have more underlying health issues (obesity being one of them) and they are more likely to end up in hospital. If they are in hospital they are taking up precious space and money that would be better used for other purposes. Moari (and maybe PI) people are much less likely to get the flu vax so anything that encourages them to do so is good.
    
    Giving then a free flu vax is a cost benefit win. 2-5 days in hospital for one person probably costs the same as giving thousands of free flu vaxes.
    
    btw I am 100% against race based selection policies in general. I am however Pro policies like this on a cost benefit analysis. I think they help Maori, PI AND everyone else.
    
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    June 19, 2023 9:12am
    - Ehlana
      
      Except, Robo, there actually are people who are not Maori, or Pacific Islander but are still poor and face the same kind of hardships that Maori and Pacific Islanders do. Why do they not matter as much?
      
      A better policy would be to say, how do we make [the flu jab, or whatever else], more available to people who aren’t getting it right now? I’d suggest mobile vaccine buses going to the places where people congregate (Saturday sports, or the beach, workplaces or supermarkets) and an easy system for updating medical records, so people don’t have to remember a number or carry a card. Perhaps a biometric marker, like the hand scans used by some time clocks.
      
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      June 19, 2023 9:59am
      - RoboRob
        
        Sure, you are 100% correct. Better to use actual metrics rather then stereo typing based on race. But, as with Crime and terrorism, sometimes its better to stereotype then do nothing at all.
        
        I would have thought with the gazillions of public servants we would have been able to build a database of the people who are likely to need the flu jab but obviously that’s beyond them.
        
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        June 19, 2023 10:35am
    - alphabeatrium
      
      Just lower the eligible age for everyone if the CB ratio is so compelling. Doing it according to ethnicity stirs up racial disharmony, which must surely lean heavily on the C side of the CB ratio.
      
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      June 19, 2023 11:57pm
- Frank the tank
  
  New Zimbabwe (Awwww tee a rower) was already an apartheid country.
  
  And 35% of the population are quite content with that. Let that sink in.
  
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  June 19, 2023 8:10am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    That would include all of the Elite Maori forcing a Coup!
    
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    June 19, 2023 8:39am
  - krazykiwi
    
    I’d suggest only small number of New Zealanders are happy with apartheid, and the balance of the 35% are too timid or fearful to make their opposition known for fear of being branded waaaaaaasict!.
    
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    June 19, 2023 9:02am
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Many are in a state of denial. They don’t want to know it’s happening. It’s too disturbing to contemplate.
      
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      June 19, 2023 6:10pm
  - Grumpy Silver Haired Female
    
    I think you need to revisit the definition of Apartheid, Frank the tank. I don’t remember anyone in New Zealand being denied anything, in law, due to their race in my lifetime. But then, I am one of the 85% who don’t claim a Maori ancestor so what do I know.
    
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    June 19, 2023 11:14am
    - mawm
      
      Well now you have it – being denied urgent surgery based on race. But that is not the only pillar of Apartheid. I think privileges based on race would probably fit into a modern definition of apartheid – such as preferential treatment, lower/no taxes, boosted opportunities, etc. The list is endless.
      
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      June 19, 2023 12:11pm
- Souvlaki
  
  As an Auckland Surgeon….I am going to defy this ultimatum with all my might!
  It is simply unethical…at all levels ,and in my opinion..contrary to our Hippocratic Oath!
  To attempt to insert race..ahead of genuine clinical need is a fucking dystopian disgrace.!
  Verral should be struck off STAT!
  New Zealand has LOST the plot!
  
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  June 19, 2023 8:12am
  - softail 1450
    
    Souvlaki, How do your fellow specialists feel about this out of the closet Dame Ardern Apartheid ? make no mistake this was her doing .
    
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    June 19, 2023 8:21am
    - Souvlaki
      
      Profoundly disquieting to be honest….but to speak out honestly is to invite all sorts of unwarranted opprobium. Many think the same…but for obvious reasons its not professionally ‘ prudent’ to be honest!
      Frankly…its corrupt!
      
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      June 19, 2023 8:34am
      - Ruawai
        
        Toe the party line.
        
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        June 19, 2023 8:54am
      - rouppe
        
        If a sufficiently large group were to stand up together and say “no”, then they can’t fire all of you
        
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        June 19, 2023 9:10am
      - Random T Person
        
        What’s the point of ‘professional prudence’ if it entails abandoning your Hippocratic oath and ethical convictions? What then is the point of the oath in the first place? Or the ethics, for that matter?
        
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        June 19, 2023 9:29am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      All of these things coming out. Jaspinda knew there would be a shitloads of things catching up with her so she ran. Here is another reason. Jaspinda the Racist.
      
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      June 19, 2023 8:41am
    - Ruahine
      
      Ardern started the persecution of Doctors during her Covid regime.
      
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      June 19, 2023 9:01am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      softail – according the the Whoreald article, surgeons they spoke to anonymously are very concerned about the policy. As you would expect.
      
      The very concerning thing is people being afraid to speak up because they know they will come under attack. Exactly the same as happened with anyone daring speak out against covid policies. Doctors were struck off the medical register.
      
      What has this country become?
      
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      June 19, 2023 9:04am
      - miltonF
        
        “What has this country become?”
        Socialist.
        
        We all know about the correlation between authoritarianism and socialism. They are mutually inclusive. One is required for the other. The correlation between racism and socialism is the one that surprises me. Why are socialists always obsessed with race? Do they simply use racial disharmony as a means to power? Or is it more that racism aligns well with their belief system of no human rights, unequal treatment for all etc so it comes naturally? Interested in people’s thoughts on this.
        
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        June 19, 2023 5:02pm
  - cmm
    
    Hello Mr Jones, let’s talk about the operation you need.
    
    The assessments by two other surgeons, and myself, agree that you will respond well to surgery.
    You’ve lost a lot of weight over the last 6 months so that will help your recovery.
    Your bloodwork says everything is OK for surgery.
    We’ve lined up an anaesthetist.
    Last week I passed the cultural sensitivity tests, so I am allowed back into the hospital.
    
    But, there’s one small problem: you failed the pencil test.
    
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    June 19, 2023 8:31am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      The pencil test, straight out of Sth Afrika.
      
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      June 19, 2023 8:43am
    - All_on_Red
      
      And Mr Jones will have to pass a Covid test also
      
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      June 19, 2023 8:48am
      - cmm
        
        Hah! I had to get the Covid test for my last visit to the operating theatre. The results only came back (positive) after I’d been through the theatre.
        
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        June 19, 2023 8:58am
      - All_on_Red
        
        Hah as well
        I’m currently sitting in Pre-Op Consult 1 waiting for the Cutter and they have just done that
        PCR back 3 hours after the Op!
        They will just keep me in my own room if I’m Positive
        I get the feeling the staff don’t really care, it’s just they have to follow the rules
        
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        June 19, 2023 10:35am
      - cmm
        
        AoR: That’s kinda what I had.
        The PCR was taking forever, so they did a quick RAT test which came back negative. When I got back from the theatre there was a text on my phone saying the PCR was positive.
        
        I am not surprised. I’d had CV19 about 5 weeks prior and the PCR is sensitive for a long time after.
        
        Due to the craziness of the system I went down in the stats as one of the people hospitalised with CV19 – although my hospitalisation had nothing to do with CV19.
        
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        June 19, 2023 1:34pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Heh
        Tested Positive for the Flu, so Private room with ensuite for me!
        #Winning
        
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        June 19, 2023 6:38pm
  - Ghost
    
    We’ve got a few South African orthopaedic surgeons down here. One of them has said if labour get back in he will be leaving New Zealand because they have destroyed the health system. A South African gp I saw a few weeks ago was telling me that his wife said it’s started to smell like South Africa here, if labour win they are leaving,
    
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    June 19, 2023 9:16am
    - Random T Person
      
      My GP was a former South African and an excellent doctor. He retired early because of the Covid bullshit.
      
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      June 19, 2023 9:30am
      - Paulus
        
        My GP was a NZ/Pom and has now retired after being our family Doctor for over 20 years – he said he simply had a gutsful.
        
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        June 19, 2023 9:45am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Many years ago I said that to an ex-employer. If Labour win, I am off to OZ. He sold the business to a better employer – and National won!
      
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      June 19, 2023 10:04am
    - cmm
      
      It’s not just the doctors. It’s everyone.
      
      A senior nurse I spoke to in Chch hospital a year ago said she was going to leave nursing and take a factory job.
      
      I left South Africa 31 years ago. I thought that racist crap was behind me. I am now 61 so it is not that easy to move, but if I was 20 years younger I’d be gone.
      
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      June 19, 2023 1:38pm
  - Chris Nisbet
    
    Does this policy apply to elective surgery, or all?
    
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    June 19, 2023 10:04am
    - kevn
      
      @Chris N… Well our colonially challenged, cowboy hatted one got the bariatric surgery. One can only hope he paid for it.
      Pigging out in Paris…
      
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      June 19, 2023 10:15am
- Blog-aholic
  
  Pae Ora legislation has apartheid writ large…any citizen not classifed maori (or PI) is deemed ‘other populations’…..there was precident like this set in the 1930’s in a European country once too……
  
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  June 19, 2023 8:12am
- Swifty
  
  Where will this lead? Where will this end?
  
  Ask a Labour MP and I bet my house you won’t get a cogent answer. They haven’t a clue. They probably won’t even have thought about it.
  
  So rich Maori elite are at the head of the surgery queues and will have their needs met before their poorer, more-ill, worse-affected, longer-waiting non-Maori fellow citizens.
  
  Right, got it.
  
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  June 19, 2023 8:12am
  - cmm
    
    If you want to know where this ends, then look at South Africa.
    
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    June 19, 2023 9:47am
    - mawm
      
      cmm – Especially the parallel of forcing an unwanted language on an unwilling population.
      
      Next thing the government will be twisting themselves into a pretzel as they make stupid laws and have childish explanations for their major policy decision’s failure.
      
      Do you remember “International Hotels” for foreign trading partners who were not lily white? And then the diktat that all the front desk staff had to pass an Afrikaans proficiency test?
      
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      June 19, 2023 12:22pm
  - Nickc2
    
    A VERY SAD DAY FOR NZ INDEED!!!
    Apartheid has been implemented and hidden under the current Govt but finally, it’s been revealed in the Health Sector and those of us who are Non-Maori or Pacific Islanders are not at all happy according to reports.
    I sincerely hope those negatively affected by this blatant act of racism see fit to vote this Govt and its hangers-on out of existence in October.
    
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    June 19, 2023 9:52am
- Kiwiguy
  
  Isn’t this in direct contravention to the Hippocratic Oath?
  This is a sure way to incentivise more of our medical profession to move to Aussie.
  NZ is truly effed. How Labour are polling so high completely baffles me.
  
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  June 19, 2023 8:13am
  - sirknz
    
    How Labour are polling so high completely baffles me.
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    Low information voters. They prefer the feel good factor over actually getting things done.
    
    “I voted to end racism by implementing even more racism. Yay for me.”
    
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    June 19, 2023 8:54am
  - Ruahine
    
    I think it has changed from the Hippocratic Oath because that is colonialist. It has now been changed to the Hypocrisy oath because that sits more comfortably with the Labour Gov’t.
    
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    June 19, 2023 9:05am
    - Kiwiguy
      
      That would make an excellent soundbite for David Seymour to throw out there.
      “Labour have turned the Hippocratic Oath into the Hypocritical Oath”
      
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      June 19, 2023 9:38am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Not from Seymour, he still thinks the jabs are safe and effective. It would be total hypocrisy coming from him.
        
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        June 19, 2023 9:55am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        To the Act supporters upset by my comments re Seymour.
        I’m not the one lying to the NZ public regarding the vaccines. Maybe drop him an email about it.
        
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        June 19, 2023 7:34pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    The poll results depend on where they are taken. Otahuhu v St Heliers.
    
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    June 19, 2023 10:08am
    - Jack5
      
      As discussed on Kiwiblog before: the sharp decline in line phones with their White Pages number listing makes it harder for pollsters to get the random base necessary for sampling to work best.
      
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      June 19, 2023 8:55pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        My landline is unlisted for that very reason
        
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        June 20, 2023 9:09am
- Simon
  
  “Time to check emigration options.”
  
  With the incoming National led govt everyone will have around 6 yrs to prepare options. National are so useless they will not roll back the garbage but merely keep in check. When the left take over after 6 yrs of National then its game over for NZ.
  
  Look how weak and useless National are. Everyone has been warned. You have got 6 yrs.
  
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  June 19, 2023 8:15am
  - Warren
    
    Hate consumes you need help.
    
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    June 19, 2023 8:30am
    - Simon
      
      Sorry for you that National are just garbage.
      
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      June 19, 2023 12:09pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Wrong. We will have at least 12 years before another racist/socialist cycle.
    
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    June 19, 2023 8:46am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    We will have to see, main thing is Seymour won’t do anything
    
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    June 19, 2023 11:35am
  - mawm
    
    Warren – making an observation and drawing some conclusions to it is not hate. They my be wrong in your opinion but then everybody is entitled to their own opinion no matter how they seem to others.
    
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    June 19, 2023 1:58pm
- slightlyrighty
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/121640802/mori-and-pasifika-given-priority-in-elective-surgery-waitlists
  
  This was put into practice in Wellington 3 years ago.
  
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  June 19, 2023 8:16am
  - Prince
    
    Supported by (surprise surprise) Board member Sue Kedgely.
    But, no worries,…
    Kedgley said it was not a matter of other people being sent to the bottom of the list.
    “People are put on the list according to the number of ‘points’ they have. It’s not a matter of being bumped down,” she said.
    “We have a very clear directive with the priority for equity for Māori and Pasifika. There’s a clear Government directive and this is one way of achieving it.”
    
    So moving people up based on their ethnicity doesn’t mean moving others down ?
    Only in the wonderful world of Greenematics can you claim this unchallenged.
    Same as borrowing $100B, but never having to pay it back, or incur interest costs.
    And reducing prison population by 30% at no risk to the safety of others.
    And crime isn’t increasing, it’s just that people are reporting more of it.
    Or buying back houses and claiming you are ‘building them’.
    Announcing spending initiatives but never actually paying the money.
    It never ends – just a tidal wave of corruption, greed and lies.
    
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    June 19, 2023 3:46pm
- Phronesis
  
  It’s across the whole system already. If you actually need care then be sure to identify as Maori. There are no requirements beyond ticking the box. Just tell your GP and they will be happy to change it as they then get funded at a higher rate to see you. The only reason you’re hearing about this is because surgeons are a different breed to the rest of the system (hence the Mr not Dr) which is mostly supportive of medical apartheid.
  
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  June 19, 2023 8:16am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    With a surname like mine???
    
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    June 19, 2023 8:47am
    - Littletramp
      
      Isn’t your mothers grandmother a maori? That seems to be enough to get you in the queue.
      
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      June 19, 2023 8:54am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        My mothers grandmothers next door neighbour was Maori. Does that count? The neighbours husband might have been jumping the fence….
        
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        June 19, 2023 10:11am
    - Ruawai
      
      No matter the surname Steve Otto, my kids and I are are blue eyed, blonde haired, with an English surname and have Maori ancestors so are eligible for everything. Access to Covid anti virals, preferential medical school entry, high priority hospital care. Crazy, I don’t agree with it but that is the system. That is why if everyone en masse identified as Maori there is nothing the system could do about it.
      
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      June 19, 2023 9:02am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Ruawai – that may be the best suggestion ever to stop this insanity before it destroys the country. EVERYONE identify as Maori. Brilliant!
        
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        June 19, 2023 9:13am
      - Phronesis
        
        There are actually some rare cases where being of Maori ancestry may be clinically relevant. It turns out to not be a clinically useful classification though because so few of those identifying as Maori actually have significant Maori ancestry.
        
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        June 19, 2023 9:31am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      If you can change your sex as recorded on your passport legally in NZ, then clearly you can change your race, or anything else you identify as
      
      I’ll be looking into how I’m registered on the electoral roll,I may well be identifying as Maori if I think it will help keep these destroyers out of power.
      
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      June 19, 2023 9:58am
    - miltonF
      
      Last time I checked, the majority of Māori have European surnames. That is because the majority of Māori are actually…wait for it…of European descent.
      
      I think you’ll be right Steve.
      
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      June 19, 2023 5:12pm
  - Ruawai
    
    Everyone in NZ should identify as Maori, what would they be able to do about it. Then have 10% join the Maori roll and vote National.
    
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    June 19, 2023 8:58am
    - Inandout
      
      Rua, I am waiting for a DNA result and if there is any ‘favoured’ blood in there I will demand preference.
      
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      June 19, 2023 9:29am
      - slightlyrighty
        
        I had a DNA test and have 0% Maori ancestry….
        
        Can I identify as Maori?
        
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        June 19, 2023 9:46am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        My Partner was adopted. She took a DNA test for my Daughter’s Ancestry tree.
        She is 23% Coconut. Samoan, Tongan, and Hawaiian. Does any of that count for her?
        
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        June 19, 2023 10:15am
  - pdm
    
    Phronesis you are so right.
    
    Our GP showed mrspdm about 3 maybe even 4 years ago the extra benefits we could receive if we said we were Maori.
    
    From what I read these benefits have increased significantly since then.
    
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    June 19, 2023 9:11am
  - mawm
    
    Phro – I can’t recall one surgeon speaking out about C19 but many other specialists/GP’s have.
    
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    June 19, 2023 2:01pm
- emmess
  
  The government needs to be sued like Starbucks
  https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65906962
  
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  June 19, 2023 8:22am
- igm
  
  So non-maori/pasifica, those paying the majority of New Zealand’s taxes, are now required to take back seats on hospital waiting lists at the expense of self-inflicted obesity bludgers.
  Most of these preferred people cannot keep a doctor’s appointment, let alone turn up for surgeries.
  
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  June 19, 2023 8:24am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Daniel Hayes needs to answer some questions. This is how it will be is not good enough.
  “Health Minister Ayesha Verrall said when it came to prioritising healthcare, there were important reasons why ethnicity was a factor.”
  OK Verrall, what are those important reasons? Cat got your tongue? You are a waste of space.
  
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  June 19, 2023 8:32am
  - Matt Long
    
    It’s “complicated,” they don’t understand it, so there’s no chance deplorables will.
    
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    June 19, 2023 9:48am
- nathie
  
  Check out Shane Reti masterclass reply on Morning Report approx 8.20am, after discussing other concerning health issues (Labour Health Minister blocking OIA requests) Corin Dann tried to nail down Shane Reti on this issue and Reti explained why prioritising the ethnicity aspect is wrong.
  
  Corin Dann had to close down the interview as Shane Reti was making too much sense!
  
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  June 19, 2023 8:33am
  - Burtland
    
    Reti is claiming Verrall is hiding a report by EY on failure of the Maori Heath Authority – the OIA was been declined despite her having the report for 6 weeks.
    
    Report apparently documents failed structures, failed accountability, failed leadership, failed outcomes. Reti advocates health resources be distributed on the basis of need not ethnicity.
    
    Reti eviscerates Corin Dann
    
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018894923/govt-digesting-unreleased-report-on-maori-health-authority
    
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    June 19, 2023 9:36am
- kowtow
  
  TVNZ were making a big play about meeting our refugee intake numbers the other day ,perhaps being tomorrow is “refugee day”
  
  In the footage there was an awful lot of NZ ‘culture” on display ie Maori songs speeches etc
  
  In that Herald article it says a Middle east man will be discriminated against on the surgery list .
  
  I’ll bet they didn’t include that fact in the “welcome” package.
  
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  June 19, 2023 8:44am
- Cantabrian
  
  I’ve touched on this before. How is a person with 10% maori blood and 90% other being given privileges based on that extremely small content?
  I think about 3 of my granddaughters, two of whom have some maori blood, while the other has none. How are they different? All three have been brought up in the same way without distinction.
  This nonsense that ‘maori’ are somehow so different that they need special treatment is criminal. And it is going to become increasingly stupid as inter-marriage continues and the maori bloodline thins even more.
  I feel strongly that the country is being destroyed at the hands of an activist minority – many of whom are recent European or North American immigrants with absolutely no empathy for the New Zealand my great great grandparents developed. I can only consol myself that they will have to live with what they produce.
  
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  June 19, 2023 8:55am
  - H. Upmann
    
    Cantab: what the activist minority are really saying when you sift it all down, is that Maori are too stupid to even make an appointment with their doctor or make decisions that affects any aspect of their life.
    
    This of course is highly ridiculous and offensive, but openly and widely promoted on a daily basis by the activist minority, working as useful idiots for our corrupt government and their political hangers-on..
    
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    June 19, 2023 9:29am
  - Rusty
    
    @Cantabrian,
    
    Ex Nz rower Mah’e Drysdale has a Maori first name. I wonder if he could claim Maori ancestry?
    
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    June 19, 2023 9:51am
    - Observant Octagenarian
      
      He was actually born in Australia!
      
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      June 19, 2023 10:54am
      - Flossie
        
        So were lots of Maori and part Maori people.
        
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        June 19, 2023 3:08pm
- Gravelroad
  
  So, let’s see- a ram raiding local ethnic person scratches his/her/their hand while smashing the glass to get in to rob the corner dairy.
  Then stabs and beats the Indian guy behind the counter.
  Ambulance called.
  By this rationale, the criminal with the cut hand will be treated by the doctor first.
  Indian worker guy, with life threatening injuries, can wait.
  
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  June 19, 2023 8:58am
  - Colville
    
    Well he is going to need that hand for his Playstation when he is on home D… Coz there is no way he will get sentanced to prison.
    
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    June 19, 2023 9:16am
  - Matt Long
    
    That’s in fact what happened in the case of the farmer versus home invader cut finger.
    The farmer was ordered out of his own kitchen and got no treatment for his head injury while the criminal got priority treatment.
    
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    June 19, 2023 9:51am
    - Ehlana
      
      Who has the authority to cast a man out of his own kitchen?
      
      OK, jokingly, you might say his wife, but in reality, it is his kitchen in his house. Surely any other person enters it only at his invitation, which he may withdraw at any time.
      
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      June 19, 2023 10:36am
- sirknz
  
  “The reformed health system seeks to address inequities for Māori and Pacific people who historically have a lower life expectancy and poor health outcomes,” Verrall said.
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  So does that mean she wants to drag down the life expectancy and health outcomes of everybody else who can get to their doctor for a check up, and investigate why this part of their body is aching, or tingling, or investigating what the weird growth is?
  
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  June 19, 2023 9:11am
  - Phronesis
    
    You can’t fix people’s poor life choices but you can make sure that everyone else is worse off. This is the stated aim of the left in politics. They don’t want to make us all rich (or healthy) they want to get rid of the rich in the name of equality.
    
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    June 19, 2023 9:37am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      We will all be equal, and equally poor.
      You will be welfare dependent and have nothing.
      
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      June 19, 2023 10:23am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Steve, that’s the whole purpose of UBI and the great reset. Everyone dependent on the state, obey or have your rating downgraded and your access to everything restricted.
        It’s what we’re witnessing the last few years with covid, race, gender issues etc.
        
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        June 19, 2023 11:14am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    What have Pacific Islanders got to do with it?
    
    It’s not like they signed the Treaty, or were oppressed by colonialism (well, not in NZ, anyway).
    
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    June 19, 2023 8:24pm
Bridgenag

Sunday Strip: Animal Farm
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!

https://open.substack.com/pub/rwmalonemd/p/sunday-strip-animal-farm?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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June 19, 2023 8:06am
- info@cruzpro.com
  
  Really funny!
  
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  June 19, 2023 8:21am
Bridgenag

Cardiac Episodes in Young Australians Explode Due to the mRNA Experiment
Thousands of young people, including children and babies are affected.

https://open.substack.com/pub/metatron/p/cardiac-episodes-in-young-australians?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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June 19, 2023 8:07am
artemisia

Official Information request to Wellington City Council requesting guidelines etc on political neutrality after what certainly appears to be a partisan social media (Facebook) post. Of all the recent front pages, what are the odds?

Can Follow at the link to be notified of responses from the Council.

https://fyi.org.nz/request/23169-political-neutrality-guidelines
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June 19, 2023 8:10am
Maggie Pie

Watched Chloe being interviewed alongside David Seymour earlier. Ryan Bridge tells her…. “she’s a shoo in to be reelected”.
Yet can anyone point to ONE thing she’s actually achieved for Auckland City in the last 6 years?

You could ask the same question for the entire Green Party of course.
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June 19, 2023 8:41am
- Gaetano
  
  It is outrageous that any journalist should make such a statement when interviewing a politician.
  
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  June 19, 2023 8:54am
  - RoboRob
    
    True but Ryans probably right on this one. She is young, female, relatively attractive and a Green. With this attributes alone it almost guarantees the female and youth vote is hers with Labour and National splitting the rest.
    
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    June 19, 2023 9:37am
    - alex Masterley
      
      Not sure about that. Ms Swarbrick sneaked through the middle of a very ordinary Labour candidate and a National candidate who had been dropped in at the last minute when Nikki Kaye bailed out.
      I suspect that she might not hold onto the seat given she has achieved stuff all for the electorate she represents.
      
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      June 19, 2023 3:18pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Well Marama Davidson pointed out what a cis white male is. So now we know, thanks.
  
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  June 19, 2023 8:54am
- Stellaboxer
  
  Maggie she is a young female lefty that spouts the low resolution over simplified drivel that the female graduate class want to hear. She doesn’t have to do anything she just is.
  
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  June 19, 2023 9:07am
- Drone
  
  @Maggie, the list is long – cycle ways, ban on plastic bags, 15 min cities (coming), subsidised EVs for the rich, higher fuel costs, the list goes on and on ..//
  
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  June 19, 2023 11:57am
Swifty

Handbags at dawn!

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/race-relations-commissioner-meng-foon-reveals-he-hasnt-formally-resigned-and-makes-call-for-explanation-of-potential-removal/SIPXQVFEJRE7DBNEKXYGE5YXMY/
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June 19, 2023 8:57am
- Blog-aholic
  
  Did someone tell him there might be more kohas to be grifted yet?
  
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  June 19, 2023 9:12am
- sirknz
  
  In one sentence:
  
  Because you are the worst person to ever be in that role, you have helped sow division and hate everywhere you can, and you have been proved to be corrupt with your covert kickbacks to the MP you report to and the undeclared conflicts of interest.
  
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  June 19, 2023 9:14am
- Mobile Michael
  
  Yet another case of a Labour Minister making an announcement they can’t deliver… although this one is a special kind of incompetence – announcing a resignation before it’s been received!
  
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  June 19, 2023 9:46am
- Phronesis
  
  Today the expression “get fooned” entered the NZ political lexicon. When the government announces your resignation without telling you, you’ve been fooned.
  
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  June 19, 2023 9:49am
  - zulumonster
    
    BufFooned?
    
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    June 19, 2023 11:04am
- ClanMcleod
  
  ”All I want is a fair deal, law for one is law for all,” he said.
  
  Said the worst HRC ever.
  
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  June 19, 2023 10:26am
Swifty

Aussie 60 Minutes lays bare Chinese Government abuses of Aussie citizens on Aussie soil and their establishment of Chinese police stations on Aus and NZ shores:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7L9ubuwBDkI

Even more evidence, not that we need it, that the Chinese Government is nothing more than a criminal gang.
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June 19, 2023 9:01am
- mawm
  
  They have been allowed to get away with it by successive governments. Nobody has the balls to stop them.
  
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  June 19, 2023 2:20pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Something for those here with more knowledge.
I have heard of Covid strains 20 and 60 times more than Covid 19.
“manipulate it for human transmissibility” is why the Vaccines where shit.

https://patriotbarbie.com/news/new-report-sheds-light-on-origins-of-covid-development/
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June 19, 2023 9:09am
- krazykiwi
  
  SARS-CoV-2 exists primarily as a result of DAPRA-funded bioweapon research the seriousness of which is which is often dismissed by calling it Gain of Function (‘GOF’) research. The ‘functions’ being enhanced are typically accelerated human-to-human transmission, and increased vigilance.
  
  Fauci was also donkey-deep in this, ensuring NHI funding went to China to do bioweapon work that had been banned in the USA.
  
  And more recently it was revealed the BioNTech – the ‘brains’ behind the Pfizer ‘vaccine’ conducted their work in Marburg, Germany in the actual facility that was responsible for the 1967 Marburg virus outbreak. Oh, and fun fact: The Pfizer/BioNteck ‘vaccine’ contains Green Monkey DNA.
  
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  June 19, 2023 9:53am
  - cmm
    
    KK: SarsCov2 very likely did escape from a lab during some experiments which might or might not have included GOF.
    
    However, SarsCov2 is hardly a savage virus. There have been far more infectious viruses and viruses with far worse mortality stats etc. SarsCov2 is piddly compared to the Asian flu, HK flu, Spanish flu,…
    
    If this is the worst they can make in a lab, then bring it on!
    
    If it was deliberately released (I doubt it, but maybe…) then it would be for panic, control and commercial reasons.
    
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    June 19, 2023 2:28pm
    - miltonF
      
      I think the logic is like this:
      
      If you WERE to release a bio weapon intentionally, you would make it as WEAK as possible while maximising its contagiousness. Viruses travel. If you were to release a dangerous virus intentionally, you would risk harming yourself or your own interests. There’s no win.
      
      The virus was just the first part of of two part bioweapon attack. The virus is intended to frighten the public and initiate the second phase of the weapon. The “vaccine”. You can then target the groups that you desire with the vaccine.
      
      I’m not saying this is definitely what occurred, but the logic stacks up.
      
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      June 19, 2023 5:26pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        There is also the economic theory, that if you make a virus then a vaccine that needs ‘updated’ every few months because it’s crap at protecting you, you’ve got money rolling in in perpetuity.
        
        Also, if it weakens the innate immune system and damages fertility it has the bonus of reducing population. And those with damaged immune systems who die won’t be connected to the vaccine.
        
        Talk about ultimate planned obsolescence. And making a fortune while doing it……
        
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        June 19, 2023 7:47pm
  - mawm
    
    Steve – there seems to be a lot of made up stuff in that story. Ralph Baric from the University of North Carolina is the expert at manipulating covid viruses. This has been a CIA program with Fauci oversight which had to be moved offshore when Obama put a stop to bio-weapons research. The program was passed onto Daszak and his company. The Furin cleavage site on the spike enhances infectivity.
    
    My 2c – the CIA is directly responsible for the pandemic, everything else is misdirection.
    
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    June 19, 2023 2:29pm
DeepBlue

Meg Foon comes out fighting. He has only indicated he may resign, but not yet resigned. He’s waiting for the findings.

The Govn Friday 5pm splash and dash announcement failed.
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June 19, 2023 9:10am
- Gaetano
  
  Surely the relevant Minister should advise the GG to remove him from office. Otherwise she will just look stupid.
  
  “Russell said she then held a meeting with Foon “where he explained his actions”.
  
  She said her preliminary view after the meeting was that “his actions were serious enough to warrant removal”.
  
  But Foon in the meantime resigned.
  
  “Had the process been completed it is probable I would have determined his actions represented a serious breach of the Crown Entities Act and I would have taken the next steps to recommend to the Governor-General to remove him from his office.”
  
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  June 19, 2023 9:53am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Everything around Foon now is just leftie dribblers pacifying themselves.
    On ya bike Foon, you are done! Hear that? Done!
    
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    June 19, 2023 10:29am
Rusty

The gangs are getting free recruitment ads on tv via favourable news coverage on them while corrections have to pay for their ads for more prison officers.
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June 19, 2023 9:12am
Bobba Fret

Meng Foon hasn’t formally resigned. Could be more to come out regarding this. He may be a bit bitter.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/race-relations-commissioner-meng-foon-reveals-he-hasnt-formally-resigned-and-makes-call-for-explanation-of-potential-removal/SIPXQVFEJRE7DBNEKXYGE5YXMY/
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June 19, 2023 9:16am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Here’s Why Trump Surges In Poll Despite The Left’s Attempt To Destroy Him.

https://patriotbarbie.com/news/heres-why-trump-surges-in-poll-despite-the-lefts-attempt-to-destroy-him/

Here is something pre 2016:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S63MW41dP58
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June 19, 2023 9:16am
Maggie Pie

It was pleasing to hear that 90% of Schools rejected any direct involvement with ‘School-Pride-Week-Aotearoa’.

No doubt event organisers ‘InsideOUT’ will be holding a debriefing session with Willy Smack’nTush & Jack Sparklepants to get to the bottom of where things went wrong.

And for all those who continue to celebrate ‘Pride Month’…. don’t forget to thank a Heterosexual for your existence.
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June 19, 2023 9:18am
- nathie
  
  Will those advocating for Pride Week/Month also come out in support of their fellow de-transitioners?
  
  If they won’t … then how hypocritical of them to not be “inclusive and supportive”!
  
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11417609/De-transitioners-warn-growing-levels-online-vitriol-doxxing-harassment-death-threats.html
  
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  June 19, 2023 9:39am
- Gaetano
  
  IMO it is the trans gender war that has eroded public support for gay themed events. Over 50 years gays successfully campaigned to be free of discrimination because of who they were sexually attracted to.
  
  The gender obsession is entirely different. We are being asked to accept that gender can be changed, (indeed last week Parliament legislated for just that – now anyone can simply advise DIA to change the sex on their birth certificate) , and that children can be given treatment by doctors to stop puberty.
  
  I do not understand how the “T’ successfully merged with the “LGB” movement. Time for a break away.
  
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  June 19, 2023 10:00am
  - Phronesis
    
    Put simply, once the LGB had nothing left to fight for the activist lobby needed a new cause to keep their noses in the trough.
    
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    June 19, 2023 10:10am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    The “T” people need to thank a straight people for their existence.
    
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    June 19, 2023 10:46am
  - Ehlana
    
    Quite a few LGB are actively distancing themselves from TNB (Transgender & Non-Binary).
    
    I’d really like to know how these people know they are representing anyone. Do we have alternate electoral rolls where people choose their letter so these groups can ask them who they want to be represented by?
    
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    June 19, 2023 11:11am
Yvette

I’m afraid this is a matter for the Race relations Commissioner, and we do not have one at the moment, so it is inappropriate or me to discus this issue, until an appointment is made.
I am concerned this may be seen as an Election issue,
but, yep, it is … what it is

Wai Meng Foon was thrown under the bus
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June 19, 2023 9:32am
- Ghost
  
  Hasn’t resigned yet
  
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  June 19, 2023 9:38am
  - Yvette
    
    Perhaps that’s Wai Meng Foon was thrown under the bus :o)
    
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    June 19, 2023 9:42am
- Maggie Pie
  
  The company of which Foon is a director, MY Gold Limited, was also found to have “received and still be receiving an income from the Ministry of Social Development for the provision of accomodation, including emergency housing”
  
  – Newsroom 16 June.
  
  The thing I found surprising…. was late Friday afternoon to hear the MOJ Kiri Allan, tell HDPA she knew nothing about it until 20 minits prior to coming on her show.
  Does she not speak to Debby then?
  
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  June 19, 2023 9:48am
  - mtamati
    
    Maggie Pie
    M and Y (Meng & Yeng) Gold Investments (formerly known as Bargain Veges) owns the former Tatapouri Hotel land that operates as a camping ground with cabins (social housing)
    
    A reporter really needs to ask Meng, that as a mayor did he and another councilor set up a community trust to assist the unemployed learn horticultural skills and whether that trust purchased used horticultural equipment at well above market price?….a follow up question could be..”from who was that clapped out machinery purchased from and how much did the trust pay to have it repaired?”
    
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    June 19, 2023 12:28pm
    - Maggie Pie
      
      Sounds like it could be a real scoop for some intrepid reporter.
      
      I’ve just emailed a copy of those questions to….. simonwilson@nzherald
      
      Be interesting to see where it goes from here?
      
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      June 19, 2023 1:52pm
Gravelroad

Anyone seen the new short film just released? –
A Maori Goes to Paris
Starring box office sensation Rawiri Waititi
Join Rawiri and his friends as they eat (lots of) French food in their spacious apartment. Marvel at its close views of the iconic Eiffel Tower.
Wander the streets below with Rawiri and see how chic French people go shopping.
Magnifique!!

(Sorry, unable to link as I am not on Twitter – shown to me by someone else).
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June 19, 2023 9:40am
- Gaetano
  
  Perhaps he will reflect on the fate of his ancestors had the French taken over New Zealand 🙂
  
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  June 19, 2023 9:45am
  - kowtow
    
    One of the reasons Maoris were keen on British imperialism was they didn’t like the taste of French imperialism they got from the Marion du Fresne reprisals in 1772.
    
    Will that be taught in schools.
    
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    June 19, 2023 10:14am
    - Ruahine
      
      France also still had the slave trade in 1840. Slavery had been abolished in the British Empire years before the Treaty was signed. By the 1830s many Maori had sailed overseas and saw the effects of slavery. The French were still very interested in New Zealand in the late 1830s.
      
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      June 19, 2023 10:40am
      - fightingtemeraire
        
        Slavery was outlawed in the United Kingdom in the 1600’s. It was legal in the possessions of the Empire.
        
        It was a court case I believe about a slave owner bringing his servant who was a slave into the UK that was the precursor to the banning of slavery in the Empire.
        
        After the ending of the Napoleonic Wars, Britain went about getting rid of slavery with a will. In 1816, a years after Waterloo, Edward Pellew lead an Anglo Dutch Squadron and bombarded Algiers to get the Bey of Algiers to stop taking slaves from the British Isles. The slave pens can still be seen on Lundy Island where the Barbary Pirates held slaves.
        
        Then the W African Squadron, hunted down slave ships and slavers and the Squadron was basically a death sentence for many of the men involved owing to Yellow Fever, Malaria etc.
        
        Britain raised a loan of 40% of GDP to “buy the slaves” of Caribbean Slave Owners to give the slaves their freedom. Loan was only paid off this century.
        
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        June 19, 2023 11:32am
      - kowtow
        
        f tem
        
        You might find this of interest .
        Scotland was the first legal test in Great Britain.
        
        I remember Neil Oliver covering this in one of his tv histories .
        
        https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/learning/slavery/the-montgomery-slavery-case-1756
        
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        June 19, 2023 12:03pm
      - cmm
        
        It is interesting to see the positive effect of the British Empire in Africa.
        
        Both my grandfathers fought to end slavery: one in South West Africa and the other East Africa (now Tanzania). The Germans were not active slavers as far as I can tell, but they turned a blind eye to Arab and African (black on black) slavery. When the Brits kicked them out of East Africa and SW Africa, tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of British soldiers and sailors were engaged in stopping slavery.
        
        Just one bit of evidence of how well this was appreciated is to be seen by observing the movement of Owambo people in SWA. Under the Germans, many Owambos moved north into Angola. They prefered the Portuguese to the Germans. When the Brits took over SWA, the Owambos flooded back. They much prefered the Brits over both the Germans and the Portuguese.
        
        Many of the other colonial powers liked conflict between their subjects: a divided house is easily ruled. But Brits worked hard to bring the Pax Britannica – peace, prosperity, the rule of law and justice to the areas they managed.
        
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        June 19, 2023 2:45pm
      - Jack5
        
        By the year 1200, slavery was essentially gone in England.
        
        https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/23s9eo/did_william_the_conqueror_abolish_slavery_in/
        
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        June 19, 2023 9:23pm
- Inandout
  
  Gravel, that Tower is certainly a drawcard.
  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adolf_Hitler,_Eiffel_Tower,_Paris_23_June_1940.jpg
  
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  June 19, 2023 9:56am
  - mogg
    
    Prennez un grip, donnez moi un break.
    I am well qualified, 1967 A Level French (failed)
    
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    June 19, 2023 12:51pm
- fightingtemeraire
  
  Regardez les Parisiennes marveling at the travelling circus of the Tattooed Savage from Nouvelle Zealand!!!
  
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  June 19, 2023 11:25am
- Joely Doe
  
  Here you go…
  
  Rawiri in Paris
  
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  June 19, 2023 12:32pm
Libertarians are right

Yesterday David asked “If one was to describe Te Rauparaha as a genocidal torturing terrorist and rapist, would that be okay?”

Of course it would because that would be accurate.

However, David missed an extremely important case – Te Kooti. He was also an extremely violent mass murderer. It’s far more relevant however since Waititi was a Ringatui minister, AKA a follower of the murderous Te Kooti’s religion.
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June 19, 2023 9:42am
Maggy Wassilieff

David Lillis has a very long, well-written opinion piece about the proposed Refreshed Curriculum for Science, Technology and Arts in our primary and secondary schools.

If this curriculum is pushed through, publicly-funded education in NZ will become a disaster.

As with NCEA, it will take at least 1 generation (20-25 years) before anyone in authority has the guts to admit that the curriculum is inadequate.

When the new curriculum comes into force in 2026, approximately 860,000 students will become exposed to the curriculum, or a precursor of it, at early childhood, primary and secondary level (Lillis, 2022c). Over a decade from 2026, a total of about 1,536,000 New Zealand students will have experienced the curriculum, at a minimum. Similarly, over twenty years from 2026, approximately 2,263,000 New Zealand students will have experienced the curriculum.

https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/david-lillis-comments-on-the-refreshed-curriculum-for-science-technology-and-the-arts
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June 19, 2023 9:53am
- John Loveridge
  
  The whole thing is despicable, Maggy. What can a deeply concerned parent do?
  
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  June 19, 2023 9:57am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    What can a deeply concerned parent do?
    
    *Encourage your children to read widely and often.
    
    *Discuss things (about anything & everything) with your children.. get them used to voicing their views.
    
    * Show your children how to do practical things..and just integrate things like measuring/estimating/and checking into the activities.
    
    * Make them responsible for:
    Care of their clothes/equipment/ room/pets
    
    * Give them chores…..with rewards (pocket money or treats)
    
    For progress in maths… Check on key concepts that child should have mastered at appropriate age..and use the loads of resources (and short lesson clips) on Youtube to help child.
    
    I expect most kids will get bored to tears with the constant reference to Maori myths, language and history year after year and class after class.
    
    (I already see this in some of the high school pupils – Maori and non-Maori – I have for literacy lessons).
    
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    June 19, 2023 2:45pm
  - cmm
    
    Homeschool.
    
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    June 19, 2023 2:47pm
    - Ghost
      
      There seems to be a few teachers hitting the media lately. That should be enough for parents to ask do they really want their kids in school
      
      https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300908659/former-teacher-admits-to-upskirting-over-100-women-and-children-with-his-phone
      
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      June 19, 2023 2:51pm
- Burtland
  
  All brought to you by courtesy of the Hipkins family – NZCER seems to be one of the drivers of this policy – Rose Hipkins, the sausage roll eaters mother, is in the thick of this.
  
  They need to be defunded.
  
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  June 19, 2023 10:31am
I remember when

Poor old Boris.
He originally allowed schools, restaurants, sports venues, movie theatres and pubs to remain open.
This decision was backed by an advisory group of UK scientists.
Then public panic resulted in the passing of legislation, probably aimed more at political expediency, than genuine health research.
So he is being censored for breaking the laws, he he didn’t want to introduce, even although current research suggests the parties caused no public danger.
He also upset public opinion by his failure to wear a mask prior to contracting covid himself.
Public opinion is often the leeming approach, even if leemings don’t really behave in that way.
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June 19, 2023 9:53am
Swifty

You are the co-leader of NZ’s Maori Party. You are doing your best to raise the profile of your party ahead ahead of an imminent general election and where you could easily play a major role in determining the next government. You are also regarded by some as a leader within the Maori community. You wish to be taken seriously because you earnestly want what’s best for your people and will go to any lengths to see that they get it.

You are in Europe to speak at the Cambridge Union. You have a posse travelling with you. You have some days free either side of your speaking engagement.

What will you do with your days?

Will you perhaps visit major NZ battle sites and record some thoughts and observations?

Will you perhaps visit some sites in England which Maori visited very early subsequent to European first contact?

Visit Maori Battallion battle or grave sites and post some video and thoughts?

Put aside your Maoriness for a minute and visit Whitehall or even the House of Commons and post a wee lecture on the origins of Westminster Democracy or similar?

Make a visit to significant RAF historical sites and post a video on the history of New Zealander’s involvement in the Battle of Britain?

What about a wee video on what happened to early NZ trade goods, flax, whale oil and timber etc, and where they ended up in the UK and how they were used?

What a marvellous thing it would be if hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders saw your work and remarked to themselves “Gee, what wonderful work this person has done. What thoughtful documentaries. I’ve now got a much better idea about what makes them tick. And I have a newfound respect for them and what they might offer.”

https://twitter.com/ECA_Beast/status/1670048106422083585

Yeah nah. Let’s just post heaps of videos of me eating, living the high life and acting like a skiting dick who’s never been overseas before.

“This is ah ouuuuutfiiiit!”

Beyond cringeworthy. Those videos just made me shudder.
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June 19, 2023 9:53am
- fightingtemeraire
  
  How embarrassing. Did you see the staff in the background at the hotel looking at them!!!
  
  7eme Arrondisement, not cheap.
  
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  June 19, 2023 1:33pm
PaulP

I love how Men Foon has said “all I want is a fair deal, law for one is law for all” when he actively promotes policies that are not one law for all and not one person one vote.
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June 19, 2023 10:02am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Foon is a hypocrite. He never went near the Stop Co-Governance meetings where there was trouble caused by the Racists.
  I was at Orewa. The Police did not do anything about the trespassers. They later said to make the meetings private, which they now are.
  Same has happened in Dunedin Saturday night. The Police did nothing, the “private meeting” had to be closed.
  Meng Foon? Nowhere.
  
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  June 19, 2023 10:56am
Maggie Pie

TRENDING

Dan Andrew’s Melbourne…..

https://twitter.com/9NewsMelb/status/1669960354741501952

Not that I’ve ever been on a bus- but how can people sit there so quietly?
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June 19, 2023 10:51am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Most doors would have an emergency release.
  Too stoned to figure that out? The Police tasered him, why not shoot the prick. Problem solved.
  People sat quietly. The guy in the red jacket nearly had a go – he had the time and the attacker was looking the other way.
  
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  June 19, 2023 11:03am
- cmm
  
  Lots of people say: I’d have done this, I’d have done that… but nobody really knows how they would react on the day.
  
  For most people the thought that something like this could be happening to them, or right in front of them, is just too much to take in.
  
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  June 19, 2023 1:57pm
Swifty

How to commit economic suicide and destroy the wealth necessary to fund our health, education and welfare systems etc

https://i.stuff.co.nz/opinion/132353720/forget-the-red-tape–farming-has-only-got-itself-to-blame-for-its-crises

And hey, wasn’t this eco-justice warrior author one of those fanatics running around Te Uruwera with illegally held firearms?
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June 19, 2023 10:59am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Would be great to know what these eco warrior scribes actually produce that contributes to the economy and Swiffer society. As opposed to the farmers they attack who grow good for us.
  
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  June 19, 2023 11:19am
- I remember when
  
  “The idea was about bringing back the environment around rivers but also bringing our people back to our whenua.”
  
  So maybe, just maybe, of course, it may be about more than the climate.
  Perhaps she would like to indigenise the farming community.
  
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  June 19, 2023 1:29pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Trump responds to Tucker Carlson. Carlson names Biden as a wannabe dictator.
Trump will keep his promises as he did last time. He will end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours by simply telling Zelensky and Putin they are going to have a meeting and he will be Moderator.
The Democrats want to destroy the Republicans but one problem, Trump is in the way. He puts America first. The system wants to jail him so he can’t be POTUS. The only way they can stop him is too assassinate him. Hillary won’t go near that, she will be number one suspect.
Video 3 min.
https://billingsreport.com/__trashed-99/
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June 19, 2023 11:21am
- Inandout
  
  SO, Trump is indeed a thorn in the side of the Washington Machine and as you say assassination is the only way to stop him. A big problem here is that he (as an ex President) has a permanent security detail at his side 24/7.
  
  ‘Former presidents and first ladies remain free to relinquish Secret Service protection as did Richard Nixon in 1985, 11 years after he left office’.
  
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  June 19, 2023 11:38am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Security means he does not carry a firearm, makes sense.
    In times past, if he had his jacket buttoned he would most likely be carrying. Open jacket, no.
    
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    June 19, 2023 11:55am
  - Rusty
    
    @Inandout,
    
    Remember the 1962 Manchurian candidate movie about the Chinese communists brainwashing a captured US serviceman to assassinate a US official and then the following year JFK gets shot dead mysteriously.
    
    The democrats doing something like that?
    
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    June 19, 2023 12:36pm
Maggie Pie

Be interesting to see what SNOPES comes back with…. 😀

https://twitter.com/1NewsNZ/status/1670548523845033986
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June 19, 2023 11:25am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.
The second Dunedin event was a success.

https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/victory-in-dunedin/
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June 19, 2023 11:30am
G the giant from Dunedin

Any word on the impending implosion of Democracy NZ ?

Anyone?
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June 19, 2023 11:41am
Ghost

Popcorn time

Meng Foon has accused the Prime Minister’s Office of leaking news about his planned resignation and is now reconsidering his decision to quit as Race Relations Commissioner.

Article
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June 19, 2023 12:04pm
- Blog-aholic
  
  Payout reparations in coming?
  
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  June 19, 2023 12:17pm
I remember when

Evidence Suggests Russia blew up Dam: NY Times.
The dam, which is controlled by Russia, was built during Soviet times, so Russia had its structural engineering plans and knew its Achilles’ heel.
A small passage underneath the dam was reachable from the machine room.
This passageway, the evidence suggests, is where an explosive charge detonated and destroyed the dam.
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June 19, 2023 1:00pm
- cmm
  
  Possibly they did, but I call bullshit on your reasoning.
  
  Such small passage ways are very common in dam walls and are normally obviously visible from outside (eg. there’s a door at the bottom of the wall – I wonder where that goes?).
  
  During WW2, the Allies blew up some Axis dams in a similar way – by accessing and blowing up passage ways. By your logic the Germans must have done it to themselves!
  
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  June 19, 2023 1:53pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

First it was cellphones. Now the nutters have found this. Crazy.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/943821376864633
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June 19, 2023 1:21pm
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  That’s hilarious.
  & They are saying that the charging booths are acting “just like {cell} Towers”, along with the chargeable cars.
  Don your tin foil helmet, and flee to the forests!
  
  I wonder if this evil plot is part of the same global conspiracy as chem trails; or is that a completely different international secret society?
  
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  June 19, 2023 2:05pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I already had my hat on when I saw where this was heading.
    The Trifield TF2 meter detects Alternating current (AC)
    At what point does the electricity get converted to DC? (Direct Current) Is it at the charging station or in the car. To charge a battery DC is needed. Well it was for the last 71 years for me.
    Something about a smell test?
    
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    June 19, 2023 2:51pm
cmm

People can say this is “like apartheid”.

No. It is worse than apartheid.

Apartheid built the largest hospital in the world, outside of China, to serve the people of Soweto. It is (or at least was in 1990s) arguably the best hospital in the world to get treatment for trauma like knife and gunshot wounds.

In the 1980s, I was at university in Cape Town. Due to some stuff-ups in the paperwork, I was classified as “coloured” (mixed race) instead of white. I got exactly the same treatment. Nobody gave me lesser treatment for being coloured or pushed me to the front of the queue when they saw I was white.

Sure, hospitals in SA were segregated in most areas (not all were), but the quality of care in state hospitals was by no means lesser for non-whites.
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June 19, 2023 1:46pm
- fightingtemeraire
  
  The British Army sent surgeons to Baragwanath Hospital for training in GSW and Knife wounds.
  
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  June 19, 2023 2:41pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Not “like” It IS!
  Coloured. Apparently my Grandfather (who died before I was born) used to say “Colour red” So did my Father. Somewhere in the Ancestry there is some Black African blood. My Grandfather never got sunburnt (apparently) My Dad never got sunburnt, and I rarely burn.
  Alaska summer, gold digging at Crow’s Creek Girdwood. Alaskans telling me to put sunblock on, this Alaskan sun is vicious! I told them I come from a place where there is a hole in the ozone layer. My white Partner (23% coconut) got a nice burn that day LOL.
  
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  June 19, 2023 2:58pm
Chuck Bird

GROUNDSWELL MEETINGS

The tour dates and locations are as follows:
6pm Friday 16th June, Hamilton Airport Convention Centre (Jetpark)
6.30pm Monday 19th June, Rongotea Rugby Club Palmerston North
7pm Thursday 22nd June, Ashburton Hotel
1pm Friday 23rd June, Weston Hall Oamaru
7pm Monday 26th June, Ascot Hotel Invercargill
12.30pm Tuesday 27th June, Croydon Lodge Gore
7pm Tuesday 27th June, South Otago Town & Country Club Balclutha

The last one in the North Island is tonight.
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June 19, 2023 2:38pm
Maggie Pie

I’m sorry…..WHAT!!?

‘West Auckland based former School Teacher admits gathering sanitary products from women’s toilets and putting them in his mouth.
He took over 18,000 images of the used items.’

– $tuffedNZ

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300908659/former-teacher-admits-to-upskirting-over-100-women-and-children-with-his-phone
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June 19, 2023 3:29pm
wreck1080

“Foon was a director of MY Gold Investments Ltd – a company trading as Tatapouri Bay Accommodation. It received more than $2 million from the Government to provide emergency housing between 2019 and 2023. Foon was appointed Race Relations Commissioner in August, 2019.”

How did Meng Foon’s company get paid 2 million from the government? I’d be quite interested in that. How was this deal jacked up?
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June 19, 2023 3:50pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Loved the earlier post from ‘mtamati’ above, pointing out that the ‘MY’ stands for Meng & Ying.
  
  Before the name change, the company was formerly known as….. ‘Bargain Veges’
  
  LOL!!!
  
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  June 19, 2023 4:07pm
Ghost

I expect at some point due to health issues the white house will announce joe is not standing

A new poll by the Economist and YouGov has found that Robert Kennedy Jr is now pushing ahead of President Joe Biden for the 2024 Democratic nomination. Robert has the highest favorability ratings of any candidate at present. Although Joe had been the favourite, he may not win the first two contests of the primary season if they begin in Iowa and New Hampshire.

“This latest poll is sending shockwaves among the political class in Washington DC,” an email from Robert’s campaign says. “After being in the race less than two months, Kennedy is viewed favourably by 49 percent of those polled, while Biden is at 45 percent, and Trump comes in third at only 43 percent.”

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June 19, 2023 6:13pm
Ghost

Got to love our corrupt media reporting. Chris has moved to salvage. Would be reported differently if it was National

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has moved to salvage a key Budget offering by backing down on requiring early childhood centres to accept children whose parents only wanted to enrol them for the 20 hours free scheme, a move early childhood centres said would have made it hard to remain in business.

The $1.6 billion expansion of the 20 hours free scheme to include 2-year-olds was one of the Budget moves aimed at helping with the rising cost of living and was to kick in from March next year.

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From the same article, the backlash against the apartheid must have been more than they expected, but I’m sure we all know it will remain

Hipkins said he had asked Health Minister Ayesha Verrall to look into Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand’s new system which requires health professionals to take ethnicity into account when prioritising surgeries and referrals, including prioritising Māori and Pacific Islanders over other ethnicities.
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June 19, 2023 6:34pm
Chris Nisbet

Newshub headline…
“Hipkins asks Health Minister to make sure new surgery equity tool isn’t discriminatory”
Is he an idjut? The whole point of this new tool is that it’s discriminatory.
If you are Maori the tools assumes you need to be shoved up the waiting list.

Is Hipkins suggesting that this policy might have been introduced without checking first to make sure it wasn’t discriminatory?

I want to know why this government thinks it’s a good idea to enable poor health choices by Maori, which is what this policy does by trying to get the same outcomes for them no matter the choices they made that led to their health problems.
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June 19, 2023 7:05pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Media headline – Labour Government U Turn
  
  Not.
  
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  June 19, 2023 8:41pm

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