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Benedict Yu

I am surprised that the police have chosen to invent a new offence. They have decided that the defacement of the pedestrian crossing in Auckland is a “hate crime”.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350228773/police-treating-karangahape-road-rainbow-crossing-vandalism-hate-crime

I checked the Crimes Act. I can find no such offence. Vandalising a pedestrian crossing is “intentional damage”, like all vandalism. (I am sure that David Garrett will be along to correct me if I have erred here.)

Of course I understand that some folk see the pedestrian crossing damage as an expression of hate against the rainbow community. However, IMO it is not the role of police to criminalise hurt feelings.

Also, where was the outrage from politicians and the police when an important exhibit in Te Papa was damaged by vandals? Or statues of important historic figures are destroyed or defaced?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/christchurchs-captain-cook-statue-vandalised-again-25k-worth-of-repairs-estimated/QGHZ5B2SJFEOVM6Q2LOPBPLWA4/

Incredibly a Green Party MP celebrated the defacement of the Treaty exhibit at Te Papa.

https://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/article.aspx?id=389873&fm=newsarticle+-+Accident+and+Emergency%2Cnrhl

Then we have the vandalism recently perpetrated against the Jewish community in Christchurch. AFAIK the Green Party was silent.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/503094/jewish-community-fearful-after-more-vandalism-at-christchurch-synagogue

It seems that not all vandalism is being treated equally, by the media, the police and especially by certain politicians.

One last point about social attitudes towards gay and trans people.

In the UK, social attitudes towards same sex relationships have transformed over the last 40 years.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/sep/21/britain-is-much-more-liberal-minded-than-is-was-40-years-ago-study-finds

90 percent of people have a positive view of same sex relationships, compared to about 30 percent 40 years ago. I can’t find survey findings for New Zealand, but I would expect the trends to be similar here.

However, it is somewhat startling that the same survey in the UK shows a marked decline over the last three years in tolerance towards trans people.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/21/trans-prejudice-doubles-three-years-jk-rowling-cancel/

A reasonable hypothesis is that this trend is driven by people not being comfortable with the explosion in medical and surgical transitioning of minors, and the participation of biological men in women’s sports. People have also witnessed the cancellation of JK Rawling, and the violent attack on Kellie Jay Keen in Auckland which received wide press coverage in the UK.

The clear message from the UK Social Attitudes Survey is that people are distinguishing betwen different subsets of the “rainbow 🌈 community”.
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March 29, 2024 8:01am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  A rainbow pedestrian crossing is an expression of hate against normal, straight people.
  I am offended.
  The decline of transistor tolerance is because we are sick of having their shit rammed down our throats.
  
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  March 29, 2024 8:27am
  - Albie
    
    Steve, in an alternate universe to the one we live in now the authorities would say NO to an application to paint over a public road crossing, and would suggest they spend their own money on billboards if it is so important to them to get their message out there.
    
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    March 29, 2024 9:10am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      See my post below. Police and NZTA were both fully opposed and a letter NZTA wrote re this being illegal and dangerous was never sent. Someone intervened at a high level and this is very dangerous behaviour in so called democracy. Who was it? Why?
      
      This needs urgent investigation.
      
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      March 29, 2024 10:18am
      - Ghost
        
        I don’t believe councils know the laws. I said yesterday about a lady knocked over on a cobblestone crossing. She was found to be at fault because it was not a legal crossing. That took the current council by surprise, they had no idea it wasn’t a legal crossing
        
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        March 29, 2024 10:23am
      - KiwiSapper
        
        These absurd, “rainbow crossings” are not pedestrian crossings, ( zebra crossings) and accordingly misleading to foot traffic as to their safety and use. They fail to resemble in any way legal pedestrian crossings , see the link below for required markings of pedestrian crossings and accordingly , vehicle drivers have right of way with foot traffic foolish enough to regard them as pedestrian crossings, quite likely being run over for their stupidity.
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        https://www.nzta.govt.nz/walking-cycling-and-public-transport/walking/walking-standards-and-guidelines/pedestrian-network-guidance/design/crossings/priority-crossings/zebra-crossings/
        
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        March 29, 2024 1:38pm
  - imalwaysright
    
    Great to see the police deploy their full resources to get the perpetrators of this heinous strike against humanity.
    
    Its not like they have anything better to do, is it?….
    
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    March 29, 2024 9:10am
    - Biscuit
      
      Mmmm, imalwaysright.
      
      And isn’t it great to see our Councils, v. slow to act on important things like water leaks to 99% of their citizens, can rush out crews with their multicoloured pots of paint to remedy a ped. crossing paint-over.
      
      Next there’ll need to be a security camera to ‘catch’ whoever does it next.
      
      Probably need to hire a dedicated council CCTV watcher too…
      
      Rates? Oh, they’ll need to increase.
      
      Leaks? Don’t bother us with trivialities like leaks…
      
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      March 29, 2024 10:16am
      - Paulus
        
        Councils will have to create and employ a Paint Repair Department – 6 staff should be available at all times, plus overtime rates.
        
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        March 29, 2024 10:21am
      - imalwaysright
        
        Paulus
        
        Seven staff.
        Think it through mate!
        
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        March 29, 2024 10:41am
      - pdm
        
        Biscuit how do you know they have water leaks in Gisborne?
        
        Asking for a friend of course.
        
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        March 29, 2024 12:21pm
    - igm
      
      Coster is woke, so he will have a hand in this pro-queer bullshit.
      
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      March 29, 2024 2:37pm
  - Dougal23
    
    You’re getting your minority groups mixed up. Trans folk aren’t necessary Coprophiliacists. That particular group doesn’t currently have a primary colour on the rainbow crossing.
    
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    March 29, 2024 9:17am
    - imalwaysright
      
      Doug,
      
      The greedy bastards have appropriated no fewer than three primary colours!
      
      Red, blue, and yellow gets brown.
      
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      March 29, 2024 9:26am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Never forget Chloe’s defence of the painting over of the crossing.
    
    https://x.com/bobmccoskrienz/status/1773281033699365107?s=20
    
    Oh whoops, that was about another act of “vandalism”??? lol
    
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    March 29, 2024 10:20am
  - jkt
    
    Steve your outrage is justified. Upside down world!
    
    Painting a pedestrian crossing in weird colours that has nothing to do with public or road safety is a waste of taxes and causes a breakdown in order.
    
    Stupidity does not create tolerance and just demonstrates how out of touch these councils and their officers are.
    
    Anyone feeling sorry for individuals working in government for loosing their jobs is justified but reducing the number of unnecessary employees should be celebrated collectively.
    
    If the police focus on their jobs they may well get the job done. If they have time to “police” this type of nonsense then just maybe government should tell the commissioner to get rid of the justice warrior police departments.
    
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    March 29, 2024 11:31am
- Taieri
  
  Why do we even have all these “rainbow crossings”? What purpose do they serve? What does the Road Code say about them?
  
  BTW: I’m neutral as far as the same sex relationships are concerned as they are nothing to do with me. But I’m getting sick of all the “celebrating”, “embracing” and the rest of the hype concerning this topic.
  
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  March 29, 2024 8:34am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    What do they serve?
    Jonathan Pie on Oppression Obsession.
    Look at 3.00 in.
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9_bI789Gog
    
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    March 29, 2024 9:52am
  - wsk12345
    
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    They serve no purpose in the road code. They do create confusion as to the legal standing (which is none), are they a pred crossing (no, not legally).
    
    And like you, I don’t care who wants to shag who. I don’t even care if people want to cross dress. But I’m not going to be forced to celebrate it and I certainly don’t expect to pay for their sex changes and rainbow crossings.
    
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    March 29, 2024 12:08pm
  - JohnRidd
    
    Their purpose is something called “mid level provocation”. The intention is to needle and annoy until some of the normal people who are not part of the religion react in exactly the way that has happened here. The trans allies can then claim they are being attacked and victims of hate crime and so gain political power.
    
    It is a strategy devised by Saul Alinsky in his “Rules for Radicals”
    
    At the start of his book he said,” What follows is for those who want to change the world from what it is to what they believe it should be. The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.”
    
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    March 29, 2024 1:40pm
- Rich Prick
  
  The LGB folk increasingly seem to want little to do with the TQI+ crowd. I suspect it is because the latter are too political, unstable, embarrassing and at the same time, quite aggressive.
  
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  March 29, 2024 8:39am
  - kowtow
    
    The Cops seem to be happy to , what with ‘Diversity Liaison Officers” posing with the frippery.
    
    But if you’re just an ordinary decent burglary victimor shop owner …………maybe not so much.
    
    ‘George Fowler (second left) with Emma Lord and NZ Police Diversity Liaison Officers at Drag 101 Workshop. Photo credit: Hastings District Libraries’
    
    https://www.librariesaotearoa.org.nz/korero-blog/pride-celebrations-at-hastings-district-libraries
    
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    March 29, 2024 8:44am
    - pdm
      
      The other women in that photo are Hastings Library staff. I saw a couple of them when I was in the library yesterday.
      
      BTW I congratulate the HDC and Library for cancelling Wednesdays visit by these people. I have no wish for my grandchildren or great grand children to be indoctrinated into the trans lifestyle.
      
      Do what you like in your own time but stay away from impressionable children and teenagers – let them sort themselves out as they grow up.
      
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      March 29, 2024 10:00am
      - kowtow
        
        Those library folk seem to the vanguard of this activism.
        
        If folk are interested all they need do is follow the links in the newsletters.
        
        So ratepayers are directly funding this , albeit unwittingly.
        
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        March 29, 2024 10:12am
    - Master Mariner
      
      Libraries are the New “Indoctrination Centres”.
      
      Gone are the days of picking and dropping off books as it whole purpose with the advent of the Internet.
      
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      March 29, 2024 11:46am
  - Swifty
    
    Yes – and the fact that what was once an umbrella term or group for purely same-sex attracted people has now been completely overtaken by a whole different group where same-sex attraction is not even a feature.
    
    They have become drowned out. Silenced. By people who are nothing like them.
    
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    March 29, 2024 8:55am
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Sounds like the Green Party.
      
      Funny, though, that the Commies who ousted the Environmentalists are in turn being subsumed by the criminals.
      
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      March 29, 2024 10:06am
  - Dudley Quaffquaff
    
    Particularly the Ls, who really, really don’t like it when men force their way into their spaces and expect to be granted sex
    
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    March 29, 2024 10:18am
  - jkt
    
    It is time that real women take a stand. The feminist ideology that all men are bad is causing women more harm. Most men support women’s rights.
    
    But the feminists keep grouping me with men who pretend they are women or whatever. Women should stand up for women’s rights and oppose and stop supporting men who pretend to be women.
    
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    March 29, 2024 11:39am
- kowtow
  
  Talking of ‘hateful’ paint .
  
  Any updates on those attacks by the pro Hamas types on Luxon’s office .
  and did Plod make a big play of emotions , for that is all ‘hate’ is ,with those attacks.
  
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  March 29, 2024 8:47am
- JackRabbit
  
  It seems that not all vandalism is being treated equally, by the media, the police and especially by certain politicians.
  
  Vandalism Act #1:
  [1] Lock down the country, wreck businesses, families and relationships;
  
  [2] Forcibly injection into the population an untested dodgy vaccine from a company that has billion dollar convictions for medical fraud, all for a fake pandemic. And where the vaccine excess deaths in our country are over 10,000 and side effects and secondary health issues are into 6 figures.
  
  [3] Print and spend up $100 billion dollars, to counter a pandemic that did not exist, throwing the money around like confetti, and as part of that confetti, hire thousands of state servants for jobs that don’t exist, but the only requirement being loyal to the master race and who pledge to topple democracy.
  
  Vandalism Act #2:
  [1] Paint over a street graphic that is pretending to be a pedestrian crossing;
  
  [2] Said pedestrian crossing DOES NOT meet international regulations or recommendations;
  
  [3] Said pied piper pedestrian crossing will not be instantly recognised by all overseas drivers as a pedestrian crossing and could result in loss of life;
  
  [4] In a country, New Zealand, that was singled out in an international road safety study as having an extremely high rate of road deaths involving overseas drivers, as a result of poor road layout and confusing signage or road markings.
  
  [5] Regardless of intentions, said painting over of said pied piper crossing, brings said pedestrian crossing closer back to the international standard.
  
  Vandalism #1 is ignored.
  Vandalism #2 is treated as a major crime.
  
  It is madness on par with NAZI madness:
  [1] You assault, beat, rape, kill, put in gas ovens, or shoot Jews, all while in the NAZI uniform.
  
  [2] If you are caught smoking in uniform, you faced punishment. So you are found, just having raped, tortured, and killed a Jewish woman, and having an ‘after the event’ smoke. The Jewish women’s women’s body is buried in a mass grave, but you face discipline for lighting up a ‘Drummer’ while in uniform.
  
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  March 29, 2024 9:05am
- I remember when
  
  How is it possible to for it to be a crime to hate an inanimate object?
  
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  March 29, 2024 9:21am
  - pdm
    
    Especially one that appears to serve no legal purpose.
    
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    March 29, 2024 10:07am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    You think the COVID vaccine has killed 10,000 New Zealanders?
    
    I have been looking at vaccine and mortality data on and off for three years. I cannot find any evidence to support your claim.
    
    The ONS in the UK released analysis of month by month mortality since the vaccine roll out. All cause mortality rates in the unvaccinated were higher than for the vaccinated – in every month.
    
    https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/misleading-data-used-claim-covid-vaccines-do-more-harm-than-good-2024-03-21/
    
    I never supported the vaccine passes and mandates. Also the effectiveness of the vaccines was way over sold. But the vaccine has definitely not killed 10,000 New Zealanders.
    
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    March 29, 2024 11:35am
    - Master Mariner
      
      “You think the COVID vaccine has killed 10,000 New Zealanders?”,
      Without doing thorough Autopsies then we will never find out. You have too look for it.
      NZ is in a very peculiar situation whereby we had next too Zero Covid and High Vaccination rate BEFORE Covid was prevalent.
      In which case, NZ will not release the Data. If they did, Then it would either confirm or deny any excess deaths on Vaccine OR Covid.
      Just like Aids, People died of Pneumonia or any other auto immune disease, ie Not Aids etc.
      Much the same with Covid ( Vaccine), Higher cancer rates, Respiratory deaths, Heart issues etc etc.
      But unless you look for the cause , You will continue too count incorrectly.
      Thats the way I see it. Im sure others can explain more accurately.
      
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      March 29, 2024 11:56am
      - imalwaysright
        
        Good points M,
        Faucci led the AIDS campaign.
        I still don’t know how a virus can detect homosexuality in a potential host, but Tony got away with it.
        
        It would be a lot easier to discover the truth about excess deaths, but the government won’t release the relevant data.
        Maybe Reti could tell us why we aren’t allowed to read it.
        
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        March 29, 2024 1:03pm
    - wsk12345
      
      You have to dig deeper into the data and shift the massive number of side effects and deaths that occurred in the 14 days after vaccination from the unvaxxed cohort where they currently are, into the vaccinated cohort where any sane person who believed in truth would put them.
      
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      March 29, 2024 12:12pm
      - Keith White
        
        …and if you don’t do the test, you’ll never get the result.
        
        No autopsies with myocardial, vascular and cortical histology means no undeniable and blameworthy causes of death for the Nuremberg-level criminals to have to explain.
        
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        March 29, 2024 12:57pm
      - JackRabbit
        
        That 14 days was a killer quite literally.
        
        For Benedict’s benefit and clarity, no-one was regarded as vaccinated if they had been injected less that 14 days prior.
        
        If you went into shock, keeled over and died in the vaccine clinic or on the way to the hospital from the vaccine clinic, it was counted as a Covid death in an unvaccinated person.
        
        If you felt ill, got worse, and dropped dead with 24 hours, again, an unvaccinated Covid death.
        
        Unfortunately I have lost count of the exact number of personal accounts of family members, workmates and colleagues of people I know, both here and overseas, dropping dead in this manner., but as stated it is in the dozens.
        
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        March 29, 2024 4:08pm
    - JackRabbit
      
      Benedict,
      At the risk of repeating myself….
      
      [1] Deaths are recorded every year.
      
      [2] Deaths per 100,000 every year are calculated
      
      [3] Excess deaths per 100,000 are deaths that exceed the normal. Our government’s own data show the excess deaths climbed after 2021.
      
      [4] In 2020 and the first part of 2021 showed no excess deaths.
      
      [5] If you do the research, you will find that every country over exaggerated Covid deaths by a factor of 10-15. i.e. they died of other causes or co-morbidities. Italy that supposedly had 135,000 Covid deaths at one stage, downgraded the deaths to about 7,500 as all other deaths were deaths with. Even here in NZ, I know multiple people whose parent died of all sorts of things but were written up as Covid.
      
      Even the CDC downgraded deaths by Covid to about 6% of those, the rest being deaths with Covid. The CDC banned the PCR test as of 31st Dec 2021, as it was it was generating false positive.
      
      [6] You will also find that deaths by the flu, which pre 2020 was known. Most actual Covid deaths were flu deaths.
      
      [7] Excess deaths occurred after the vaccine rollout. And anecdotal data supports that. I know of no-one, at 1, 2, or 3 degrees of separation that has side effects or dies from Covid.
      
      [8] At one degree of separation I know several dozen people that have had vaccine injuries. Some have permanent injuries. And pushing their doctors for specifics had it confirmed “off the record” as a vaccine injury. Off the record to avoid being struck off.
      
      [9] At two degrees of separation, you can add dozens and dozens more, and you can add in a handful of deaths, Same with three degrees separation. Some of those within 24 hours, some within minutes of the vaccines.
      
      [10] You can add in a number of medical professionals I know, who had hundreds of patients turn up with all sorts of issues. Many have taken early retirement, or stopped practicing medicine.
      
      [11] Hospitals, and specialists are over run with lots of health issues caused by the vaccines. It is well known among the professionals, however it is not talked about, out of fear.
      
      If however you can keep confidence and be trusted to not rat them out, they will tell you. However many medical professionals were as hoodwinked as the public.
      
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      March 29, 2024 4:00pm
- Che Guava
  
  If you basically accept liberalism, then you have to accept transgenderism, which is a consequence thereof. There is a direct line between feminism, gay rights, and now transgenderism. All of these ideas and behaviours are destructive of the family and, therefore, deleterious to wider society, given enough time to take root.
  
  Each of these stages has required a process of incessant mass indoctrination to get people to slowly accept what are, fundamentally, a rejection and a perversion of a natural order. This is why “acceptance” of each of these has increased over time, not because any or them are good in themselves, but because people have become acclimatised to unnatural things, mostly because society has no well-defined moral compass anymore.
  
  If you deny that there are any naturally determined physical and moral constraints on our behaviours, and that “being free to be the best version of yourself” is the only thing that matters, then you’ll end up with transgenderism, and then after that, whatever abomination comes next as a logical progression.
  
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  March 29, 2024 9:21am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    “If you basically accept liberalism, then you have to accept transgender ism..”
    
    Really? Same sex relationships and attraction have existed forever. However up until about 5 minutes ago, nobody thought that sex was a “spectrum” and that amputating the breasts of teenage girls was a good idea because they wanted to be a boy.
    
    Conflating same sex relationships with transgender acceptance is just plain wrong.
    
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    March 29, 2024 9:41am
    - thirteenstars
      
      Indeed. Besides, the woke wave crashing upon us, which includes trans activism, is a function of the most *illiberal* ideology of modern times, Marxism, or it’s new incarnation, neo-Marxism.
      
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      March 29, 2024 10:42am
  - Michael Johnston
    
    What is your alternative to liberalism, Che? Authoritarianism? If so, under whose authority? And with what mandate?
    Yes, liberalism means accepting that others make choices we may disagree with. But there’s a caveat on that – there has to be a mutual acceptance. In the case of the law, that means that it applies equally to all. So Trans activists are not liberals if they want to force me to use their pronouns and believe that they can magically change sex. Neither are the police acting as the servants if liberal democracy they are paid to be, by calling the vandalisation of a pedestrian crossing a hate crime while reacting to the vandalisation of the treaty exhibit at Te Papa with apparent indifference. Ditto our courts when they let off a granny basher and give him name suppression, or sentence different ethnic groups differently for the same crimes. The problem is not liberalism, which means equal rights under the rule of law. It’s authoritarian nut jobs being enabled by formerly liberal institutions that have become corrupted.
    
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    March 29, 2024 10:25am
    - thirteenstars
      
      “What is your alternative to liberalism, Che? Authoritarianism?”
      
      Yep, good old reactionary Jew-hating Christian conservatism is the cure, don’t ya know?
      
      Gott mit uns. Do unto others before they can do it unto you. Now ain’t that an Easter message we can all get behind?
      
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      March 29, 2024 10:49am
    - Jack5
      
      What is liberalism?
      
      It seems to have a wide range of meanings.
      
      For example, the definition in Wikipedia :
      
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_liberalism_in_the_United_States
      
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      March 29, 2024 11:37am
      - Michael Johnston
        
        I’m talking about the classical liberalism of John Stuart Mill and his ilk – the political philosophy that enshrined free speech and political equality – not ‘modern American liberalism, which, as I imply above, is anything but liberal in the classical sense.
        
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        March 29, 2024 12:29pm
  - Dudley Quaffquaff
    
    Nobody denies that there are any naturally determined physical and moral constraints on our behaviours. That constraint is, the impact of your behaviour on other people. Nobody denies that my right to swing my fist stops short of your nose.
    
    Transgenderism becomes a problem when it impinges on other people’s rights and freedoms, and the people whose rights and freedoms are impinged upon by transgenderism are women. That’s why transgenderism is not an extension of feminism. It’s a backlash against it, an attempt by men to deny women the rights and freedoms they’ve only just begun to enjoy.
    
    They seek alliance with feminists, claiming to be similarly engaged in a struggle against the patriarchy, but actually they’re not seeking to overturn men’s rights at all. On the contrary, they seek to uphold and perpetuate what men through the ages have seen as their natural right – to silence, if necessary by violence, women who disagree with them. J K Rowling is a hero
    
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    March 29, 2024 10:28am
    - Grumpy Silver Top
      
      J K Rowling is a hero. She called out the woke bs.
      
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      March 29, 2024 1:12pm
  - jkt
    
    Che: Once again you grab onto a grain of truth and create a lie!
    
    Your arguments tell people who you are. So be careful. If you are a man pretending to be a woman that is your problem. Get help and stay out of women’s spaces.
    
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    March 29, 2024 11:43am
  - wsk12345
    
    Acceptance is a long way away from celebrating which is what we are all expected to do.
    
    Most people I know accept the Ta, might think they are freaks but they are accepted broadly speaking. But I for one, and many others I know flat out refuse to “celebrate” them because we think they are freaks and in most cases, including that of my step son, either autistic or mentally ill. As the data shows. And I don’t want to share a bathroom with them or be made to compete against them in my chosen sports.
    
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    March 29, 2024 12:16pm
  - Philview
    
    I recall back in the 80s coming across Boy George types and they didn’t bother me in the slightest. What has changed is that the Neo Marxist agenda or whatever they call themselves have a whole tool box of strategies to undermine the cohesion of society. I know parents who now have a so called trans child and pre Jacinda they could have got some help but now it is hard.
    
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    March 29, 2024 12:21pm
    - Paulus
      
      What has happened is that the so called media have taken these minority groups as ammunition to denigrate anything other than such groupings.
      Look to Helen Clark who was the real supporter of such along with he breakdown of families, via the welfare state, of which she is the mover of such minority movements, which have grown into a larger numbers and still supported by the media for their own ends, to let the public know that they are still the leaders in society – they think !
      
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      March 29, 2024 2:03pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  The crossings are clearly illegal. Re Wellington’s crossing:
  
  In a draft letter never sent to the council, NZTA gave formal notification it prohibited the installation of the crossing and that should it proceed, the agency would ask police to prevent the installation and remove the markings.
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/opposition-to-wellingtons-rainbow-crossing-nearly-led-to-police-intervention/LSQMJ4WU77ZQ3L72DCSV5BSU2Q/
  
  Why was the letter never sent? Who intervened?
  
  Police also clearly indicated concerns:
  
  In an email to NZTA, police also indicated they had safety concerns.
  
  “This proposal poses risks of death and serious injury for road users- pedestrians in particular.”
  
  Again, who intervened to override the law and concerns of NZTA and police?
  
  Wellington Council, as usual, more than happy to waste ratepayer money to kowtow to a minority.
  
  Wellington City Council told NZTA it had made every effort to address concerns by adding several safety features.
  
  These included shortening the length of the crossing, a speed cushion and extra signs including a “safe selfie spot”.
  
  “We are entirely comfortable with the appropriateness of the site from a health and safety perspective.”
  
  The very real worry for me is that this is apparently confirmation that NZ police are no longer a force for law and order, but instead have been politicised as an arm of the left.
  
  The reaction to the rainbow mural in Gisborne (it isn’t a crossing) being painted out was astonishing. Within 24 hours it was repainted and had a police guard.
  Compare that to the Albert Park fiasco or the far too numerous cases of young children and babies being battered and murdered.
  
  NZ police have made complete fools of themselves over this and the disparity in their reactions here vs Posey Parker are as alarming as they are massive.
  
  The police minister needs to take very urgent action. The damage done to the already poor reputation of the police is huge. Like our medical authorities, trust once lost is hard to regain.
  
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  March 29, 2024 10:16am
  - thirteenstars
    
    Minister Mark Mitchell is fully on board with the police response according to his words on the news last night.
    
    I’ve never seen a police minister who did not close ranks with the police when any criticism of them was made.
    
    But that’s not the Minister’s job. That’s for the Police Association (the police union) to do, and they do it pretty well, as they should.
    
    It’s the Minister’s job to hold the police to account according to the government’s agenda as per the democratic will that put that government in power.
    
    It might seem like a good idea to put a former cop in the role but I’ve never thought so. That mentality dies hard. I’ve known and worked with my share of ex-cops and they never really leave the job.
    
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    March 29, 2024 10:57am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      It also says much about New Zealand that a pedestrian crossing is the lead story in the media.
      
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      March 29, 2024 11:38am
    - imalwaysright
      
      Thir,
      
      Good points.
      How many times do we hear Ministers withholding comments on police shortcomings by using the excuse of “operational matter”?
      However, when political convenience is at stake, we can’t shut them up.
      
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      March 29, 2024 1:16pm
      - thirteenstars
        
        Police media events have always been an exercise in how stone-faced they can be. How little information they can impart.
        
        But that’s a function of first our compliant media and second our complicit Police Minister.
        
        We are ill-served and we are the poorer.
        
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        March 29, 2024 8:02pm
  - Grumpy Silver Top
    
    Wellington Council, as usual, more than happy to waste ratepayer money to kowtow to a minority.
    Wellington City Council told NZTA it had made every effort to address concerns by adding several safety features.
    These included shortening the length of the crossing, a speed cushion and extra signs including a “safe selfie spot”.
    “We are entirely comfortable with the appropriateness of the site from a health and safety perspective.”
    
    This response is exactly who one can expect from a city council that doesn’t understand, or even care about its role.
    
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    March 29, 2024 1:13pm
- JamesP
  
  The answer is contained in the S9(h) of the Sentencing Act:
  
  “that the offender committed the offence partly or wholly because of hostility towards a group of persons who have an enduring common characteristic such as race, colour, nationality, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, or disability;”
  
  The Adern government decided that crimes appearing to meet this aggravating sentencing factor should be statistically counted by Police as “hate crimes”. However, it turned out it was very difficult to interrogate the Police database to produce these statistics.
  
  So Police upgraded their database and reporting standards. Now every single crime reported is flagged (yes/no/uncertain) as to whether it is a “hate crime”. And having been required to record crime this way, it is now how Police talk about crime when speaking to reporters.
  
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  March 29, 2024 10:59am
  - imalwaysright
    
    It would be great if they could actually solve some crime rather than worrying about subclassification.
    
    Imagine: “Miss, did your rapist use any insulting language?”
    
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    March 29, 2024 11:59am
    - wsk12345
      
      To be fair, it’s a valid question when rapists get home D but “hate crimes” appear likely to get much harsher sentences.
      
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      March 29, 2024 12:21pm
- peterwn
  
  It is not a ‘hate crime’ in the sense there is such a provision in law. It would be ‘wilful damage to property’ or similar. The seriousness would also depend on the type of white paint used. In the 1960’s students at Auckland University unsuccessfully lobbied for a pedestrian crossing across Princes Street between the Clocktower and Albert Park (perhaps Northern Club members did not want the inconvenience of having to stop for students). So some students painted one anyway. Unfortunately the paint contained a solvent that dissolved the tar seal and the council had to repair the pavement. Council sent the Students Association the bill.
  
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  March 29, 2024 11:17am
- PurplePen
  
  A couple of thoughts spring to mind… good point about where was then outrage for other acts of vandalism against others.
  
  Being gay I couldn’t care less about the white washing of rainbow crossings and am not offended. I asked a few others from my ilk and one said “couldn’t give a shit, except it’s Destiny Church”. If I think about it, why don’t I give a shit … in part its because I don’t see rainbow crossings as ours anyway. They’re put their by do-gooder virtue signalling councillors, not by us, as far as I can tell. And … well … Destiny Church … if it was a group of sane people saying death to all LGB… then I’d have an issue.
  
  Then other point I’d like to make is our ol’ LGB of years ago has been hijacked. The LGB is about who you’re attracted to and love. The rest of the alphabet soup is about what sex or gender you are, nothing to do with us. So yeah … there are factions but the LGB are pretty much silenced by the rest. They should get their own group and treehouse.
  
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  March 29, 2024 11:35am
  - JohnRidd
    
    Well said, PurplePen.
    
    LGB is is about how people feel about others. It is outward looking and that is a good thing.
    
    Trans is about how people feel about themselves. Trans is inward looking and a very different thing.
    
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    March 29, 2024 4:10pm
  - Ghost
    
    It’s been hijacked by those who want to create division.
    
    The people pushing this agenda have pushed Black Lives Matter, antifa. Etc. they don’t represent the the lgb community, nor do they represent the trans people who are getting on with their lives and not a part of all of this
    
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    March 29, 2024 4:20pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  Why do the minority far left believe they have a right to use majority funded state resources to force their minority-interests activism into the public square?
  
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  March 29, 2024 1:10pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

Hey Jacinda! Remember all our money that you spent like water to ‘save lives’?

One consequence is that we are so far behind funding drugs available across the rest of the Western world, we aren’t being offered drugs for trial since the pharmaceutical companies regard our patients as not having completed the standard slate. And, it’s a disincentive for medical specialists to move here, since typically they’re interested in cutting edge medicine as part of their practice.

What a cluster!

http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2024/03/kiwi-friends-with-multiple-myeloma-having-to-commute-to-australia-for-treatment-not-funded-in-nz.html
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March 29, 2024 8:10am
- igm
  
  You should have included Hipkins, Parker, Robertson, et al . . . they were the driving leeches also.
  
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  March 29, 2024 8:25am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Agreed, but if I got started I would be there a very long time listing Labour and their media whore lickspittles.
    
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    March 29, 2024 10:08am
- softail 1450
  
  NMTB, 3rd world isn’t in our future we’re already living it ,Dame Ardern however who more than any other single politician is responsible for the cluster——— has gone to a better place far far away.
  
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  March 29, 2024 8:55am
Chuck Bird

PROF MICHAEL KELLY: Professor Of Physics And Mathematics: On His Study Of The Cost For NZ To Achieve Net Zero By 2050

https://realitycheck.radio/prof-michael-kelly-professor-of-physics-and-mathematics-on-his-study-of-the-cost-for-nz-to-achieve-net-zero-by-2050/
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March 29, 2024 8:11am
- kowtow
  
  CB
  
  Excellent post .Well worth the hour spent.
  
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  March 29, 2024 10:13am
- NZer In Exile
  
  Haven’t read this one but have read/watched many other expert analyses of the net-zero religious delusion/grift/scam.
  
  I presume the conclusion is the same. IE monstrously expensive (as in inflation through the roof and your children and grandchildren living in poverty and sickness as a result) and essentially achieving nothing of value?
  
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  March 29, 2024 1:15pm
- Master Mariner
  
  Great interview.
  ” All renewable investment will have to written off”.
  
  A quote that “Struck a chord”, Around 30 min mark.
  
  Thanks.
  
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  March 29, 2024 2:38pm
slightlyrighty

Last night on Sky Open news, the lead Story was the painting over in white of the Rainbow crossing in K road, which was described as a “hate crime”.

That’s right folks, painting over something that you don’t agree with is a hate crime.

The VERY NEXT story was about accusing Paul Goldsmith of over reaching by questioning why Te Papa has not repaired the damage done by painting over the English language version of the Treaty of Waitangi display.

Do they even realise the irony?
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March 29, 2024 8:13am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  The English version of the Treaty in Te Papa is (as far as I know) the James Freeman version which is the rogue version used by the Waitangi Tribunal.
  The vandals have painted out a lie.
  
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  March 29, 2024 8:31am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    If it must be taken down then fine, as long as it is replaced with the Littlewood Draft.
    
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    March 29, 2024 8:34am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Good to see a lot of upticks on my last two comments.
      Not blowing my arse about upticks, but it does mean that people on this blog have been watching my links to Julian Batchelor and his Stop Co-Governance website.
      It takes a long time for some to realise that they should care, not just dismiss what is happening under their noses.
      That is all,
      Steve.
      
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      March 29, 2024 6:09pm
- Albie
  
  Slightly, did you also pick up the PM failing to strongly support his minister? “It’s a board decision blah blah…”
  Once again Luxon, by failing to take a stand on contentious issues has effectively pulled the rug out from under Paul Goldsmith IMO.
  
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  March 29, 2024 8:56am
  - Ghost
    
    Luxon said he hadn’t heard what had been said. But it is a board decision, not government. The board should be thinking today where the minister might make cuts in his funding this year
    
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    March 29, 2024 8:59am
    - Albie
      
      Ghost, how convenient for Luxon. He is certainly aware of the controversy and would have an opinion, which is what the journalist was trying to get out of him.
      
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      March 29, 2024 9:16am
      - Ghost
        
        No, the prime Minister was correct in his reply. This isn’t Clark or ardern who felt a need to control everything.
        
        I haven’t been briefed on it that’s a question you’d need to direct to Paul Goldsmith who’s our minister there,” Christopher Luxon said
        
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        March 29, 2024 9:23am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    He was right, it was a board decision, snd he never shut Goldsmith down
    
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    March 29, 2024 2:50pm
- imalwaysright
  
  They never refer to the torture and murder, by their kin, of very young New Zealanders as hate crimes.
  
  But a painted road crossing gets a freshen up and they get all emotional.
  
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  March 29, 2024 9:07am
  - ISeeRed
    
    See also: vegans who support abortion.
    
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    March 29, 2024 2:13pm
- Frank Hematuria
  
  The irony would not have occurred to them. That’s why they didn’t edit the clip they showed of the vandal on a rope committing his “hate crime” with a Police Officer watching him do it.
  
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  March 29, 2024 9:45am
Chuck Bird

This is not premium. I am with Peters and Seymour.

Willie Jackson: Winston Peters reverts to ‘gutter politics’ to deflect more pressing issues

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/willie-jackson-winston-peters-reverts-to-gutter-politics-to-deflect-more-pressing-issues/VCS467IBYBGZTEZQVWGHYIWYHM/
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March 29, 2024 8:13am
- Cassandra
  
  Jackson is the authority on gutter politics. But I note that National’s Sanford is happy with segregation at the U of Auckland. Two NZers of Maori descent (Seymour, Peters) do not like it at all and rightly so but yet again National opts out. Segregation is wrong. And excluding other minorities makes this example stupid as well.
  
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  March 29, 2024 8:24am
  - Cassandra
    
    Minister Stanford – sorry for error.
    
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    March 29, 2024 11:42am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Depends how she was asked, I note Luxon has said he doesn’t like it and wants the division stopped
    
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    March 29, 2024 2:51pm
- pdm
  
  Six months down the track and the unlikely duo of Seymour and Peters and their respective Parliamentary Caucuses are the ones setting the pace in getting New Zealand back on track – with help from Simeon Brown and Nicola Willis..
  
  Unfortunately `Te Reo’ Luxon is increasingly showing his true colours. His latest effort being to retain unelected Maori Wards in Councils. He seems to prefer soft targets like reprimanding Minister Penny Simmonds for a genuine error in the way she got some very necessary information and rule changes to the Disability community.
  
  Prime Minister the country voted for thei removal of Maori Wards in October – so time to get on with it.
  
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  March 29, 2024 8:25am
  - kowtow
    
    I recall he made a very strong play in his pre election town hall meet and greets against that nonsense .
    
    He better be very careful or he’ll be a one term PM.
    
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    March 29, 2024 8:53am
    - greybeard
      
      I am sure he is aware of all of these concerns, and I am also sure that he is a man who knows exactly how to prioritise his work. He can’t do everything immediately.
      
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      March 29, 2024 10:09am
      - kowtow
        
        He’s got ministers and ministries and very willing coalition partners .
        
        He’s not setting priorities he’s applying the brakes and I can tell you he’s going back on his word , given very clearly at those ‘town hall” meet and greets.
        
        The problem with the Nats is they seem to have a deep seated alignment with Maori Establishment interests , for whatever reason .
        
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        March 29, 2024 10:18am
      - 70andstilllearning
        
        Agree there gb – Mahuta killed the ratepayer referendum capability under urgency to beat the Feb 2021 requirements for the 2022 LB election requirement . All coalition partners campaigned on restoring that capability which is what Luxon said.
        https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/02/the-reason-urgency-is-being-used-to-make-establishing-m-ori-wards-easier-for-councils.html
        https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/03/28/local-referendums-for-maori-wards-on-the-back-burner-leak-suggests/
        
        As an aside I hadn’t realised how quickly Maiki Sherman’s “sources” had become such a powerful representation of truth for some. Reminds me of Tova’s sources ……..
        
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        March 29, 2024 11:03am
      - PurplePen
        
        That could be it .. why he hasn’t gone all out otherwise there’d be even more noise from the left. If that is the case then fine. Will wait and see.
        
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        March 29, 2024 11:48am
      - jkt
        
        Spot on. Those who do not like him can vote him out.
        
        I for one will look at the outcomes that are created under this government before I judge.
        
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        March 29, 2024 11:53am
    - Paulus
      
      A one term PM, or shorter, is what those left of the media want to show, that they, the fourth estate are still in charge, as they were with Ardern assisting.
      
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      March 29, 2024 10:28am
      - Chuck Bird
        
        If it is shorter, that means he would get rolled rather than lose in 2026.
        
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        March 29, 2024 10:46am
      - jkt
        
        Well done, you got the math correct, but, you missed the point of the comment.
        
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        March 29, 2024 11:55am
    - leoj
      
      I hope so. He’s a gutless wonder.
      
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      March 29, 2024 12:10pm
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      The cabinet voted unnanomously to delay this, nothing to bloody do with Luxon about turning at all
      
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      March 29, 2024 2:56pm
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        70andstillstanding
        Notice Sherman was very careful not too say it came from a cabinet minister, this will simply be another leaker from the left who has seen a paper
        
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        March 29, 2024 3:02pm
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      He never bloody applied the brakes, a unanimous cabinet vote to put it back later in the term, its two years till the next council elections
      
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      March 29, 2024 2:58pm
  - Benedict Yu
    
    So far all my misgivings about Chris Luxon before the election have been shown to be correct post election.
    
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    March 29, 2024 9:54am
    - ISeeRed
      
      I despise him and anyone who sings his praises.
      
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      March 29, 2024 2:14pm
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        But you are for red, we despise red
        
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        March 29, 2024 3:04pm
  - pdm
    
    My email to Luxon last night about the Maori Wards is over at No Minister Blog for those that may like to read it and email Luxon and their Electorate MP as I did.
    
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    March 29, 2024 10:12am
    - 70andstilllearning
      
      Seriously pdm – what don’t you understand about:
      
      “Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said all three coalition parties had the same position on the issue. The previous government abolished referenda for council Māori wards in 2021.
      
      All we want to do is actually see it revert back to the situation that it once was.”
      i.e. ‘ let the LB voters decide’ – I think that’s called democracy – isn’t it?
      
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      March 29, 2024 11:19am
      - pdm
        
        let the LB voters decide’
        
        70 – Local Bodies can do nothing until the Government passes legislation.
        
        Besides I doubt any/many aspiring Mayors or Councillors in the next LB elections are going to be bold enough to stand up and say that they will get rid of separate Maori Wards. That would be election suicide in todays environment.
        
        What would be the use anyway because my understanding is they are locked in until the law is changed and that seemingly rests with Luxon.
        
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        March 29, 2024 12:50pm
      - 70andstilllearning
        
        Not disputing any of that pdm – just think that there will be a little bit of legal stuff required to sort out reinstatement of the prior situation, possibly including a requirement for those LB’s that have (and still plan to) circumvent a referendum under Mahuta’s rules, to hold a referendum. One LB I pay rates to had planned a referendum with the 2022 elections but instead created an monstrosity that resulted in the 4 maori ward council reps needing only about 1000 votes per rep compared to around 6-7 k for the 6 general ward reps. The worst part was that the LGC signed off on the review proposal despite it being very evident there was a discrepancy which was out side of the rules **. The rationale for that approval was shoddy as hell!
        
        ** Appeals and objections against final local authority representation review proposals and proposals that are non-compliant with the statutory fair representation requirements (the ‘+/- 10% rule’) – see LGC /What we do etc
        
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        March 29, 2024 2:10pm
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Why are you letting Sherman win? I will say it again, a unanimous cabinet vote to delay this, they had their reasons, Luxon did not pull the rug on this, do some bloody homework
      
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      March 29, 2024 3:06pm
  - PurplePen
    
    Extract from THE TRUTH ABOUT THE MAORI SEATS, Jeremy Sparrow, Otago University. … and so there is no justification for Maori wards.
    ———
    At the time of their creation, the Maori seats were not expected to be permanently embedded in our electoral system. They were intended to be temporary and give parliamentary representation to Maori until they met the necessary property qualifications to vote on the common roll. Once universal suffrage was introduced in 1893, one would think the seats had achieved their purpose.
    Yet, the Maori seats survived, as Joseph writes “through indifference and neglect”.30 The seats were retained throughout the life of the First-Past-the-Post (FPP) voting system,31 but when the Royal Commission on the Electoral System was created in 1985, the issue of Maori representation in Parliament came directly under the microscope.
    
    Along with its broad and inclusive terms of reference to review the electoral system, the Royal Commission was specifically directed to consider “the nature and basis of Maori representation in Parliament”. The Royal Commission recommended New Zealand replace FPP with MMP, a proportional system of voting. The Commission believed there would be no need for separate Maori representation and the seats should be abolished.
    
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    March 29, 2024 11:39am
    - pdm
      
      PP you are referring to Parliamentary Seats.
      
      The issue above is separate Maori Wards on Councils – so totally different.
      
      However your last sentence should be applied to both.
      
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      March 29, 2024 12:55pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    That is utter bullshit, he has not slowed anything, the full cabinet voted to delay it till later, as Seymour said, no date had been set on this, it’s part of the agreed coalition for this term, why come on here telling lies, unanimous was the result of the vote.
    
    Hey let’s all hate Luxon then
    
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    March 29, 2024 2:54pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  “Safe spaces” for certain ethnicities just does not sit well with me. The inference is that students of Pacific Island ethnicity are not sufficiently equipped to mix with other students.
  
  More importantly, it yet again puts the spotlight on ethnicity being an important identifier of a person’s entitlement, place in society, or character. Willie Jackson was the principal cheer leader for such a belief system in relation to Maori.
  
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  March 29, 2024 8:28am
  - Taieri
    
    “Safe spaces” for certain ethnicities
    ———–
    
    Safe from what?
    Would the lack of such spaces make certain ethnicities “unsafe”? How?
    
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    March 29, 2024 9:21am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      Apparantly safe from race based emotional and physical harm. According to some guy from the university I listened to being interviewed on ZB.
      
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      March 29, 2024 9:45am
      - Chuck Bird
        
        That is more likely to be of more concern for Jews.
        
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        March 29, 2024 11:02am
  - artemisia
    
    More than a hint of special entitlement in the reporting of job cuts at Ministry for Pacific Peoples. The below is from the PSA, sure they are looking out for their members, but most of these functions are already available. Frankly a special ministry to replicate existing functions based on ethnicity looks like a great way to get more race based taxpayer money.
    
    He said the ministry has been active in Pasifika communities supporting housing development, the creation of training and employment opportunities, supporting Pasifika languages, cultures and identities, and developing social enterprises.
    
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/512886/government-cuts-will-hit-pasifika-communities-hard-union
    
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    March 29, 2024 9:28am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      Any public servant who took up employment in the last 6 years should have had an exit plan. Because it was obvious that on a change of government the madness would end.
      
      As I have previously commented, the senior public servants and chief executives brought this on themselves.
      
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      March 29, 2024 9:48am
      - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
        
        Indeed, and the worst culprits are now the fastest to show how tough they are by laying off the most staff.
        
        Something very wrong with this cadre of “leaders”.
        
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        March 29, 2024 11:44am
      - ISeeRed
        
        I don’t think it’s ending. Just slowing down a bit. The country is still screwed.
        
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        March 29, 2024 2:19pm
    - peterwn
      
      So the Ministry is more of a taxpayer funded lobby group rather than a real ministry that carries out executive functions. Labour just loves setting up taxpayer funded lobby groups to lobby its own Ministers and Departments.
      
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      March 29, 2024 11:24am
    - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
      
      “active”…..”supporting”
      
      So in fact not actually doing anything at all!
      
      MPP had ample opportunity to “do” things under the previous government. But the then CEO was happier not offending his Palangi masters (and planning his big party) and was richly rewarded for his obedience.
      
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      March 29, 2024 11:42am
    - artemisia
      
      40% of roles to go, though half of them are vacancies. Burn down the village and hope to save the village?
      
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      March 29, 2024 12:36pm
  - kowtow
    
    ‘Safe spaces’ are in direct contradiction to the whole notion of universities as open ,new ,challenging environments of ,learning , progress and universalism.
    
    Anathema , even.
    
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    March 29, 2024 10:21am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    It’s undefendable racism, pure and simple. There is no other description or excuse for it.
    
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    March 29, 2024 11:07am
  - rouppe
    
    You should see the “wheel of privilege” that my son has to review and be tested on in first year engineering in Canterbury
    
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    March 29, 2024 5:34pm
- JackRabbit
  
  Willie Jackson: Winston Peters reverts to ‘gutter politics’ to deflect more pressing issues
  
  Look in the mirror Willie, that is pure deflection.
  
  A well known trait of narcissists is to blame others of the misdeeds that themselves are carrying out.
  
  If an employee is fingering the till and suspicion is raised about discrepancies, they start a rumour about someone else.
  
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  March 29, 2024 8:43am
- Swifty
  
  Jackson would know – he’s wallowed around in the political gutter for the last 30 years.
  
  I struggle to think of a New Zealand political figure who has thrown around more extreme, offensive, gutter and plain wrong labels about and against his political opponents.
  
  Bradbury is his only competition for such extremity and dementedness but Waititi is closing in on them of late.
  
  It’s all they’ve got of course. They couldn’t argue or debate their way out of a wet paper bag.
  
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  March 29, 2024 8:45am
  - Jack5
    
    Bradbury? A political figure?
    
    Martyn Bradbury, student magazine editor 35 years ago, and still in that mode? A political figure?
    
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    March 29, 2024 11:30am
    - Swifty
      
      How about ‘political operative’ then?
      
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      March 29, 2024 1:56pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

Whose policy was this?

I’m no raving Greenie, but there is merit in having areas of the globe untouched by humans. If it truly is the case that it’s untouched then I think we should leave it that way. There are plenty of fish in the other 85% of NZ’s EEZ.

http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/03/government-scraps-kermadec-ocean-sanctuary-plans-seabed-mining-now-a-possibility-in-pristine-ecosystem.html
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March 29, 2024 8:19am
- pdm
  
  Bollocks. Somewhere I heard Jones saying that Maori did not want the Sanctuary to go ahead.
  
  If that is the case then they got their way again.
  
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  March 29, 2024 8:32am
  - Swifty
    
    I do have some sympathy for a group being aggrieved at their fishing rights being awarded and protected in their treaty settlement before being subsequently taken away, without compensation, in establishing the sanctuary – which is my understanding of the situation.
    
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    March 29, 2024 8:49am
    - Paulus
      
      Cannot find Fishing Rights in the Treaty – where is is it spelt out or defined ?
      
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      March 29, 2024 10:31am
    - Dudley Quaffquaff
      
      And mine, and what I don’t understand is how that was controversial. The government was proposing to appropriate private property with an economic value, of course the owners should have been fairly compensated.
      
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      March 29, 2024 10:34am
  - softail 1450
    
    PDM, Even if it’d gone ahead countries like China, India would just ignore it as most likely through cultural Kai Moana rights the IWI that will control this country entirely in the next 20 years would also do.
    
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    March 29, 2024 9:04am
  - kiwikidsnz
    
    Maori owned fisheries companies?
    
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    March 29, 2024 9:13am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Shane Jones and Iwi with stakes in commercial fishing. IIRC Maori have previously challenged the marine sanctuary in courts.
  
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  March 29, 2024 8:36am
- Prince
  
  It is NZ First who are rejecting it.
  National planned the sanctuary in 2016, Labour (but really NZ First as part of their coalition agreement) gutted it in 2017.
  Now National try again, but NZ First step in again.
  The power of the 6%.
  
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  March 29, 2024 9:29am
- Colville
  
  Iwi have quota in that area. Its obvious if the sanctuary went ahead there would have to be compensation just like Government taking away any other property right.
  
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  March 29, 2024 9:46am
- Inandout
  
  NM, somewhere along the line we must face the dilemma. Do we sit at the bottom of the world wallowing in greenwash, barely affording the necessary items life affords us, or do we grab our fossil wealth and prosper? Norway is the go to when we observe wealth created by exploiting oil and gases, but we can also add bountiful amounts of coal to the mixture. Our first task is to get the drag chain that we are shackled to, namely the Treaty, put aside as it has had its day in the sun. Shane Jones can bring hope to these shores so long as he weaves his way through the legal mire and shows who is boss.
  
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  March 29, 2024 10:06am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  It’s not a possibility, because the Kermidecs already have a 12 mile no go zone for fishing g and mining already, it was asked of thd minister who slammed the questioner with the answer
  
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  March 29, 2024 3:10pm
- rouppe
  
  It was Maori that stopped it. Because they wanted to be able to continue to fish it themselves, to the exclusion of everyone else
  
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  March 29, 2024 5:35pm
Flossie

The amount of resources wasted on rainbow crossings is so ridiculous. Was the punching of a pensioner at the Posy Parker event not a hate crime? In the case of the painting on the road nobody was physically harmed. Priorities seem so wrong.
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March 29, 2024 8:32am
- Benedict Yu
  
  There is no such thing as a hate crime.
  
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  March 29, 2024 9:50am
- sungsamning
  
  Its only a ‘hate crime’ if the good guys do it.
  
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  March 29, 2024 9:55am
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  1. No such thing as a hate crime
  2. Pedestrian crossings are prescibed in regulation – they are intended to be black and white, standardised, and to provide assurance to pedestrians and drivers as to their purpose.
  A rainbow painted on a road is not a pedestrian crossing, and it is not actually a permitted decoration.
  
  All the paint is also a traction hazard for motorists, cyclists and other legitimate road users.
  
  Not that the council will pay any attention.
  
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  March 29, 2024 11:48am
Pavel

I went to the stuff website this morning. The little pop up they put there to beg for money read,
“Politicians hate us. That’s why millions of kiwis love us. If you believe in asking hard questions of those in power please support our work”.
That’s one serious oxymoron.
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March 29, 2024 8:34am
- Benedict Yu
  
  I’d like to know how much money they make from those donations.
  
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  March 29, 2024 9:51am
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    $17.50 Benedict, I am seriously thinking of donating $2.50 to make it an even $20.00…..
    
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    March 29, 2024 11:41am
- emmess
  
  I don’t get it
  Yes, Marxist politicians hate normal people like us. Why would giving money to a media company that supports those same politicians, do anything to help us?
  
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  March 29, 2024 10:10am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Even at Easter, the nutters are still out there.

https://freedomeagledaily.com/realloadednews/watch-peta-demands-easter-potatoes-be-used-instead-of-eggs/?
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March 29, 2024 8:53am
- imalwaysright
  
  S.O
  
  Here is some footage of the activism of Trumps prosecutor.
  First few minutes says it all.
  https://youtu.be/dBDEam5oso0?si=vRnlmJI2DshnHXro
  
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  March 29, 2024 9:20am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    She is a headcase with very severe TDS.
    So severe that she lies.
    
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    March 29, 2024 10:22am
- mandk
  
  Now the truth emerges.
  
  PETA is actually a front for the industry body, Potatoes NZ.
  
  Potatoes Eaten Taste Awesome!
  
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  March 29, 2024 9:24am
- MCōs
  
  There is an annual Easter egg roll at the White House since 1878 and boiled eggs are used whatever the hardliners at PETA might ‘demand’
  They are against animal cruelty, but promote vegan diets for carnivores that need meat to live
  
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  March 29, 2024 9:38am
- Ghost
  
  I have no issue with Easter potatoes. Sounds more fun to throw at PETA members than eggs.
  
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  March 29, 2024 10:37am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    What about uncooked eggs?
    
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    March 29, 2024 12:21pm
Southern Raider

Re the Gisborne party murders

The two gatecrashers were Black Power and lived in a Kainga Ora house around the corner from the party

Who would have seen that combination coming

Kainga Ora claimed that linking gang members to their properties was “discriminatory”
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March 29, 2024 9:06am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I think your details are incorrect.
  
  The party crashers were Mongrel Mob members/associates according to some reports…..although, today I see ‘Stuff” reports them as being Black Power.
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350227236/inside-story-deadly-gisborne-21st-party
  
  At least one of the men killed was Black Power.
  
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  March 29, 2024 9:24am
  - Southern Raider
    
    Yes I went off the stuff article.
    
    Aren’t we continuously told we can trust the media for the real facts due to their amazing journalism.
    
    Even a primary school kid could tell the Mob from Black Power
    
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    March 29, 2024 10:59am
- artemisia
  
  Gotta blame someone else …. the government is always a good option. Why not put the blame where it should be.
  
  The woman says the two gatecrashers were from Kāinga Ora properties in Manuka St and she accused the Government agency of failing to properly vet its tenants.
  
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  March 29, 2024 11:33am
cas

I was thinking perhaps TVNZ could get some money from NZ On Air and make a series called “Chris Hipkins hits out”. It would be on a new topic every week ( or even every day) as that’s all he seems to be doing.
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March 29, 2024 9:27am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

From FB.
“You know that little voice inside your head that keeps you from saying things you shouldn’t? Yeah, I don’t have that.”
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March 29, 2024 9:44am
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni6z9XASFQ8
Guess Which Communist Country is Turning On China?
China is trying to dominate the South China Sea, and its brought them in conflict with all their neighbors. But there’s one fellow Communist country that’s had enough.
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March 29, 2024 9:45am
Yvette

• “Safe spaces” infers certain ethnicities are not sufficiently equipped to mix with other students
• “It is a known fact that the genetic make up of certain ethnicities is stronger than others”
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March 29, 2024 9:45am
- I remember when
  
  Once again academia infers that Maori and Pacifika are different and need different facilities.
  Naturally no mention of students of other ethnicities or backgrounds whose integration problems might by less visible.
  
  The real question is does it help them or does it restrict their growth?
  
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  March 29, 2024 10:33am
stewmar

So the Horrid this morning reports that TVNZ has named Maiki Sherman as the new political editor of One News. Maiki said:

“People want strong, fair, and impartial journalism. That’s something I’m committed to providing across the political divide.”

Impartial my ass, that woman is the most biased political reporter that I have ever seen in any media anywhere.
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March 29, 2024 9:45am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  You are racist.//
  
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  March 29, 2024 10:27am
  - jkt
    
    At least The Media reporting is rational.
    
    If it is this government that puts forward a policy or an idea they are against it and will find a scholar and/or an economist or a NGO or a group who also hate anything put forward by this government and then push their ideology down our throats.
    
    I will donate money to Stuff if that will make them go away.
    
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    March 29, 2024 1:19pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      “I will donate money to Stuff if that will make them go away.”
      You forgot the // tag buddy, but we all know 🙂
      
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      March 29, 2024 6:13pm
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoNIFfe0evI
Michael Laws on Auckland University’s Designated Area for Māori & Pasifika Students.
Michael Laws on Auckland University’s designated area for Māori and Pasifika students. [I guess the lunch counters, and drinking counters are next.]
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March 29, 2024 9:46am
kevn

SteveO… That unfiltered output comes with age. Generally.
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March 29, 2024 10:09am
jon

Re the leaked cabinet decision on Maori wards as reported on TV One News last nite indicating the issue has been put on the backburner. The govt needs now to be upfront and indicate when the legislation will be enacted OR whether they have had a change of heart and wimped out on the back of resistance from Maori. The usually very confident Seymour’s body language looked decidedly uncomfortable when questioned during the news clip. As a Act supporter i was disappointed.
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March 29, 2024 10:12am
- artemisia
  
  A leak from Cabinet? By whom? And why?
  
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  March 29, 2024 10:24am
  - kowtow
    
    Reading the tv1 report it looks more like a timed piece to show the newly minted senior reporter has an insider in cabinet .
    
    All the world’s a stage …….
    
    ‘The leak did not come from the public service, 1News Political Editor Maiki Sherman has reported.’
    Source tv1
    
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    March 29, 2024 10:40am
    - AitchW
      
      She revelled in reporting that the leak (according to her) came from within cabinet. She is so clearly opposed to the current government that she should be reassigned to a non political role or fired!
      
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      March 29, 2024 12:13pm
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        She never said it came from cabinet, she said it came from closer to home than a bureaucrat
        
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        March 29, 2024 3:18pm
    - 70andstilllearning
      
      ‘The leak did not come from the public service, 1News Political Editor Maiki Sherman has reported.’
      
      Wonder if Maiki just inadvertently missed the “directly” before “come from .. “. If she really has a cabinet insider we should expect to see a steady diet of weekly disclosures from here on ……
      
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      March 29, 2024 12:34pm
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        She. Goose carefully yo say it was not a cabinet minister
        
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        March 29, 2024 3:15pm
- Ghost
  
  As an act supporter you say you are disappointed. Personally I’m surprised you’re actually going to give support to a leak story in the msm.
  
  Here is what David said
  
  Speaking to 1News, Seymour denied that his policy had been delayed.
  
  “For you to spuriously speculate based on what some little birdies told you,” he said.
  
  “As far as I’m concerned, there’s no particular timings in the coalition agreement, so it’s hard to delay something that didn’t have a specific time.”
  
  He added: “I don’t engage with leakers or leaking. I’m confident in trusting in the process.”
  
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  March 29, 2024 10:50am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Exactly, and they all voted to delay, there is two years till the next council election
    
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    March 29, 2024 3:16pm
- MCōs
  
  The point was Mr Luxon accused an unnamed public servant of leaking the information which according to the recipient of the info was incorrect
  Just maybe the coalition isn’t as rock solid as it should be.
  
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  March 29, 2024 1:38pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Rubbish..
    
    Luxon hasn’t accused anyone.
    He’s made light of this particular “leak”.. which isn’t a leak of any detail of importance.
    
    He has said that a number of leaks have come through the public service, but at no point did he identify which ones.
    
    When asked, the prime minister said the leaks from his Cabinet were “not a biggie” and that “we’re not particularly losing a lot of sleep over it”.
    
    “We’ve had a number of leaks that have come out through the public service,” he said.
    
    https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/03/28/local-referendums-for-maori-wards-on-the-back-burner-leak-suggests/
    
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    March 29, 2024 2:19pm
    - MCōs
      
      Of course he hasn’t accused anyone because he doesn’t know who it was, which was obvious from what he said.
      “”We’ve had a number of leaks that have come through the public service “ Mr Luxon said
      Maiki Sherman said that’s not how they got the information and she should know, but no matter who it came from it appears to be accurate
      
      Didn’t Labour have problems a few years ago when budget info was leaked to the Nats who announced it beforehand?
      
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      March 29, 2024 5:40pm
      - MCōs
        
        Not so much a leak as poor security
        https://www.1news.co.nz/2019/05/29/budget-leak-wasnt-unlawful-but-it-was-unethical-ex-labour-president-says/
        
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        March 29, 2024 5:46pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    So Sherman said, she refused to say it was a minister
    
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    March 29, 2024 3:19pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  They voted unanimously in cabinet to delay it, Seymour did look strange, but the fact he was hit with leaks I think had him shocked, note Sherman did not say it was from a cabinet minister
  
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  March 29, 2024 3:14pm
artemisia

Wellington mayor Tory Whanau is to meet the Prime Minister with concerns about job cuts in the capital. Never heard of any meetings with Prime Minister Ardern when Wellington public service jobs exploded. Apart from Wellington has high rents and a housing shortage, so taxpayers have to provide more social and emergency housing.

No worries. Some of the laid off from the public service and closed down businesses will head to less Green pastures. Silver lining – housing problem ameliorated.
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March 29, 2024 10:18am
- surfing
  
  Whanau is a really bad mayor. She needs to concentrate on delivering infrastructure and efficient public services. For example, 40% of your water supply leaking into the ground is a huge issue.
  
  Those in themselves will encourage economic growth and job creation. Not whining to the Prime minister.
  
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  March 29, 2024 10:19am
I remember when

What are the benefits of ‘rainbow crossings”?
Do the colours make the crossing less rather than more obvious.
They likely cost more and are more costly to maintain.
Normal, can we even use that word without being haters, pedestrian crossings are easy to notice, making oversight less likely.
Traffic signs, of every kind, should be simple, easy to understand and clearly visible.
In nature bright colours are often used as camouflage, so colour alone does not always make something more easily seen.
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March 29, 2024 10:18am
- ClanMcleod
  
  They are in all probability illegal and they are dangerous. That’s according to NZTA and the NZ Police.
  Someone intervened at a high level politically to enable this insane ideological graffiti to be painted on our roads.
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/opposition-to-wellingtons-rainbow-crossing-nearly-led-to-police-intervention/LSQMJ4WU77ZQ3L72DCSV5BSU2Q/
  
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  March 29, 2024 11:14am
  - rouppe
    
    Wellington’s is fairly unique in that it actually is a pedestrian crossing. However it is controlled by traffic lights, so no particular danger.
    
    All the other ones that I know about are actually “courtesy crossings” where traffic still has right of way.
    
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    March 29, 2024 5:43pm
- PurplePen
  
  Unless you’re a peacock.
  
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  March 29, 2024 11:59am
surfing

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-lockdowns-partly-to-blame-for-students-playing-up-at-school-principal/VNLDWARC7FAL3DNCRXEGHRLTWQ/

Albany Senior High School principal Claire Amos said the best approach was to figure out what disruptive children needed, rather than rushing to punish them

How long will schools keep blaming covid for their incompetent leadership? To be fair, much of that ‘leadership’ is prescribed by the absolutely and supremely incompetent Ministry of education.

This principal should be sacked and replaced with a serious principal. She follows the very same philosophy that is causing the increase in disruptive children and wants to double down on it.

This woman reminds me of the hollywood cry babies in Team America World Police. I must watch that movie again haha. And Idiocracy, two of the best movies ever made.
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March 29, 2024 10:18am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Team America is up there with Life of Brian for biting comedy and satire at its finest.
  
  It wouldn’t be possible to create anything like those masterpieces in the current woke ideological zoo we inhabit these days.
  
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  March 29, 2024 11:04am
surfing

My son studying at Auckland University supports the maori only spaces — he says those students are rowdy and disruptive so these spaces help to keep the noise down for other students.
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March 29, 2024 10:28am
- hullkiwi
  
  Surfing, I attended Auckland University in the 1970s/1980s. At the time there was in the old Student Union Building a room called Women’s Space (a sexist abomination of its time).
  
  Then in the 1980s, the University built a Marae in Grafton Rd for the Maori department. Why was that not sufficient?
  
  These separate facilities are BS! If any student cannot study without being disruptive, then they are in the wrong place.
  
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  March 29, 2024 1:34pm
- Muttonbird
  
  I imagine those students are just expressing themselves within their cultural norms, laughing, supporting each other and enjoying interpersonal moments.
  
  Something you did not teach your son, evidently.
  
  Or maybe you did, and that is the problem.
  
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  March 29, 2024 2:32pm
  - cmm
    
    “Or maybe you did, and that is the problem.”
    
    It is a problem in a study space.
    
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    March 29, 2024 3:42pm
Jack5

Sports-betting corruption features in today’s Wall Street Journal. What’s the position in New Zealand?

NZ’s statutory monopoly, the TAB, now offers betting on 31 types of sport in the country and overseas, including sheep shearing as well as favourites such as rugby and cricket.

Meanwhile, TAB NZ’s chief executive, Nick Roberts, says New Zealanders are spending as much as $200 million a year betting on overseas gambling sites.

The WSJ reports that in the last two weeks alone players across America’s major professional and college leagues were drawn into a “building avalanche” of gambling scandals.

This month America’s Basketball Association received complaints from players and a head coach about betting’s growing influence and its potential dangers. Days later Toronto Raptors forward Jontay Porter became the subject of a league investigation of alleged suspicious betting activity. The National Football League, meanwhile, suspended 10 players for betting last year.

The newspaper says the controversy extends to college basketball.
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March 29, 2024 10:31am
- I remember when
  
  US sport is populated by, largely black, athletes who are suddenly introduced to riches beyond their wildest dreams.
  Along with the often obscene amounts of money comes idolisation which suggests they can do no wrong.
  They usually have neither the skills or background that would allow them to handle either.
  
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  March 29, 2024 11:36am
- peterwn
  
  A fundamental issue with sports betting is that the sport upon which bets are placed and its players need to be regulated to avoid fraud and corruption. These issues would have been identified right from early times. That is why for example a jockey is forbidden to place a bet on the horse he or she is riding. So USA College Basketball would be rightly concerned it it was to become the unwitting subject of sports betting. It would be of serious concern to NZ for example if overseas betting outfits offered bets on school First XV rugby matches (Auckland schools have even clamped down on such matches being streamed).
  
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  March 29, 2024 11:39am
  - peterwn
    
    Oops. A jockey is not permitted to place a bet on any horse in a race where the jockey is riding, not just the horse the jockey is riding.
    
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    March 29, 2024 12:53pm
- NothingLeft
  
  A simple strategy to follow for sports betters; Only bet on women’s sports where trannies can compete and bet on the teams with the most trannies.
  
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  March 29, 2024 5:20pm
Paulus

Is it possible that she is a relative of the late Phil Amos as when he was Labour Minister of Education ?
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March 29, 2024 10:39am
thirteenstars

David Seymour’s Easter message:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGuk3qL2K-k
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March 29, 2024 11:12am
- Muttonbird
  
  Well, it’s party political publicity using Easter as the vehicle with which to broadcast that self promotion.
  
  Easter trading laws are for the purpose of promoting family togetherness for workers for a couple of days, minimising the impact of exploitative demand on labour, and pausing to reflect on our relationship with alcohol.
  
  All ideas David Seymour hates.
  
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  March 29, 2024 2:11pm
  - rouppe
    
    Pausing to reflect on our relationship with alcohol?
    
    Where did that nonsense come from?
    
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    March 29, 2024 5:47pm
Jack5

A post in general debate yesterday by C. James deserves more attention …

Thank you to CJames for highlighting that the Law Commission wants to introduce Maori “hearsay” into evidence.

Amokura Kawharu, president of the Law Commission, is reported in the Herald as saying statements handed down from tupuna are treated as hearsay and therefore unreliable. She said there needs to be a way they can be admitted into court as evidence.

CJames says this would make the statements unchallengeable.

Tupuna are “ancestors” or “grandparents”.

To lay folk such as me this sound like giving preference to evidence from one group of people.

Can any legal type who follows Kiwiblog explain how making “tupuna” statements (if the word statements itself applies to them) could be made to fit the Hearsay Rule in Section 17 of the Evidence Act. (This is the third crosslink if the Moderator permits as a special exception to the two-link rule for a complicated topic – on a quiet holiday.)

The Law Commission is a statutory body. In the second link below, you can read its function in the 1985 Act that set it up.

The Herald report:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/law-commission-says-change-needed-to-ease-tikanga-evidence-into-court/CPKNMWYFHFGUTBMOMN7OGVK4OU/

The Law Commission’s functions (note 52a brings in the “Maori dimension” and multiculturalism):

https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1985/0151/latest/DLM87301.html

With special permission from the Moderator, a third link?

The Hearsay Rule:
https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2006/0069/55.0/DLM393591.html

[You’re in General Debate. I’ve never heard of a rule about link limits sorry, so no need for the patronising. mod.]
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March 29, 2024 11:15am
- Jack5
  
  Not “patronising”. I’ve been following Kiwiblog general debate for more than a decade, and was under the impression crosslinks were limited.
  
  It would be handy if, within a post, we could ask a question of a moderator without it going into the moderated version.
  
  [Mod – you’re fine Jack, no need to ask]
  
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  March 29, 2024 11:47am
- PurplePen
  
  The first instance of two opposing tupuna statements… surely that would prove such statements aren’t evidence. Irrespective, its utter nonsense.
  
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  March 29, 2024 12:02pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Alvin Bragg and Stormy Daniels at it again.
Anything to drag Trump through the mud.

https://pantsonfirenews.com/trump-just-got-hit-with-another-insane-media-story-from-stormy-daniels/?
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March 29, 2024 11:23am
Chuck Bird

About Robo.

Cake one day, crumbs the next

https://www.maxim.org.nz/article/cake-one-day-crumbs-the-next/
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March 29, 2024 11:26am
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  She isn’t wrong though is she. This is going to hurt, a lot.
  
  And in 6 years time (3 if the media and public servants have their way) a “kinder gentler” labour party will be elected to address the pain “caused by” the evil National Party.
  
  Then we rinse and repeat.
  
  Every single labour government leaves NZ in deficit.
  
  Every.Single.Time. And somehow, magically, it is never their fault….
  
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  March 29, 2024 12:07pm
  - herb1
    
    Exactly. Austerity wouldn’t be a world that left wing supporters are told to use ad infinity , and taught to spell, if their preceding Labour Government hadn’t destroyed the economy
    
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    March 29, 2024 12:28pm
  - Jethrod
    
    But, but, but, they are expecting to get back in and then magically fix all their errors//
    
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    March 29, 2024 4:15pm
- cmm
  
  More accurately:
  * Cake on the credit card one day
  * Crumbs and a generation of debt the next.
  
  Saying “crumbs” implies there is nothing.
  
  We have far worse than nothing. We have a massive debt that will generation to pay off (if we actually try).
  
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  March 29, 2024 3:39pm
Swifty

“I stripped off her clothes. The devil took over me, and… I raped her….”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13249355/israel-october-terrorist-video-describes-sexual-assault.html

No, you did what your demented, hate-filled, Islamist-trained brain told you to do.
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March 29, 2024 11:51am
leoj

More Luxon disappointment:

Even though it’s undemocratic, Luxon is not going to do anything about maori wards on local councils.

The guy is gutless. He is also completely out of touch with the electorate.

I hope he gets rolled simply because he has no courage. Then again, the Nats have a history of being namby-pamby.

I cannot see any reason for me to ever again consider voting for such bunch of pansies.
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March 29, 2024 12:06pm
- Ghost
  
  You should be more disappointed in yourself for believing msm leak stories
  
  Speaking to 1News, Seymour denied that his policy had been delayed.
  
  “For you to spuriously speculate based on what some little birdies told you,” he said.
  
  “As far as I’m concerned, there’s no particular timings in the coalition agreement, so it’s hard to delay something that didn’t have a specific time.”
  
  He added: “I don’t engage with leakers or leaking. I’m confident in trusting in the process.”
  
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  March 29, 2024 12:14pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Stop talking shit, the cabinet voted unanimously to delay this, the policy has not been scuppered, why are some in here so stupid, the policy is still happening
  
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  March 29, 2024 3:24pm
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    So, you just admitted that there is going to be a delay.
    
    We all know what “delay” means. It means: This is too hard and we don’t want to upset all the maori wonderfulness.
    
    Where am I wrong then?
    
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    March 29, 2024 5:05pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

TOW Comic for high school kids. Part 31.
Maori were great conservationists. That is a lie.
” pre-1840 Maori were responsible for causing the extinction of ‘..around 35 species’ in New Zealand”
“We are told that Maori ought to oversee our fisheries and conservation estates. Really, based on their historical record, it’s laughable. It’s a sick joke.”

https://stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/analysis-treaty-of-waitangi-comic-for-high-school-students-has-been-quietly-brainwashing-away-since-2018-part-31/
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March 29, 2024 12:12pm
Swifty

Every piece of gear in a NZ soldier’s 72-hour swag:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=asHk55yQd3I
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March 29, 2024 12:15pm
SmokerGuy

If only the police gave as much of a shit about assault, car theft, burglary etc as they did about a pedestrian crossing being painted over!! Maybe we wouldn’t have so much crime if they did. And seriously with the rates bill going through the roof how can blowing rate payer money on a pedestrian crossing be justified in the first place???? How does painting rainbow colours on a road help the LGBT community?
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March 29, 2024 12:59pm
- Chris Nisbet
  
  It doesn’t.
  Pedestrian crossings must be white…
  “A pedestrian crossing must be marked in reflectorised white, or if white does not contrast with the colour of the adjacent roadway then it must be resurfaced or marked to provide contrast.”
  
  https://www.nzta.govt.nz/walking-cycling-and-public-transport/walking/walking-standards-and-guidelines/pedestrian-network-guidance/design/crossings/priority-crossings/zebra-crossings/
  
  It’s reasonable to imagine that a driver who approaches one of these rainbow things doesn’t consider it to be a crossing, so doesn’t give the care and attention he otherwise would.
  
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  March 29, 2024 3:33pm
DimChappie

So woke: Australian woman wants statues of her colonial ancestors destroyed for their sins against aboriginal people in Victoria. Reparations were also needed, she said.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/destroy-monuments-to-my-family-settler-descendant-s-pain-over-massacres-20240328-p5ffyp.html
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March 29, 2024 1:05pm
- cmm
  
  She is of course welcome to give everything she owns to the local Black Fellas.
  
  But no, she wants to be generous with other people’s money.
  
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  March 29, 2024 3:33pm
Master Mariner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEzDh4RwpaM

Expert Ships Engineer Reacts to Baltimore Bridge Crash.

Agree with his comments,

@Taeri. Yep Correct with Fixed Pitch Propeller.
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March 29, 2024 2:01pm
- Taieri
  
  A few minor things I don’t agree with, but in general it’s a pretty good summary what might have happened.
  
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  March 29, 2024 7:04pm
  - Master Mariner
    
    Yep, A lot better than most misinformation out there.
    Be interesting when Voyage data recorder is analysed and Information from Pilot / Master exchange etc.
    I’m not convinced they lost propulsion ? Just Power .
    I guess it will all come out in the wash.
    Dropping anchor?
    
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    March 30, 2024 2:05am
Muttonbird

You’d have to be pretty crank and devoid of humanity to be able to make Cameron Slater look like the good guy, but Sean Plunkett has managed it!

Just wow.

Did you know that Plunkett’s backers run a childcare industry? Yet this is the kind of evil he churns out.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/entertainment/2024/03/sean-plunket-cam-slater-in-nasty-argument-over-down-syndrome-dolphin-comments.html
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March 29, 2024 2:35pm
- Swifty
  
  “Run a childcare industry….”
  
  WTF?
  
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  March 29, 2024 8:00pm
mandk

Woman argues that no Kiwi should have more than $18 million:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350229547/tova-podcast-limitarianism-v-libertarianism-it-time-cap-wealth

I find it difficult to imagine more stupid idea.

On Tuesday this week, I had the privilege of going to a reception at Parliament for Peter Beck, who created RocketLab in 2006.

What an inspiration Peter Beck is!

The company is now worth US$2 billion and is growing very rapidly.

His company employs 700 people in NZ, not counting the employment generated in his hi-tech supply chain, nor the jobs created when his well-paid employees spend their wages and salaries.

Without a shadow of a doubt, none of this would have happened, if a NZ government had set a wealth limit.

All his operations would now be in the USA.
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March 29, 2024 3:01pm
CAKE FACE1

The first 100 days of the Coalition has finished.

The Coalition have substantially outperformed my expectations to date.

Seymour has been magnificent so far, and is the standout performer. Winston has been surprisingly good to date.

Although Luxon / Willis / Stanford et al have been extremely weak, they have still outperformed my expectations, which were admittedly very low for them.

I now feel optimistic about the future.

In the past under MMP, the smaller parties in government achieved nothing. What is clear now is that the small parties actually have enormous power, if they choose to wield it. This gives me hope for the future.

If ACT holds the balance of power after the next election, they can demand pretty much whatever policies they choose. Core Crown spending below 25% of GDP? National will need to agree with it, or they won’t be able to form a government. Mr Luxon is jelly. He will sign up. The alternative would be a coalition with the Greens.

The Coalition still have a huge task in front of them. During Covid, I realized that the neo-Marxists had marched through all our institutions. Nonetheless, the one thing that has stunned me since the election has been how comprehensive the coup has been. The media, courts, universities, police, film commission, government departments – everything has been taken over by extreme left-wing activists.

The main task over the next three years is to purge these far-left infiltrators, one by one.

Honestly, who isn’t enjoying the propagandists from legacy media losing their jobs?

My schadenfreude super-sized cup runneth over!
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March 29, 2024 3:19pm
- greybeard
  
  I agree with most of your observations, and your sentiments.
  I do however think that to count-out Mr. Luxon so early in his position is maybe to do him an injustice. He didn’t get there because he was stupid. As I have commented elsewhere in this blog about his performance, he has his priorities. I think that Luxon, Peters and Seymour are possibly the three men who can drag NZ out of the shithole created by Labour.
  I do have reservations about Nicola Willis: she apparently has a lot of supporters but I am damned if I can find anything in her CV which makes her a Finance Minister. I hope I am proven wrong to doubt her.
  
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  March 29, 2024 3:51pm
kowtow

Anyone else think that this is some sort of police union beat up ? Along with getting what few mates they have in te media paahti to help have a go at the Coalition .

‘Police officers in Canterbury are collecting food donations for colleagues “struggling” with the cost of living as their battle with the government for better pay continues.’

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/cops-collecting-food-donations-struggling-colleagues
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March 29, 2024 4:44pm
- Taieri
  
  BS. Can’t see how a detective sergeant with 20 years service has to rely on food parcels.
  
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  March 29, 2024 6:49pm
- kris
  
  It does indeed look like fabricated “evidence” in support of their collective bargaining.
  
  The article also quotes the partner of a “detective sergeant”, claiming that his salary has “only” doubled in 17 years (so on average, 4% per annum compounded), but no mention of whether that has been for the same role or not.
  And she also claims they live “week to week” with three kids, despite her also working full time. Its unclear what an experienced “detective sergeant” is paid (police collective agreement conveniently doesnt appear to be public, unlike that of say, nurses), but their combined pretax income must surely be in excess of $150k. Thus living “week to week” sounds like they might be living beyond their means…
  
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  March 29, 2024 6:55pm
leoj

Luxon’s spine, or lack thereof, is one thing but Mark Mitchell is also showing his true colours by defending the police commissioner re the painting over of pedestrian crossings as a “hate crime”

The two exchanged Christmas cards. Did they exchange Easter cards also? Mitchell is just another spineless National MP. He should be demanding Coster’s resignation every single day but he won’t because he actually agrees with the commissioner’s actions and statements.

The Nats are pathetic.
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March 29, 2024 5:11pm
- MCōs
  
  Wasn’t John Key exchanging Christmas cards with Xi Jinping around the time the buggers were spying on NZ?
  
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  March 29, 2024 5:50pm
  - leoj
    
    Why would you think I was a Key fan?
    
    The Nats have lost the plot. Should rename themselves the namby-pamby party as they are not prepared to make the tough decisions.
    
    Gutless.
    
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    March 29, 2024 7:06pm
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Thanks leoj. Mark Mitchell and Penny Simmonds are completely out of depth, led by a leader who is our worst PM ever. This gummit will be a one term wonder for sure
  
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  March 29, 2024 6:54pm
Muttonbird

Turns out Sir Pakeha Coutts was supping at the teat of taxpayers and ratepayers the whole time, to the tune of $2 million!

Shocked, I tell you…

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/sport/512998/sailgp-in-christchurch-received-millions-in-government-council-funds
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March 29, 2024 5:25pm
- Swifty
  
  Will you also decry the taxpayer and ratepayer funding of Pacifica festivals and Kapa Haka competitions Mutton? Public funding of for-profit tv programmes, music videos, art and dance?
  
  Or do those sort of events meet with your approval?
  
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  March 29, 2024 7:57pm
Jack5

British Army to end 100-year-old ban on beards for soldiers and officers.

They won’t be able to tell the Tommies from the Taliban.

I think this report is outside the Telegraph’s paywall:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/28/soldiers-beards-allowed-100-year-ban-overturned/
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March 29, 2024 5:39pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/350230409/matatu-rout-poua-first-super-rugby-aupiki-win
Who on earth cares ?
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March 29, 2024 6:27pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/350230381/izzy-gaze-record-vain-white-ferns-sunk-england-again
NZ have to get rid of Devine, Bates, Tahuhu and all the other old players: they should assemble a squad of 16 – 20 year olds, spend 12 months coaching and melding them into a proud and competent team.
The emphasis should be on building-up a competent TEST team: T20 is crap, and 50-over cricket is not much better these days.
There is far too much overseas Indian big-money cricket ruining our NZ players.
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March 29, 2024 6:38pm
Swifty

A reasonable and very welcome piece on free speech from ACT’s Todd Stephenson:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350229104/free-speech-goes-both-ways

He makes a good point about the left possibly regretting their heckler veto now that the shoe is on the other foot.
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March 29, 2024 7:33pm
Jack5

Nine states of the USA – all on the west or east coasts, where there be liberals – plan to ban sales of new petrol-powered cars by 2035:

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/9-states-plan-ban-gas-powered-car-sales-2035
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