Is that true? Did Internal affairs say that ? Would you come to New Zealand to launder money.
Is there a suggestion that the applications for Visa are processed in bulk without serious individual consideration.

Fair questions that the government needs to answer. If the minister acted against the advice of his officials there should be a clear explanation as to why and the logic

Is that true? Did Internal affairs say that ? Would you come to New Zealand to launder money.
Is there a suggestion that the applications for Visa are processed in bulk without serious individual consideration.

If he had a shred of intelligence, he would have known the stupidity of his comments – but no… he blathered on and merely reconfirmed his status as a political lightweight.

Thankfully, Williams delivered the inevitable slapping to Soper and in doing so, restored some credibility to the segment. But given this latest demonstration of ineptitude, I have to wonder why the management of NewstalkZB still sees fit to have Soper reporting from Parliament and introduced as their ‘political editor’…..

flipper (1,113) Says:
November 16th, 2012 at 11:28 am

Your other problem RRM, is that you have probably never, ever, worked for a living. I say that because academia,unions, or the central and local governmrent buracracies, are not “work”. If you do, or if you have, just name the companyand len gth pof zservice, and I shall withdraw and apologise.

flipper –

Thanks for asking – consulting structural engineer, ten year’s experience, six years at my present place of work. We have done a fair few seismic strengthening projects for schools, though we don’t do much other government work. I myself have designed a couple of multi-storey buildings and a few big industrial warehouses, and a heap of big architectural dream houses.

My wife and I just bought a 5 bedroom house in the country that we moved into a month ago, along with our 8 year old girl and our 5 month old boy. We pay net tax, we don’t receive working for families, we don’t have a community services card, neither of us have ever been unemployed.

I hope this is of some help in clearing up your obvious confusion.

There are all sorts of lawyers and other professionals commenting on here flipper, and you can pick them pretty easily by the way they conduct themselves and put their comments forward.

YOU flipper seem like just another flippant troll on the internet to me. Since we’re sharing so openly, perhaps you’d like to offer some evidence that you’re not?

Do you want some regulators to make it impossible for them to offer services which are in demand by airlines? What would that achieve?

Perhaps what happened in practise was the immigration officers’ just decided to process anyone who approached the counter and the store didn’t complain.

Your other problem RRM, is that you have probably never, ever, worked for a living. I say that because academia,unions, or the central and local governmrent buracracies, are not “work”. If you do, or if you have, just name the companyand len gth pof zservice, and I shall withdraw and apologise.

If you purchased duty free goods, you were given a voucher to enter NZ’s boarders upstairs instead of downstairs where most of the counters were located.

I used that several times in the early 00′s – You didn’t have to have a voucher, nor purchase goods at the duty free store to use that immigration point.

In my view this is problematic. In a capitalist society, it is normal to expect that airlines will have special check-in lines or areas for their frequent flyers. But what happens at Auckland International Airport is that zone is proceeded by a special government controlled area for the same passengers. This is where the confusion between Air NZ as a business and government occurs.

About five years ago there was another example at Auckland International Airport that has now ceased after its renovation. If you purchased duty free goods, you were given a voucher to enter NZ’s boarders upstairs instead of downstairs where most of the counters were located.

But a government can’t sanction special treatment at a boarder for a one set of travellers over others.

Shall we let Nathan Guy know that he needs to pull the Smart Gates out and get rid of the NZ/Aus passport only queues then?