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CJames

For those who following with horror the energy transition to the unreliables, they will have noted that the advocates use the IEA as their authority. That organisation’s “expertise” isn’t there. Their latest report on batteries show the IEA doesn’t know what it is talking about.
To quote Francis Merton:
“In my self-designated role critiquing various schemes for total transformation of the world energy system, I get to review large amounts of poor, shoddy, and incompetent work. When people get into advocating for this “energy transition,” the stars regularly align to bring forth the most extreme levels of ineptitude. Start with the fact that the “smartest” people are filled with arrogance and hubris, but are not actually very smart. Add that many innumerate Politics and English majors have flooded into a field that cries out for engineering calculations. Add too that groupthink and orthodoxy enforcement prevent anyone from pointing out obvious flaws. And then throw in a strong dose of religious zealotry that obstructs the intrusion of anything resembling critical thinking. All in all, it’s a prescription for catastrophe.
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2024-4-27-a-shockingly-inept-report-on-battery-storage-of-energy-from-the-iea
And yes, I know that Francis is a lawyer. But he doesn’t proclaim false expertise. He just talks to and reads engineers, many from industry rather than academics, who do know what they are talking about. Then he writes eloquently about what they prove to him.
Remember that next time you hear some no-nothing proclaim that the wind/solar is the cheapest form of generation and cheap electricity is just around the corner. California and South Australia are the counter-factuals.
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April 29, 2024 8:01am
- cmm
  
  In the land of unicorns, calculations don’t matter.
  
  You obviously didn’t go to enough Peter Pan pantomimes when you were a kid. All you need to do is shut your eyes, hold hands with the person next to you and say aloud: “I believe in fairies… and Elon Musk!”.
  
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  April 29, 2024 8:11am
  - CJames
    
    Elon is persona non grata nowadays since he went to the dark side. And you need a lot of fairy dust to roll the unicorn turds in to make them sparkle.
    
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    April 29, 2024 8:14am
    - cmm
      
      Elon Musk is a scammer. The sooner he stops presenting himself as an “engineer” the better.
      
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      April 29, 2024 8:21am
      - softail 1450
        
        CMM , Nah you’re right he was a street sweeper who just got lucky for 20 or 30 years and managed to get 3 degrees including if my memory serves me right a Masters in Physics but no he’s not qualified to be called an engineer 😂😂😂😂.
        Isn’t jealousy one of the 7 deadly sins CMM?
        
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        April 29, 2024 8:57am
      - cmm
        
        soft tail: Musk has two degrees. One in economics and the other is some sort of teacher’s diploma for teaching physics at school.
        
        No he is not an engineer, but does call himself Chief Engineer of Space X.
        
        He didn’t found Telsa (although they airbrushed the company history to say that he did).
        
        Jealous: nope. I have accomplished sufficient that I don’t need to feel any jealousy.
        
        What is currently happening with Musk looks almost exactly the same as what happened with the other amazing darling of tech: Elizabeth Holmes.
        
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        April 29, 2024 9:21am
      - wsk12345
        
        @cmm
        Wow that’s a long bow. Whatever Misk has or hasn’t done, comparing him to a lifetime scammer who never had a working product to sell is a bit far.
        
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        April 29, 2024 9:30am
      - Taieri
        
        managed to get 3 degrees including if my memory serves me right a Masters in Physics but no he’s not qualified to be called an engineer
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        Your memory does not serve you right…
        
        From Wikipedia:
        
        “(…)Two years later, he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League university in Philadelphia, where he earned two degrees, a Bachelor of Arts in physics, and a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from the university’s Wharton School(…)”
        
        And no, he’s not qualified to be called an engineer.
        
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        April 29, 2024 9:30am
      - NothingLeft
        
        University credentials matter for the first few years of an engineers career, but you pick up most of what you know and use (and real expertise) for elite technical fields on the job from peers.
        
        Musk is an extremely capable technical engineering leader, and understanding physics to a high level is highly enabling in the fields he deals with. SpaceX came from nowhere to quickly surpass the biggest and oldest and most experienced space launch companies. And also founded the modern EV industry and remains the only profitable EV maker. He no doubt lacks some engineering basics it obviously doesn’t matter in leading engineering teams to get the job done to the highest standards.
        
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        April 29, 2024 11:02am
      - jkt
        
        CMM.
        For someone who has acquired a degree you place a lot of emphasis on a tertiary qualification.
        
        The qualification means diddly squad when it comes to innovative, creative and physical outcomes. A tertiary qualification opens a door, but one then needs to walk through the door and your success defines you.
        
        I am glad to hear that you believe that you have been successful in life, that memory provides life satisfaction.
        
        Many very successful people did not need that crutch, good on them.
        
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        April 29, 2024 12:04pm
  - G152
    
    Well there are certainly enough fairies around these days.
    Its almost compulsory
    
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    April 29, 2024 8:18am
- Chuck Bird
  
  I am looking forward to meeting the CCC in the Waikato on Wednesday. I have few questions for them.
  
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  April 29, 2024 8:12am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    Well good luck. I suspect that they will give you the same answers that I gave you, if those are the questions you are planning.
    
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    April 29, 2024 10:35am
    - jkt
      
      That will be rather disappointing.
      All that effort.
      
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      April 29, 2024 12:08pm
- Notsofast
  
  Decouple Media is an outstanding podcast series, that covers every aspect of energy types, consumption, mining, networks, finance, very strong on nuclear.
  
  Here is an example of the podcast style
  
  https://youtu.be/LpYci_i4eV4?si=lYoi-v99YTdd-7wZ
  
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  April 29, 2024 8:40am
- Master Mariner
  
  Thanks CJ, I always enjoy your posts but due to work commitments i do not get the chance to reply.
  The IEA has been taken over by Climate Change zealots and has changed its own Mandates / policies it was originally set up for.
  I see they have “updated” there Mission statement recently too.
  https://www.iea.org/about/international-collaborations
  Like a lot of these “International Organisations” have been captured “Funded” by oblique “Think Tanks” and / or other Nefarious Organisations.
  So this leads us too a broader issue which lays at the heart of a functioning Democracy. Mainly Mis / Dis information and Free Speech.
  An example would be if a NIWA scientist released a statement along the lines of ” Co2 May not be responsible for Climate Change”.
  I am sure there are scientists there who would believe something similar ?
  Would he be cancelled / Told no longer to come back etc ?
  All roads lead to Rome.
  And as a few commentators state ” Follow the Money”.
  Recently the German politicians have overstated the costs of keeping Nuclear Power.
  https://menafn.com/1108147878/German-officials-falsifies-experts-to-implement-that-nuclear-power-was-no-longer-viable-in-the-country
  This is where Ideology meets reality, Unfortunitly for the German People / Businesses this is not working out well.
  The list keeps on giving.
  
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  April 29, 2024 8:58am
- jkt
  
  “Find” the right carbon cost …. Wallah ….. you can make any business case ..
  
  Our only saviour will be if governments understand Trade Offs and are not blinded by ideology.
  
  How many of us were duped into the trans ideology on the basis that the effects of puberty blockers are reversible … kindness ….. no lesser an authority than our government told us so. …. Following the examples set by UK and others …. Now we have access to the Cass report.
  
  Ideas rule supreme. And it is only the fact that there are Trade Offs that we stay on track.
  
  Men winning gold medals in women’s competition, was a catalyst …
  The market is a catalyst …. But only if sanity prevails.
  
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  April 29, 2024 9:29am
- nz_aj
  
  First difficult question, how to provide electricity for the evening peak in winter, when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind has stopped blowing.
  Second, how to provide electricity in a dry year, when the dams are empty and the wind doesn’t blow much.
  Answers include more geothermal and SMR, if coal and gas are to be banned.
  Any solar or wind installation should have to pay for energy storage, essentially additional generators at existing dams, and likely minimum and maximum flows on rivers will need broadening.
  Onslow is unaffordable, and won’t work as a “battery” with Lake Roxborough having virtually no capacity.
  
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  April 29, 2024 11:53am
- NZer In Exile
  
  I think the rot started in the field of climate and energy when Gore started firing highly competent and experienced real climate scientists because they were raising concerns about the alarmist hypothesis re Co2.
  
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  April 29, 2024 3:48pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  “California and South Australia are the counter-factuals.” Germany is also hitting the skids due to massive “investment” in unreliables.
  
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  April 29, 2024 4:25pm
cmm

Kiwibank are the latest bank being accused of not doing enough to interrogate their customers as to what they are doing with there money.

“It’s alleged the manager processed the payment without questioning the victim about the nature of the transfer, the legitimacy of the recipient or whether the transaction could be subject to fraud.”

Do we really want to live in a society where the bank questions you as to what you are doing with every financial transaction you make?

How friggin stupid can people be? Sending off $300k to some outfit that they got an email from.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/kiwibank-manager-helped-citibank-scam-victim-send-300000-to-fraudsters-months-after-fma-warning/4YVTX5W4SVHYTP3M7HGCRKBAJY/
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April 29, 2024 8:08am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  It’s tricky, eh. Is that middle aged spinster the likely victim of a love-scam? Or a savvy investor securing her financial future?
  
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  April 29, 2024 8:18am
  - ecco
    
    Definitely wasn’t a financially savvy individual…
    
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    April 29, 2024 9:22am
- bartybart
  
  I agree, while the banks have a certain responsibility they should have reduced power over our transactions if anything.
  
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  April 29, 2024 8:41am
- artemisia
  
  “She searched online for investment opportunities … ”
  First red flag for the scammed person, seems to have gone right by them.
  
  I see the Banking Ombudsman and a lawyer is involved. I guess we will see the results of the investigations.
  
  Stupid, cmm? Yes, but for many financial literacy is lacking, and first port of call when things go wrong is ‘find someone else to blame’. Still, one would think that personal responsibility still counts for something.
  
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  April 29, 2024 8:42am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Someone, or a group of someones were slack at their job.
  Kiwibank once rang me at 4am on a Sunday morning regarding a payment of $6000 from my EFTPOS/DEBIT card account. That account is not an everyday account so I only keep less than $200 in it. So the payment was to an online gambling outfit in New York. I do not do gambling so the Bank quickly cancelled my card.
  Why would I be gambling at 4am in the morning? I thank Kiwibank for that.
  
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  April 29, 2024 8:53am
  - wsk12345
    
    And yet they didn’t contact me when I paid using internet banking for my house!!!
    That was a very large transaction, to an account I’d not paid into prior. I expected a phone call or a text at least but nothing.
    
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    April 29, 2024 9:20am
    - artemisia
      
      The bank may well have checked the transaction and OKd it. Large real estate, vehicles and business transactions happen all the time. Like checked the receiving account was legit, no red or pink flags. Most are legit.
      
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      April 29, 2024 9:49am
- ecco
  
  Reading on nzh about those people who have been scammed out of large of amounts of money and now saying it’s the banks fault. They are very sad stories but I don’t think banks should be made liable for a fraudulent action where they have fulfilled all their obligations from a compliance point of view.
  
  These scammed people were clearly chasing above average returns. Ie a free lunch, when there is none when it comes to investment returns.
  
  When they should have just walked into their local bank and asked for advice on investing large lump sums face to face with people whom they can verify as to their credentials. Goodness knows the FMA has imposed so many restrictions and processes on the banks, the banks can’t possibly quiz every single large transaction.
  
  Alternatively there needs to be more education in schools about safe investing and the fact that if it’s too good to be true, then it is too good to be true.
  
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  April 29, 2024 9:20am
  - Skippytony
    
    What it comes down to in these days where all facts are “relative”, the question becomes “who has the financial resources to do something about this?”
    Scamee has no money. Scammers are hard to get to.
    
    Lets put the Eeevil bank on the hook.
    
    Trouble is, we all end up paying for these fuckwits. First through banks being less profitable and second through the financial system becoming increasingly unresponsive and burdened with vast amounts of risk mitigation.
    
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    April 29, 2024 10:36am
- mogg
  
  It was a fraud that all banks had been warned about months prior to this negligent manager assisting the transfer of funds to another Kiwibank mule account.
  People who have no understanding of how financial markets work should not be making these decisions, but neither should a state owned bank be harbouring
  an illegal mule account and assisting transfer of funds into that account.
  It wasn’t just an email there had been a number of phone calls prior to the transfer. Banks know full well that there is a plague of fraudsters targeting their customers, NZ banking is years behind with their slack security it would not be acceptable in any other advanced economy.
  
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  April 29, 2024 10:03am
Simon

Maori are disproportionately victims of crime. Ho hum. What is your weapon of self defense?

Maybe: Cattle Prodder Handheld Prod – 4000V Electric Shock
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April 29, 2024 8:09am
Anthony Melchett

Is shooting up a van and a house mana motohake or tikanga Maori?

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/crime/father-son-rebels-gang-duo-texas-and-wiremu-doctor-sentenced-to-prison-for-auckland-shootings/

And this shows the issues with our justice system, where you get discounts for pleading guilty or because you were raised badly. You still did the crime, why get a reduced sentence if you plead guilty?

“…Defence lawyer Jack Seton, representing Texas Doctor, asked the judge to apply a substantial credit for his client’s willingness to plead guilty, even though the admission of guilt didn’t come until earlier this year, on the Friday before their trial was set to begin.

“He showed responsibility by putting his hand up to be the shooter,” Seton said. “This also allowed other defendants in this case to plead [guilty].”

The younger Doctor’s lawyer, Jennifer Holden, sought discounts for youth and for his upbringing. She pointed out he had no prior convictions prior to the shooting arrest but acknowledged her client had cut off his electronically monitored ankle bracelet in February and was at large for nearly two months. Despite that, he showed up in court and had taken responsibility, she said.”

The judge said he had done well to stay out of jail for 10 years. So what, I have stayed out for 5 times that and not looking for any praise…
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April 29, 2024 8:17am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  No prior convictions but has an ankle bracelet.
  
  How does that work?
  
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  April 29, 2024 10:02am
- pdm
  
  I have managed to stay out of court for 77 years and 10 days.
  
  In fact I have only ever been in a court during proceedings twice.
  The first time in Nausori Fiji where I was a witness for the prosecution in a fraud case.
  
  The second time in Gisborne where a workmate and I were sent along to have a look at a defendant in a case because no one at our workplace had seen him face to face. To our embarrassment the prosecutor saw us and asked us to clarify a point he was making. We did so from the public gallery.
  
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  April 29, 2024 10:12am
Tomtoddy

Weather forecasters cried “wolf” again. The “violent storms” for the upper North Island have disappeared this morning. Damage is done though – extreme weather under climate change gets another subtle reaffirmation deep in the mind.
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April 29, 2024 8:19am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  They piss boaties off something terrible.
  Forecasts of what MAY happen. They have no idea.
  Up here on the Shore if you can see Rangitoto it’s going to rain. If you can’t see Rangitoto it is raining.
  
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  April 29, 2024 8:57am
  - 70andstilllearning
    
    “They piss boaties off something terrible”
    
    To be fair Steve, with the plethora of satellite and met data freely available these days if they can’t work it out themselves they shouldn’t be running a boat. Having worked rescue boats for many years, I’m pretty convinced that this country has more than it’s fair share of such twits.
    
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    April 29, 2024 9:48am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      I have sort of rescued a few. More often than not, they run out of fuel! No fuel pumps out by the Mokes so I tow them. Found a bigger boat heading to Whangarei so they took over.
      Twits, yes there are plenty. Biggest pricks are on jetskis.
      
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      April 29, 2024 11:00am
      - 70andstilllearning
        
        Careful Steve! SS 700 -> Yama VX Waverunner – saves heaps on the bludgers 🙂
        
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        April 29, 2024 12:03pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        70 and still,
        Not all would be pricks. Out in the harbour drifting and straylining and you hear them coming rrr rrr rrr , then they circle around me then fuck off. Look at me look at me! Go do your circles somewhere else in the harbour!
        
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        April 29, 2024 2:43pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Ode to Jetski Person by Aus Cartoonist Michael Leunig.
        
        https://www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/General-Discussion/Chat/ODE-TO-A-JET-SKI-PERSON
        
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        April 29, 2024 3:06pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  I am not familiar with the specific weather event you refer to.
  
  IMO the Metservice does an excellent job in warning of severe weather. Sure they deal in probabilities. However if, for example, they issue a severe wind warning for a location, severe wind almost always happens.
  
  Have you evidence that that the metservice habitually exaggerates the threat of severe weather in its forecasts?
  
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  April 29, 2024 9:02am
  - jkt
    
    His comment is about linking any and every storm warning or event to anthropogenic climate change.
    
    Like, authorities stating as fact that the effects of puberty blockers is fully reversible.
    …. That Covid vaccines are 100% safe and that those who are reluctant to accept medical intervention do not care about the safety of others and then punish them by limiting their human rights.
    
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    April 29, 2024 9:42am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      “His comment is about linking any and every storm warning or event to anthropogenic climate change.”
      
      Can you point to any time the Metservice has drawn such a link in issuing its severe weather warnings? I have not seen any. All their weather warnings are purely factual, and at least so far, written entirely in the English language.
      
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      April 29, 2024 10:33am
      - David George
        
        The legacy media are the ones exaggerating relatively normal forecast weather events into lurid, apocalyptic disasters.
        Hardly surprising; they are all partners with (for?) the international clearing house for climate propaganda and fear mongering Covering Climate Now.
        https://coveringclimatenow.org/partners/partner-list/
        
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        April 29, 2024 11:59am
      - Benedict Yu
        
        Yes I agree. However that is not the fault of Metservice.
        
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        April 29, 2024 12:14pm
      - jkt
        
        Then I suggest listen up. These people are often interviewed on these issues. But, then again, you already know that. NIWA should be enough of a clue.🕵️‍♂️
        
        But there is also the concept of by association.
        
        But then again, some people choose to argue in white and black. Anyone claiming that NIWA and all weather forecasters are objective chooses to reinforce their biases.
        
        Granted Metservice is better …
        
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        April 29, 2024 12:25pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    VHF radio. Been out in the Hauraki Gulf when metservice says strong winds and 3 meter swell and choppy. Look at the water and it is like glass. Sure the next day was rough.
    
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    April 29, 2024 11:04am
Damocles11

Regarding banks scams: ‘the bank is missing obvious red flags’….how about the plonkers who are getting scammed? The romance scams work the same as these finance scams…..gullible people being taken in by scenarios that seem ‘too good to be true’ but they plow on regardless because they have a psychological flaw that the scammer can exploit. I come back to an example I read where a couple demanded the bank staffer send through the money – “or we will miss this opportunity” – despite her warnings, then eventually stormed off to another banks branch in high dudgeon only to have it confirmed there that the account they wanted to send it to was a scammers account. Some people need saving from themselves because they are stupid / gullible / reckless but putting the responsibility / blame on the banks all the time is totally disingenuous.
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April 29, 2024 8:20am
Maggie Pie

Another great piece of investigative journalism from Tom….

“The gang problem will only grow if taxpayers continue to fund them”

https://twitter.com/CranmerWrites/status/1784408682475995599
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April 29, 2024 8:26am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Payments buy votes.
  Thanks Ardern.
  
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  April 29, 2024 9:01am
cmm

Clearly what we have in the hopefully soon to be renamed back to Housing New Zealand is broken.

Why must law abiding, decent people be subject to scumbags?

I think one of the things that is broken is that under the law HNZ is treated as a landlord and must act through the Tenancy Tribunal (if the wusses even choose to do so).

Clearly a first step in the right direction is for them to actually start to use what tools they have on scumbags (ie. the Tenancy Tribunal) to evict.

But HNZ is not a normal tenant/landlord situation any more than Corrections is a hotel. HNZ have to deal with scum that normal landlords could turn away. I think therefore they should operate under a different framework and not be subject to the Tenancy Tribunal.

Still, they could do a lot better with the broken tools they have.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350258670/kainga-ora-slammed-after-tenants-terrorise-neighbour-poo-outside-her-door
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April 29, 2024 8:31am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  If the Tenancy Tribunal is part of the problem in getting rid of this tenant (and it is), then why should it only be a problem for private landlords but not Kainga Ora?
  
  Making the government suffer the embarrassment and cost that results from being subject to their own tenancy rules is important. Then they are incentivised to fix the rules for all of us.
  
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  April 29, 2024 8:43am
  - cmm
    
    “Making the government suffer the .. cost ”
    
    It costs them nothing. It all comes out of our pockets.
    
    There is a difference in that HNZ does not really get to choose who they deal with. If they evict a tenant they are required to find alternative accomodations (or so it seems).
    
    This means they are forced to deal with people that regular landlords could turn away.
    
    BY had some insider’s knowledge and says that a third of tenants are good. I would suspect that in normal tenancy situations, most tenants are good.
    
    Therefore HNZ has a different set of problems to deal with. Trying to use the same tools to deal with both situations seems problematic.
    
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    April 29, 2024 9:14am
    - jkt
      
      Surely voters have a say in this matter.
      Balanced journalism and a properly functioning fourth estate will be helpful.
      
      The fourth estate should always be critical of government.
      
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      April 29, 2024 9:48am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        Why? Why critical, if the government stuffs up yes, but the so called fourth estate want to crap on this government on everything, most of what they are doing is agreed necessary by my mates when asking, I have never heard a person yet who voted for change say they wish they never. The way the fourth estate acts, you would think there was calls for the government too be resolved by the King
        
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        April 29, 2024 10:07am
      - wsk12345
        
        @G
        I think he’s taking about everything the government says or does being examined critically rather than criticising everything.
        
        The problem with “you and your mates” – and nearly everyone else I know “and their mates” – is that most lack an interest in, or ability to think critically. Examples like why would Polly’s say that a vaccine is safe or puberty blockers are safe when anyone with half a brain can see that no quality long term studies can possibly have been carried out. Reducing speed limits because “speed kills” without questioning whether changing the law will change the results or just punish those going 5kmh over the limit. Seeing that allowing men to participate in women’s sport, which they blindly support, has long term implications of (probably) less women participating which affects a much larger % of the population. Subsidising intermittent forms of generation “is green” with no knowledge of how a power system operates. Subsidising EVs without understanding their true cost. I could go on all day. Most people I know have little interest in going beyond the superficial.
        
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        April 29, 2024 10:59am
      - jkt
        
        Giant from D:
        It is or used to be their job to keep government to account.
        
        That is why they liken themselves with the fourth estate. But now they are just the media.
        
        And media can do whatever they like as far as I am concerned. As long as they do not claim to be part of the forth estate.
        
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        April 29, 2024 12:33pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  A couple of observations.
  
  Firstly Not all state housing tenants are scum. About one third are excellent tenants and another third have only occasional problems.
  
  Secondly, the Tenancy Tribunal is well-equipped to deal with terrible tenants. Kàinga Ora was prohibited by the last government from seeking eviction orders. That has now changed. If Kàinga Ora fails to act, Chris Bishop should be all over them.
  
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  April 29, 2024 8:46am
  - cmm
    
    “Firstly Not all state housing tenants are scum.”
    Nobody said they were.
    
    “About one third are excellent tenants”. That number should be over 90%.
    
    They are not real tenants. They are getting taxpayer hand outs through subsidies. They should be a bit more grateful and pull their heads in a bit.
    
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    April 29, 2024 8:48am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      They can’t be grateful if they are “entitled.”
      
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      April 29, 2024 9:11am
      - MCōs
        
        Why not?
        I’m grateful for the pension that comes in every fortnight and that’s an entitlement
        I was grateful for the car drivers that stopped at the pedestrian crossing this morning because the alternative would have been instant death!
        Last year in Onehunga I was approached some green lights in my automobile. I was entitled to the right of way, but a chap on a motorcycle was holding up the traffic while his mates went through the red light.
        They were wearing gang patches so I did my civic duty and forfeited my entitlement because the alternative would have been instant death.
        
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        April 29, 2024 2:47pm
    - MCōs
      
      Not just state housing tenants, but anyone who get gets some sort of assistance from the taxpayer by way of the a branch of the government
      Last year I fell over through nobody else’s fault, but my own and bust a leg. I had to wait three days in A & E to have it repaired presumably because they were lacking resources to get on to it straight away.
      A lot of people who wait around like that grizzle and grump about the delay.
      Well. Maybe if I’d been more careful I wouldn’t have gone through all that trauma
      A lot of people get taxpayer assistance one way or another. NZ Superannuation, motorways, police assistance . . . . . prison time!
      
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      April 29, 2024 9:18am
      - kowtow
        
        Yer and a lot of us pay an awful lot of tax too.
        
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        April 29, 2024 9:28am
      - MCōs
        
        The squeezed middle pay a lot of tax everywhere
        I went to Denmark and was amazed how much the people I was staying with paid. 40% income tax plus 20% gst
        Btw
        Their apartment didn’t have a bathroom! There was one that everyone on their floor shared. That was 1988; things might have changed in the interim
        
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        April 29, 2024 11:56am
    - jkt
      
      Probably 98% of these tenants are grateful for the assistance they get from taxpayers.
      Even these 98% are entitled to complain about bad service. (I have met state housing employees and tenants … most are caring others are … best avoided)
      
      Maybe we should match up the 2%ers and create a secondary system. If the bad tenants look after their government provided prefab and demonstrate they have rehabilitated they can be considered for an upgrade.
      
      Something like small footprint low cost government housing estates where government can deploy wrap around services within “confined security” areas.
      
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      April 29, 2024 10:06am
    - jkt
      
      My ears are already singing.
      
      The poor social deviant victims!
      Blame the government for the behaviour of social deviants.
      
      They get a secure roof over their heads, their choice.
      
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      April 29, 2024 10:14am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO, and do not collect $200.
  
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  April 29, 2024 9:12am
- Stellaboxer
  
  Although this comment is about what happened in the UK I believe it’s moral may be of some assistance here in formulating policy around state housing tenants.
  In 1953 my father and mother applied for what is known there as a council house that is a house provided by the local authority rather than the state but it amounted to the same thing. They had to undergo a rigorous interview and vetting process that included references from employers, one essentially current , my fathers military discharge status and have a clean criminal record. That put them on the waiting list. They received their new home and considered themselves blessed. It had two toilets, upstairs and down, a front and back garden a single garage 3 bedrooms kitchen and living room and was theirs if they stuck to the rules for the rest of their lives. They brought up six kids in it. The estate was a fantastic crime free place where everyone looked out for each other’s kids and there was zero burglaries or car breaking. A real community. In the late 70s the Labour government over rode the local authorities and enforced tenancy by need which essentially meant house anyone that presented without a roof over their head. The results were almost immediate as one or two houses became occupied by long term beneficiaries and drop kicks whose kids roamed the estate after dark breaking into sheds and cars of the working people and took their things. The local shops were broken into, well you get the picture. One house was broken into Christmas Eve and all the presents stolen. People who could moved out and more shit bags moved in , the ones who couldn’t get private rentals and the whole estate spiraled into a crime ridden shit hole where you were afraid to walk the streets and old people such as my parents kept their doors locked during the day. Labour, the socialist ideological revolutionaries had succeeded once again in the equal distribution of misery by pulling everyone down. But in their minds it was now fair and equatable. Of course they lived in the private houses on the other side of town.
  
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  April 29, 2024 9:14am
- imalwaysright
  
  Mistreating the property is Housing Corps problem.
  
  Mistreating the neighbours is the Police Force’s problem.
  
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  April 29, 2024 9:38am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    It would have been the same in state houses in New Zealand in the 50s and 60s, maybe even the 70s. Most state housing tenants would have had jobs, or more accurately the father would have had a job.
    
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    April 29, 2024 12:38pm
    - Gravelroad
      
      Yes, as I have commented on here before I spent the first 10 years of life living in a state house in both Auckland and Wellington.
      My father worked for a government department and in those days the requirement was to be shifted around the country in order to progress up the pay scale and seniority ladder.
      “Stateys” (aka government houses) were made available to these workers to make the shift easier.
      The houses were ok – just basic two bedroom wooden boxes – but we would not have dreamed of vandalising it or getting off side with any neighbours – not when the parent’s job status and prospects could have been impacted.
      
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      April 29, 2024 3:39pm
    - Stellaboxer
      
      Actually Benedict I can’t think of a single one parent household when I was growing up!
      
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      April 29, 2024 7:18pm
Maggy Wassilieff

How many visits to try and locate a violent, disruptive tenant does it take for Kāinga Ora to realise that the tenant is not going to engage with them?

“Prior to the [balcony] incident, our team had visited the property on six occasions, but they were unable to engage directly with the customer at the centre of the allegations to get their account of what was happening.

“On each occasion they left a letter outlining the concerns and requesting a meeting.”

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/515438/kainga-ora-slammed-after-tenants-terrorise-neighbour-poo-outside-her-door

What an unproductive waste of staff time.
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April 29, 2024 8:33am
- Debsta
  
  They are not customers ffs! I agree with cmm above, HNZ is not the same as other landlords and should not be operating under the same rules…it’s a farce.
  
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  April 29, 2024 8:41am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    So if KO should not operate under the Tenancy Act, what alternative rules would you put in place?
    
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    April 29, 2024 12:40pm
- cmm
  
  I would think that a far better approach would be to hand over cases like these to the police.
  
  The police have a bigger toolbox with more pointy tools.
  
  Expecting such a person to respond to a letter seems rather hopeful. To do it once, maybe. More than once? Dreaming.
  
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  April 29, 2024 8:46am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    There’s no guarantee the letter’s recipient can even read
    
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    April 29, 2024 10:08am
  - jkt
    
    The police will side with the social deviant, the social deviant is the real victim here …… of the success of others.
    Punish the successful bastards, how dare they ……
    
    I feel for the police. Imagine the training and conditioning that they are getting at the police college. All our institutions have been wokified.
    
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    April 29, 2024 10:19am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    AFAIK KO does refer criminal complaints to the Police. They will have many dealings with the police on a daily basis.
    
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    April 29, 2024 12:42pm
- julesnzuk
  
  I’m just as disturbed by the dumbed down, baby language that we’ve come to expect from dumbo Stuff. “Poo”? Cringe. Are they targeting a readership of toddlers? The correct word is defecate (though I doubt the average stuff employee could spell it).
  
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  April 30, 2024 2:06am
Bridgenag

Sunday Strip: Make Europe Great Again

https://open.substack.com/pub/rwmalonemd/p/sunday-strip-make-europe-great-again?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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April 29, 2024 8:36am
KH

Can you afford to fight with equipment that costs hundreds of millions when your opponent uses cheapies? Who collapses first.
This video is from Syria but Ukraine and Russia are using millions of these.
https://www.southfront.press/syrian-fpv-drones-wreck-militants-vehicles-in-greater-idlib-video/
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April 29, 2024 8:43am
Maggie Pie

Remember earlier this month, the question was raised as to whether the convicted Czech drug smuggler Karel Schroubek, had been deported yet.

Well the answer is NO, he hasn’t.

https://twitter.com/Light42Lime/status/1784137694043689322

What are they trying to hide?
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April 29, 2024 8:47am
- cmm
  
  You didn’t really need to read past the “Tena koi” bit to know what the answer is.
  
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  April 29, 2024 9:06am
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, I was making some bread yesterday (to keep my hand in) and there was flour everywhere. Now getting back to Karel, yes he is indeed fortunate.
  
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  April 29, 2024 9:29am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Is he not appealing his hearing, I guess it will take years like Dot Con
  
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  April 29, 2024 10:10am
  - Paulus
    
    And of course DotCom is still here !
    
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    April 29, 2024 2:06pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  He won’t be going anywhere.
  Reason? He will squark about things I can’t mention on here. You guess.
  
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  April 29, 2024 11:19am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I looked at that spelling for a long time, but nothing.
    It should be “squawk”
    
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    April 29, 2024 2:50pm
Gravelroad

We need to stick together
https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/350250378/we-need-stick-together
All you dog lovers out there – Attention!
This guy in the article ( a local climate activist) has received a notice from fellow climate emergency authoritarians chastising him for having a 10kg dog and pointing out the dangers of the dogs’ “emissions”.
Dog police now on the case.
But if we “all stick together” it will be fine.
Just don’t take your dog on plane trips.
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April 29, 2024 8:59am
- Ruahine
  
  Quite right Gravel.
  Dogs are one of the worst causes of Climate Change. The emission of CO2 from dogs is appalling.
  
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  April 29, 2024 9:19am
  - Taieri
    
    Dogs are one of the worst causes of Climate Change. The emission of CO2 from dogs is appalling
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    It is appalling indeed. And exceeded only by the emissions from the climate activists.
    
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    April 29, 2024 9:46am
    - Stellaboxer
      
      If they try to come for my dogs they better bring all their mates .
      
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      April 29, 2024 11:58am
      - wsk12345
        
        If they come for my dogs, my dogs will be ready for them.
        
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        April 29, 2024 3:02pm
      - Gravelroad
        
        Wonder how much the average police dog weighs?
        Perhaps the anti Police activists and climate change activists could start with measuring their emissions with a view to banning them.
        
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        April 29, 2024 3:43pm
  - Ghost
    
    I completely agree. Green MP’s are the worst contributors to climate change. The emissions from a green mp and their supporters is appalling.
    
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    April 29, 2024 12:12pm
- Beach Haven expat
  
  Isn’t his plea for us all to stick together really just the usual hypocrisy of don’t point out what I do in my life, let’s all gang up on the other ‘wrongdoers’?
  I read a little more of this dribble and came away thinking the dog must be terribly depressed at the company it had to keep.
  
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  April 29, 2024 5:43pm
Bridgenag

In Praise of Nationalism and the Diversity of Nations
Robert Malone Address, 28 April 2024, Make Europe Great Again Conference, Bucharest, Romania

“There are many lessons that we can learn from the COVID crisis, but one of the key ones has to do with “what is globalism”. We toss this term around, we never seem to define it. It’s as if it’s amorphous beast. We can’t put our hands around it. Globalism is central planning. Romania understands central planning. The former residents of the Soviet Union understand central planning. We understand the harm that comes from central planning, from bureaucrats determining our future, making decisions about how a nation state, an economy of people, should adapt to changing conditions.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/rwmalonemd/p/in-praise-of-nationalism-and-the?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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April 29, 2024 9:02am
- Master Mariner
  
  It is exactly the same as a “Rules based order”.
  What are the rules?
  The world is decoupling from Globalisation at a great rate.
  Unfortunately we yet too see the results and are too busy chasing scams, Think Climate change, Net Zero etc etc.
  
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  April 29, 2024 9:30am
  - Paulus
    
    As such from recent reports Europe is turning away from Socialism to more right wing Governments this year
    Spain, Portugal, Italy and German to name some have elections.
    
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    April 29, 2024 2:09pm
Benedict Yu

Just a quick follow up to yesterday’s debate about letting folk into the flight decks of planes.

This is a video of the incident.

https://youtu.be/IptaUweb5iQ?si=7Rpttes51nyBWwCw

The guy is in the captains seat fooling about, asking “What does this switch do?” 😳

So no the FAA are not going to lighten up as DPF suggested. 😅
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April 29, 2024 9:09am
Maggie Pie

Emily and me have been following each other on TikTok for yonks.
People wonder why she comes in for sooo much HATE from the ‘left’.

It’s because she’s 100% correct – that’s why!

https://tiktok.com/@emilysavesamerica/video/7362043962988760363
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April 29, 2024 9:14am
- Nukuleka
  
  ‘Emily and me…’ Gosh, Mags, the nuns who taught you English at Baradene will be turning in their graves witnessing such grammatical infelicities as that.
  
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  April 29, 2024 10:27am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    And DG. 🙂
    
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    April 29, 2024 11:23am
  - greybeard
    
    “grammatical infelicities” ???
    Are you a Shane Jones fan ?
    🙂
    
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    April 29, 2024 12:34pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  Tiktok wants me to log in to view it. No thanks.
  
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  April 29, 2024 3:16pm
Surely Knott

Mortality Data.

We are continually told the covid response saved lives but still the data is opaque and or missing.

2019 was a high year for deaths (+1171), Then in 2020 it dropped (-1704)

Why did it drop in 2020.
Cancer actually increased (+328)
Ischaemic Heart disease (-374)
Stroke (-199)
Other Heart disease (-41)
Chronic Lower Respiratory (-386)
Diabetes (-40)
Flu/Pneumonia (-430)
Covid (+25)
Motor Vehicle , Suicide, and Assault – (No data given for 2020-)

So major drop in flu respiratory deaths. But we had a problem with cancer.

But we don’t get the full data. The total # of the deaths in 2020, was 32783, but they only give an explanation for 21344 deaths. This is similar to only partial explanation in other years.

Furthermore they don’t give the data for 2020 onwards for Accidents and Assaults. 2019 deaths were Motorvehicle (397) suicide (675) and assault (124)
But for 2020 onwards it is withheld from the Mortality Web tool. How can this data not be available 4 years on.

The website does give more detailed 2021 only data in a full data set which tells us “All external causes of morbidity and mortality ” was 2221. That is double the number of MotorV, Suicide, Assualt deaths (1,196) in 2019.

Why do we not have proper and full data on mortality in NZ!? Why is it only 2/3 of the deaths explained? Especially when the last govt’s biggest claim for breaching our human rights was they are saving lives.
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Why do we not have the number of Motor Vehicle, Suicide and Assault deaths since 2019. How do policy makers know if their road to zero, or letting hard prisoners rehabilitate on home D is affecting real world outcomes.

https://tewhatuora.shinyapps.io/mortality-web-tool/
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April 29, 2024 9:19am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Flu was always going to be lower as they locked the world out, in doing so it licked the flu out
  
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  April 29, 2024 10:13am
Gravelroad

Family of 10 go from sleeping on motel floor to five-bedroom home
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350255682/family-10-go-sleeping-motel-floor-five-bedroom-home
Super that this family of 10 don’t now have to sleep on the floor.
Not sure who is paying for the 5 bedroom house, as father (45) can’t work due to sleep problems ……..
But maybe some of the eight kids could chip in with a paper run?
Wondering though about when the relatives arrive where will they live? Will they have to sleep on the floor of the new house? Or will they get their own free 5 bedroom accommodation?
“Looking to the future, Maataz Al Assi said he was working towards bringing his relatives to a safe haven in Aotearoa.”
Awww shucks – lovely warm and fuzzy.
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April 29, 2024 9:24am
- kowtow
  
  Can’t work due to sleep problems …….
  
  ………how very convenient.
  
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  April 29, 2024 9:33am
  - Ghost
    
    I wouldn’t call shortness of breath convenient
    
    Because he suffers from shortness of breath and sleep apnoea, sometimes requiring a ventilator to help him breathe, it made it difficult for him to work, so he couldn’t afford to rent privately.
    
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    April 29, 2024 9:38am
    - Flossie
      
      When did he father all those kids? Before he began having sleep issues?
      
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      April 29, 2024 10:40am
      - Beach Haven expat
        
        Certainly all that activity would have left him breathless.
        
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        April 29, 2024 5:47pm
    - Don Beckett
      
      Mmm…….with 8 kids, we know what he does when he can’t sleep. 😆
      
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      April 29, 2024 10:48am
    - wsk12345
      
      Put him on a CPAP machine – I’m sure he will be top of the clinical list – and he can work just fine. like most other peeps with Sleep apnea.
      
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      April 29, 2024 11:04am
      - Ghost
        
        Maybe since he fled Syria his respiratory issues are a result of what happened in his home country. I don’t know, but since both he and his wife have health issues it wouldn’t surprise me
        
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        April 29, 2024 12:08pm
    - The Housekeeper
      
      Perhaps not Ghost but my son also has sleep apnoea and sleeps on a ventilator every night. He spends 2.5 hrs commuting daily to his 8-10 hr a day job as an electrical engineer in NYC. In his spare time he is a master PADI diver and instructor. After working in WA mines he is a fully qualified fireman incl oil rig fires. He still holds every driving licence. He loves technology and became a card carrying Microsoft technician at 16. He loves to ski and surf.
      My son’s father was the same age as Mataaz is now, 46, when he died of bowel cancer.
      If I’m honest, I think Mataaz and his family are having us on.
      
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      April 29, 2024 1:31pm
      - Ghost
        
        He has shortness of breathe AND sleep apnoea.
        
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        April 29, 2024 1:35pm
- Ehlana
  
  How can he be working toward it if he can’t work due to sleep issues?
  
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  April 29, 2024 9:38am
  - Beach Haven expat
    
    He’s working towards it by working the media for favourable coverage so that the taxpayer picks up that particular bill.
    
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    April 29, 2024 5:49pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  How on earth did they get into the country in the first place?
  
  Unless of course the qualified under the category for Investment or Skilled Entrepreneur VISA.
  
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  April 29, 2024 9:47am
  - Local Miller
    
    Refugee status, which means almost all the normal checks are ignored.
    
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    April 29, 2024 10:04am
    - Jack5
      
      NZ’s refugees are selected by the United Nations – 1,500 a year at present.
      
      Immigration NZ then says it has input including these factors: department policy, credibility, settlement, security, immigration risk, and health.
      
      So it’s the UN that chooses mostly Muslim refugees for NZ.
      
      The UN estimates that there are about 100 million refugees in the world. In addition there are billions of Third Worlders who will risk death to gatecrash into the First World.
      
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      April 29, 2024 10:52am
      - info@cruzpro.com
        
        Can someone please educate me as to why New Zealand allows the UN to select who can enter and reside here? We should have final say as to who we allow to come into the country.
        
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        April 29, 2024 1:05pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        If Islam is so incredible and good, why do Muslims refugees not go to Islamic countries?
        
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        April 29, 2024 4:45pm
      - jkt
        
        How does the Waitangi Tribunal see the refugee resettlement programme within the context of section 7aa…
        
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        April 29, 2024 6:42pm
    - Gravelroad
      
      Family member had a refugee family move next door – very close to boundary where bedroom located.
      One of them could speak some English.
      One had a job – night shift.
      They kept to themselves except when all their fellow refugee/immigrant friends came round with cars, motor bikes, musical instruments, sound systems and loud voices to dance the night away outside family member’s bedroom window.
      Also included were bouts of car maintenance.
      No attempt was made AFAIK by the local worthies (who were supposed to be looking out for them) to ask them have some consideration for the neighbours.
      The family shifted out eventually.
      
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      April 29, 2024 11:03am
    - kowtow
      
      We’re told we get the pick o’ the crop……..
      
      or are we being lied to , again.
      
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      April 29, 2024 12:40pm
      - Beach Haven expat
        
        Pick of the crop… Front of the queue….
        
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        April 29, 2024 5:51pm
    - Paulus
      
      We have to take Refugees as decided by the UN Refugee Agency – we have no decision in that whatsoever.
      
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      April 29, 2024 2:12pm
- Taieri
  
  father (45) can’t work due to sleep problems
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  That’s why he’s got 8 kids. Got to pass through the night somehow…
  
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  April 29, 2024 9:55am
- MCōs
  
  That family is from Syria where a civil war has been going on since 2011.
  I ran into a Syrian refugee around 2016. He was delivering windows to a building site I was working on. He told me he loved Syria, it was a beautiful country and he had a house and a business, but he lived in a rebel area. One day the government army came along and destroyed everything and he had to do a runner and eventually came to NZ
  He probably hardly heard of the place, but even though he’d had no choice he was grateful the people of NZ had been welcoming, but he’d rather be back in a peaceful Syria.
  
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  April 29, 2024 9:59am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    I know 3 or 4 people who have holidayed in Syria, and yes they say that country is absolutely stunning
    
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    April 29, 2024 10:16am
  - leoj
    
    Refugee? How about bludger.
    
    And now he wants the bring more here?
    
    Did this bludger ever think that since he loved Syria so much that maybe he could simply move to another part of his beloved country instead of burdening the NZ tax payer?
    
    Looks and reads like a scam to me.
    
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    April 29, 2024 11:01am
    - MCōs
      
      First thing, I met the guy and you didn’t
      
      Second thing, don’t assume that NZ is the holy grail. We happen to be one of the few countries in the world that accepts refugees
      
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      April 29, 2024 12:17pm
      - leoj
        
        So what!
        
        He could still have explored different options if he loved his country so much.
        
        Me thinks he didn’t try too hard and took the easier option of living of the NZ taxpayer.
        
        That you know him is totally irrelevant. In fact, it may explain your soft outlook at our expense.
        
        Eight kids and more family to follow. For Christ’s sake, we are being had.
        
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        April 29, 2024 1:41pm
- Local Miller
  
  Well thank goodness this is in that mythical country of Aotearoa, and not here in New Zealand. Living on the tax payer dime and charity with 8 children, and trying to bring more relatives, some of whom will also no doubt live off the tax payer. What could possibly go wrong for poor Aotearoa?
  
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  April 29, 2024 10:02am
- cmm
  
  Can’t sleep, but seems to have no problem getting his leg over.
  
  I can think of at least one “wrap around” service he needs.
  
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  April 29, 2024 10:29am
  - Taieri
    
    Can’t sleep, but seems to have no problem getting his leg over.
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    You can’t get a leg over if you are asleep…
    
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    April 29, 2024 11:11am
    - RalphT
      
      But what about those rape cases where the accused says he suffers from a medical condition and does things in his sleep?
      
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      April 29, 2024 12:06pm
- Inandout
  
  grav, the average family in Lebanon has around 3 children so this chap has already sired 8. Aotearoa is indeed a paradise, leading eventually to Mohamed’s one.
  
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  April 29, 2024 10:42am
  - MCōs
    
    He’s Syrian
    
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    April 29, 2024 12:22pm
    - Inandout
      
      MC. Syria has about the same birth rate.
      
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      April 29, 2024 12:26pm
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  So great to see the big families of followers of Islam.
  And even better if we are housing them and feeding them at our expense & there potentially more relatives to roll out a welcome mat for.
  The benefits to NZ will be tremendous!
  
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  April 29, 2024 2:38pm
artemisia

Very good to see some of Mr Farrar’s Kiwiblog posts getting a wider audience. More comments made than here (so far) on Bassett Brash and Hide. Hope the exposure will gather a few new commenters here.
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April 29, 2024 9:41am
- Ghost
  
  According to similar web
  
  https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/ 46.7k monthly visits
  Kiwiblog 411.5K monthly visits
  The bfd 269.4k monthly visits
  
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  April 29, 2024 9:52am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Ghost
  That tool could be used by DPF to update the Links (blogroll) on the Kiwiblog home page.
  
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  April 29, 2024 11:15am
imalwaysright

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/emergency-services-responding-to-aggravated-robbery-at-west-auckland-mall/L534V5VCPZACRMVXW4AM4AYIXU/

Maybe Andy Coster could hire a policeman to give some advice.
How many broad daylight jewellery shop robberies do we have to suffer until the police notice the pattern.

Maybe put some armed plain clothes cops in the area and catch the fuckers red handed?

They clearly won’t have to wait long.
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April 29, 2024 10:42am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Train security on how to use a firearm and have them wear the gun on the hip.
  Great deterrent.
  
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  April 29, 2024 11:30am
  - Ian Boag
    
    And wait for the perps to respond in kind ….
    
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    April 29, 2024 2:00pm
    - Paul
      
      Works well in Thailand and Japan where all Beat Cops are armed.
      
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      April 29, 2024 10:57pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

Video. Poor sound.

https://stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/karen-chhour-is-right-bureaucrats-are-lying-and-covering-up/
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April 29, 2024 10:42am
Maggie Pie

A bestie tweets 🙁

Hard to believe taxpayers are wasting more than a MILLION DOLLARS every year
to keep these 4 commie soy creatures in parliament doing SFA….

https://twitter.com/bobble05132522/status/1784340157526897028
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April 29, 2024 10:51am
- NZer In Exile
  
  Imagine no MMP. Imagine no juvenile twits in parliament. It’s easy if you try.
  
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  April 29, 2024 4:06pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Is this a game of Spot The Liar?
  
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  April 29, 2024 10:17pm
G the giant from Dunedin

Sounds like a bad poll for coalition coming on one news tonight, suggestions this poll will have the tongues waging Loudly, looks like rotten media have done their job. Certainly won’t be the poor excuse Hipkins
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April 29, 2024 11:07am
- MCōs
  
  My impression was nobody takes any notice of the MSM anymore, younger than about fifty.
  The core of the coalition support who you’d expect would think they were going in the right direction is in the older echelon and they would be unswayed by the ‘rotten media’ who they would see through like the coach of the Crusaders every time he says everything’s under control.
  
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  April 29, 2024 2:09pm
Maggie Pie

And tell you who we haven’t heard from since he took up an ‘executive position’ within the Labor Party…..

NZer-Of-The-Year & Chippy’s bestie Shaneel Lal 😛

https://twitter.com/bobmccoskrienz/status/1771982488858235054
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April 29, 2024 11:47am
- Gravelroad
  
  He was seeking profile in the media the other day complaining about the drag queens deciding to discontinue their proposed rainbow story telling tour to enlighten the kids re LGBT options.
  Tried to compare it with religious people going to church indoctrination sessions on a Sunday.
  
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  April 29, 2024 12:56pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    My fave was the piece Lally wrote in The Horrid, saying he didn’t find it funny when Judith Collins said she identified as….. a “27-year-0ld Slovakian model”. LOL!! 😛
    
    https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1576373019525750791
    
    Like most of his ilk, he’s obviously had a sense-of-humor-bypass at birth.
    
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    April 29, 2024 1:47pm
    - Ghost
      
      My favorite is Piers identifying as a black lesbian
      
      https://youtube.com/shorts/2qEjkFOQjgU?si=8ycVgF9qYZthPLC7
      
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      April 29, 2024 1:54pm
- graham
  
  Good, isn’t it?
  
  Shaneel Lal appears to be a boorish, uncouth, angry-all-the-time person, and I for one am happiest when I hear nothing from of about him.
  
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  April 29, 2024 12:57pm
- mogg
  
  Trans is so last year, we have moved onto pro Palestine and Jew hatred. Are the Greens still wearing the Keffiyeh and celebrating the slaughter of innocent Israelis?
  
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  April 29, 2024 1:48pm
mandk

A couple of teachers from California, both mixed race, leave the state for Florida to start a school that focuses on traditional values (and, no, it’s not a Babylon Bee sketch).

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/we-quit-teaching-to-start-our-own-school-and-challenge-the-lies/ar-AA1nOfUu?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=01eaa76c45ce4cfab633532b5c5f32a2&ei=36

I hope they succeed in the same way that the Michaela School has succeeded in London.
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April 29, 2024 12:04pm
the deity formerly known as nigel6888

Another day, another Radio NZ hit piece on the government….

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/government-s-targets-where-is-the-action-behind-these/ar-BB1lhpLr?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=4ac1720b5951424bb80dcc9497ff1494&ei=12

Are they volunteering to be axed at this point? This is a Labour press release being published as a news story. Again.
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April 29, 2024 12:10pm
Jack5

British Conservatives are talking about “re-industrialisation” as the path forward for Britain.

The suggestion is made in a report by: Michael Gove, a Cabinet Minister under four Conservative PM’s; Nick Timothy, a former chief of staff to PM Theresa May; and Gavin Rice, of the Conservative think tank, Onward.

They argue that the “existing economic model” is bust.

In an article in the “Telegraph,” Nick Timothy writes:

“Like in many other Western countries, our growth is sluggish, and wages stagnant. Our birth rate is declining, and immigration is rocketing. Investment is low and productivity is poor. We have trade and budget deficits and a large stock of debt. Our exposure to the bond markets means there are no easy shortcuts, so tax cuts without big spending cuts, or debt-fuelled spending sprees, are off the table …

” … We cannot go on consuming and importing more than we produce and export. ”

Timothy also argues the UK needs to end addiction to low-skill, low-paid immigration, and return annual net migration numbers to the tens of thousands.

Trump has for years now of, in effect, spoken of re-industrialising his country

Is this feasible?
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April 29, 2024 12:13pm
- Jack5
  
  Edit: Trump has for years now of, in effect, spoken of re-industrialising his country.
  
  Sorry! ran out of time to fix.
  
  [Mod – fixed]
  
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  April 29, 2024 12:22pm
- cmm
  
  Re-industrialisation is a challenge for many reasons.
  
  One of those is that people are addicted to cheap imported goods. Reindustrialisation requires consumers switching back to locally manufactured goods and be prepared to pay for them.
  
  Everyone wants to “Buy American” until they see the price tag.
  
  The use of import duties can tilt the playing field in favour of local industries but it drives consumer costs up. Not generally popular. Again, everyone wants their job protected, but not everyone else’s.
  
  I am not sure there’s really a solution here.
  
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  April 29, 2024 12:49pm
  - MCōs
    
    Back in the good old days in NZ a number of industries were protected to the eyeballs
    Local car, whiteware, electronic manufacturing and farming was heavily subsidized.
    Consequently a new colour TV, for example, was hugely expensive. Rental TVs were big businesses
    
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    April 29, 2024 1:50pm
    - cmm
      
      On the flip side, TV was probably also worth watching.
      
      But yes, protectionism is a problem – doubly so in a very small country like NZ.
      
      Taking your TV example, you can’t build modern TVs using the old low-cost methods of the 1970s and 1980s when most electronics was built by hand. To build modern electronics requires a lot of very expensive machinery – far more than can be justified for building a few TV sets.
      
      That means one of:
      * TVs costing $5000 each to pay for the fancy equipment.
      * TVs costing $2k each, but still built using old methods so you have blurry old 1980s TVs in the 2020s.
      * Pay the penalties and import because that’s still the bet deal.
      
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      April 29, 2024 2:36pm
      - MCōs
        
        Alternatively, as happened when TV were ‘manufactured’ locally; they were assembled from knock down sets imported from Japan.
        I heard an interview with a guy who headed up such a plant and he said it cost more to import the components than it would have cost to import finished sets, which couldn’t be done due to a need to protect jobs
        
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        April 29, 2024 4:37pm
  - mogg
    
    Not necessarily true, much of Chinese production is
    still govt subsidised and cheap crap. A cheap Chinese computer controlled laser engraver that I have used is not fit for purpose, it’s replacement American made model at twice the price is working perfectly and is really 10x times better.
    The level playing field needs to be banning the import of govt subsidised products.
    
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    April 29, 2024 2:03pm
- Chris Nisbet
  
  I’d like to hear the politicians explain how they can both re-undustrialise and transition to a net zero economy.
  
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  April 29, 2024 1:52pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    One of the big power companies in Aus (vertically integrated) has a TV ad claiming “Net Zero will be hard, but it can be done.” What they don’t tell you is HOW hard and how much deprivation it will cause.
    
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    April 29, 2024 3:31pm
- Grunter
  
  Too little too late IMO. The right idea, but will never happen.
  
  The UK is buggered in so many ways. Even the Conservatives are woke socialists and running around putting up windmills (which won’t energise a re-industrialisation program).
  
  Convincing their indoctrinated population that they now need industry and that they have to re-pay Trillions of Debt – yeah right!
  
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  April 29, 2024 1:52pm
- Ian Boag
  
  “re-industrialisation” as the path forward for Britain
  
  Back when they had industry it tended to be poorly run, use antiquated plant and turn out ratshit product. Industrial relations sucked too.
  
  They had no decent pathway to train skilled workers either – the educationalists were all for teaching people about the Classics.
  
  It led to the crappy English cars we drove for all them years. The 1960’s motorbikes built with 1930’s bits. Fabric covered aeroplanes when the rest of the world had metal ones.
  
  It’s hard to know what they could actually make to “re-industrialise”. The world has moved on since the 1950’s
  
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  April 29, 2024 2:09pm
  - cmm
    
    The only thing that keeps industries like military supplies going are the massive margins and incentives to keep local production going for strategic reasons.
    
    That is only “susbtainable” because the government contracts keep paying hundreds of thousands for missiles based on 1980s technology that should really be a tenth of the price they are.
    
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    April 29, 2024 2:39pm
  - slijmbal
    
    Large extended working class family mostly working in factories in Liverpool in the 60s and 70s. By this point unions had morphed from an incredibly effective tool to help the working class to political entities mostly controlled by Marxists aspiring to the Russian model of communism. I remember the discussions complaining about the union reps all calling each other comrade and organising repeated strikes for political reasons. God help you if you spoke out against them. Expect to have your car tyres slashed.
    
    Net result poor quality and expensive manufacturing in Liverpool that disappeared over 20 years as industry fled the region.
    
    Reminds me of the old joke.
    “Why don’t the British make computers?”
    answer “they can’t make them leak oil”.
    
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    April 29, 2024 3:39pm
  - mogg
    
    I didn’t realise that Rolls Royce aero engines with their full order books are crap and that they are ‘not training aero apprentices’ . It’s also strange that they now are known for producing the ‘world’s most reliable jet engine’ at the moment.
    I also read that they are making a very popular small nuclear plant, and that their share price has recently ‘gone through the roof’.
    JCB engineering must with their full order books must be telling lies about their ever increasing profits, and apprenticeship scheme. We have some of their machines working on Wgtn to Hutt cycle way, to my untrained eye they look quite good at what they are doing.
    The ‘paper covered wings’all Aerobus planes seem to be holding up quite well considering your claims.
    If you leave your house and walk to the shops you will see many cars which are still made in UK.
    I won’t go on, I don’t want to be a bore.
    
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    April 29, 2024 3:42pm
- Beach Haven expat
  
  For context, being a former chief of staff under Theresa May is no recommendation. Her administration after she came out of hiding during the Brexit campaign was shambolic, especially the decision to hold the 2017 election. May was a joke during that campaign. And who was her go to guy (plus another Co chief of staff)? Nick Timothy.
  
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  April 29, 2024 6:04pm
NothingLeft

LOL. Biden administration’s General Services Association sent boxes of documents from Virginia storage to Mar-a-Lago that contained many of the classified documents that they are prosecuting Trump for illegally possessing.

“So an entire pallet full of boxes that had been held by GSA somewhere outside of DC is dumped at Mar-a-Lago,” Kelly notes. “Apparently these are the boxes that ended up containing papers with ‘classified markings.'”

So, it appears that the Biden administration may have been responsible for shipping classified information to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida. This development is significant because Trump has previously blamed the GSA for packing the boxes that contained the classified documents, only to later accuse Trump of essentially stealing them and using that as pretext for sending the FBI to raid his Mar-a-Lago home in August 2022.

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/04/28/new-bombshell-evidence-emerges-was-trump-set-up-in-classified-docs-saga-n4928572
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April 29, 2024 12:22pm
greybeard

https://www.kaurimuseum.com/

I have just returned from a quick road trip around Northland to show family members my birthplace etc.
We visited the above museum, and for those who have not already done so I cannot recommend it highly enough.
It is an extraordinary place, with an immense collection of displays, artifacts, photos , exhibits , models and every imaginable item related to life in “old” NZ.
Best you allocate a couple of days to do it justice !
The Dargaville Museum is another excellent place for those interested in our history.
The hardships some of our forebears endured, the immense physical demands of early colonial life, quite remarkable.
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April 29, 2024 12:24pm
- cmm
  
  I went there in 1994 or so. It was great then.
  
  “The hardships some of our forebears endured, the immense physical demands of early colonial life, quite remarkable.” Of course they didn’t consider it hardship because they had nothing to compare it to. Hardship is mostly in your head.
  
  These days “hardship” is putting up with patchy wifi.
  
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  April 29, 2024 12:42pm
- Beach Haven expat
  
  But I’ve been told all these dirty racist colonisers were doing at the time was stealing land and all the taonga. Surely this museum is misinformation and should be visited by the Te Papa vandals so that history can be corrected?
  
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  April 29, 2024 6:07pm
thirteenstars

Latest Free Speech newsletter from ACT about the cancellation of a free speech panel discussion at Victoria University:

https://www.act.org.nz/290424_freepress

The only hint is a further quote about the event being rescheduled. “Hopefully, those conversations will mean that the event is inclusive and doesn’t make people feel unsafe in any way.” So you can’t have an event if it might make anyone feel “unsafe,” in any way. If anyone’s confused at this point, there is no physical danger; (quite expert) people were planning to talk, at a university, that’s all.

At this point you have to spare a thought for young person with “right wing views.” What sort of action is justified to protect your safety against someone else’s ideas? This crazy cancellation is one event the rest of New Zealand sees, we suspect they live every day in this madcap oppressive environment where student leaders say their beliefs are a threat to others’ “safety.”
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April 29, 2024 1:01pm
- Inandout
  
  thirteen, what is ACT going to do about this?
  
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  April 29, 2024 1:42pm
- Grunter
  
  From ACT’s newsletter..
  “Some will say, who cares about universities, let’s get back to focusing on the real people. The problem is campus culture spills through into the workplace, the rest of the education system, the public service, the judiciary, and so on. Campus culture is the future of our culture, so while you’re paying the tab you might as well have a say.”
  
  The horse has bolted I’m afraid. We had 6 years of this mad indoctrinated bunch leading our Govt, spending our money, and telling us to be kind. It is now too far gone into Western society. The day of reckoning will come of course, but the longer it takes the bigger the mess.
  
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  April 29, 2024 1:43pm
Maggie Pie

Very upsetting to hear the news on ZB that yet another two little kids were killed in ‘driveway accidents’ out South Auckland during the past week.
Do these people not have reversing-cameras or auto-dipping mirrors fitted to their cars?
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April 29, 2024 1:22pm
- mogg
  
  Its neglect, child proof fences and gates are not expensive, and simple to install. I have done it myself.
  
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  April 29, 2024 2:06pm
- cmm
  
  Bugger the technology – just a quick walk around and care would help.
  
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  April 29, 2024 2:24pm
  - Chris Nisbet
    
    Yep, doing a head count of the kids isn’t unreasonable either.
    
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    April 29, 2024 3:30pm
- Local Miller
  
  My car is only a year old, and it doesn’t have reversing camara or auto-dipping mirrors, or even those sensors that detect objects behind you. But as cmm says, a quick check around the car is enough.
  One of the reasons I still open the door for my wife 😉
  
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  April 29, 2024 3:16pm
  - Benedict Yu
    
    I don’t even know what an “auto dipping mirror” is.
    
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    April 29, 2024 5:37pm
    - Maggie Pie
      
      Older model Celicas came out with the ‘manual’ option 😀
      
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      April 29, 2024 6:42pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  High chance of SUVs being involved. Killing people and seriously fucking off other road users because moronic consumerism and chest-beating wankery.
  
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  April 29, 2024 3:34pm
  - Benedict Yu
    
    I don’t own an SUV. But if I did I can guarantee that I would not drive over children.
    
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    April 29, 2024 5:38pm
    - Mike
      
      What if they jumped in front of you?
      
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      April 29, 2024 6:46pm
      - graham
        
        * Sigh *
        
        It’s quite obvious from the context what Benedict is talking about, Mike. If you can’t work that out then maybe you need to go back to school for lessons in basic comprehension.
        
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        April 29, 2024 7:20pm
      - Ghost
        
        Mike makes a good point, what if they do jump out in front of you, which is common. Our old postie broke her collarbone when a car backed out a drive as she was going by and got hit. Our neighbours daughter is constantly going up and down the footpath on her scooter, someone backing out could easily miss seeing her as she suddenly appears behind you. Sometimes accidents happen, people don’t see the child suddenly appear behind the vehicle on the drive.
        
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        April 29, 2024 7:33pm
trout

Just read a wishy washy article in the Herald on ‘truancy’.
If you bring up kids to do what they like guess what;
they do what they like.
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April 29, 2024 2:17pm
- graham
  
  Is this the one entitled, “Why kids wag school – truants in their own words”?
  
  The almost unbelievable idiocy of asking a child (closely followed by the idiocy of a supposedly grown-up news site referring to “kids”) why they don’t go to school baffles me. What is the Herald trying to accomplish here? Are we supposed to “have an understanding of their situation” so we can “empathise” with said children?
  
  We’re only just getting over the embarrassment of having a Prime Minister for the last six years who really needed to step aside and let the adults take over – now we have a news site that needs to do the same. I despair.
  
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  April 29, 2024 4:12pm
cmm

Sad to read of the young man being killed by a head injury while playing rugby.

My son was knocked out cold in about 2011 in a similar event – his head also being hit by another player’s knee.

In my son’s case things were a lot better because he was a goalkeeper and wearing a goalkeeper’s helmet. Even so, he had to give up university for the best part of a year and it took him many years to recover from the concussion.

Head injuries are a bastard and are woefully underestimated.

My condolences to the family.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/rugby/beachlands-maraetai-rugby-club-player-dies-following-auckland-game-injury/DXDQT6F4TNFB5EFSDWY2SG6QKY/
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April 29, 2024 2:30pm
Maggie Pie

And friends larf at Tindalls when I refuse to go in over my Thongs…..

https://twitter.com/TheFigen_/status/1784661488289919239
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April 29, 2024 3:33pm
- MCōs
  
  We say jandals in the middle/lower classes
  
  https://x.com/thepetnationn/status/1784662301670510692?s=61&t=yFkzCNMWRCaVt1p5eRxUog
  
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  April 29, 2024 4:55pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    My dad used to call them…. ‘Tongan Workboots’ 😀
    
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    April 29, 2024 5:17pm
Ghost

Government announces 6 goals for education

Clearer curriculum: Establishing a knowledge-rich curriculum grounded in the science of learning.

Better approach to literacy and numeracy: Implementing evidence-based instruction in early literacy and mathematics.

Smarter assessment and reporting: Implementing consistent modes of monitoring student progress and achievement.

Improved teacher training: Developing the workforce of the future, including leadership development pathways.

Stronger learning support: Targeting effective learning support interventions for students with additional needs.

Greater use of data: Using data and evidence to drive consistent improvement in achievement.

Article
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April 29, 2024 4:07pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  So broad as to be effectively meaningless. Motherhood statements.
  
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  April 29, 2024 4:14pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    If it was the left making those announcements it WOULD be meaningless because they don’t measure these things, lest their teacher union voters get hurty feelings and spit the dummy.
    
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    April 29, 2024 4:37pm
    - Mike
      
      Please feel free to set out the measures you would use to assess progress againsþ any of those goals.
      
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      April 29, 2024 4:45pm
      - kevn
        
        mike…. Try this.
        https://www.downtoearth.kiwi/post/the-education-ministry-s-refreshed-math-curriculum-is-self-plagiarized?
        In case you miss it.
        
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        April 29, 2024 5:14pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    ok..
    
    Tell me what maths topics an Average Year 7 child in NZ should be studying…..
    
    Tell me what Chemistry a Year 10 science student should cover.
    
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    April 29, 2024 4:53pm
    - Mike
      
      That’s a job for MoE, obviously. You’re going from principles so broad that they are meaningless straight to deciding every detail of every curriculum.
      
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      April 29, 2024 5:00pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        I’m asking what topics are currently covered in our Curriculum….and trying to illustrate the problem a concerned parent has trying to figure out whether or not their child’s teacher is teaching at the appropriate level and is covering the curriculum adequately.
        
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        April 29, 2024 5:37pm
      - Mike
        
        How is that connected to the government’s six shiny new goals?
        
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        April 29, 2024 6:44pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @Mike
        
        If you were even faintly acquainted with the NZ Curriculum, you would realise it is hopeless load of generalised verbiage.
        
        It has meant that Children who frequently change schools miss out complete chunks of knowledge…as the Levels of a subject do not correspond 1:1 with a year level. Hence one school could start introducing a concept in maths to a child at the start of year 5 and another school at the end of year 6. ( Level 3 Maths)
        
        It is also possible for teachers to omit whole chunks of the curriculum when they block a Science subject into a “context”…. So for one term a pupil might be focused on a Biology/Living earth theme, another term on some aspect of the Physical world/ or Material world…and repeat the following year.
        
        Somehow Plant Earth /or the Astronomy theme gets missed …. or the theme that the teacher knows nothing about.
        
        In recent reviews of Primary schools it has been shown that only about 50% of them are doing a good(thorough) job of teaching Science.
        
        https://ero.govt.nz/our-research/science-in-the-early-years-early-childhood-and-years-1-4
        
        An ERO report, Science in The New Zealand Curriculum: Years 5 to 8, found that only 27 percent of 100 schools reviewed last year have effective or generally effective science programmes for Years 5 to 8 students.
        
        Science in The New Zealand Curriculum: Years 5 to 8,
        
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        April 29, 2024 7:24pm
- surfing
  
  There was anouncement around maori education too.
  
  I’ve been thinking about this for a bit, and have come to the conclusion that Maori should be given co-governance over their schooling.
  
  They can build their own schools, hire maori teachers , and have an entirely maori curriculum.
  
  This will enable other schools to thrive, as they will be able to ditch the woke stuff and finally concentrate on teaching english, maths, and science .
  
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  April 29, 2024 4:41pm
  - MCōs
    
    When you say Māori can build their own schools etc
    which Māori are you referring to?
    Quite apart from there being no separate Māori based educational bureau there certainly won’t be under this administration
    
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    April 29, 2024 5:12pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Like the Catholics do, MCoS.
      
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      April 29, 2024 10:26pm
      - julesnzuk
        
        Pretty sure Catholic schools still have to follow the state curriculum?
        
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        April 30, 2024 2:22am
  - julesnzuk
    
    An “entirely Maori curriculum”? And what happens to these people when they then leave school barely literate? How do they function, much less find meaningful employment, in what will always be an Anglophone country? (At least until China takes over. Either way no one will be speaking Maori to any meaningful extent). You’ll create a whole new generation of a mediocre underclass, thus continuing the cycle of victimology and grievance culture etc. Maorification doesn’t work for anyone – least of all Maori.
    
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    April 30, 2024 2:21am
  - Bridgenag
    
    Stop…..we will have to pay for it
    
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    April 30, 2024 12:31pm
Dougal10

The lefty stupidity continues , 15 year old son doing an economics essay now has to make it more maori by changing some words into te reo. His first idea was to just hand in 2 versions , 1 put through google translate. A part maori boy in the class said to the teacher that google will get it wrong and the marking criteria just wants some words changed like : woman , school , first and the likes. This is crazy shit.
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- Mike
  
  In my day, all schoolwork was relevant and there were no irrelevant aspects to be included for any assessment whatsoever. In history, for example, we needed to know common German words for people, empire, living space, and inferior persons.
  
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  April 29, 2024 5:06pm
  - Paul
    
    But you did not listen and you did not learn. That is why you are asking questions on Kiwiblog all day everyday. You have huge gaps in your knowledge, we all understand that. We can help you.
    
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    April 29, 2024 11:06pm
- kevn
  
  More labour theft from NZ children…
  https://www.downtoearth.kiwi/post/the-education-ministry-s-refreshed-math-curriculum-is-self-plagiarized?
  
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  April 29, 2024 5:13pm
- info@cruzpro.com
  
  If possible, move your son to another school. Catholic schools offer a really good education and have very few requirements to use Maori words.
  
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  April 29, 2024 6:23pm
  - Dougal10
    
    The Catholic one is worse as ministry officials threaten to withhold money unless they go completely down the woke rabbit hole. Maybe that is why the catholic nats are so woke these days .
    
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    April 29, 2024 7:42pm
- julesnzuk
  
  Pull your son out of that school.
  
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  April 30, 2024 2:25am
than

1Ewes showing their true colours (yet again). Why is a poll (let alone one within the margin of error) breaking news?
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April 29, 2024 6:06pm
- Ghost
  
  Polls always lead the news. Labour are up in a poll, meh, why do you care if it is reported? People seem to like when the government goes up, but when it goes down whinge about the reporting of it
  
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  April 29, 2024 6:18pm
  - Jack5
    
    In this case, it wasn’t so much the reporting of the poll — it’s how it was reported, the partisanship of the reporting.
    
    For example, on the TVNZ poll of 1000 folk “Labour could form a coalition with the Greens and Te Pati Maori”.
    
    And the daily report platform for Hipkins. It’s unusual, even unprecedented, for the leader of a defeated NZ government to get daily coverage on State TV.
    
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    April 29, 2024 7:01pm
    - Ghost
      
      You know what you are getting with one news and newshub, turn them off.
      
      It’s the stupid thing on this blog. We have people who constantly whinge about jack tame, but damn if they don’t watch him every weekend so they can come in and bitch about him.
      
      Stop supporting the media by watching them. As long as you watch them they will continue on this path.
      
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      April 29, 2024 7:18pm
      - Jack5
        
        NZ’s TV is close to a monopoly with TV3 on the ropes.
        
        There’s no chance a boycott would change TVNZ’s bias.
        
        Time will fix it, however. Young people have much less interest in TV.
        
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        April 29, 2024 8:11pm
  - than
    
    Of course they lead with it, but I’ve never seen a “BREAKING NEWS” banner for it. No regularly scheduled political poll needs the urgent red background
    
    Did they ever do that when Labour were in power? I sure don’t remember it, and I probably would have.
    
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    April 29, 2024 7:08pm
    - Ghost
      
      They do it
      
      Here’s when polls had Winston over 5%
      
      https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/09/13/1news-poll-nz-first-winston-peters-heading-back-to-parliament/
      
      Here is when the polls started putting the right into having the numbers
      
      https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/08/08/poll-act-jumps-and-can-form-govt-with-national-ardern-and-luxon-slip/
      
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      April 29, 2024 7:38pm
      - than
        
        Ah, ok, fair enough.
        
        In any case, I don’t think polls of any persuasion are breaking news.
        
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        April 29, 2024 8:02pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Breaking News – what Bullshit.
  
  Maiki Sherman told us she’d chatted to Winston this morning about the poll result… (Winston’s reply… He didn’t give a rat’s derrière).
  
  TV One has had all day to organise this hit…and conduct the interviews.
  
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  April 29, 2024 6:26pm
  - Gravelroad
    
    Yes, Ms Sherman has had a great day.
    Spinning, twisting and turning, hardly able to control her glee.
    She’s not really a political editor.
    She is an activist for a particular set of political parties – now not even bothering to try to disguise it.
    Nice.
    
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    April 29, 2024 6:34pm
    - Flossie
      
      Both she and Senior Political Reporter Benedict Collins were pretty thrilled with their poll results.
      
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      April 29, 2024 6:55pm
Jack5

When is the Coalition going to sort out the Left-wing State television.

A straight-out anti-Government rave by the TVNZ politics reporter on TVNZ tonight on the basis of one TVNZ poll!

Backed of course by the daily speech by the defeated Hipkins.

When you think the State media-subsidised media bias can’t get worse – it does.

Sell TVNZ!
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April 29, 2024 6:09pm
- MCōs
  
  There was plenty of time given to Messrs Luxon and Seymour to explain their sides. Mr Winston said he didn’t give a rat’s arse. Maybe he has the best reaction, after all it’s not his first rodeo.
  
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  April 29, 2024 6:38pm
Damocles11

The latest poll just shows what an ongoing disaster for our democracy the ‘Maori electorates’ are. FPP was criticised for allowing one of the major parties to get less of the popular vote than their rival, yet still win a couple of elections. That was a driver for the push to proportional representation, which gave us MMP. Soon we will the Left bloc get less of the popular vote than the Right, and it will be due to the ludicrous Maori electorates.
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April 29, 2024 6:29pm
- Mike
  
  Nonsense. The party vote determines which parties are in a position to join a governing coalition.
  
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  April 29, 2024 6:53pm
  - Prince
    
    TPM got 3% of the Vote.
    And 6% seats in Parliament !
    
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    April 29, 2024 8:12pm
    - Ghost
      
      Māori party won 6 seats,
      
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      April 29, 2024 8:21pm
Flossie

What an appalling piece of so called reporting on TV1 News. Labour are out of the twenties!!! Yep, they’re on 30 (give or take the margin of error). You’d think they were on the verge of taking the reins next month! And I wonder how many people in the street were interviewed saying they think the coalition is doing well but the footage was binned.
A real one eyed piece of junk.
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April 29, 2024 6:51pm
Ghost

Love the first comment with this video

Looks like a flying Boeing door!

Caught on camera: Possible UFO reported over New York’s LaGuardia Airpor
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April 29, 2024 7:30pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/350260641/chinese-carmaker-sleek-ev-supercar-could-be-next-nz
Another obscure Chinese vehicle to hit our shores !
We seem to be getting one every week these days.
Are they producing them by some sort of lottery out of a parts bin ?
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April 29, 2024 7:39pm
Truman lodge

I Bet this Muppet avoids Jail

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/taupo-fisherman-beat-up-masseuse-in-nelson-motel-after-demanding-refund-for-massage/MHGRPI2PXZBZFHSY6C64LZOBKE/
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