General Debate 6 May 2019

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Captain Mainwaring

Does anyone know how Julie-Anne Genter, Minister of Cycling, is getting on with her enquiry into petrol prices?
We did a weekend trip from Wellington to Rotorua and back. 91 is around $2.30.9 in Wellington, we filled up at Gull Levin on the way up for $1.98.9 and at Mobil Taihape on the way back for $1.95.9. (There is now a small Gull station in Taihape). We also noticed that BP Rotorua was $1.95.9.
It’s amazing how much flexibility they have when Gull comes to town.
So Julie, How much longer is it going to take you to get to the bottom of this, as I think I already did?
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May 6, 2019 8:01am
- G152
  
  Jenters far to busy looking for her ‘no road fatalities’ as, sadly, they rise.
  
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  May 6, 2019 8:17am
  - srylands
    
    There seems to have been a spike in multi fatality high speed crashes over the last year. Higher traffic volumes, including from tourism, and bad driving.
    
    Surely the police could blitz unlicensed drivers and unwarranted cars?
    
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    May 6, 2019 8:46am
    - sooty
      
      But those are all Labour and green voters!
      
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      May 6, 2019 9:04am
      - Tricati
        
        And a blitz would be deemed racist given the likely offenders
        
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        May 6, 2019 1:51pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Will no-one consider that she has a baby as well as Jacinda, sheesh, it is so hard to do that job as well and it isn’t as if her husband can be at home with the tot, he works does’t he?
    
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    May 6, 2019 10:08am
    - sooty
      
      Yer, but shes got at least one nanny, if not more!
      
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      May 6, 2019 10:41am
      - Rachael Membery
        
        Sorry should have put (sarc). Didn’t think I would need to lol.
        
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        May 6, 2019 12:02pm
      - howitis
        
        Does the nanny get the ‘living wage’?
        
        With Genter being a California yank I doubt it.
        The Californian lefties love all the cheap labour for child minding, drivers, gardening, cooks etc from the ‘wetbacks’ …oops.. undocumented workers.
        
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        May 6, 2019 12:06pm
    - Tall Man
      
      He certainly gets paid, at least $360,000 from her department but probably no real work involved.
      
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      May 6, 2019 11:28am
- srylands
  
  The Greens want reduced emissions and they hate private motor vehicles. The easiest way to reduce emissions is to have expensive petrol.
  
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  May 6, 2019 8:42am
- iMP
  
  She’s waiting on some research and a report from her “Old White Men” (which is not sexist ~ HRComm).
  
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  May 6, 2019 9:04am
- Inandout
  
  CM, I did wonder why Taihape has really cheap prices and has been for ages, but was unaware of a Gull in town. That would explain it.
  
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  May 6, 2019 9:51am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    The man at Mobil told me that Gull arrived in October and suddenly everyone else in town had to fall into line.
    Gull Taihape is even cheaper at $1.92.9 but I don’t get the 6c discount I get with my Mobil card.
    
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    May 6, 2019 10:04am
    - howitis
      
      I have been using the Foxton Mobil for the last few years.
      I can go to Wellington, tootle about on that tank, then return to Foxton and fill up for the journey north.
      There is also a Waitomo in Foxton so that helps but more fiddly to use in self service.
      There is a proposed Waitomo for Tinakori Road, Wtn and also Upper Hutt.
      Waitomo is supplied by Mobil.
      
      I have used the Mobil Waharoa for 30 plus years.
      It is an easy stop right by the main Hgy 27 and current prices are excellent.
      I tend now to fuel up on the way back to tax-non-haven Auckland and fill a 10l can as well.
      I believe there is a Gull at Matamata that may affect price.
      
      Levin has a Gull plus an Allied to the South.
      When in Rotorua recently there is much competition.
      All good for the consumer.
      
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      May 6, 2019 12:35pm
      - trout
        
        Gull on the Rotoiti road out of Rotorua is incredible value. $1.24 for diesel less a discount! Best I have seen. (mobil in Tokoroa also pretty good).
        
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        May 6, 2019 5:10pm
  - godruelf
    
    Gull is right opposite the BP in Taihape.
    
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    May 6, 2019 3:41pm
- bill ramsay
  
  Funny you should post this as I was just thinking the same.
  
  Just had a very pleasant week in New Plymouth. FWIW there’s a new brew bar there, Shining Peak, well worth a visit if any of you happen to be up that way.
  
  Anyhoo, fuel there is in the region of 25~30c cheaper than Karori in Wellington where I live.
  
  The pricing strategy of fuel companies seems to be, ‘what can we get away with?’, combined with watching each others like hawks on any price movement.
  
  The problem with petrol is that it’s a grudge purchase, and there is no differential between providers, no matter how they try and talk up their product, except price.
  
  I’ve never believed that there is a cartel as such, it’s essentially what can we gouge.
  
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  May 6, 2019 10:26am
- The Heat
  
  In opposition, it seems we couldn’t go a week without Ms Genter giving her opinion about something.
  
  Now she has governmental responsibility, I can’t say I’ve hear much from her.
  
  Not saying that’s a bad thing, but….
  
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  May 6, 2019 11:45am
lilman

Hosking just ripped the COL over their drug policies.

Should be compulsive listening for any voter or right thinking person.
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May 6, 2019 8:08am
- Im Right
  
  You can bet the cannabis referendum will be tacked onto the 2020 general election at any cost for Greens and Labour, irrespective of how the question will be posed, as they will see it as a reason to vote for the 18-23yr olds who normally vote left. This referendum is about votes for the left as opposed to the outcome of cannabis smoking.
  
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  May 6, 2019 8:21am
  - Wired-one
    
    Exactly.
    
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    May 6, 2019 1:04pm
  - Nigel Kearney
    
    It’s not about getting people to vote. It’s about getting people to spend the election campaign arguing about cannabis instead of examining the performance of the government.
    
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    May 6, 2019 2:24pm
  - fernglas
    
    Most of the dedicated weed smokers are in their middle age. The kids are all hoovering up P.
    
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    May 6, 2019 7:07pm
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Look – here is my shiny engagement ring!
  
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  May 6, 2019 8:36am
  - sooty
    
    Then there is the wedding!
    No the taxpayer should not be paying or suppling goods and services or venue!
    Pay for it yourself!
    
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    May 6, 2019 9:07am
  - John Warren
    
    She needs to be careful not to use up all her squirrels too quickly.
    
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    May 6, 2019 9:31am
    - Bykmad
      
      She has the “Look, I have another Baby on the way” card to play yet!
      
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      May 6, 2019 9:59am
      - Rachael Membery
        
        As a woman I find it embarrassing that Jacinda doesn’t do her job at a level required of any man.
        
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        May 6, 2019 10:10am
      - JB.49
        
        Bykmad
        
        I was just thinking the same thing.
        
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        May 6, 2019 11:07am
      - Ed Snack
        
        I thought that was being saved for another “Year of Delivery”.
        
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        May 6, 2019 2:29pm
- Surely Knott
  
  The comments on Hosking’s post on drugs is filled with people citing the Portugal drug example. Legalising drugs is claimed to bring down the suicide rate. But my question is what impact did the $78 Billion dollar bailout to Portugal have on their suicide and drug use statistics. It turned their economy around and maybe bought optimism and hope and work and financial success. Suicide is not uncommon when their is businesses failing and no jobs. Maybe a stronger economy is what’s helping Portugal. And Second point is price and taxation, Portugal has really cheap cigarettes ($3.89 pounds) and pint of beer ($1.63 Pounds ), so maybe their young people are choosing these drugs when they are socialising instead of the harder stuff. In NZ where $25 dollars for a pack of cigarettes, and $9.50 for a beer at a bar how does that compare to cannabis, synthetics or Meth. So excessive taxation in NZ means their isn’t as much differential in cost between harder drugs and lesser drug.
  
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  May 6, 2019 10:10am
krazykiwi

The number of UK Conservative voters who want May gone
– 71% Early April
– 79% Late April
– 82% Early May
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May 6, 2019 8:27am
- iMP
  
  Do a two-for-one and elect a PM for Australia and UK. Save money
  
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  May 6, 2019 9:05am
- Rachael Membery
  
  Maybe the Mays got their Mays confused?
  
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  May 6, 2019 10:12am
  - howitis
    
    I’ve got pieces of April and it’s a mourning of May.
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4Y1z16CsjM
    Pieces Of April (1975) – Three Dog Night
    
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    May 6, 2019 12:41pm
  - Nigel Kearney
    
    Would have been nice to have the end of May before the end of April.
    
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    May 6, 2019 2:26pm
  - sooty
    
    What about a threefor?
    
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    May 6, 2019 7:28pm
secondcumming

Interesting doco on RT last night about the Japanese *Yakuza*. (What I didn’t know was that the word means……”good for nothing”)

The Japanese government and police have really stamped down on the *Yakuza* in recent years, denying them access to things like bank accounts, credit cards, their ability to rent an apartment, even putting pressure on schools not to accept their kids. They can be stopped by Police for any reason and held for interrogation as long as they deem necessary. No wonder gang numbers have fallen so dramatically in recent years.

Shame we can’t be as tough on the ‘good for nothings’ that create havoc in this country.

https://rtd.rt.com/films/yakuza-good-for-nothing/
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May 6, 2019 8:33am
- Padriv Ustoev
  
  Stamping out gangs in NZ would be racist don’t you know. Plus gangs do so much good work in the communidy, according to Stuff.
  
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  May 6, 2019 9:20am
  - septic skeptic
    
    Reminds me of the scene in Godfather 2 where the young Vincent Corleone persuades the greedy landlord not to increase the rent for the old widower. “What a misunderstanding! I’ll even reduce the rent, and of course the dog can stay”
    
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    May 6, 2019 9:32am
- simpleton1
  
  Every “patch” is earnt by the wearer! by nefarious deeds!
  
  Patched members then can act as butter does not melt in their mouth, as now they have the future willing new members doing things, whatever it takes, to do the more illegal things, or even to take the rap for them.
  
  So removing the patch in some social situations, is just a pretence, of just how nice a guy they are. And we are expected to white wash and totally believe that, while the leopard regains his spots, the patch is slipped back on later.
  
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  May 6, 2019 10:43am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  In a homogenous society where the majority have similar values, it’s easier for the State to “do the common-sense thing”.
  However, the trouble with knowing what your national identity is and how a “model citizen” should behave means that Japanese society can come down hard on people who don’t really fit in. (Think of NZ society in the 1950s.)
  It’s a double-edged sword.
  At least Japan wants to continue to be Japanese (good luck with the demographics, boys and girls…)
  
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  May 6, 2019 3:25pm
Happychappy

When are the people of NZ going to wake to this Labour Coalition especially over their lies and frauds that they used to get elected. DHBS are already millions in the black after National was blamed for nine years of neglect and getting worse by the day and instead of fixing it like they promised and eighteen months into this first term of Government we have continued strikes and the same excuses that it’s all Nationals fault without any ideas to fix it. Lie after lie from a Government that promised a Cannabis referendum that would bidding with leaked documents saying different. This Coalition was formed to get rid of Capitalism and we have found out it is all about inqiries and forums select to make better policy but instead has made a lot of those selected to make new policy richer as very few have been excepted. Time to make a slogan about a Government that is weak kneed,well out of the depth boardering on corrupt and blood hopeless but the promises keep getting wheeled out watered down and put away for 2020 to con those that vote for them again.
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May 6, 2019 8:34am
- sooty
  
  But Labour do have 200 working parties busy with working out the election bribes for next time. I hope that they are better than KFC only for south ak voters!
  
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  May 6, 2019 9:12am
- Wired-one
  
  How is the average person of NZ meant to wake up to Labours bullshit outcomes when their own media refuse to tell then about it. We know it because we are politically active, but the average kiwi isn’t. Our media are a disgrace.
  
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  May 6, 2019 1:08pm
Lee C

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May 6, 2019 8:36am
adamsmith1922

And the Herald has a paywall because of their quality journalism and then
https://adamsmith.wordpress.com/2019/05/06/sloppy-journalism-7-can-the-herald-sink-any-lower-more-ardern-bilge-from-nz-herald-masquerading-as-news/
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May 6, 2019 8:52am
- Tony Stuart
  
  The NZ Herald – tabloid in size, and tabloid in content; and now they expect us to pay to read it. No thanks.
  
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  May 6, 2019 9:07am
  - Tarquin North
    
    Try the Northern Advocate, it’s yesterdays Herald after anything vaguely interesting has been removed. I can’t believe they keep publishing it.
    
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    May 6, 2019 9:22am
    - Paulus
      
      Similarly Bay of Plenty Times – except local sports same as dreadful Herald and Brian Gould’s diatribe on Margaret Thatcher today.
      
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      May 6, 2019 1:28pm
    - Nermal
      
      Even my barber stopped leaving the Advocate (aka 2 minutes silence) on the waiting benches
      
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      May 6, 2019 2:43pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    Implementing a paywall leads to an immediate loss of advertising revenue for media providers as people like you and I completely stop visiting. Their hope is that potential new subscription revenue will surpass the certain ad revenue loss, thereby helping them back to profitability.
    
    Despite their claims of ‘Premium’ and ‘Quality’ journalism, the Herald will have spent the last ten years trying to avoid needing a paywall by reducing the cost of their journalists/staff, and doing so at the cost of reporting quality.
    
    Paywalling doesn’t seem to have worked elsewhere with readership generally declining, and many providers resorting to begging to viewers on every non-premium page. The Guardian is a great example of that.
    
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    May 6, 2019 9:30am
    - alloytoo
      
      Over the weekend I received an email inviting me to subscribe to the premium, I promptly unsubscribed from their mailing list.
      
      This morning I got an email welcoming me to their premium service……
      
      Followed by:
      
      “Hi
      
      You may have received an email from us this morning thanking you for signing up to New Zealand Herald Premium. Due to human error, this email was sent to everyone who is registered with us – it should have just gone to Premium content subscribers. We’re sorry for the mistake!
      
      Regards,
      
      xxxx xxxxxx
      GM Communications ”
      
      Not an auspicious start, especially since I had specifically unsubscribed from their service.
      
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      May 6, 2019 1:03pm
  - Kabull
    
    I removed the app off my phone and the shortcut off my desktop as soon as I realised what would be on the ‘free’ side of the paywall is propaganda they want all to see – such junk will be all that is available to the average user. So easy to further influence the sheeple by letting them only see how evil Simon B is, or how wonderful Ms Ardern is …
    
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    May 6, 2019 9:43am
  - softail 1450
    
    Tony ,have a look at the front page on Saturday,my old mums copy had in big text” Jacinda’s next engagement “page 5 ,FFS the crap was actually on page 3…..LOL.
    
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    May 6, 2019 11:26am
- barnacle bill
  
  At least the Herald is wise enough to NOT put Hosking’s opinion piece behind a paywall.
  
  He cant be regarded as being important, as he thinks he is.
  
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  May 6, 2019 10:48am
  - Tall Man
    
    Disappointing life bill, is that why you’re so bitter?
    
    Get over it, Hosking is still the most popular broadcaster in New Zealand.
    
    https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/mike-hosking-breakfast/video/mikes-minute-why-the-governments-drug-reform-plans-are-insane/
    
    Or do you just hate him because he tells the truth?
    
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    May 6, 2019 11:45am
    - barnacle bill
      
      The Truth, that’s a good one tallboy
      You should try it sometime.
      
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      May 6, 2019 12:51pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Perhaps he refused the singular honour, so that people would actually see it and read it.
    
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    May 6, 2019 11:58am
Yvette

Pike River: Finding cause of first explosion more important – widow
As the Police find a conveyor belt inside the mine did not cause the second explosion, Anna Osborne says “There would never have been a second explosion if the first one hadn’t happened. So for me, the most important thing at this stage is to figure out actually what happened in that first explosion.”
She’s urging anyone with evidence relating to the mine disaster to come forward – Newshub

Andrew Little open to cancelling Pike River re-entry if progress cannot be made safely.
Duncan Garner [the AM Show] video, to Bernie Monk – … This is not only about closure emotionally, it’s also about trying to find evidence, whatever.
Do you need evidence?
The Royal Commission Report says to me there was all sorts of negligence going on in terms of management and oversight of that mine. I would have thought this could have gone to court at any stage.
Bernie Monk – Oh very much so. We don’t have to go down the mine to get evidence. I’m wondering what more evidence they want. That mine was in an explosive range 48 times in the 7 weeks leading up to it.
They continuously let our men go in there to their death and we don’t need to go down that mine to get that evidence – it’s already in the Commission. – Newshub

Does the tone of each of these items suggest it is intended to still instigate legal proceedings over Pike River, which the public at present would seem to believe is a possibility only if new evidence is found in accessing and searching the drift, but not a definite intention otherwise.

“We don’t have to go down the mine to get evidence. I’m wondering what more evidence they want.”
What is the intention in this matter? Is a new Pike River court case anticipated or not?
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May 6, 2019 9:02am
- adamsmith1922
  
  This suggests that there is no need to re-enter and that Bernie Monk really was more interested in vengeance than closure. Therefore much of his mouthing off in the past was just PR.
  
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  May 6, 2019 9:40am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    And about money.
    
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    May 6, 2019 11:57am
  - alloytoo
    
    Is that the gentle sounds of Pedals going backward?
    
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    May 6, 2019 1:11pm
  - John Warren
    
    Bernie Monk comes across as a blithering old fool. I doubt cool hard logic has driven anything he’s ever done.
    
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    May 6, 2019 2:23pm
- Tony Stuart
  
  So where were the mine’s safety personnel? Why did they not demand a safe working environment? Where was the EPMU, the union representing many of the workers? Who was the head of the EPMU at the time, and why, after the explosion, did that person say there was nothing unusual about Pike River mine?
  
  So many questions…
  
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  May 6, 2019 10:08am
  - Tricati
    
    Good questions, but I’m betting you wont see any answers from the MSM as they will be under instruction not t ask them.
    I note from recent comments from the ‘Family spokespeople, Andrew Little and the Pike CEO that they are preparing for no re-entry, but at least they tried not like the horrible National government.
    
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    May 6, 2019 10:33am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Why are they saying that NON intrinsically safe equipment was used in equipment in the drift?
    Extraction fan switches, switch cabinets etc
    Why was this mine passed as safe BEFORE it extracted it’s first Kg of Coal?
    as TS said where were the safety officers, where was their report to the manager about safe working conditions?
    Did the manager over ride the safety officers report? or did the safety officer not do his job?
    If the manager did over ride the safety office, why did the workers go anyway, surely they would have complained to the union re bullying?
    
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    May 6, 2019 10:37am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      And who was in Government when they were instructed to build the only uphill mine in the world in order not to disturb the wildlife in the National Park, and then install only one ventilation shaft?
      It was a methane bomb from day one and the guilty parties are Helen Clark’s Government and the Greens.
      Then National were the bad guys when it blew up on their watch.
      
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      May 6, 2019 11:37am
      - KevO'Brien
        
        It became dangerous when it was decided that the mine be underground contrary to international practice for closed gas producing fault seams. All the know how was there but not the sense.
        
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        May 6, 2019 4:37pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    So few answers?
    
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    May 6, 2019 11:22am
  - Paulus
    
    Surely the mine’s Health and Safety Manager should be implicated of further action is taken ?
    He sadly lost one son and narrowly the second escaped. Surely, as he told the Royal Commission, that he thought the mine was not safe, or words to that effect, he still allowed his sons to go down the mine.
    All very sad.
    
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    May 6, 2019 1:33pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Do you mean go UP the mine?
      It’s the only uphill mine in the world. That’s the main reason it exploded. See my 11.37AM post above.
      
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      May 6, 2019 2:26pm
MrTips

Teachers gonna talk about a mega strikery huh?
But I thought we weren’t going to have any strikes?
They’ll do it of course.
And our kids will suffer. And the parents.
HUGZZZZZZ.
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May 6, 2019 9:11am
- srylands
  
  Sometimes you just got to tough it out.
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Air_Traffic_Controllers_Organization_%281968%29?wprov=sfla1
  
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  May 6, 2019 9:29am
Maggie Pie

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mods – detele still not working
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May 6, 2019 9:12am
- krazykiwi
  
  Maggie, if you are using Google Chrome, try the following:
  1. Press F12. Ignore techie stuff the opens on the right
  2. Left-click the Refresh button which is immediately to the left of the ‘https://www.kiwiblog etc’ in the address bar
  3. Select “Empty Cache and Hard Reload”
  4. Press 12
  
  Delete should now work for you.
  
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  May 6, 2019 9:53am
rightoverlabour

I see 90 days trial is gone. My advice is don’t employ Labour supporters. Casually make some comment about Jacinda, gauge the reaction and ” Sorry the position is filled…” “or welcome aboard….”
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May 6, 2019 9:22am
- John Warren
  
  I might be thankful that I’m still under 20 employees. Only used it once, in 2015, but it saved me a great deal of grief after a lapse in judgement.
  
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  May 6, 2019 9:34am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    So can employers who’s businesses are growing and threatening to surpass 20 employees split into two companies to keep each one under 20 or is that so simple that even the CoL would see through it?
    
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    May 6, 2019 10:09am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Yes, there are all sorts of ways scum employers can police the thoughts of potential employees without overtly breaking the law.
  
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  May 6, 2019 9:50am
  - Tarquin North
    
    Struggling to find a job there Mikey?
    
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    May 6, 2019 10:09am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
      I’m a bit slow, but I very mu7ch doubt I’d take a job with someone who asked me about my political opinions in such a crass way as rightoverlabour.
      He’d probably choose me if I wore some sort of overt signal of my virtue though, like an RSA badge.
      
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      May 6, 2019 10:16am
      - sooty
        
        And yet Labour employed you!
        
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        May 6, 2019 10:53am
      - rightoverlabour
        
        I’d never employ you. Period. And I wouldn’t need some crass way based on political opinions. I employ based on best person for the job. Scum, bludging trolls, never.
        
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        May 6, 2019 7:29pm
  - Tall Man
    
    So what is your suggestion for identifying “scum” employees?
    
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    May 6, 2019 11:51am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    OMG next political parties will need to be inclusive of other peoples politics. 😉
    
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    May 6, 2019 11:55am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Well, our two main political parties seem to have become greatly enamoured with the political views of the Peoples’ Republic of China.
      
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      May 6, 2019 3:53pm
  - John Warren
    
    Never been an employer, have you Mikey?
    
    Try being a small employer where the impact of a non-performing employee can be catastrophic.
    
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    May 6, 2019 2:26pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  So write off anyone who doesn’t have a rock-solid work history. Leftie thinking doesn’t extend beyond sound-bites. They always fail yo see negative consequences of their stupidity.
  
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  May 6, 2019 2:21pm
Ultima

This morning Hosking asked Scotty Stevenson about Caster Semenya’s latest saga, to which the outrageous Scotty replied:

“This is nuts. This is nuts.”
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May 6, 2019 9:33am
- Maggie Pie
  
  As a woman, I’ve always beleived Caster offers the full package 🙁
  
  https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm5igxhjHpX/
  
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  May 6, 2019 10:10am
- slightlyrighty
  
  The issue with Caster Semenya, is that we simply do not know her status, with regards to gender. Is she genetically male, with all the athletic advantages that this brings, or a genetic female who just happens to have high testosterone levels.
  
  She has undergone a gender test, and while the results are confidential, it has been reported that she is intersex, and if her Gender Status puts others at an unfair advantage, then the IAAF is in a no win situation. The rules in this situation as applied are only applicable to athletes with an XY chromosome, so we can conclude that Semenya is in that category, otherwise the rules she is disputing would not have been applied to her.
  
  Laurel Hubbard is in the same category, it’s just that while Hubbard’s situation is one of choice, Semenya is one of circumstance. The main issue is to do with fairness and to the integrity of Women’s Sport in particular. It should be noted that there are no cases (that I am aware of) of a female to male transgender athlete competing in a high level male environment.
  
  https://www.letsrun.com/news/2019/05/what-no-one-is-telling-you-about-caster-semenya-she-has-xy-chromosomes/
  
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  May 6, 2019 10:54am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    My partner insists no one mentions Laurel Hubbard’s name while hes eating breakfast.
    
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    May 6, 2019 11:18am
    - Nutta
      
      Does he eat Hubbard’s Crunchy Nut Clusters?
      
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      May 6, 2019 4:24pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    If xy individuals are allowed to compete in elite women’s sports the result will be no competition and no elite women’s sports.
    
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    May 6, 2019 2:23pm
  - MickMac
    
    What does their DNA’s say?
    Are they boys or girls??
    
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    May 6, 2019 2:31pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      That detail has never been made public with respect to Caster Semenya.
      Neither have details of her internal anatomy (does she possess ovaries, testes).
      
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      May 6, 2019 5:12pm
  - Ed Snack
    
    There’s a real dilemma and issue with Semeya, I believe it is correct that she is genetically male and suffers from AIS (Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome) but not from CAIS, CAIS adds “complete”.
    
    There is a spectrum of AIS disorders from very mild to CAIS. People who suffer from CAIS (and I’ve personally known one) are pretty much stereotypically female with some differences – very little body hair and taller than average as examples. They develop as female and look female, probably don’t have much if any advantage as they produce testosterone but cannot process it at all (that’s the C part).
    
    Those who are not CAIS but on the upper end of the spectrum though can develop as females but as they can process some testosterone they will tend to look and develop some more masculine attributes. Semenya is probably Stage 3/4 so presents as female but has definite muscular and skeletal development that si more typically male. As noted above the actual presentation of symptoms is rather variable – I believe there are several genetic defects that can interact in differing ways. So one can be apparently male but have a more typically female body type (talking generally) or apparently female but distinctly masculine and every combination in between.
    
    The real drawback is that we have a binary sports classification – Open and Female. And the restricted class exists because there are biological differences and if we only had one class women would never be able to compete, yet there exists natural crossover types – these AIS people being one of them. There aren’t enough to have a separate class and anyway as the spectrum is broad how would you classify, and yet they can outclass normal genetic females without being fully competitive with normal genetic males.
    
    There is possibly no simple answer that satisfies logic – unless ones intent is to destroy women’s sports altogether. The current compromise is awkward and sort of unfair, but is probably as good as we get.
    
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    May 6, 2019 2:50pm
  - marcw
    
    If Semenya is permitted to continue competing with testosterone levels well above normal female levels, then how can other female athletes compete fairly? You only need to observe Semenya’s muscle bulk to see the obvious advantage she is taking in comparison.
    
    What if IAAF decided that any female athlete could take testosterone supplements to equal the level that this fellow competitor wants to compete against them has in her system? At the moment they would be disqualified. So, no level playing field, testosterone bulking advantage allowed for one competitor only, others disqualified for measuring up.
    
    It seems to me that if the new rules are cancelled … end of womens’ Olympic contests.
    
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    May 6, 2019 4:21pm
rightoverlabour

Maybe if they were not wasting money buying back guns….

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/112484006/teachers-prepare-for-megastrike-but-is-there-any-more-money
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May 6, 2019 9:41am
- sooty
  
  Or wasting $40mill to enter the Pike river drift, or maybe not!
  
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  May 6, 2019 10:50am
- Hacked-Off
  
  Or giving $2 billion to First Year University Students.
  
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  May 6, 2019 3:00pm
mikenmildagain

Happy International No Diet Day!
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May 6, 2019 9:50am
- mandk
  
  Meh
  I celebrate every day.
  
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  May 6, 2019 11:09am
Yvette

Israel Folau apparently disagreed that Tasmania should allow citizens to declare on their birth certificates something other than the sex they were born, and tweeted his own comment – that “Those that are living in Sin will end up in Hell unless you repent. Jesus Christ loves you and is giving you time to turn away from your sin and come to him – and added a quote from the Bible and a “summary” graphic.

It was only the graphic that mentioned homosexuals, second in a list of eight “sins”, and it was the media that picked them out and gave it prominence. Not the variance, emulations, wrath, envyings or revelings, some of which rugby fans do display in abundance, but the homosexuals alone.

Is it slightly incredulous that Israel Folau now faces the issues he does, and Rugby Australia, basically because of the very selective reporting of the media.

And ‘Kids are killing themselves’: NRL’s first openly gay player Ian Roberts blasts Israel Folau, naming young people and vulnerable people, kids in the suburbs, who are dealing with their sexuality.
“[They’re] confused, not knowing how to deal with it, these type of remarks… can and do push [kids and] people over the edge.”
Largely too, are they not, the target of the media?
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May 6, 2019 9:55am
- secondcumming
  
  TV3 News last night spoke with Folau’s cousin Jeremiah, he confirmed the entire family were in full agreement with Israel’s stance….. he ended the interview saying, “For homosexuals, Hell awaits”
  
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  May 6, 2019 10:19am
  - jcuk
    
    Of course if you do not believe in Hell as an after life possibility why bother?
    
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    May 6, 2019 5:00pm
mikenmildagain

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
I see President Dotard is fine with his pal Kim’s rocket tests now, and would prefer to concentrate his expertise on determining the ‘ture’ winnder of the Kentucky Derby.
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May 6, 2019 10:13am
- Fletch
  
  Yeh, better to do an Obama – let them have nukes and give them $1.7 billion while sharing his basketball bracket picks.
  
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  May 6, 2019 10:37am
  - stephieboy
    
    “Yeh, better to do an Obama-….”
    
    ???
    
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    May 6, 2019 11:21am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    It would appear to have been impossible for Obama to ‘let them have nukes’ as that had been achieved by 2006.
    Now, about that Kentucky Derby though. Surely you agree, as I do, that the disqualification of the true winner was due to political correctness. I know nothing about horse racing, you see, but I’m confident that Trump knows more about the rules of racing than all the stewards.
    
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    May 6, 2019 11:34am
    - Ed Snack
      
      Good trolling by the Donald, even gets you mma to notice. I didn’t think you were a turf aficionado.
      
      It is unusual though, first KD winner to be disqualified and a pretty marginal call. Three year olds are pretty raw runners and tend to get a lot of leeway on shifting their ground when running. That said, they did move out and impede another runner even if that runner wasn’t in a close finish and it was some way from the post.
      
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      May 6, 2019 2:56pm
Fletch

I see that the usual suspects are beating the drum about a sugar tax again. They seem to try it every six months or so. Nevermind that (as DPF pointed out) a study by the MOH showed that a tax has never had any outcome on health where it’s been tried (eg, Mexico).
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May 6, 2019 10:14am
Jack5

If white New Zealanders pointedly question being called “pakeha”, could they be guilty of “casual racism”?

That’s one conclusion that might be taken from an ethnic-Indian adviser’s comments to the Christchurch City Council.

First, the background:

Ekant Veer, is a lecturer in Canterbury University’s Department of Management, Marking, and Entrepreneurship. (Social sciences have invaded the academic business disciplines. Veer was given a medal as the university’s teaching medal for 2017 – perhaps that’s why the Christchurch Press hails him as a “prominent academic”).

Veer two years ago helped write for the Christchurch City Council a “multicultural strategy”.

Last Friday, Veer, in the words of the Press, made a “representation” after at a council hearing after a call from ethnic groups for $2 million of ratepayers’ money to fund a multicultural centre. Veer recommended the council translate summaries of its major decisions translated into other languages “to be more inclusive”.

The Press reports Veer also said: “I think you all know that we have got an an election coming up in council and that election rates and election turnout rates are not fantastic.”

He’s correct that the heavily squeezed ratepayers, mostly whites, tend to ignore council elections.

Second, the “Pakeha” comment:

After the council meeting, Veer tweeted that a woman who had been at the council hearing thanked him for his submission, but then accused him of being racist for using the word, “Pakeha”, alleging this was “offensive” and that she knew better than Veer about the word’s meaning because she was born in New Zealand (Veer was born in Britain and came to NZ at age 15).

In the newspaper printed report, Veer says the woman alleged that “Pakeha” meant “long white pig” and “fleas jumping off your back”. She told Veer he needed to recognise that his language offended her.

Veer said of the incident that it it was “an example of the sort of stuff that many people face on a regular basis.”

“She wasn’t being necessarily aggressive or angry, but it definitely was a sentiment of saying, ‘I was born here, you were not’. That’s a little bit of prejudice there.”

The online report:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/112474316/academic-accused-of-racism-for-saying-pkeha-after-championing-ethnic-communities
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May 6, 2019 10:20am
- Jack5
  
  What does “Pakeha” mean?
  
  Some interesting views in the link below, but the author settles on: “Mythical, human like being, with fair skin and hair who possessed canoes made of reeds which changed magically into sailing vessels.”
  
  Also, it seems that “Pakeha” likely now applies to all non-Maori, not just whites.
  
  https://maorinews.com/writings/papers/other/pakeha.htm
  
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  May 6, 2019 10:20am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I think the authoritative work on the meaning of pakeha is to be found Harry Orsman’s Dictionary of NZ English.
    The definition /usage/discussion runs for 3 pages (567-570)
    
    The guts of the matter:
    1. Of uncertain origin
    2. The least unlikely origin is that the word is derived from pakepakeha: imaginary pale-skinned creatures
    3. Accepted meaning nowadays: a pale-skinned immigrant/ or a non-Polynesian NZ-born NZer.
    
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    May 6, 2019 11:50am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Maori in common with other Pacific people need a word to distinguish their ethnic kin from outsiders. Pakeha has come to fill that role in NZ. It origins are uncertain. It’s not intended as derogatory.
    
    In Samoa palagi or papalagi is applied to foreigners likewise. The name explained as from ‘burst from the sky’.
    
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    May 6, 2019 7:19pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  It seems to me that the term pakeha, like many other ethnic descriptions, is generally a neutral one, but can be used pejoratively if that is the intent of the person using the word.
  But reading the intent of someone else can be difficult, as this woman demonstrated. Further, it seems she went even further by claiming to know that her interpretation of the word was superior becasue she was born in NZ.
  
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  May 6, 2019 10:35am
- Rachael Membery
  
  Snowflake? Is that offensive because they are white and he is not?
  
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  May 6, 2019 11:13am
- BananaLlama
  
  Where i grew up it was used as a derogatory slur along with Honky so it is no surprise some object to being called Pakeha.
  
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  May 6, 2019 2:17pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Well, I don’t! The sticks and stones situation you see!
    
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    May 6, 2019 2:54pm
    - BananaLlama
      
      That’s because of your class privilege. You would care otherwise.
      
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      May 6, 2019 4:41pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  pakeha offends me as a perjorative racist term. This sort of bigoted language is unacceptable and therefore must be banned, and all users of it be cast out of the public sphere.
  
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  May 6, 2019 5:33pm
Hugh Pavletich

… United States …

US interest rates: Calling for a rate cut now is bonkers – CNN

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/03/economy/us-interest-rates-cut/index.html
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… Australia & New Zealand …

Roger J Kerr explains why he thinks neither the Reserve Bank of New Zealand nor its Australian counterpart will cut rates this week … Interest Co NZ

https://www.interest.co.nz/currencies/99520/roger-j-kerr-explains-why-he-thinks-neither-reserve-bank-new-zealand-nor-its

Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2019/05/links-6-may-2019/#comment-3341545
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May 6, 2019 10:33am
Maggie Pie

Noticed how not many of Leighton’s old advertisers trust Kerry Woodham to handle their ads for them? I still hear him talking with the likes of Eat NZ, wET &Forget, Sails Restarant, and a couple of others during the morning slot. LOL!!
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May 6, 2019 10:36am
- alloytoo
  
  Fine wine company…..
  
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  May 6, 2019 1:13pm
- Nutta
  
  To be fair, there may have been term contracts for promotion?
  
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  May 6, 2019 4:27pm
Jack5

To help us keep up with the play of the PC mob – I’ve borrowed these definitions from a report behind the paywall of the UK Telegraph:

Micro-aggression: A choice of words that may have no malicious intent but which is interpreted by a distressed recipient as an act of violence.

Trigger warning: An alert that teachers and lecturers are expected to issue if the content of a course might upset any student. A number of books now come with trigger warnings at some universities: for instance, Ovid’s Metamorphoses (trigger: sexual assault) and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (trigger: suicide, domestic abuse and graphic violence).

Safe space: A room, offering a place of refuge, where students feel they can talk safely without fear of micro-aggression.
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May 6, 2019 11:08am
- mikenmildagain
  
  You need a more complete dictionary:
  http://viz.co.uk/category/rogers-profanisaurus/
  
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  May 6, 2019 11:41am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Lets hope the snowflakes don’t undertake Theological studies…imagine the trigger warnings for The Bible alone:
  Rape:
  https://erlc.com/resource-library/articles/what-does-the-bible-say-about-sexual-assault
  Incest:
  https://www.christiancourier.com/articles/950-does-the-bible-conflict-with-itself-in-the-matter-of-incest
  Child sacrifice:
  Judges 11: 29-40.
  
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  May 6, 2019 12:02pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    You committed the Song of Solomon.
    
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    May 6, 2019 7:22pm
- MickMac
  
  Yep jack.
  Just shows us people who are mentally unstable because they need trigger warnings.
  
  Normal people don’t.
  
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  May 6, 2019 2:36pm
stephieboy

A must listen on RNZ this morning!

Neven MacEwan played provincial rugby for Wellington and then wore the black jersey from 1956 to 1962, at no 8, prop, but predominantly as a lock. He had 52 matches for the All Blacks, including 20 internationals and two South African provincial matches as captain. His contemporaries were Tiny White, Don Clarke, Wilson Whineray, Kelvin Tremain, and Colin Meads. His life took a turn for the worse after he left his playing days behind. Now aged 85, Neven MacEwan’s rugby playing days and much more is detailed in a frank memoir, when the crowd stops roaring. This includes a battle with alcoholism, a suicide attempt and a theft conviction.

A former All Black captain on when the crowd stops roaring

https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018693735/a-former-all-black-captain-on-when-the-crowd-stops-roaring
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May 6, 2019 11:19am
- oob
  
  A former All Black captain
  
  Strictly speaking true but misleading, as he didn’t captain the ABs in a test.
  
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  May 6, 2019 2:19pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    That’s a very odd quibble to make.
    
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    May 6, 2019 2:43pm
    - oob
      
      Milky in NZ rugby lore, it’s a major distinction.
      
      I’m guessing you’re not much of a rugby follower and might be a little too young to recall the furore around Paul Henderson in 1995. Here’s how it went:
      
      Henderson was an honest journeyman. The bridge of his nose would get cut all the time and he’d bleed a lot, he was one of those blokes who gave his all but would never have the star quality to be a regular AB.
      
      Because of his popularity he was the obvious choice for captain in the Dirt Tracker’s match against Japan at RWC, where Simon Culhane went crazy.
      
      Normally NZ rugby does not afford test status for matches against minnows, unfortunately IRB (now World Rugby) rules dictate that every RWC match has test status. Ergo, Paul Henderson is a legitimate All Black test captain off of a 145-17 drubbing by the Dirt Trackers, to the consternation of the NZ rugby public.
      
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      May 6, 2019 8:54pm
Captain Mainwaring

Nasty plane accident in Moscow.
Looks a bit like the landing was so hard it punched the undercarriage legs up through the fuel tanks, hence the fire.
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May 6, 2019 12:04pm
- Tony Stuart
  
  Reports I had heard were that the plane was already on fire when it made an emergency landing.
  
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  May 6, 2019 12:49pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Latest one I heard was that it might have been struck by lightning.
    In either case undercarriage going through the fuel tanks wouldn’t make any existing fire any better.
    
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    May 6, 2019 1:17pm
  - Ed Snack
    
    The best info I’ve seen said that the aircraft suffered some sort of failure straight after take-off and returned. It aborted the first landing attempt and touched down very hard on the second – it was overweight for landing and possibly wasn’t able to go around again. It bounced hard twice, the main gear collapsed, and yes, that probably ruptured tanks that started the fire.
    
    There’s stories that it was supposedly on fire and/or was struck by lightening, but no proof of that. The initial go round strongly suggests no onboard fire. The initial reports that mention the lightening strike also first said that all the passengers escaped – and that was definitely not true so I would doubt the accuracy of that report.
    
    It is also said that a number of people couldn’t get out the two forward slides because people were trying to take their carry on luggage with them and this slowed the evacuation down.
    
    The Aviation Herald website (avherald.com) is an excellent source on these incidents.
    
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    May 6, 2019 3:07pm
Maggie Pie

Just a quik update on the ducks. Ive only just finished plucking the first one which i will cook for tonites dinner. My partner decided to hang all the others off the shed rafters for a few days. He reckons aging them will give the meat a lot more flavor and i wont need to dip them in hot water as the feathers should just fall out. Currently sorting out a really nice recipe – will update the group again tomorrow on how things went 🙂
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May 6, 2019 1:02pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Ducks arrived a couple of days ago on my garden pond.
Last year hubby decided to feed Daisy, Donald & Daisy’s rapist…

So we ended up with about 17 mallards that would fly in for breakfast (morning t, lunch, afternoon nibbles and dinner)….

Daisy & Donald began to be a bit put out and learnt to hang around late in the evening for their special feeding before departing for the night.

I have a feeling the ducks will be on a starvation regime down at our pond this year.
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May 6, 2019 1:32pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  My partner will be heading back to his parents farm down in the Waikato next week if you live anywhere near that area Mags? Hes always on the lookout for new shooting spots if you need any help.
  
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  May 6, 2019 1:54pm
Notsofast

Lundy gets his appeal hearing

https://www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/cases/mark-edward-lundy-v-r/@@images/fileDecision?r=2.70196931485
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May 6, 2019 2:09pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Of course he did.
  The Government just loves wasting our money.
  
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  May 6, 2019 2:31pm
  - Notsofast
    
    Willie Young’s last body of work.
    I guess every one sees this as trivial but they couldn’t be more wrong. A parade of miscreants can expect to sleep uneasy for months.
    
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    May 6, 2019 4:20pm
    - fernglas
      
      Which miscreants did you have in mind? Leave was restricted to the question whether the proviso was properly applied, in other words whether the Court of Appeal was wrong in saying that the evidence, in the absence of the inadmissible mRNA, was enough to convict, or whether the fact that the mRNA was before the jury meant the trial was unfair. The IHC evidence was not contested, and the demeanour point was ruled out. So who was being a miscreant?
      
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      May 6, 2019 10:00pm
- Nermal
  
  Which we of course are paying for.
  
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  May 6, 2019 2:50pm
  - Notsofast
    
    Compensation looks like getting towards 8 figures.
    
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    May 6, 2019 4:21pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      There won’t be any compensation. He’s as guilty as.
      
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      May 6, 2019 5:22pm
- secondcumming
  
  Certainly worth a replay…..particularly @ 1 min 12s 😎
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3lYQttJDXk
  
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  May 6, 2019 2:54pm
  - Fletch
    
    Yeh, that thing where he is being held up and gasping (ie, the “Lunderpant”) is just a bit over the top.
    
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    May 6, 2019 6:33pm
- WaveyDavey
  
  Not if you actually take the time to read it he doesn’t.
  
  [1]The grant of leave is limited to the proviso issue.
  
  ” The applicant’s challenge to the reliability and admissibility of the IHC evidence was rejected by the Court of Appeal… …We do not see sufficient prospects of success in the argument”
  
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  May 6, 2019 3:21pm
  - Notsofast
    
    IHC is a hoax but the defence got stuck with it. Purity of the alleged stain material is at the heart of the crown case now, so why was there an unidentified woman’s dna and skin flakes found embedded in allegedly pure CNS?
    Unidentified finger prints where the crown alleges Lundy staged the break in, unknown male dna and cloth fibers under all victim fingernails, show that it was someone else. The proviso was applied to handwave all this away, so all is under the microscope now. I don’t see why you don’t get the point, it was not Mark Lundy, and the killer should be arrested and tried.
    
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    May 6, 2019 4:25pm
- Tony Stuart
  
  An extremely limited appeal NSF, limited to the CoA’s application of s 385(1) of the Crimes Act 1961. The appeal will not address the admissibility of the forensic evidence which twice convicted Lundy. There is no good reason for a man to have brain tissue from his murdered wife on his clothing.
  
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  May 6, 2019 4:23pm
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    You are right there, no good reason.
    But he did not, the crown used a hoax science that was debunked to demonstrate human origin.
    Fail.
    
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    May 6, 2019 4:27pm
    - Tony Stuart
      
      A fail for Lundy’s defence team. The Supreme Court has specifically declined to hear that aspect of the appeal:
      
      The applicant’s challenge to the reliability and admissibility of the IHC evidence was rejected by the Court of Appeal after detailed consideration of the matters raised by the applicant, which necessarily impugned the evidence given by the experts called by him at the trial. We do not see sufficient prospects of success in the argument that the applicant wishes to ventilate again in this Court to justify a further
      appeal on this issue.
      
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      May 6, 2019 4:36pm
      - Notsofast
        
        All is not as it seems.
        In my opinion this will be one of the most intriguing hearings in modern times.
        
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        May 6, 2019 4:59pm
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    over-vigorous nose blower?
    
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    May 6, 2019 5:29pm
Happychappy

How long is it going to take before the Union shows its heavy hand and pisses off the business.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/05/the-new-meal-and-rest-break-laws-how-they-affect-you.amp.html
While I agree with breaks you have to give and take it just doesn’t go one way.
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May 6, 2019 2:12pm
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  Your nirvana would be 16 hour days and no meal breaks?
  
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  May 6, 2019 2:56pm
bill ramsay

Interesting so see what NZ Herald defines as premium content.

“A mystery frequency disrupted car remote keys in an Ohio city, and now residents know why.”

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12228159

Who knew?
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May 6, 2019 2:54pm
- cmm
  
  “It’s like trying to talk to someone at a nightclub,” said Adam Scott Wandt, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan, in explaining how a strong frequency can derail a weak frequency.”
  
  Nope, there are not “strong frequencies” and “weak frequencies”, but strong signals and weak signals.
  
  The problem was caused by are strong signals swamping weak signals on the same frequency.
  
  Premium content my arse!
  
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  May 6, 2019 4:45pm
Kiwi Dave

With three key words from the Herald’s teaser entered in DuckDuckGo I could read the original NYT story – time-wasting click bait worth zero cents, as I expected.
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May 6, 2019 3:26pm
cmm

No name change for Vic Uni.

Oes noes, has the PC worm turned?
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May 6, 2019 4:46pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Not really, we are still paying for armies of useless tits to faff about doing fuck all but talk about feelz and cultural impacts on our dime in public bodies all over the country. We should send them all on a massive treaty of waitangi education camp weekend to Kapati island, chuck a few machetes and velociraptors in Hunger Games style and and only let them leave once they have eradicated 99% of their number.
  
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  May 6, 2019 9:19pm
Rob2

So this is NZ these days. Be afraid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDOgWeTAas0
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May 6, 2019 6:33pm
Hugh Pavletich

Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2019/05/macro-afternoon-641/#comment-3341964

S&P Futures Plummet As China Said To Cancel Washington Trade Trip, All Eyes On S&P 2,890 … Zerohedge

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-05/sp-futures-plummet-china-said-cancel-washington-trade-trip-all-eyes-sp-2890

Trade Deal Dead: Trump Says 10% China Tariff Rising To 25% On Friday, Another $325BN In Goods To Be Taxed … Zerohedge

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-05/trade-deal-dead-trump-says-10-china-tariff-rising-25-friday-another-325bn-goods-be
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May 6, 2019 7:18pm
UrbanNeocolonialist

Trade War On! Trump announces will increase tarriffs on 200Billion in goods from 10 to 25%, and will impose them on another 325Billion in goods soon on top of the 50billion in goods already attracting 25% tarriff. By my reckoning that is $625billion of imports affected. Chinese markets down strongly as a result.

Will be hard for Xi to back down.
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May 6, 2019 10:11pm
- softail 1450
  
  U N,The thieving communists running that country are facing big problems,they can no longer carry on like the planets black market shoppers,taking whatever they want from anywhere they want and copying it to sell on the world markets.
  A couple of thousand scum enslaving 1300 million people,and we bow, scrape,and kiss arse to get into their markets.
  
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  May 7, 2019 7:38am
Hugh Pavletich

Made without humans or cows: inside the race to bioengineer milk … UK Telegraph (behind paywall)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/05/06/made-without-humans-cows-inside-race-bioengineer-milk/

It is the first thing infants consume, usually just seconds after birth. Alone among mammals, we continue drinking it for the duration of our entire lives.

But scientists around the world believe they may be on the cusp of the biggest change in the way we produce milk in history. … read more via hyperlink above …
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… New Zealand has the most severe housing bubble in the Anglosphere … with housing on an unweighted basis across its larger metros, about 6.5 times annual household income (Median Multiple) …

2019 15th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey

http://www.demographia.com/dhi.pdf

… access further information …

http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/
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