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artemisia

The government has announced that reviews of social housing tenancies will soon restart. As with the previous reviews (until Labour stopped them) it will focus on supporting households paying market rent into alternative housing. Potentially affected about 400 households paying market rents that have been in social housing more than 3 years. Noted, however, as at December 2023 there were 1,760 households in social housing paying market rent.

Under the National government hundreds of households moved into the private sector, mostly rentals but also into home ownership.

Random impertinent question. If so many households can afford to pay non-subsidised rent, why aren’t they renting in the private sector?
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March 30, 2024 8:06am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Also, it will be important that there is an end to single people living in large houses that could be a home for families. Under the last government, there was nothing that KO could do.
  
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  March 30, 2024 8:29am
  - Muttonbird
    
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    You could also apply that to owner occupiers. No need for wealthy super annuitants to take up more space than they need.
    
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    March 30, 2024 9:58am
    - Don Beckett
      
      If someone owns their own home, the size of it is irrelevant – unless of course your socialist govt. is in charge, & kicks out the old folk who own the house and let the gang boys move in.
      You’d be happy with that.
      
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      March 30, 2024 10:37am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      FFS it is private property. They can do what they want.
      
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      March 30, 2024 10:46am
    - Grumpy Silver Top
      
      “Wealthy” superannuitants have spent the last 50 odd years living within their means, probably bought their first home with 2 mortgages (ever heard of a second mortgage?) and initially paid interest rates well north of 10% and in some cases (in the early 80s nearer 20%). They have worked hard, not expected to travel overseas every year, and have every right to enjoy the fruits of their labours, if you will forgive the cliche. What they have is not the result of graft and corruption.
      Also, what do you mean by wealthy? Perhaps it is someone who owns their own home, pays their rates and taxes and enjoys a comfortable life? Get real. These people are not wealthy, they are able to live on the results of their lifetime of saving, not relying on government handouts. Yes, they are receiving the pension, but isn’t that what they have paid taxes all their lives for?
      
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      March 30, 2024 10:52am
    - artemisia
      
      Quite right Muttonbird and if there is only one person in the household they will only be allowed a moped or the bus for getting around.
      
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      March 30, 2024 10:59am
    - Taieri
      
      No need for wealthy super annuitants to take up more space than they need.
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      Spot on!
      This worked very well in Stalin’s Russia.
      First, all the wealthy super annuitants became un-wealthy.
      Then, they became former super annuitants.
      And finally, they were no more.
      
      And their former dwellings were used to the benefit of the working class. With a very rational allocation of one family per room, which prevented them from taking up more space than they needed.
      
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      March 30, 2024 11:09am
    - rouppe
      
      We’re talking about social housing. That tax payers are providing.
      
      If someone doesn’t need it anymore, they should make way for someone who is still in need. Not as punishment, but because it would be the right thing to do.
      
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      March 30, 2024 5:24pm
- greybeard
  
  Maybe the private sector took one look at them and said “no thanks”.
  
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  March 30, 2024 8:44am
  - Colville
    
    The big scam is KO leasing private rentals at massive rates on ten year terms with total refurbishment clauses. Sucker Taxpayer gets to give the owner the value of the house twice over the ten year time span.
    
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    March 30, 2024 8:53am
    - Observer of Life
      
      Colville: We know from experience the clause to refurbish is a battle to have done. We had damage from fists through walls, a heater completely gone (and other damage) and they tried to put it down to “wear and tear” or just denied the heater was ever there. It was massive pain, and luckily we had photo’s to prove the condition of the property/what was there to get it fixed/replaced. Never lease to Housing NZ (KO).
      
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      March 30, 2024 4:50pm
  - pdm
    
    I know a few people who came out of the Public Service into the Private sector in the mid to late 80’s and they never looked back financially. Some of them moving out of Wellington into rural towns and starting up niche services.
    
    Win for them and a win for the communities they moved to.
    
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    March 30, 2024 8:54am
  - artemisia
    
    Am sure you are quite correct greybeard. But how hard did these households try to shape up when it was easy as to move into emergency housing followed by increased priority for social housing. Which of course fitted nicely with the need for a few more billions for the social housing.
    
    The coalition government is, they say, going to take a harder line with approvals for emergency housing. Success with that remains to be seen, but will not be easy for those dealing with households not used to taking responsibility.
    
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    March 30, 2024 8:57am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      What happened to all of the money allocated for 100,000 houses over 10 years?
      
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      March 30, 2024 9:31am
      - pdm
        
        It was only one of Twitfords nightmares and known to never be a goer so Robbo knew he did not need to allocate funds for more than 10 or 20 houses over 10 years.
        
        So he allocated the rest to painting Marae buildings.
        
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        March 30, 2024 9:42am
      - stewmar
        
        What happened to all of the money allocated for 100,000 houses over 10 years?
        
        Steve, don’t you remember, the money was never there in the first place.
        
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        March 30, 2024 10:27am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        The money may not have been there but that just gave Robertson breathing space to waste money on something else. Trees? Child Poverty?
        
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        March 30, 2024 11:08am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Public v private renting. Does it involve who pays the Rates, Water, and Wastewater?
  The Power? I don’t know, I have never been in a Housing Corp house and have not rented for 50+ years.
  
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  March 30, 2024 9:00am
  - jkt
    
    A family paying market rents staying in one location will surely be better off moving into their own house.
    Maybe they just need a hand up to transition into their own home. Maybe they need help with a deposit, a government guarantee may well do the job.
    
    The only problem is that the equity warriors will then insist that everyone getting the same treatment.
    
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    March 30, 2024 9:49am
    - Flossie
      
      Some have the idea that landlords are a good thing in that should there be a problem they i.e. the tenant, calls up and problem gets fixed at no cost to them. Had an in law who thought owning your home was a mug’s game.
      
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      March 30, 2024 12:49pm
      - jkt
        
        It may well be a mugs game.
        
        What creates value for some does not necessarily apply to others.
        Some get to the end of their lives and drop a lot of capital in the lap of their offspring. Others know how to pace themselves differently.
        
        Horses for courses?
        
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        March 30, 2024 4:12pm
- Paulus
  
  No houses left in the private sector, as so many older rental owners got kicked in the teeth by Labour, that they probably voted for, that they sold up, and bought a Mobile Home with few similar rules and more fun.
  
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  March 30, 2024 2:15pm
Chuck Bird

I just heard on Sky News that a killing may be linked to tobacco wars. It is just a suspicion now but the tobacco wars are real. They could also happen here.
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March 30, 2024 8:20am
- JamesP
  
  I recently talked with a person at Customs who knows about illegal tobacco. Illegal tobacco is already here and it’s already way more sophisticated than the “Tongan tobacco” packs you may have heard of. Think importation of big machines for rolling and packing. The reasons we don’t have an Australian type situation already is because:
  1) Australia is the only Asia / Pacific country with higher taxes than us on tobacco.
  2) Our criminal elements are still learning.
  
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  March 30, 2024 9:41am
  - Simon
    
    A few years ago people were openly selling Chinese cigarettes on We Chat.
    
    Death penalty for illegal cigarette manufacturing. The problem like all industrial criminality goes away with death penalty.
    
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    March 30, 2024 10:01am
    - G152
      
      Want to smoke???
      Grow your own
      
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      March 30, 2024 11:16am
      - JohnRidd
        
        I gave up smoking 30 years ago. I was smoking 2 packs a day and at $1.30 for each pack it was getting too expensive.
        
        I have been growing tobacco for a few years but not to smoke. I make a nicotine tea to spray on seedlings in the glasshouse. Insects don’t like it.
        
        The tobacco plant is very hardy and easy to grow. If you want to smoke the leaves they first need to be cured to the correct moisture content. Most people don’t know how to do this.
        
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        March 30, 2024 2:25pm
      - jkt
        
        Put the leaves in your roof space.
        Buy a pipe, I am sure it is more fun.🤩 you will save a lot of money.
        
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        March 30, 2024 4:17pm
Chuck Bird

Not premium.

Auckland University’s designated Māori and Pacific spaces: Act education spokeswoman Parmjeet Parmar’s view

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/parmjeet-parmar-its-not-the-job-of-a-university-reinforce-any-groups-existing-world-views/BB2YUUPAHJCFLPNNF7BSOF4UEI/
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March 30, 2024 8:28am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Exactly. What would the university do if some students demanded a “white students safe spaces”? There would be hell to pay.
  
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  March 30, 2024 8:32am
  - jkt
    
    Women’s safe space……
    
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    March 30, 2024 9:59am
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Must not be questioned, lest one wants to be run out of town. Ever more perks; less responsibility, has always been the name of the game. Oh and advanced via name calling, smears and hyperbole.
      
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      March 30, 2024 2:45pm
      - julesnzuk
        
        NZer in Exile – what are you talking about? Women’s refuges and rape crisis centres?
        
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        March 31, 2024 1:20am
    - julesnzuk
      
      Not sure what point you’re trying to make, jkt – but there is no comparison. Parmjeet Parmar explained this (very obvious to all but the stupid) point.
      
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      March 31, 2024 1:18am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Where is the ‘safe place’ for the pale, stale, white supremist, self entitled male?
  
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  March 30, 2024 9:03am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    Also, where is the safe place for Jews who have problems at many universities in the West?
    
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    March 30, 2024 9:10am
    - Che Guava
      
      What problems do Jews have at many universities in the West?
      
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      March 30, 2024 10:37am
      - Chuck Bird
        
        Read the news.
        
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        March 30, 2024 10:43am
      - Che Guava
        
        “Read the news” isn’t an answer. You’re making the claims, you tell me and everyone else.
        
        Besides, I think all of us read plenty of things in the news that aren’t true all of the time.
        
        I think the extent of “the problems” Jews are having at universities is that people are freely disagreeing with what Jews in Israel are doing right now, and this is a “problem” for them because they aren’t used to any dissent against Jews in the West, due to an elaborate system of propaganda that tells people they are beyond criticism.
        
        They claim they are “Westerners” with Westerm values when it suits but then they act like Middle Easterners when they deem something to be heretical.
        
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        March 30, 2024 10:47am
      - imalwaysright
        
        The problem the jews have is that they over egged the custard and now people, who previously were sympathetic, are finding it hard to swallow.
        
        They created a market, saw that the market was good, and then saturated the market.
        
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        March 30, 2024 11:15am
      - Taieri
        
        What problems do Jews have
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        Jews…a bit of an obsession with you, ain’t they?
        
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        March 30, 2024 11:16am
      - Dave
        
        Here you are, Che, @ 10.37
        
        https://apnews.com/article/university-berkeley-jewish-event-palestinian-protest-e45ca6c36b05bb6d6a18eaa8df2396fe
        
        In the last few months I’ve read about several acts of organised anti-Jewish intimidation – not just disagreement – in US universities and elsewhere. That’s the first one I could find which matched my memory of a specific event.
        
        Oh, I forgot, if news reports don’t support your prejudices, they must be Jewish lies.
        
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        March 30, 2024 2:53pm
  - wsk12345
    
    Where is the safe space for women? Used to be the bathrooms but not anymore given any man can now walk in pretending to be a woman.
    
    The irony of safe spaces by race when women’s safety has been discarded at the alter of woke.
    
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    March 30, 2024 9:22am
    - Ghost
      
      Woman have a space at the university.
      
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      March 30, 2024 9:39am
      - pdm
        
        Must be a very small room if only one woman can fit in Ghost. Is Chippy on the door?
        
        Where do the rest of the women go?
        
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        March 30, 2024 9:45am
      - wsk12345
        
        Yeah but men pretending to be women are allowed in. Hence no longer a safe space for women.
        
        I certainly wouldn’t hang out there alone with a bloke in drag (I would be ok if he was just a bloke).
        
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        March 30, 2024 10:17am
  - Stellaboxer
    
    Apparently Steve Jews are now considered white adjacent by the far left extremists. That means they are in fact no longer oppressed but oppressors. So it’s alright to victimise them and harass them at universities. It’s also alright to to attack and murder them in their homes but not alright if they fight back and attempt to destroy the organisation that attacked them and openly call for their extinction. This miraculous journey from arguably the most oppressed and discriminated people in history to that of oppressor in the space of a few years has been decided by the left so that makes it true and if you argue or anything you’ll be cancelled because the left aren’t like the old left who weren’t doing communism properly.
    
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    March 30, 2024 9:57am
    - Che Guava
      
      “That means they are in fact no longer oppressed but oppressors.”
      
      What are you talking about? Jews haven’t been oppressed for decades. In fact, they are proportionately the wealthiest, most influential and privileged group you can imagine.
      
      If they weren’t these things, they would constantly try to bully people into submitting to their demands to not be “anti-semitic” (i.e. to not criticise or impede their interests in any way).
      
      Oppressed groups don’t get to set and enforce the moral standards of a society and tell people what they can and cannot think, all the while claiming they are the biggest victims.
      
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      March 30, 2024 10:42am
      - Chuck Bird
        
        It is reasonable for people to criticise Israel for what is happening in Gaza. However, the Jews in Australia have nothing to do with what is happening in Gaza. I watch Sky News Australia and I have seen the attacks on Jews in universities and elsewhere.
        
        Many here will have watched the same on Sky News. I do not have to show you a source.
        
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        March 30, 2024 11:39am
      - jkt
        
        Once again you grab onto a kernel of truth and elaborate on the lie. Not dissimilar to the newest gay conversion therapy threat to gays and children in particular, created by trans-activists.
        
        It is also interesting to note the continued support that this lot gets from many feminists and women. Encouraging so called minorities into the victimhood ideology is a power play by whom exactly? The people supporting this movement seem to have an anti-human agenda, WTF?😳
        
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        March 30, 2024 12:59pm
      - Pineapple Lumps
        
        The wealth of the Jews is a blessing still in action though bestowed Millenia ago on Abraham. I believe it is also a curse in that it creates envy of the Jews. The promise was also made that the world would be blessed through the Jews – for believers this was very much fulfilled at Easter. Jews have yet failed to recognise this but will be reconciled to God eventually.
        
        Where does your hatred of the Jews come from Che?
        
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        March 30, 2024 1:19pm
      - julesnzuk
        
        Jews are subject to hate by jealous left wingers who can’t stand their work ethic and success. It’s regressive, toxic and extremely stupid. And it’s almost exclusively on the left, the Labour Party in Britain has long had a problem with Jews and still do. Your obsession with Jews is really quite bizarre, Che – and it goes beyond any legitimate criticism of Israel. Seriously, what’s wrong with you? Your energy would be much better spent focusing issues affecting New Zealand and New Zealanders.
        
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        March 31, 2024 1:26am
      - julesnzuk
        
        Jkt – yes, unfortunately there are some women who support trans activists. They’re called transmaids and have nothing in common whatsoever with the original feminists of the 60s and 70s (when, and I hope we call agree on this, feminism was a genuinely righteous cause). Transmaids are mostly young (18-30) women who have been socialised by the “be kind” garbage, want to support causes they think are fashionable and think they gain social capital by being kind and nice to transgender people. If they believed they gained social capital by believing in science and reason and sticking up for rights for women (sadly not a fashionable cause) then they wouldn’t support trans activists. This is where, I would suggest, men can help – by supporting young women who go against the “be kind” narrative. (My big fear is that men prefer women to be passive and stupid – but that’s another conversation).
        
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        March 31, 2024 1:36am
      - Jake Dee
        
        “I hope we call agree on this, feminism was a genuinely righteous cause”
        
        I disagree and disagree most strongly. Feminism, like all social revolutionary progressive movements runs on the strong fuel of self-righteousness which, among other things, allows any successes to be claimed by the movement but any failures and unintended side effects to be blamed on the opposition.
        There were plenty of radical lunatic feminists of the 60s and 70s (Shulamith Firestone and Andrea Dworkin come to mind) who did massive damage, blowing up the family unit and generally taking the guardrails off society.
        And who actually socialized the pro-trans handmaids of today? Was it their bible-believing patriarchal grandfathers raised in the early 20th century? Or was it their sexually liberated solo-mothers of the later 20th century?
        Feminists and other radical progressives burned down the house that their grandfathers built and now complain that they’re living out in the cold and rain.
        You may be suffering from the very human condition of ret-conning your own history. This is when these movements started pretty much exactly when you first became aware of them, were really cool and righteous when you were young and enthusiastic, but all started to go wrong and crazy about the same time as your hair started to turn grey and your teeth started to fall out.
        
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        March 31, 2024 2:26am
      - julesnzuk
        
        Jake Dee – wow what a rabid rant. Most of which doesn’t even make sense. I was simply talking about the rights of women not to be confined exclusively to the domestic sphere, to pursue jobs other than teacher/nurse/secretary, to be paid the same as men who do those jobs, to get a mortgage without a guarantee from a male relative etc. You know, all that stuff people now take for granted.
        
        I’m a long way from either turning grey or my hair falling out and honestly mate, you sound as unhinged as a left wing extremist trans activist.
        
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        March 31, 2024 10:09am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      I never mentioned Jews, but yeah, same applies to those who think these racist things up to fit their own ideology.
      
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      March 30, 2024 3:31pm
- Yvette
  
  All of this takes us down an ugly path. It’s one thing to be proud of your heritage, but it’s another to have state-funded institutions constantly prodding you to think about your own racial background, or that of your study mates – Act MP Dr Parmjeet Parmar
  
  “state-funded institutions constantly prodding you” – applies to the Labour legacy in general – TVNZ to emails, which assume you are Maori by beginning “Kia ora …”
  Te Reo seeping into every detail of life tends to culturally piss me off and engenders a negative surge now every time it happens, so I become subconsciously a racist …
  without a “safe place“
  
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  March 30, 2024 9:32am
  - pdm
    
    Yvette – I email back now asking them to use Dear Sir/Madam or To Whom It May Concern in their salutations and to sign off with Yours faithfully/sincerely or even just regards.
    
    Contact, Westpac and Spark are recent ones and I am still waiting for my first acknowledgement of the points made.
    
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    March 30, 2024 9:49am
    - Pineapple Lumps
      
      While I feel the same way I dont think this will effect meaningful change. They will just disregard it as coming from an immoral racist. How do we explain that Manglish is not a language and isn’t winning hearts and minds to their cause?
      
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      March 30, 2024 1:30pm
    - Paulus
      
      Don’t think Westpac care any more .
      They are sold on all thing either Feminist or Maori, with no attention to the earnings for their investors.
      They will reduce deposit rates to save the world, not get the investors the best return.
      Others similar but do not know yet where to turn as they are all at us being saved.
      
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      March 30, 2024 2:24pm
      - julesnzuk
        
        Out of interest how are WestPac sold on all things “feminist”? (Bearing in mind “feminist” means different things to different people). Please explain.
        
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        March 31, 2024 1:46am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Just reply to the sender and ask for the ENGLISH version.
      Takes a while but they get the message when you start wasting their time.
      
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      March 30, 2024 3:33pm
      - Observer of Life
        
        Steve: I did that with AirNZ. I was asked if they could unsubscribe for me. I declined and said I just want your message in English, because I don’t speak Maori. I didn’t get another reply. (Nor was I unsubscribed).
        
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        March 30, 2024 4:58pm
    - julesnzuk
      
      Well done, pdm. The more people who fight back against this nonsense and pretence that NZ is a bilingual country (if it was people would communicate in either Maori or English, not a try hard mangling of both) the more chance we have of stopping it.
      
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      March 31, 2024 1:49am
  - wisteria
    
    I wonder how many staff have been hired to pursue and promote “cultural” activities. Public servants were allowed time off to learn Maori language and customs. This means a blowout in staff numbers to cover these absences.
    
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    March 30, 2024 10:21am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      How many have been told they “must” do this or else?
      Fight back, fuck them!
      
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      March 30, 2024 3:35pm
- Souvlaki
  
  A lucid thinker!
  Nationals loss is truly ACTs gain.
  Erica Sandford is wrong…these spaces should be disestablished, or funding cuts result imo.
  
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  March 30, 2024 9:44am
- I remember when
  
  “This is a Designated Area for Maori and Pasifika Students. Thank You”
  
  And here was me thinking University qualifications allowed them equal access everywhere.
  
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  March 30, 2024 9:48am
  - jkt
    
    Maybe the Universities is onto something. “Multiculturalism has failed let’s try Apartheid.”
    
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    March 30, 2024 10:19am
  - Yvette
    
    Like Rosa Parks would refuse to sit in “a Designated Area for Maori and Pasifika Students”
    
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    March 30, 2024 10:45am
    - jkt
      
      Good observation.
      I can recall times when I was refused service in blacks only bottle stores by black shop keepers.
      
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      March 30, 2024 1:03pm
- Grumpy Silver Top
  
  Following links within the story led me to a comment from someone called Shakeel Shamaail, claiming Maori ancestry from several tribes (how did he get that name from that ancestry). Clearly this situation is never going to lead to agreement. “Safe spaces” has become a politically charged term, with a completely lost meaning. One could describe women’s toilets as safe spaces, and thereby ban those not born with a womb. Is that OK? Apparently in this world of seeing only your own viewpoint and vilifying anyone who doesn’t support you it’s OK.
  
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  March 30, 2024 11:03am
  - NothingLeft
    
    For several generations Shazza’s of all variety’s have been well known air-heads, blame the parents, it’s pretty much nominative determinism.
    
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    March 30, 2024 1:05pm
Swifty

Andrew Doyle – The New Gay Conversion Therapy:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LNoORI9dnX4
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March 30, 2024 8:37am
- jkt
  
  Gays are being eliminated by the Tranz movement. Wpath files.
  
  Soon the only places where one will find gays will be in the Netherlands, Scandinavian countries, Africa, the Muslim world and the UK, now that Tavistock has been closed down.
  
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  March 30, 2024 10:26am
  - Swifty
    
    “Trans the gay away….”
    
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    March 30, 2024 12:35pm
- jkt
  
  Why the hell would anyone down tick this comment?
  Lazy or ideology?
  Ignorance is born out of laziness. That is why we are struggling with post-modernist ideas, a movement that originated from what was intended to be a literary classification.
  
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  March 30, 2024 1:13pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Indians make up only 5% of NZ’s population, but 24% of the victims of aggravated assaults.

an additional 11 percent of victims in aggravated robberies in 2023 were from the wider Asian community, including Chinese, Korean, Sri Lankan, Vietnamese, Cambodian and Filipino residents.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/indonz/512917/almost-a-quarter-of-aggravated-robbery-victims-were-of-indian-descent-in-2023#:
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March 30, 2024 8:37am
- artemisia
  
  I expect the media will soon be reporting on the ethnicity of perpetrators.//
  
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  March 30, 2024 9:09am
  - pdm
    
    Don’t holdyour breath Arty.
    
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    March 30, 2024 9:50am
    - jkt
      
      If the perpetrators are identified The Media will argue it is the fault of the Indians.
      
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      March 30, 2024 10:29am
- Muttonbird
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Largely victims of retail crime. Perhaps if they stopped peddling cigarettes, vapes and alcohol they might be a bit more safe?
  
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  March 30, 2024 10:13am
  - hmmokrightitis
    
    You want people to stop legal activities? You’re fun, aren’t you.
    
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    March 30, 2024 10:43am
  - jkt
    
    And there it is, blame the victim.
    
    At 5% of the population Indians is a minority group and should be protected if society cares about minority groups.
    
    So why is it different for this minority group? Hard working people offering a service to willing customers! Maybe racism?
    
    Thomas Sowell explains this phenomenon and if you want to look for an example, look no further than the persecution of “money lenders” through the ages especially when times get tough. (The cause for anti-semitism according to Thomas’s theory – it also apply to Indian, Chinese and other merchants)
    
    In this instance it may well be a manifestation of eliminating the competition.
    
    Your argument manifests the mindset of the NAZI leadership.
    
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    March 30, 2024 10:54am
  - Swifty
    
    Utterly disgraceful victim-blaming from Mutton.
    
    Maybe if women didn’t dress so provocatively while wearing lippy they wouldn’t get raped so much.
    
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    March 30, 2024 12:34pm
  - Swifty
    
    Oh look, right on queue – more victim blaming:
    
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/arthur-te-wera-jailed-for-raping-auckland-teen-three-times-asked-his-associates-to-film/DV3FOTQ73FCG5ENZYH55G6HZOI/
    
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    March 30, 2024 12:51pm
    - Ghost
      
      Saw that before and thought
      
      – where is Maggie Pie to tell us about people with a neck tattoo
      
      – wonder if he will think that after becoming someone’s prison bitch
      
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      March 30, 2024 12:57pm
  - rouppe
    
    You really are an awful human being
    
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    March 30, 2024 5:32pm
  - Jake Dee
    
    That’s weak, very weak.
    
    ‘The main cause of theft from shops is shops filled with stuff that people want.’
    
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    March 30, 2024 7:25pm
- 70andstilllearning
  
  Yet another pathetic/disingenuous MSM attempt to imply some sort of negative dis-proportional statistic (victims) to racial factors. A quick count of a local suburban complex suggests to me that 8 out of 11 small retail convenience businesses are owned by people of belonging to the ethnic communities mentioned. What relevance has the overall NZ population percentages got to do with such a probability analysis? Absolutely nothing!!
  
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  March 30, 2024 10:19am
- Paulus
  
  Where did you get 5% of Indian ethnicity – I think up to date figures would be at least double that with large immigration and family growth over recent years.
  
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  March 30, 2024 2:28pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I got 5% from the published account.
    
    Yes, I know it dates from the 2018 Census.
    
    I have written on this matter before.
    
    https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2023/04/another_census_disaster.html#comment-3351726
    
    NZ does not have up-to-date information on the racial make-up of its population.
    
    The last 2 censuses were far from satisfactory.
    
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    March 30, 2024 4:56pm
- PurplePen
  
  I would have thought Ak Uni would be on to this and have safe spaces for each race of concern. Just PI and Maori then?
  
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  March 30, 2024 7:51pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

According to a local MSM site that I won’t bother linking to;

“In [the A-place] we are already well below that [population replacement rate], sitting at 1.56 births per woman in 2023. Our fertility rate has been below 2.1 percent since 2013 and we rely heavily on migration to fill the gap”.

For the birth rate to fall by 25% in a decade is absolutely massive. It should be our number one public policy issue.
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March 30, 2024 8:43am
- grumpy
  
  Do you guys realise how bloody hard it is to get a transgender woman pregnant? //
  
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  March 30, 2024 10:13am
  - G152
    
    Must be a pain in the butt
    
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    March 30, 2024 11:19am
  - imalwaysright
    
    I’d give up if I were you.
    
    But just because its hard doesn’t mean it can’t be fun!
    
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    March 30, 2024 11:26am
    - grumpy
      
      People I know have spent years going through the motions……..
      
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      March 30, 2024 2:32pm
CAKE FACE1

In 1985, Marvin Hagler fought Thomas Hearns in a world middleweight championship boxing match. Later known as “The War”, it was one of the greatest fights in history.

In 2024, we had a repeat of this epic fight, as Marvelous Madison Reidy fought Adrian The Hitman Orr, at the Reserve Bank Arena. Here is the fight, followed by my commentary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnNqKfE1OUA&t=6s

The first few minutes show the fighters entering the ring.

The Hitman Orr looks hyper confident, with the eye of the tiger.

Marvelous Madison seems intimidated – this could be an early night for her.

There are a few minutes of preamble. The tension rises. The fighters are introduced to the crowd.

The undisputed champion Adrian The Hitman Orr has a formidable record. A record low OCR of 0.25%. $53 billion bonds bought. $11 billion losses. Still undefeated!

The introductions are finally finished. It’s showtime! Let’s get ready to rumble!

The fight begins. Marvelous Madison edges forward, and pushes out her left hand slowly in a pawing type motion as a range finder, asking about transparency. The Hitman Orr mansplains this away and lunges forward again.

Marvelous Madison throws a stiff jab about the recession, but the Hitman Orr is surprisingly fast on his feet for a big man, and bobs and weaves away from the shot.

The Hitman Orr now enters a long period of throwing jabs, but none of them hit their mark. Still, his work rate is relentless. The fight is now settling into a routine.

BANG! From nowhere, with 7.30 minutes on the clock, Marvelous Madison lands a massive right hand. It’s right on the button! The Hitman Orr IS DOWN! HE’s DOWN! He slowly rises to his feet, but his legs are gone! Let’s look at the slow-motion replay!

Marvelous Madison lined him up with the right hand. She unloaded a question about Reserve Bank claims that the inflation was caused by supply shocks, when clearly demand shocks such as his money printing caused the inflation!

The Hitman Orr is now on his feet, trying to defend himself, but his composure is gone! He babbles nonsensically about relative prices. It is a word salad. His brain is scrambled! He needs the bell for the end of the round to sound. He holds on. He’s babbling about apples and sandwiches and haircuts. His eyes aren’t clear as he babbles irrelevantly about price expectations. He’s hanging on for dear life. He’s looking at the referee despairingly. “It’s a combination of complex things,” he is saying. He’s starts again. He’s jabbing about supply shocks. His legs still look weak, but he looks like he is beginning to recover at last from that massive shot. He’s trying to hold on a lot now.

BANG! From nowhere, around the 12.00-minute mark, The Orr walks onto an unbelievable body shot, and he’s down again! Let’s have a look at the replay!

Orr edged forward, then Marvelous Madison unloaded a massive body shot from an unusual angle, about money printing! It hit Orr right on the ribcage!

He’s up immediately. He is noticeably hurt, but also furious, and doesn’t seem to completely know where he is. He starts snarling to the referee about the shot, saying it was unfair. It looked clean from here!

Now he is going defensive, covering up. There will be no more underestimating this opponent. He has felt her power a couple of time. He is now combative, throwing jab after jab. He’s getting nastier, throwing his head and elbows with abandon. The toing and froing continue. Orr sways the tax question, and a brief brawl ensues over Orr’s money printing brags, but he looks focused now. He talks about stable money.

KABOOM! Orr walked onto another one at 17.30! A HUGE uppercut this time, about purchasing power falling 19.4%. Orr tries to recover his senses, but is hit with another shot! This blow was about inflation being outside range for three years! His legs are gone again! He staggering aimlessly.

Orr is now rope-a-doping! He seems to be hoping that a wall of noise might stop these enormous shots. He’s trying to cover up. Three times, he’s been down.

Around 22 minutes, Orr throws a couple of nasty headbutts, saying he’s not responsible for various matters. He’s tetchy.

Orr now looks like a dog that’s been beaten too much. This mismatch needs to end soon, for the safety of The Orr! He’s punch drunk now.

DING DING DING!!! The final bell at last.

To the judges then. Mr Orr suffered three massive knockdowns.

Marvelous Madison Reidy is pronounced THE WINNER, BY UNANIMOUS DECISION!

When is the rematch?
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March 30, 2024 8:49am
- Tauhei Notts
  
  Cakeface, that was a brilliant commentary and is deserving of many more upticks.
  
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  March 30, 2024 9:57am
- jkt
  
  Thanks. That was entertaining and accurate.
  
  I think Orr will need time to recover but maybe it is time to retire, he was always open for a sucker punch and changing his mindset may well be a bridge too far.
  
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  March 30, 2024 11:04am
- grumpy
  
  Fantastic commentary that accurately sums up the video.
  Marvellous Madison is clearly the pinnacle of NZH journalism (not that there is any real competition),
  
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  March 30, 2024 11:26am
- Jack5
  
  Did the Reserve Bank governor explain how the money-printing press of Robertson & Orr worked?
  
  Treasury issues bonds, a dealer buys them, then the Reserve Bank buys them from the dealer. Up goes the money supply with no additional debt owed by the State – just inflation.
  
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  March 30, 2024 12:38pm
  - jkt
    
    Yes he did.
    He accepted and rejected Madison’s proposition.
    
    His anger 😡 said more than enough. The experience may well have taught him to stick to his job and refrain from conspiring with politicians in future. Or maybe his improved behaviour reflects his political bias.
    
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    March 30, 2024 1:16pm
  - grumpy
    
    Yes he did – surprisingly. He got absolutely stomped!
    
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    March 30, 2024 2:34pm
- grumpy
  
  Interesting at the end when Marvellous Madison did a postscript and almost apologised for asking Poor Oor some hard questions.
  Anyone think her bosses forced that on her?
  
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  March 30, 2024 4:44pm
- Keith White
  
  Cakeface, that’s freakin awesomely done. ✅
  
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  March 30, 2024 8:13pm
Observer of Life

Question on private parking buildings (Wilsons). The other half got a ticket due forgetting to pay for parking (via app) on getting to work. The time in the building was only 3 hours, so around $12 worth I believe. The all day charge is $24, but they have ticketed $85. I’m sure I recently read somewhere that legally they can only charge a specific amount, not the over the top $85. Does anyone know more about this? Cheers in advance.
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March 30, 2024 9:06am
- hmmokrightitis
  
  Correct. Write to them, explain the situation, ask them to outline their actual loss, which you agree to pay. They cannot charge more.
  
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  March 30, 2024 10:08am
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    Thanks Hmmok
    
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    March 30, 2024 5:07pm
- peterwn
  
  It is covered by law of contract. In the case of parking companies courts have accepted that by entering a private parking area with terms and conditions displayed, a contract is created between the owner (even if not the driver) and the property occupier. Contracts may not specify ‘penalties’ but may specify ‘liquidated damages’. This requires the party wanting to claim ‘liquidated damages’ to come up with some sort of calculation to justify the ‘damage’ caused eg loss of enjoyment, enforcement costs etc.A ‘general case’ calculation can be done before the event and does not need to be done with any particular precision. The calculation can possibly be successfully challenged if it is completely beyond the pale. Wilsons (and PES) can most probably reasonably justify the $85 is reasonable in the circumstances even though the cost of failing to put money in a parking meter on the street is much less.
  While there may be ways and means of avoiding payment, the harassment, damage to credit rating, risk of clamping or towing if parking in another Wilsons (or PES enforced area) means it is likely to be better just to take the $85 on the nose and be done with it.
  
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  March 30, 2024 10:08am
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    Oh right… thanks too Peter.
    
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    March 30, 2024 5:09pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

I keep reading about public servants being offered redundancy. The companies I have worked for offered zero redundancy (beyond annual leave payout & notice if not worked).

Does anyone have insight into what redundancy provisions are included in public service contracts?
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March 30, 2024 9:08am
- jkt
  
  Minimum redundancy provisions are in law and recorded in employment contracts. Most often the employer will give notice and allow the employee to leave early while paying the employee for the notice period as the redundancy period often matches the notice period.
  
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  March 30, 2024 11:12am
Simon

Labo run govt departments like a cargo cult. Pour extra billions into them and good left wing outcomes would follow.

Labo are cretins. So are a significant proportion of the general population. Huge problem for NZ.
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March 30, 2024 9:25am
Tauhei Notts

I frequently glance at the RT Com site. It is mostly Russian propaganda but one thing I have noticed if that anything weird, odd or stupid appears in the news from a Western aligned country it gets prominence. It would appear that they want to show how decadent the West is.
So I was amused to see prominence given to a comment by our Huntly truck driver, Tuheitia, about how dolphins are to be recognised as human beings.
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March 30, 2024 9:32am
- Che Guava
  
  But don’t you understand that our media is “Western propaganda” though? You talk of RT – what do you think the BBC, the NY Times, CNN, MCNBC, Fox News and all of the other big news outlets are? They don’t report the news, they direct your opinion about the world towards achieving certain goals.
  
  It indicates how effective our propaganda is when people who consume it don’t even understand that that’s what it is.
  
  “It would appear that they want to show how decadent the West is.”
  
  Don’t you think that the Western propaganda machine has interests and wants to “show” how [despotic/unfree/x/y/z] Russia is?
  
  It beggars belief that we could all live through Covidmania, and come out the other side still thinking that we are not propagandised constantly, forgetting what they had just been subjected to.
  
  Propaganda isn’t something “they” do but “we” don’t – it is a universal activity done by all power to maintain itself, particularly in the mass information age.
  
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  March 30, 2024 11:01am
  - imalwaysright
    
    People accept propaganda if it is done well.
    If the propagandist doesn’t put in the background work and starts getting sloppy and a wee bit above their station then the people will get to a state where they actually feel shortchanged.
    That’s what happened with adern, she started to view the publics acceptance of her propaganda as a foregone conclusion solely on the basis that it came from her.
    She missed the transition of the public starting to ask questions about her propaganda. Unfortunately for her, propaganda by its nature didn’t have the answers.
    
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    March 30, 2024 11:47am
Surely Knott

NZ Herald asks, What next for the artworks of disgraced art collector James Wallace?

Why not put the artworks next to the disgraced art collector John Money’s public display.

And have our shameful history all together.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/after-james-wallaces-sex-convictions-what-next-for-pah-homestead-and-50-million-art-collection/D4Z2APNM6BAHTDKT6I7C64FO64/
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March 30, 2024 9:54am
I remember when

Don Brash: Banks and Climate Change: The Law is an Ass:
“Well, how does one estimate the greenhouse gases involved in, say, a loan to help build a new motorway.
I suppose it is possible (if meaningless) to estimate the greenhouse gases emitted in the construction of the motorway, but what about the effect of traffic on the motorway?”

He suggests that calculation of estimates of greenhouse gases “generated” by their lending activities is –

a totally meaningless figure –

produced at the cost of thousands of hours of diligent but useless work.

When calculating the ‘effect of traffic on the motorway’ how does one estimate the percentage of EVs by the time the motorway is completed?
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March 30, 2024 9:58am
- jkt
  
  Yeah, it is a hypothetical at best.
  Bullshit baffles brains. Most consultancies specialise is this and gets rewarded handsomely.
  
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  March 30, 2024 11:15am
Chuck Bird

I put the following on David Seymour’s FB. I have emailed numerous times to get an answer about an election promise. Should I expect a response to my emails?

“David, before the election you said you would get rid of the Climate Change Commission. This got put on the back burner during coalition talks. Rod Carr is due to retire this year. The position for his replacement should be publicly advertised with the required qualifications. I would be very disappointed if Luxon is allowed to pick another climate change alarmist.
I vote Act mainly on its position on climate change. I have written to you and Act on this matter but have not received a reply.
Why should I vote for Act when a campaign promise is ignored without explanation?”
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March 30, 2024 10:10am
- Cassandra
  
  Did Act get National and NZF to agree? If not then you’re writing rubbish. Act got 9% of the vote – pity it wasn’t 29 but that wasn’t the case. You should put in some effort as well as voting and moaning.
  
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  March 30, 2024 11:14am
  - Ghost
    
    Interesting question. Act didn’t get anything climate related in their deal. NZ First did.
    
    https://www.national.org.nz/national_act_and_new_zealand_first_to_deliver_for_all_new_zealanders
    
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    March 30, 2024 11:27am
    - Chuck Bird
      
      Good point
      
      Ensure that climate change policies are aligned and do not undermine national energy security
      
      https://assets.nationbuilder.com/nationalparty/pages/18466/attachments/original/1700778597/NZFirst_Agreement_2.pdf?1700778597
      
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      March 30, 2024 11:55am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    “You should put in some effort as well as voting and moaning.”
    
    Put some effort into what?
    
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    March 30, 2024 11:43am
    - Cassandra
      
      Helping your party of choice during the election, for example. Join the party, work as a volunteer. And so on.
      
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      March 30, 2024 3:24pm
Souvlaki

Another excellent article by Michael Bassett….hope Luxon includes it in this weekend reading list!

https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/03/dr-michael-bassett-labours-crime-legacy.html?m=1
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March 30, 2024 10:10am
I remember when

We might have to choose: Offshore wind power or seabed mining: North Taranaki Midweek.
“If it (seabed mining) is in the same space, they are not compatible….”
“If you have offshore wind with cables, you can’t have seabed mining……”
“An offshore wind energy industry could play a critical role in helping New Zealand meet net zero targets, while contributing nearly $50 billion to Gross Domestic Product and creating 10,000 jobs, a report released at the Offshore Renewable Energy Forum in Hawera last week.”
“New Zealand will need to triple the volume of renewable energy generated to meet its net zero targets.”

Thank goodness wind energy doesn’t pollute like seabed mining does!
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March 30, 2024 10:46am
- artemisia
  
  I see the Taranaki seabed mining appeal to the EPA has been withdrawn mid hearing. Probably waiting for fast track project details.
  
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  March 30, 2024 10:56am
- Chuck Bird
  
  “Thank goodness wind energy doesn’t pollute”
  
  Maybe not like seabed mining but CO2 is emitted producing wind turbines.
  
  Nuclear power is the way to go.
  
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  March 30, 2024 12:06pm
  - cmm
    
    Unfortunately nuclear produces masses of waste. Waste streams for nuke take a lot of processing, storage etc.
    
    There is no free lunch.
    
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    March 30, 2024 12:17pm
    - Chuck Bird
      
      Do a deal with Oz once they go nuclear.
      
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      March 30, 2024 1:47pm
      - rouppe
        
        Do a deal with rocket lab to send it to the second nearest star.
        
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        March 30, 2024 5:46pm
    - Albie
      
      cmm, don’t know where you get your “masses” of nuclear waste amount from, but if you go to the Office of Nuclear Energy website it states all of the nuclear waste produced by the US over the last 60 years would cover one football field to a depth of 10 metres.
      I would think that was pretty insignificant in the grand scheme of things. Plenty of inhospitable geologically stable places to dump it.
      
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      March 30, 2024 2:42pm
      - cmm
        
        No that is not at all true.
        
        It depends on how you classify nuclear waster.
        
        A football field to 10 metres would maybe be the high grade waste. Not low grade waste.
        
        As old power stations get deconstructed they are considered low level waste (except stuff in the containment shell that is high/medium). All that material has to be controlled and disposed of. This is why they are expecting to take over a century to deconstruct Three Mile Island and Sellafield.
        
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        March 30, 2024 9:16pm
      - Fisiani2
        
        Nuclear fusion, when available, in twenty years, will provide vast amounts of clean energy
        
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        March 30, 2024 9:31pm
      - Jake Dee
        
        I guess you know the old jokes, “Nuclear fusion has been 20 years away for the last 60 years” and “Nuclear fusion is the energy of the future and always will be”.
        
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        March 30, 2024 9:45pm
- Albie
  
  I Remember, have a listen to Rodney Hide interviewing Professor Kelly on Rabbit Hole Radio recently. It’s on replay. Peter Williams interviewed him the last time he was over here from Cambridge Uni and nothing has changed.
  He has written a report and calculated it will cost our economy 55b to achieve net zero by 2030.
  He states it is impossible,and the pollies, Luxon included, need to stop kicking the can down the road and start providing some numbers and time lines with a plan if they are serious.
  If we go down this path it’s going to be all bad. Reduced standard of living at a greatly increased cost per household.
  That’s assuming CO2 is this dangerous toxic gas the media and the greens would have us believe it is. Spare me!
  
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  March 30, 2024 2:59pm
  - JohnRidd
    
    “and calculated it will cost our economy 55b to achieve net zero by 2030.”
    
    Hi Albie.
    
    It is much worse.
    It is not going to happen.
    
    Net Zero is impossible without dramatically reducing our standards of living, as in going back 200 years.
    
    There are no electric combine harvesters. So no wheat, barley, maize, or vegetable oils like canola or sunflower. Also no soya beans so no tofu. So 90% of the world starves to death.
    
    There are no electric bulldozers, graders or motor scrapers.
    
    I have seen a small electric digger designed to work inside an enclosed space but real diggers use diesel.
    
    There are electric trucks. They cost twice a diesel truck but can only do half the work.
    
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    April 4, 2024 7:34pm
Ghost

It’s getting worse for her. Next green candidate start getting ready

Darleen Tana: Ex business partner’s son complains about Green MP
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March 30, 2024 11:35am
Flossie

Just wondering if we (us taxpayers) are paying Green MP Darlene Tana while she is “stood down”. If so, how long does this situation go on for?
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March 30, 2024 12:32pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Yep, she is still on an MP’s salary.
  
  That only ends when she resigns, retires, or drops off the Green List at next election.
  
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  March 30, 2024 1:13pm
Jack5

Voice cloning’s the latest artificial intelligence development that threatens disruption.

Software from OpenAI, called Voice Engine, clones a voice from a 15-second clip of a person talking, including the cadence, and with indications of the speaker’s emotion. The synthetic voice can then read and “speak” words it has scanned.

Because of fears of misuse, OpenAI is restricting the program – in preview mode – to fellow developers, and a reasonable guess is that Open AI doesn’t want users monkeying round with US Presidential election candidates’ voices.

“Partners must also clearly disclose to their audience that the voices they’re hearing are AI-generated,” the company said. OpenAI has added a “watermarking” system to help detect any AI-generated audio from Voice Engine.

OpenAI, the leader in AI, transitioned in 2019 from a fully non-profit research organisation to having as an arm a company which now has a total value as much as $US80 billion (about $NZ134 billion). Sam Altman is the leader. Under the organisation’s complex structure he was sacked, then returned.
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- Ghost
  
  Is this new? I thought I read last year someone had come up with a program to mimmic a dead loved ones voice.
  
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  March 30, 2024 12:53pm
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    Ghost
    
    The Israeli government might use it to get 10s of thousands of innocent Palestinians to confess to being Hamas.
    I’m assuming “loved ones” isn’t a prerequisite for the program , but dead is.
    
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    March 30, 2024 1:15pm
    - Jack5
      
      The heavies in Palestine at present are the Mafia.
      
      Standover Muslim gangsters are driving Christian small business owners out of Nazareth.
      
      New Zealand and most of the West, don’t show sympathy for the dwindling Christian communities of the Middle East.
      
      https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/mafia-crime-wave-in-israel-drives-christians-from-nazareth/ar-BB1kKUTG
      
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      March 30, 2024 2:33pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  If you look at the malignant crap the dems have been up to since they got TDS, I can’t see this technology going anywhere good. Sure, it has potential for good, but then you have players like the “do be evil” monopoly and the like.
  
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  March 30, 2024 2:50pm
Jack5

‘Morning, Ghost.

Yes, this is an intriguing AI development.

Altman gave a sort of pre-announcement of the software, Voice Engine, at Davos 72 days ago.

This is from the New York Times, 29 March, Friday, US time (i.e. approximately today NZ time) reporting on the Voice Engine:

Now, it [OpenAI] has unveiled technology that can recreate someone’s voice.

The high-profile A.I. start-up said on Friday that a small group of businesses was testing a new OpenAI system, Voice Engine, that can recreate a person’s voice from a 15-second recording. If you upload a recording of yourself and a paragraph of text, it can read the text using a synthetic voice that sounds like yours.

The text does not have to be in your native language. If you are an English speaker, for example, it can recreate your voice in Spanish, French, Chinese or many other languages.

The report includes a 16 second online demonstration of VoiceEngine cloning a man’s voice in first, English, then, AI-translated, in Portuguese.

It’s closer than mimicking by an actor.

Sorry, but this is behind a paywall but you can read and hear it has a trial visitor.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/29/technology/openai-voice-engine.html
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March 30, 2024 1:40pm
- Ghost
  
  Thanks Jack.
  
  It is interesting, but I can see how it would also consume some people, especially if they use the voice of a deceased loved one. But it could also help at least one president deliver a coherent speech…
  
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  March 30, 2024 4:24pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

TOW Brainwashing Comic for High School kids Part 32.

“In 200 years time, what are the gangs going to do? Go to the Waitangi Tribunal (hopefully it won’t be around then) and file a claim for compensation / reparations because ‘the government in 2024 confiscated my boat, house, and motorbike?’ ”
Notice the guns not mentioned here, but we get the idea.

“Our children, all the children in our schools, are being groomed to join in with the Maori activist cause which is all based on what?
Lies, deceit, and trickery.”

https://stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/analysis-treaty-of-waitangi-comic-for-high-school-students-has-been-quietly-brainwashing-away-since-2018-part-32/
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March 30, 2024 3:57pm
RichardX

I wondered why Otto & AOR hadn’t provided an update on Kari Lake recently.

Steve Otto(North Shore)
Kari Lake is not giving up. She wants the cheating Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer out.
https://billingsreport.com/kari-lake-speaks-out-election-officials-brazenly-hiding-evidence-from-us/
APRIL 3, 2023 8:13AM

Maybe they missed this update

“Absolutely,” Richer told KTAR News 92.3 FM’s Arizona’s Morning News on Wednesday. “We now have a judgment saying that Kari Lake lied about me, lied to the world, lied to Arizona, lied about the 2022 election.

https://ktar.com/story/5568271/maricopa-countys-stephen-richer-we-now-have-a-judgment-saying-that-kari-lake-lied-about-me/

https://tucson.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/kari-lake-defamation-admission-damages-hearing-stephen-richer-2020-election/article_b9f48480-ebb1-11ee-902b-bfdf8fa20c64.html

https://www.yourvalley.net/stories/lake-admits-defaming-maricopa-county-recorder-richer,486819
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March 30, 2024 4:07pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

From Facebook. I can’t find another link so will this work?
Dennis Prager on leftism.

https://fb.watch/r7gntEYNFs/
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March 30, 2024 4:34pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Cow farts, reduce the herds (primary industry sshhhh)
17 years ago, Cows with Guns. Blast from the past.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQMbXvn2RNI
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March 30, 2024 5:14pm
Ghost

My inner child had a good laugh at the comment about fresh skid marks on the crossing. Thanks for the laugh newshub

Police have impounded a car spotted doing burnouts on central Gisborne’s rainbow pedestrian crossing on Friday night.

The car was allegedly doing skids on the crossing at about 8:30pm.

Officers checked CCTV footage and identified the car which left “fresh skid marks” on the crossing, a police spokesperson told Newshub.

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March 30, 2024 5:33pm
- mandk
  
  I thought the people in the car were making an artistic statement.
  
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  March 30, 2024 5:51pm
Fisiani2

Hypnotists will soon be replaced by great hypnotic scripts delivered by computerised voices.
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