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Happychappy

Covid-19 ; Coronavirus Grant Robertson tells businesses to up skill current workforce; border restrictions to continue.
The Finance Minister says work is under way to reduce the Country’s on lockdown and MIQ, but businesses should look to upskill theirexisting workforce rather than rely on overseas workers.
Addressing the Trans Tasman Business Circle in Auckland today Grant Robertson said in the next few weeks the Government would a roadmap for easing restrictions, fresh from post budget tour of the Country Grant Robertson said it was time for a Immigration reset.
This Government with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Deputy Grant Robertson are all talk without doing the walk and should have had a plan months ago instead fucking around sending out false messaging to cover up their true intentions of trying to devide our Country with race baiting policy.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/covid-19-coronavirus-grant-robertson-tells-businesses-to-upskill-current-workforce-border-restrictions-to-continue/YDOSLSHO32W3SZVYQU43E4RWJ4/
It not business that installed lockdowns and MIQ’s and it was our Prime Minister that used COVID-19 for her own personal need to scare New Zealander’s and canvass for there vote, and it’s not their fault that people continue to get the dole because they are to lazy to work and it’s not Businesses fault that Jacinda used the increase in the dole and other payments to encourage those that don’t want to work to not apply for these particular jobs.
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July 14, 2021 8:00am
- alloytoo
  
  How does one upskill a graduate to an 20 year experienced engineer in the short term?
  
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  July 14, 2021 8:23am
  - Paulus
    
    Vote Labour as all things are possible.
    
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    July 14, 2021 9:21am
  - slightlyrighty
    
    How does one go from Fish and Chip shop cashier to Prime Minister??
    
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    July 14, 2021 9:39am
    - JibberJabber
      
      Post Turtle.
      
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      July 14, 2021 10:10am
    - yossarian
      
      I thought she only wrapped the Fish n Chips, as the owner didn’t trust her with the cash register?
      
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      July 14, 2021 10:55am
  - Brian McDonald
    
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    alloyoo. Good point show us where anybody said they could upskill (any) graduate to having 20 years experience. I think you’re telling big whoppers.
    
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    July 14, 2021 9:42am
    - Ruawai
      
      The govt needs to instruct universities to accept more students training as doctors, nurses, engineers and teachers. Previously we have imported these skills as cheaper than training them here. Also take a bond from these graduates that they get back if they stay in MZ for 5 years.
      
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      July 14, 2021 9:55am
    - David George
      
      “I think you’re telling big whoppers’
      I think you’re projecting and straw manning.
      The point being made is obviously that a lot of skills shortages can’t be solved by the “cute” assertion that employers just need to do a bit more training.
      What’s your problem?
      
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      July 14, 2021 10:04am
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        His problem is that he’s Brian.
        
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        July 14, 2021 10:21am
    - alloytoo
      
      Brian, I never made that assertion.
      
      I was merely pointing out that the demand for experienced specialize skills cannot simply be met by upskilling.
      
      Furthermore the suggestion that local business do not actively engage in upskilling is, like your comment, facile and inane.
      
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      July 14, 2021 10:27am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Yes because it is so easy to up skill workers. Tell that to the medical practices who are short of GPS.
  
  Take a simple example. Let’s say you run a good Japanese restaurant. You lose your chef. You either need to steal one off another restaurant or get one from Japan. You can’t just ‘up skill’ one of the New Zealand waiters to be a Japanese chef.
  
  I was talking to a friend last night. Her hairdresser is considering shutting the business because she can’t get staff. She has been trying to get a receptionist for three months. Either gets zero or unsuitable appliancts. So she is cutting hair, running reception, and running the business. She also needs to cover whenever someone calls in sick. Which will no doubt now get worse with the 10 days entitlement.
  
  I just see no evidence they these Ministers can relate to business. Telling them to “up skill” workers while paying 100,000 able bodied people to withdraw from the labour force is horrifying.
  
  It is worth remembering that small countries can slide spectacularly when the weight of poor decisions begins to accumulate past a certain point. I get the feeling we are reaching that point.
  
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  July 14, 2021 8:36am
  - pdm
    
    Well – if you can upskill from clerk in a political office to Prime Minister and/or Finance Minister without anby other `proper job’ – should be easy.
    
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    July 14, 2021 8:46am
    - igm
      
      Maybe false pretences could be a great help . . . results tell a story!
      
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      July 14, 2021 9:03am
      - I remember when
        
        Results will not tell a story.
        There will be no results – results affect the well being of staff and are a potential form of bullying.
        If they were unemployed, then got a job, surely that is a result.
        Enough said.
        The quest is aspirational.
        
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        July 14, 2021 2:57pm
    - Cinematic
      
      Haha! Brilliant.
      
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      July 14, 2021 9:27am
    - Bob
      
      Such upskilling requires a naïve electorate population, and a compliant media.
      
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      July 14, 2021 9:49am
    - tf78
      
      pdm, but as we are witnessing the results are not good for anyone.
      
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      July 14, 2021 9:51am
      - GJM
        
        The results to date are pretty good for the Mongrel Mob so far… and Cindy. Where else could she get a job paying $500k per year, let alone one with no responsibilites for results?
        
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        July 14, 2021 4:31pm
    - alloytoo
      
      You also illustrate another problem with our economy, the unwillingness of the unskilled to do unskilled labour, or is it simply that Labour are unskilled.
      
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      July 14, 2021 10:31am
  - Isobar
    
    Do you think though that these businesses over time should have provided upskill and training opportunities?
    
    I agree it is very hard for these businesses to flick a switch and do that in a short time. But I also think that many businesses have over years got drunk off cheap replaceable labour, which is itself a huge business risk. Those chickens have now come home to roost and those that have chosen to avoid investing in their employees are the ones now becoming unstuck.
    
    It is ultimately a result of a decision the business has taken.
    
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    July 14, 2021 9:49am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      Yes I agree with you to an extent. However there are a number of strands to the problem. Yes there are a shortage of truck drivers in New Zealand. It is a difficult job often requiring time away from families. But to qualify you need to be drug free and obtain a truck drivers licence and be responsible for millions of dollars of truck and cargo. Of those 100,000 sitting on the couch, how many are willing and able to become truck drivers? If there are some, and they are drug free, and they really want to become a truck driver, they could go and knock on the doors of trucking companies. Nag and nag and show they are keen. Eventually will find someone to give them a go.
      
      Yes it is absurd that we have Indian people staffing nearly all our gas stations. It is a great example of a low skill job that anyone can do. But unless you stop paying people to sit on the couch, take those Indians away and the response will be to switch to unstaffed stations. It won’t be to employ drugged up surly New Zealanders.
      
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      July 14, 2021 10:50am
      - Isobar
        
        Fair point. I wasnt necessarily talking about beneficiarys though. Up skilling and succession planning are pretty much either done poorly or totally absent in many organisations. Especially where as i mentioned above they have become drunk on cheap, replaceable labour
        
        The best businesses are ones that look after and invest in their staff which in turn builds loyalty, profitability and productivity.
        
        Many of the businesses now in trouble are the ones that have not done that and i guess loyalty runs both ways.
        
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        July 14, 2021 11:08am
      - rouppe
        
        I’m getting close to retiring. One thought I had was to offer relief driving at the class 1 or 2 level, just within my local area.
        
        This could allow existing class 1 or 2 drivers to move up to bigger roles within the company, either longer distance or heavier vehicles…
        
        Hasn’t progressed more than just a thought at this stage though.
        
        Another thought was buy a 5th- wheeler and just nomad my way around the country…
        
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        July 14, 2021 11:32am
    - Harriet
      
      @Isobar
      
      Very well put.
      
      And a point I’d make is that chefs are chefs — why doesn’t a Japanese restaurant ‘pivot’ and employ say a kiwi or a Mexican to work providing what they cook — after all, it’s about the markets – not the business. I was a chef btw.
      
      As John Key said when he gave his first speech as PM here in Aussie “NZ business people can be a bit too precious.”
      There are lots of people who comment here who are exactly that. Employers have obligations! 😎
      
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      July 14, 2021 12:34pm
  - Brian McDonald
    
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    Same thing Benedict, who is saying that people can be upskilled to specific jobs such as Doctors? I don’t think your Japanese chef is a worthy illustration.
    POAL are right now upskilling stevedores and crane drivers kiwis teaching kiwis. That is what the minister of is talking about. The driver shortage in NZ has been around for a decade, the drivers brought in have effectively meant lower wages and making the industry less attractive. There’s been talk of targetting that but I haven’t seen any action so far.
    If Judith wasn’t so focused on the Mongrel Mob she might spend some time on producing something tangible to have NZers filling vacant jobs, even a partnership of some sort similar to those used by Work and Income but with a more political grunt.
    But of course, she’s trying to retrace the 2008 formula of frightening the public in every which way she can.
    This was one of the criticisms levelled at National recently – not doing the homework of an issue, but rather just giving it a “try” without thorough research. That is similar to wanting to have a “debate” she loses most people on the first line but appears satisfied that she has something – tangible – a headline, exposing brittle logic again.
    
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    July 14, 2021 10:05am
    - alloytoo
      
      The driver shortage in NZ has been around for a decade, the drivers brought in have effectively meant lower wages and making the industry less attractive.
      
      That’s a very Unionist attitude, increase the price by excluding the “other” competitors.
      
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      July 14, 2021 10:41am
      - Ian Boag
        
        Dunno. AFAIK it takes about 3 years of training work experience to become a big rig driver. I. saw that to get a Class 2, there is a $1500 two-day course. There seem to be similar costs for other levels.
        
        Handling a half million $ worth of truck for 12 hours a day for change out of $30/hour. Bit of a dead end job and not “I can save for a house” money …
        
        Just saying
        
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        December 14, 2020 11:37am
      - Jack5
        
        Ian’s right. They should be paid more.
        
        Here’s what Walmart did in America two years ago to get drivers – increased the wages offered to $US90,000 a year -(about $NZ130,000).
        
        Importing cheap labour to keep down wages is a sell-out, and opposing it, sadly might give Labour an edge at the next election.
        
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        July 14, 2021 1:14pm
    - Ronin
      
      My God, you are incredibly one-eyed. That speel would make more sense if you were talking about Labour.
      
      “If Judith wasn’t so focused on the Mongrel Mob she might spend some time on producing something tangible to have NZers filling vacant jobs, even a partnership of some sort similar to those used by Work and Income but with a more political grunt.”
      
      Judith isn’t the PM and isn’t the government. She’s not the one giving $2.7m to the MM.
      
      “…of frightening the public in every which way she can.”
      
      Wow. Hello?
      
      “…not doing the homework of an issue, but rather just giving it a “try” without thorough research.”
      
      Another pearler!
      
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      July 14, 2021 10:49am
    - kloyd0306
      
      Judith and National are now in power?
      When did that happen?
      
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      July 14, 2021 9:54pm
  - Harriet
    
    FFS Benedict – you are supposed to ‘entice’ people to work for you!
    
    If you don’t like the fact staff have no time for socialist employers — then leave!!!! 😎
    
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    July 14, 2021 12:38pm
- Brian McDonald
  
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  “It not business that installed lockdowns and MIQ’s and it was our Prime Minister that used COVID-19 for her own personal need to scare New Zealander’s and canvass for there vote,”
  So not only can you mind read happy but you know what people’s personal needs are?
  Can you one day try to produce a positive post instead of being an “agony aunt?”
  
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  July 14, 2021 9:34am
  - Yabster
    
    classic from Mr Negative ffs- have a look in the mirror mate.
    
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    July 14, 2021 9:56am
    - Brian McDonald
      
      What is positive about “happy’s” post: same thing every day – moaning about the PM telling the board what she “thinks.” Is talking about training kiwis, which is actually happening, also negative?
      Some knitting circle you got there.
      
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      July 14, 2021 10:53am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  He will win with an increased majority from Wellington Central in 2023. Nothing you write or say can dent Labour’s popularity. So make peace with that fact and get on with your life. You cannot wake up the sleeping Sheeple of this country. I have given up hope on the day when the coward John Key ran away.
  
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  July 14, 2021 10:16am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    The sheep will wake up soon enough when there are bulldozers in the streets.
    I don’t see this ending well for Ardern. Incompetence and pride will undo her.
    
    It was smart for John Key to retire when he did. Many suffer from hanging on too long. (Winston) MP’s are allowed to have a personal life too and to maintain their future health.
    
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    July 14, 2021 10:32am
    - In Vino Veritas
      
      Yep Kev, constantly working 15 hour days and weekends gets a bit taxing. And you do that to be on top of your job when your job is complex. I guess that’s the difference between Key and Ardern.
      
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      July 14, 2021 1:51pm
- artemisia
  
  After people have been out of work for a while it is common to become let us say unresourceful. Many employers don’t have the skills or inclination to take on these people, even with $$ from taxpayer. Anyone who has ever hired a lemon knows precisely what’s at stake.
  
  Grant saying hire, upskill, whatever – actually needs employers to take on what could easily be lemons. So employers make other decisions about the size and pricing of their businesses.
  
  I mentioned here a while back – family member went from school to a foundation trades course at polytech. Fees and a small travel allowance paid by taxpayers (thanks guys), otherwise supported by family. More than 20 started, 4 completed and went on to apprenticeships. Some didn’t last a week. Most if not all sent by WINZ as a condition of getting the dole.
  
  (Ours now fully qualified in two trades and making good money in his early 20s. Proud.)
  
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  July 14, 2021 10:20am
  - Harriet
    
    ‘trade foundation courses’ – they have them here in aussie – you don’t really need them as the workplace itself suffices — but as you suggest, employers don’t have the inclination — just like those who left the foundation course itself!!!!
    
    In other words – some employers are lemons, mainly due again – to government largesse.
    
    Get rid of ‘tax and spending’. 😎
    
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    July 14, 2021 1:29pm
lifesgood

What is the world coming to? Now it is offensive to say that a female is a woman. Why on earth is the country being held to ransom by a tiny percentage of misfits?
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July 14, 2021 8:06am
- mandk
  
  I think you mean bullies, not misfits.
  
  And we all know that the best way to deal with bullies is to stand up to them.
  
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  July 14, 2021 8:32am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Sheep don’t stand up to bullies very well.
    
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    July 14, 2021 10:04am
    - lifesgood
      
      Pretty pathetic of the billboard company. What a bunch of whimps.
      
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      July 14, 2021 1:57pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  Yes and you can only say “chest feeding”. Not breast feeding.
  
  https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/new-policy-tells-midwives-to-stop-using-terms-such-as-breastfeeding-and-breastmilk-20210210-p571b7.html
  
  ?
  
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  July 14, 2021 8:38am
  - G152
    
    You can also tell them to go forth and multiply if they try that crap
    
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    July 14, 2021 8:51am
  - RoboRob
    
    And it is ‘birthing parents’ that have children, not Woman.
    
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    July 14, 2021 8:55am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    No! Others may deny basic English usage but they are impotent.
    
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    July 14, 2021 10:35am
  - Ehlana
    
    I suspect the proportion of the common people actually using “chest feeding” or “birthing parent” matches the proportion of couples who proudly proclaim “we have a foetus”.
    
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    July 14, 2021 2:38pm
Souvlaki

With the recent , and deserved focus on Labours ‘Crim Hugging’ behaviour, perhaps its time to re-visit the Karel Sroubek case and all the obfuscation / bullshit surrounding the inexplicable granting him permission to stay in NZ.
About time the murky details arond that imbroglio are ‘ leaked’ from Police??
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July 14, 2021 8:07am
- Tall Man
  
  No need. Nothing to see there at all………..
  
  Most sane people saw through the bullshit and are well aware of the “connections” there.
  
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  July 14, 2021 8:11am
- MCos
  
  The Minister responsible for that fiasco ain’t around no more.
  
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  July 14, 2021 8:17am
  - septic skeptic
    
    Funny, I thought she was.
    
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    July 14, 2021 8:31am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  His hearing (behind closed doors) is taking place this week
  
  https://www.newsroom.co.nz/convicted-drug-smuggler-karel-sroubek-fights-deportation
  
  Interestingly, he is arguing that Prison has worked for him… he is an improved man.
  “He said he has become a better person through his incarceration, and that he has learnt consequences to his actions and to be patient,”
  
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  July 14, 2021 8:53am
  - Paulus
    
    He has to be available for the wedding as Best Man !
    
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    July 14, 2021 9:23am
  - alloytoo
    
    What he means to say is that he has vastly improved his network of criminal contacts.
    
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    July 14, 2021 9:23am
  - hullkiwi
    
    But, is he still wanted by the Czech Authorities?
    
    Better man or not, he is still wanted in Europe!
    
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    July 14, 2021 11:38am
  - Local Miller
    
    Covid, can’t send him back now /sarc
    
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    July 14, 2021 4:24pm
pdm

Can someone tell me where the assembly place is in Hastings for the Groundswell Protest on Friday.

I want to support our Farmers, Orchardists and other businesses being shafted by this government.
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July 14, 2021 8:08am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Here you go pdm – a list of ALL the protests throughout New Zealand on Friday (52 in total, from Kaitaia to Invercargill), along with contact numbers so you can get the details.
  
  COME AND SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR NZ GROWERS AND FARMERS
  
  If you are a Farmer, a Grower or a Ute owner and you are fed up with increasing Government interference in your life and business, unworkable regulations and unjustified costs then please join in! Bring your Tractor or Ute and a couple of dogs on FRIDAY 16 JULY 2021.
  
  Meet in your local town centre at 12 noon
  Reading of Groundswell Statement 12.15pm
  Howl (bark-up) starts 12.30pm
  
  Support your local businesses with lunch in town – unite, support and de-stress together with your mates & dogs (you can trust them to be working for you!)
  
  If you live in town and want to show your support, you are welcome to join in too. Round up 10 of your neighbours and form a convoy, or a street march if you’re in town. New Zealand is a great place to live, it is worth fighting for!
  
  Please contact your local regional coordinator if you need more details.
  
  https://groundswellnz.co.nz/events/?fbclid=IwAR2ymAVFm6wUwWkZsI8MxGQGkZsOzm6yxNR-MGrZMPzhQ3Cv72hnnWATnos
  
  Here in Whanganui the protest will assemble at the racecourse at 11am, hear a speech or two, head off on a drive through town then return to the racecourse. I have been invited to ride along on my deer farmer friend’s tractor. Tradies with utes are also being encouraged to join in. It should be a fun day, with a serious underlying message to the Government!
  
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  July 14, 2021 8:25am
  - pdm
    
    Thank you Inv.
    
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    July 14, 2021 8:47am
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    Ha ha ha!!! So traitors are hurt now!! Take it you Labour voting f**kers.
    
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    July 14, 2021 10:19am
    - Matt Long
      
      Not sure if you are just taking the piss. I’ve met one farmer the will admit to voting labour in the last election, and he is long term red. Rural electorates have a far larger population of people who have no skin in the game, e.g. retired, teachers, public servants, welfare takers, private and corporate than there are farmers, tradies, or other producers.
      Do you have any evidence that the productive sector voted for dead beat socialists?
      
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      July 14, 2021 1:40pm
      - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
        
        Matt – I am not saying this lightly. Every rural electorate went to Labour, even National strong holds. Not only electorate vote, but Party vote also. The vote difference between 2017 and 2020 is really big. Without the help of the traitors this could not have happened.
        
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        July 14, 2021 4:16pm
      - doggone7
        
        Yeah, teachers don’t have any skin in the game. Let’s get rid of them all. They’re not needed.
        
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        July 14, 2021 9:48pm
  - rouppe
    
    Nothing in Wellington? That’s a surprise
    
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    July 14, 2021 11:41am
    - chukar
      
      SCS,
      Yep ,they tried to minimise numbers when 14500 farmers walked down Featherstone st thence to Lambton key and parliament.Topdressing aircraft buzzed the Beehive.
      First the LABOUR GOVERNMENT originally claimed a mere 4-5 thousand but when numbers were counted on TV they had to change.Never publicised though.
      Seems your claims of farmer traitors are much the same.
      Where is your hard proof?
      
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      July 14, 2021 6:54pm
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  The red telephone booth in the corner of the street.
  
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  July 14, 2021 10:18am
doggone7

I know it’s her business and their business but Judith Collins on RNZ this morning being asked about funding from Don Brash for advertising?

Portraying yourself as bold, facing issues and being open while not having the balls to be upfront about it?

I would have expected her to take the tone of, “What the f…, we can get money from wherever we like. If they want to tell you that’s their business, ask them.”
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July 14, 2021 8:08am
Yvette

They Are Made Up
• Winston gently holds [Ardern] by the shoulders. Despite being such an obvious “odd couple”, the bond between them is apparent.
JACINDA (finally meeting Winston’s gaze) “Has there ever been a day like today?”
He ponders the notion.
WINSTON (in Maori – subtitled) “He kotuku reranga tahi”
(SUBTITLE: “the white heron only flies once” – THEY ARE US script

“He Kōtuku Rerenga Tahi” was inspired by the legend of Kupe, the great Polynesian navigator and expresses universal themes of journeys, dynamic life and peace.
Kupe is said to have journeyed from Hawaiiki, the ancestral homeland of Maori, overcoming many severe obstacles at sea, to become the first person to discover Aotearoa. “He kōtuku rerenga tahi” is a whakatauki or proverb, which means “a white heron’s flight is seen but once”. It is used to indicate a very special and rare event and in this case refers to the arrival of Kupe and his waka Matawhaorua.
https://www.newzealandartwork.com/shop/product/221871/he-kotuku-rerenga-tahi/

Given Winston’s litigious reaction to the leaking of his “private tax details” – although nothing seems to ever have been released that he himself did not voluntarily confirm or even enlarge on – I am interested how he may now react to this utterly inept portrayal of him, and his apparent ignorance of cultural heritage, insulting as this must be in comparison to his previous concerns regarding his image.
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July 14, 2021 8:08am
- Tauhei Notts
  
  Yvette, my understanding was that Winston objected through the Courts;
  Not about his private tax details;
  BUT
  About his personal National Superannuation details.
  And, for some unfathomable reason, he got the name of the Social Welfare office, where he lodged his super application, to be suppressed.
  I attended the Court hearing and if I disclosed the name of that Social Welfare office I would be showing as much respect for the laws of our country as our Minister of Courts has shown, as displayed in that recent decision by the Ombudsman.
  
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  July 14, 2021 8:31am
- KevO'Brien
  
  The white heron’s flight is fairly common in Christchurch. Even to be seen on the top of a lamp post by the Heathcote River.
  
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  July 14, 2021 8:34am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    What have you got against white herons? We enjoy the ones that make their homes in our neighborhood.
    
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    July 14, 2021 10:38am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Winston is not impressed
  
  https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/07/they-are-us-winston-peters-calls-on-producers-of-christchurch-terror-attack-film-to-quit-while-they-re-behind-after-viewing-draft-script.html
  
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  July 14, 2021 9:59am
  - Yvette
    
    In another scene outlined in the draft, Peters ponders some of his historical comments, with the script making references to the phrase “Asian invasion” and comments he made about “Muslim immigrants”.
    He says: “If something I said in the past inspired the gunman in any way …
    This is far too serious an issue for some cheap Hollywood script to try and make some money out of. I suggest they withdraw from the scene if they don’t intend to be honest here.” – Newshub
    
    What some report Winston as actually having said –
    Is Jacinda Ardern really the inclusive leader she’s been made out to be? – 10 May 2019
    https://www.trtworld.com/opinion/is-jacinda-ardern-really-the-inclusive-leader-she-s-been-made-out-to-be-26531
    
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    July 14, 2021 10:13am
Yabster

another hit job on Collins on stuffed- labour must be worried.

I posted this on the article- it won’t get published though:

luke and stuff another ambush on National- stuff you should change your name to Labour light you might get more of the $55m that way- independant media in NZ is dead- how did the editioral meeting go with the Princess on Monday morning?
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July 14, 2021 8:09am
- KevO'Brien
  
  The people are getting close to retaliation for this travesty of a govt functioning through media.
  
  The opposition won’t be silenced. This is building up to something stronger. The MP’s involved will have to account for their conduct or lack of it to date. Their duties to the people go beyond collecting their pay.
  
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  July 14, 2021 8:38am
- redeye
  
  And with no shame or sense of irony he says “
  
  the party has simply not managed to elevate any of these issues”
  
  while writing in a national newspaper.
  Stuff don’t publish my comments anymore either. But I still leave notes for the moderators reminding them that juniors are always the first to go and their ship is sinking. So they should learn how to code.
  
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  July 14, 2021 9:19am
- doggone7
  
  Any hit job on Collins from the Brash advertising thing was done by the leaker.
  
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  July 14, 2021 12:37pm
  - Yabster
    
    wrong-it wasn’t a fking leak- that was just the crap headline you have been sucked into.
    
    The media are meant to keep the Government accountable- they are failing miserably and instead are applying more secrutiny to the opposition who have no power and can not influence the average Kiwi’s life.
    
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    July 14, 2021 2:30pm
Tall Man

And the worst think so far today is that National upset TradeMe ……

That pesky opposition…..
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July 14, 2021 8:10am
- MCos
  
  Someone called South Islander had the laugh of the day
  https://twitter.com/pakehaaotearoan/status/1414783001850912783?s=21
  
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  July 14, 2021 8:21am
  - graham
    
    I *love* South Islander’s take on personal pronouns!
    
    Unelectable Te Waiponamu politician wannabe. Hey/Yo/Cuzzi.
    
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    July 14, 2021 9:12am
Tony Stuart

Do you want to know how cringeworthy “They Are Us” is going to be? Check this out:

henry cooke
@henrycooke
Paddy scoop on the They Are Us script suggests it
– Makes up a narrative where National opposed the gun changes out of whole cloth
– Sexualises the PM
– Replaces David Seymour w an old racist
– Changes Winston Peters into a reformed man regretting earlier comments about Asians

https://twitter.com/henrycooke/status/1414831573250289665

I think it’s fair to say that the script has been written with a significant political slant. But when even Henry Cooke says “Honestly the stuff about Simon Bridges borders on defamatory”, you’d have to be worried about the accuracy of the script. I’ve seen a couple of the lines attributed to Bridges and agree with Cooke that they border on defamatory, and are grossly inaccurate and inflammatory.

There’s also the small matter of Winston Peters’ “Road to Damascus” experience with regard to Asians, especially Asians of the Islamic faith. Just a couple of weeks after the attack on the two Christchurch mosques, Peters refused to resile from comments he had previously made about Muslims, continuing his almost 30-year history of xenophobia.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/386125/winston-peters-won-t-apologise-for-muslim-comments

Please Hollywood; just scrap this project now, and if any scenes have been shot, leave them on the cutting room floor!
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July 14, 2021 8:10am
- Tall Man
  
  I’m starting to change my mind.
  
  I have said from the start that this is merely a party political broadcast to reaffirm the ardern brand.
  
  The more sycophantically pathetic it is the more likely it is to backfire on her.
  
  The morons that still believe she is the saviour need something vomit inducing to cut through the “floral” crap and realise that she is far from that saviour the media has and is portraying her as.
  
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  July 14, 2021 8:15am
  - Yvette
    
    I think this may be what the Muslim community might fear –
    That the THEY ARE US audience could end up “rolling in the aisles”.
    Otherwise I’d say just let them go ahead.
    The producers have already shot themselves several times in the feet.
    
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    July 14, 2021 8:45am
  - Libertarians are right
    
    It has nothing to do with her NZ brand. It’s an attempt to use her international brand to push the US gun debate. It’s anti-gun propaganda basically.
    
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    July 14, 2021 9:11am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      Ardern may have had nothing to do with it. Snuff movies buy seats and Cannes is well known for fringe theatre. Tarrant provided a base outline with his amateur film and possibly some visuals too.
      
      There is a limit to how closely outsiders to NZ can be tied down. Perhaps they’re not Muslim friendly and see an opportunity to stir.
      I suspect this is not an SLG production and she may even suffer from it.
      
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      July 14, 2021 10:46am
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    She sobbed Tall Man, she sobbed. Worth at least another 100,000 votes.
    
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    July 14, 2021 10:31am
    - Tall Man
      
      “she sobbed” … so did paddy ….
      
      “Worth at least another 100,000 votes.”
      
      In your nightmares 😉
      
      Possibly under the “biden” method but it’s not so easy to bus voters around here 😉
      
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      July 14, 2021 3:39pm
- JJ56
  
  Asking Hollywood to scrap is the first step to a cancel culture. Let them do it and face the consequences, while turning your back (although it seems a little peek was pretty tempting).
  
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  July 14, 2021 8:25am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    Perhaps then it should come with a warning along the lines of “This film is based on a factual event, but beyond that, any relationship to the truth is a complete coincidence”.
    
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    July 14, 2021 8:32am
    - cmm
      
      The lizard brain does not see that.
      
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      July 14, 2021 9:25am
- cmm
  
  One must remember that the movies replace official histories.
  
  A “based on” movie gives itself license to be fiction, but it soon becomes the de facto recorded history of an event.
  
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  July 14, 2021 9:18am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Indeed..
    So NZers will discover that our Dear PM’s decision to take the guns off the baddies was just a load of window dressing.
    
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    July 14, 2021 9:31am
    - oldfella
      
      Maggy, maybe I imagined it, but I’m sure I read something this morning suggesting that there are actually THREE mosque shooting movies in development.
      And all could be eligible for NZ funding. Ouch!
      
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      July 14, 2021 10:01am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        No,
        You didn’t imagine it:
        
        There’s “Hello Brother” being made by an Egyptian Producer
        
        There’s “They are Us” by the Hollywood/NZ lot
        
        and there’s some other outfit sniffing around the NZ Film Commission
        
        https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/125704423/third-film-about-christchurch-mosque-attacks-being-developed
        
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        July 14, 2021 3:07pm
      - cmm
        
        And they will all have their snouts in our (taxpayer’s) pockets.
        
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        July 14, 2021 3:23pm
- Hugh Jarse
  
  So now with the script excepts showing Bridges and national in a bad light, we can see this piece of propaganda for what it is, a vehicle for promoting the PM and denigrating National for release prior to the next election with the involvement of Simon Wilson, the PM’s self appointed poet and admirer and his wife. All off the backs of the terrorist victims. The cult has no limits to its behaviour.
  
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  July 14, 2021 10:28am
KevO'Brien

Have a little fun. Test your COVID injection site for magnetic effects. A new global (pfizer?) party game.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-magnet-challenge-true-or-false/5749916
(neodymium magnets work best.)

Is it related to the presence of graphene oxide which has also been found in recent assays of the “vaccine”.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-98-99-vaccination-vial-graphene-oxide/5749524

https://www.henrymakow.com/2021/06/vaccines-deliver-graphene-oxide.html

What is going on? Are people in top places executing the Great Reset?
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July 14, 2021 8:25am
- KevO'Brien
  
  A study from Luxembourg:
  https://www.efvv.eu/images/content/2021/0617/study-on-electromagnetism-of-vaccinated-persons-in-luxembourg_6edfa.pdf
  
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  July 14, 2021 9:01am
- tf78
  
  Kev, I tried to watch that Spanish video about that but gave up. I’m guessing the vaccines won’t go well with an MRI.
  
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  July 14, 2021 10:16am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    I found English footage, but that may have been in the small print.
    
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    July 14, 2021 10:47am
Maggie Pie

One of the girls from tennis was just telling us that Roger Federer has now withdrawn from the ‘2020 Tokyo Olympics’ due to a nagging elbow injury.

The question on everyone’s lips now is, will Laurel Hubbard do the same?
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July 14, 2021 8:29am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  https://babylonbee.com/news/female-weightlifter-suffers-tragic-testicle-injury-just-weeks-before-tokyo-olympics
  
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  July 14, 2021 8:52am
- pdm
  
  maggie do you mean Mister Laurel Hubbard the Ladies wieightlifter?
  
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  July 14, 2021 8:54am
- RockyJ
  
  Laurel withdraw from the Tokyo olympics men’s tennis? Probably not, he/she can go both ways.
  
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  July 14, 2021 9:10am
- Bobba Fret
  
  Your tennis friends need to check their facts. Its a knee injury.
  https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jul/13/tennis-roger-federer-withdraws-tokyo-olympics
  
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  July 14, 2021 10:55am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    No need for them to bother with people like you around Bobba 😀
    
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    July 14, 2021 11:11am
    - Bobba Fret
      
      Just goes to show, you should often take what they tell you with a pinch of salt.
      
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      July 14, 2021 12:14pm
Happychappy

Grant Robertson’s shot at Richard Prebble when delivering the latest budget might just come back to haunt him with the headline of Richard Prebble’s in the Herald today.
Richard Prebble: Devastating on the horizon.
What’s happening to inflation? The Treasury says while there will be a blip in Prices , inflation will remain low.
Yet Business sees signs of inflation everywhere.
This is under paywall so I can’t give you the link.
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July 14, 2021 8:37am
- Inandout
  
  Happy, the waiting list for new cars is from 3 to 6 months, depending on the model demand. New TV sets can have a 3 month wait. Then we have building supplies which I am told have long waits, sometiimes many months and yes the prices have increased. Power, fuel, insurance and rates have increased in cost. Increased costs lead to inflation, an increase in interest rates and then mortgage foreclosures. Robertson is a professional student with no real life experience, living in Wellington and surrounded by his own kind.
  
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  July 14, 2021 9:08am
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    So does Labour’s popularity bro. So move on.
    
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    July 14, 2021 10:34am
- alloytoo
  
  Treasury is smoking something and has been for a while.
  
  Almost every policy of this government is inflationary.
  
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  July 14, 2021 9:30am
- Greg Ettridge
  
  If the US is anything to go by, when Biden took control (Ha Ha) the inflation level was 1.4% five months later it is 5.4%, a 13 year high.
  The projections are it will level out and go into downward trend. Time will tell.
  Government led policy directions can have very serious consequences.
  Money doesn’t actually grow on tree’s, idiots just print it from tree’s.
  
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  July 14, 2021 9:32am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Government figures for inflation leave out so many critical items that they are not at all useful.
    
    I would be keen to see a chart of Auckland prices of a single Big Mac over the last 25 years. I assume that the typical price of a house in Auckland is equivalent to 200,000 Big Macs.
    
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    July 14, 2021 1:00pm
- artemisia
  
  From behind the paywall –
  
  “Job ads reveal a record job shortage. In March 2019, the government issued 19,000 work visas, many to skilled workers. Last March there were 408 work visas and in April, just 319.”
  
  Two of our young family members recently changed jobs for more pay.
  
  One, aged 19, in hospo, was promised a pay rise after a year, didn’t happen (because covid). Fair enough, but was offered another job at better pay and suddenly the one year pay rise was on the table (because no applicants). Too late.
  
  The other employer is still advertising for a replacement after 3 months.
  
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  July 14, 2021 11:14am
Yvette

Demand the debate! is now a meme –
like Tooheys billboards … maybe a little childish but still –

Labour paid up media, or the truth? Demand the debate!
Willie Jackson, or will he not? Demand the debate!
Ardern: APEC Leader or Last Vaccinator? Demand the debate!
Jackson: Māori TV lacks good programming – in English. Demand the debate!
Social housing demand now 23,000: triple that of three years ago. Demand the debate!
They Are (Using) Us. Demand the debate!
Collins, Opposition Leader? Sey mour! Demand the debate!
Little: Pike River Recovery and mental health. Demand the debate!
White saviour, or We Are Us enabler? Demand the debate!
He Puapua or Treaty Article 3? Demand the debate!
Listen to Jacinda for heard immunity. Demand the debate!
Don Brash right about the quote Lange left? Demand the debate!
Ardern signs off Mob meth ~~rehab~~ lab. Demand the debate!

Have a Tooheys, or three, and contribute.
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July 14, 2021 8:50am
Ron Jeremy

Any chance a reporter could ask why we aren’t using our own coal from the coast rather than importing it?
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July 14, 2021 8:53am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  GREENS!
  
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  July 14, 2021 9:43am
- artemisia
  
  Saw somewhere we imported 1.3 million tonnes of coal from Indonesia last year.
  
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  July 14, 2021 11:15am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Indonesia is the world’s leading exporter of thermal coal.
    
    During the late 30s and early 40s, Japan sourced a lot of its coal from Indonesia.
    
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    July 14, 2021 1:02pm
  - Tony Stuart
    
    We imported more “dirty coal” from Indonesia in the first four months of 2021 than we did in 2016 and 2017 combined. It’s an unintended consequence of the ban on new onshore oil and gas permits.
    
    There’s another unintended consequence that is becoming evident. Have there been road repairs in your area that have been or poor quality, or that have needed repairs almost straight away? There certainly have been around here! And it’s because New Zealand no longer produces bitumen at Marsden Point, but is importing an inferior substitute that’s not intended for use on New Zealand’s road.
    
    Obviously, the PM was more interested in responding to a petition from secondary school students than actually doing some investigations into the consequences of shutting down our oil and gas industry almost overnight. Now we’re all paying for it, while Indonesian coal burns at Huntley to keep the lights on, and the trucks carting it from Auckland and Tauranga rip our roads up.
    
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    July 14, 2021 2:42pm
- Ian Boag
  
  Probably price.
  
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  July 14, 2021 11:54am
Maggie Pie

‘Cry, my Beloved Country’….is this what Alan Paton had in mind?

https://twitter.com/RMConservative/status/1414947224967077888

(full screen/sound up)
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July 14, 2021 8:57am
cmm

The worst reporting I think I have ever seen in my life:

Yes, I know Herald just did a cut and paste off AP, but they are still responsible for everything they print.

The first paragraph is already wrong:
“The death toll from rioting in South Africa rose to 45 on Tuesday as police and the military tried to halt the unrest in poor areas of two provinces that began last week after the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma.”
Two errors straight off:
1) It isn’t just in poor areas. It is happening in relatively wealthy areas too.
2) The cops and soldiers are hardly trying. Cops are participating in the looting and I suspect soldiers too.

“The unrest then spiraled into a spree of looting in township areas of the two provinces,”
Nope, it is happening in the cities too: Durban, Pietermaritzburg and Johannesburg.

“”We understand that those unemployed have inadequate food. We understand that the situation has been made worse by the pandemic,”
Really? Shops have been stripped of cosmetics and
hifi equipment while bread has been left on the shelf.

“A body is covered by a blanket in Johannesburg after protests spread from the KwaZulu Natal province to the capital”
Johannesburg is not the capital. It never has been.

Wokist horse-shit reporting making out this is about poor starving people looking fro a crust of bread.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/death-toll-mounts-in-south-africa-rioting-after-zuma-jailed/AMW4B6DV73EQ5NP3BLTFDUGWPI/
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July 14, 2021 9:02am
Gravelroad

So what do people think of this then?
Ok to set up a pakeha journalists professional group?
Or would that be unacceptable and racist?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/maori-tv/300355663/mori-journalists-form-professional-group
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July 14, 2021 9:03am
- rouppe
  
  Remember what happened when the European students association tried to form at Auckland campus?
  
  Immediately called racist
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/the-wireless/374486/concern-european-campus-club-is-cover-for-white-supremacist-group
  
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  July 14, 2021 11:56am
- Harriet
  
  “…Ok to set up a pakeha journalists professional group?…”
  
  They don’t need to as all they then need to do is address the ‘individual kiwi’ — maori or otherwise— leaving it to the maoris to remain looking like elitists/socialists/communists/authotarians.
  
  Some maoris clearly hate the likes of Martin Luther jnr and Mandela. 😎
  
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  July 14, 2021 12:18pm
Raphael

More devastation and destruction coming out of South Africa. however friends and family have been talking about how they have rallied to protect their towns with people (of all races) forming militia to protect their neighbours and support the police (where the local cops are present).
Many small towns have barricaded their entrances and only allowing locals in.
They are also suppling the cops with ammo etc for when the police ran out.
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July 14, 2021 9:03am
RoboRob

I have no problem with interest rates needing to return to more normal levels. Interest rates need to rise to help contain inflation. However I am stunned that nobody (Media, economist, MP etc) has pointed out that if the Reserve bank wants to control inflation BEFORE increasing interest rates they need to stop printing money.

Printing money reduces the value of existing money, therefore meaning more is required to buy the same product or service. Thus it is highly inflationary.

It makes no sense to continue pushing up inflation (by printing money) and at the same time increase interest rates to control spending.
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July 14, 2021 9:06am
lastmanstanding

I am concerned that the current Separatist Agenda will lead to NZ winding up like South Africa and wonder if thats the end game. So the Elites can divide and rule and control and command.
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July 14, 2021 9:13am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  The end game will be the “sale” of NZ forestry, fishing, agriculture, horticulture and the welfare industry to our Chinese mates and perhaps some associated International Companies.
  
  The transfer of the nation’s assets to a select bunch of Iwi leaders is just a step on the path to Control by Overseas interests.
  
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  July 14, 2021 10:14am
  - marcw
    
    We’ve already seen this – the sale of Maori fishing quota to overseas industries.
    
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    July 14, 2021 10:46am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Naughty. You have just revealed the most secret plans.
    (Do you know also how much or how they are getting paid for this treachery? Don’t respond if it’s too dangerous.)
    
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    July 14, 2021 10:55am
Maggie Pie

When one of the girls from tennis just sent me this Tweet. she used the word….’DOPPELGANGER’

TBH, I had to look it up. Holy shit!!!

https://twitter.com/RebelNewsOnline/status/1415042013213376513
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July 14, 2021 9:25am
- tf78
  
  Maggie, they appear to have been to the same acting school.
  
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  July 14, 2021 10:21am
- oldfella
  
  Maggie, I thought it was Rose Byrne. Spooky. 😉
  
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  July 14, 2021 4:49pm
cas

It’s the fire season and we haven’t yet had our free offer for 5 weeks of the Herald ( for those of us in rural areas). Something wrong surely?
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July 14, 2021 9:32am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

https://twitter.com/TaxpayersUnion/status/1414816860411940864?
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July 14, 2021 10:03am
Cobolt24

The transgender flag colours have been projected on side of the Michael Fowler Centre, where they will remain until Sunday.
While this was opposed by some, the event was allowed to proceed but the unlikely trio of Mayor Andy Foster, and councillors Fleur Fitzsimons and Teri O’Neill came up with a way to let their feelings known.

I refuse to click on Stuff anymore so I use an archive page to source their site: https://web.archive.org/web/20210713093746/https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/wellington/125740081/how-trans-issue-sprouted-a-moment-of-unity-in-fractious-wellington-council
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July 14, 2021 10:04am
Cobolt24

Sharp rise in food prices.
(feel free to click even if you’re not going on stuffed anymore, it’s not their direct website).
https://web.archive.org/web/20210713005658/https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/125735364/capsicums-hit-24-a-kilo-as-vegetables-lead-sharp-rise-in-food-prices
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July 14, 2021 10:08am
- graham
  
  Thanks Cobolt24, using a wayback machine is a great idea. Like you, I quite simply refuse to click on Stuff anymore, as I have had enough of being told how racist/colonialist/privileged I am, and how I need to feel incredibly guilty.
  
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  July 14, 2021 10:53am
Maggie Pie

Sitting in the Conservatory enjoying the wonderful winter sunshine, sipping Earl Grey, and listening to Kerry Woodham.

It’s amazing the number of callers she’s getting (that you can just tell are Labor voters from the sound of their voice) are all saying how much they now detest this government and it’s favoritism towards matters Maori.

Is the worm turning?
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July 14, 2021 10:35am
JohnnyOverton

The proposed three waters reform. This below from a Mayor down in my neck of the woods;

https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2021/07/14/better-water-for-everyone-what-about-waimakariri/

Support your local Mayors & councils in their fight to kill this draconian, race based agenda legislation.
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July 14, 2021 10:45am
Jack5

Sorry, sorry, sorry …

The Church of England is about to apologise for England expelling Jews in 1290. This was nearly 250 years before the church was formed.
Oliver Cromwell lifted the ban in 1657.

Prejudice against Jews in those days seems partly or largely because Christians then, like some or most Muslims now, opposed the concept of charging of interest on money loans.

Pre-Reformation Christians believed the concept of interest was unnatural, likening it to the way living things procreated.

Unlike present-day Muslims they didn’t have widespread lending using faux interest, or commercial bill type lending where you just repay more than you borrow.

Because there is always a need to borrow capital, only Jews were able to provide the service, and for this, or largely for this, Jews reaped hatred and persecution.

https://www.jta.org/quick-reads
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July 14, 2021 10:47am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Jews were denied entry to Guilds and trade apprenticeships. They were also unable to purchase land in some countries.
  
  Hence if they couldn’t make a living as a farmer or craftsman in a village, they got into money-lending.
  
  https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Jewish_Occupations
  
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  July 14, 2021 11:34am
- JohnnyOverton
  
  Very sorry for this Jack5, but the emergence of the Church of England was more of a transition from Roman Catholicism to English Catholicism brought about by Henry the Eighth’s lustiness & obligation to provide a male heir.
  
  Your right about usury being frowned upon way back then, which in my view was a damn good & more humane thing. It was the protestant revolution that opened the floodgates of capitalism & led to the inhumane interest regimes that ruin many lives today. An excellent & somewhat depressing read about this stuff is Max Weber’s ‘The Protestant Ethic & the Spirit of Capitalism’.
  
  I wonder if British citizens of Norman descent will soon feel obliged to say sorry for hammering the Anglo Saxons, Welsh, Scots & Irish into submission after 1066?
  
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  July 14, 2021 11:50am
  - Jack5
    
    Don’t stop wondering there, Johnny, Scandinavians might apologise for taking over Normandy (North men land) in France, and Essex and beyond, and Kent in England.
    
    Or perhaps there could be apologies to the Latvians and Basques who retain the most notable portions of genes of the original Hunter-Gatherers who were displaced by the Neolithic farming newcomers 8000 years ago.
    
    Disagree on capitalism, though. The aggregation and mobility of capital has been of immense support, if not the key, to economic development.
    
    There’s a lot to be said of Hernando de Soto’s concept of “dead capital” – assets which can’t be capitalised on.
    
    In many Third World countries, and even still today to an extent with tribal land in NZ, the asset of land cannot be used as collateral to amass capital for development. You need a cadastral (land survey and title) system and a culture that allows land to be sold so you can borrow on it as security, and get things moving.
    
    At least that’s the way to do it in a democracy. In a Chinese version of Marxism, the State just uses the vast land it totally owns as an initial base for capital.
    
    Jews may have been forced into lending and banking, as Maggy Wassilieff posts above, but their misfortune benefited the world by their expertise that’s helped grow lending, banking, and general use of capital.
    
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    July 14, 2021 12:59pm
    - JohnnyOverton
      
      Geez Jack5, highfalutin stuff for this old mainlander to comprehend. My Neanderthal gene often plays havoc with my thinking gear so please have pity on me as after all, we do live in a time when victimhood is king.
      
      You say ‘ In a Chinese version of Marxism, the State just uses the vast land it totally owns as an initial base for capital’. So in 10 years the Chinese Empire will be using all of NZ for fund raising collateral then?
      
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      July 14, 2021 1:44pm
      - Jack5
        
        Johnny, some of them are probably already getting funds from banks and investors on the collateral of their NZ water rights.
        
        Don’t worry about the genes. But genetic research is revealing patterns of what must have been people movement thousands of years ago. Like the finding that some Scots are related to an indigenous people of Siberia.
        
        http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/hang-onto-your-kiltski-scots-woke-up-today-to-discover-that-part-of-their-national-dna-is-siberian/
        
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        July 14, 2021 4:03pm
    - Yabster
      
      or the Italains (Romans) will have to apologise to most of Europe the UK , parts of Asia and Nth Africa – load of bollocks isn’t it. I see Jamacia is trying to get billions out of UK for compensation for slavery- No mention of the fact lot of the slaves where sold by their own people – its a funny world we live in.
      
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      July 14, 2021 2:37pm
      - oldfella
        
        Yabster, talking of reparations, how long before Ayoteearower signs up to this UN initiative.
        https://nypost.com/2021/07/12/un-rights-boss-urges-wide-range-of-reparations-over-racism/
        
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        July 14, 2021 4:58pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-psaki-to-go-door-to-door-on-bikes-asking-if-you-have-a-moment-to-talk-about-getting-vaccinated
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July 14, 2021 10:53am
Happychappy

Senior Doctors are set to follow the Nurses in strike action.
More Strikes Looming?
Senior Doctors join the stop work meetings amid pay dispute. Senior Doctors are set to attend a series of stop work meetings after pay negotiations with District Health Boards stall.
On Tuesday the Association of Saleried Medical Specialists (ASMS) which represents Senior Doctors announced a series of stop work meetings will take place throughout August.
The ASMS said the meetings came as negotiations for Doctors Collectives pay agreement stalls.
https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2021/07/general_debate_14_july_2021.html#comments
Again this Government and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern have got it wrong with their out right arrogance of giving to criminals and forgetting how valuable Nurses and Doctors are to our Health service , they have already driven several nurses to other Countries
wher better pay and working conditions exist and now are trying the same bulling tactics with our Senior Doctors.
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July 14, 2021 11:07am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Strikes? “Not on my watch” Remember that??????
  
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  July 14, 2021 4:02pm
WaveyDavey

There was a saying about the Falklands conflict;

Two bald men fighting over a comb

It seems to me that the current state of NZ politics is two bald men fighting to not get the comb

Labour doing everything in its power to lose support and National doing nothing to increase its support

Maybe nobody wants to be holding the shit sandwich in 2023
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July 14, 2021 11:09am
Jack5

A warning for our tourist and hospital industry?

Many American bar and restaurant workers found better jobs during the pandemic lockdowns, and don’t want to return to the industry, reports the Wall Street Journal.

Some economists are talking about a lasting shift in the American labour market, after many hospitality workers moved during lockdowns to new careers in digital sales, shipping, mortgage-financing and other businesses that thrived in the pandemic.

“To try to lure workers back, many restaurant operators and other hospitality businesses are raising wages, offering signing perks and rethinking scheduling practices to make the work more flexible and, in some cases, less gruelling,” the newspaper says.
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July 14, 2021 11:16am
- Harriet
  
  The same is being said here in Aussie, and the working conditions are better than in the US so that is saying something.
  I was a chef for many years – and I would never suggest to anyone who is looking for ‘meaningful employment’ to work in the ‘food industry’ — and that includes everything except farming.
  
  TRUE FACT:
  Nestle has a biscuit factory here in Australia and pays near the highest wages.
  
  Purina — dog biscuits!!!!!! 😎
  
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  July 14, 2021 1:08pm
Maggie Pie

An attack of the KARENS!! 😀 😀 😀

https://twitter.com/killafran/status/1414659885891997697
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July 14, 2021 11:36am
Drone

The two most popular phrases heard by law enforcement :
1. She liked rough sex
2. My Twitter account was hacked
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July 14, 2021 11:37am
Maggie Pie

Caller to ZB earlier this morning tells Kerry Woodham of his daughter working in an MIQ facility near the Airport.

Says the owners are thinking of ‘pulling the plug’ on the operation due to constant vandalism of the accommodation, with some rooms even having to be closed permanently due to ‘structural’ damage.

The other major problem is THEFT.
Anything not nailed down is nicked on a regular basis. Stuff like electric jugs, toasters, crockery, pillows, sheets, towels, and mattress-covers are having to be replaced daily.

South Africa may become an attractive option the way this government is going 🙁
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July 14, 2021 12:42pm
Odakyu-sen

Random thought about logical consistency.

There is a correlation between smoking, shorter lifespan and poorer health. Let’s discourage smoking through educational programs in schools.

vs.

There is a correlation between the _______ lifestyle and shorter lifespan and poorer health. Let’s encourage _______ through educational programs in schools.

Where is the logical consistency?
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July 14, 2021 12:47pm
- Tall Man
  
  Don’t forget we have to legalise smoking cannabis ….
  
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  July 14, 2021 3:53pm
cmm

Some interesting audio and images from South Africa…

Most of this is happening in KZN – where I grew up. This has always been a very volatile part of South Africa.

One is a bit of a speech about “comrades” and “white monopoly capital” and sounds very much like a provocateur trying to turn this from a Zulu vs government into a black vs white conflict. The reasons I say that is this:
1) While the person is speaking is a black South African, there is no way he’s a Zulu. He is probably from a Northern tribe and I suspect is a member of the EFF (Julius Malema and crew). Zulu pronunciation is completely different and he struggles with saying Zulu words properly. Thus he’s not part of this uprising.
2) Zulus very seldom talk about their “black brothers”. All non-Zulus are foreigners and are lesser people (Xhosa are second class, everyone else are third class).
3) EFF have been agitating for black vs others violence but need the Zulus onboard for their numbers. They (I assume it is them here) are opportunistically trying to redirect the anger towards their target: white monopoly capital etc etc.

Of course events like this tend to also pop up fakery etc from all sides but most of this looks and sounds pretty genuine to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGKCuW-XCnM
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July 14, 2021 12:51pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  One of my besties from tennis came here with her family from SA about 5 years ago. They bought a beautiful big home in Arney Cres.
  She wishes her mum and dad had come when they had the chance. Such beautiful hard working people. It’s been an absolute credit having them in the hood.
  When you look at what’s going on over there now, why we just can’t throw our doors open to any white citizens who want to escape the black tyranny and corruption is beyond me.
  
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  July 14, 2021 1:36pm
  - cmm
    
    I would not make it about black & white. There are plenty well educated, hard working non-white people caught up in this mess who would prefer to live without the tyranny and corruption too. They too would make wonderful additions to the NZ economy & society.
    
    This has been a long time coming. It was obvious back in the 1980s that it would come to this. But, hey, many people just don’t want to change and move.
    
    My sister is a nurse there. She’s been robbed at gun point, almost killed in 2 car crashes (terrible drivers there), hourse burgled often and family members robbed, assaulted etc etc. She has specialised AIDS training and she is fluent in Zulu and Xhosa (as well as English and Afrikaans). She can’t get a proper job because her skin is the wrong colour. She could get a Canadian (or Irish through her husband) passport at a snap of her fingers. I have told her on numerous occasions she could get a great job in Canada, Australia, NZ, wherever, but she just won’t move. In fact, they moved to Ireland, then moved BACK when her brother in law got sick.
    
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    July 14, 2021 1:53pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Home is always home for some people.
      
      They don’t realise that “home” is where they are and is a feeling, not a building.
      
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      July 14, 2021 3:48pm
  - lifesgood
    
    We rented a flat to white South Africans and they were utterly racist, not to mention filthy, because they were used to having black servants do their house work. Yes, I know plenty of lovely South Africans as well but not all white SAs are lovely.
    
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    July 14, 2021 2:26pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Not all Kiwis are lovely.
      
      Who’d a thought …. people are people …..
      
      The thing is though, according to ardern, all landlords are arseholes so I suppose it’s relative.
      
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      July 14, 2021 3:51pm
- cmm
  
  Insanity!
  
  Traffic jams caused by looters going to industrial areas to loot factories & warehouses.
  
  Why loot shops when you can cut out the middleman and loot the warehouses?
  
  Cops are completely outnumbered and under equipped. Civilians are even resupplying the cops!
  
  At this stage hunger has not kicked in. What’s going to happen when the rioters find they’re hungry and no shops. Where to next? Attacking and looting residential areas?
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wa9G62bHzk
  
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  July 14, 2021 1:40pm
- Raphael
  
  I saw this atrocious piece of reporting in the Herald
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12457613
  Trying to make it look like a racial thing, and it’s simply not. Black, whites and Indians are working together to try and defend things from the rampaging thugs. (the young man with a gunshot wound in his hand was tended to by an old mate of mine).
  
  Some footage from the actual town. https://www.facebook.com/jane.symes.9/posts/10159969488046159
  
  This is the town I went to high school in. I met my wife in this town, we got married in this town.
  
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  July 14, 2021 1:41pm
  - cmm
    
    Howick eh, I grew up mainly near Hilton.
    
    “Worst violence since Apartheid” they say. Hah!
    The bad violence during apartheid was a black-on-black power struggle between ANC and IFP for the control of the inevitable majority rule government. These power struggles killed 20,000 people per year. The white involvement was almost exclusively citizen force soldiers called up for “township duty” to keep them apart.
    
    The ANC’s Operation Vula in the early 1990s brought in about 20 tonnes of weapons into South Africa. This was supposed to be for a fight against apartheid, but was in reality used for black-on-black power struggles.
    
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    July 14, 2021 2:03pm
    - Raphael
      
      Howick eh, I grew up mainly near Hilton.
      
      I lived in Hilton, went to Howick High.
      
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      July 14, 2021 2:30pm
      - Tony Stuart
        
        Did you know the Dickensons, who taught at Howick?
        
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        July 14, 2021 2:46pm
    - Tauhei Notts
      
      cmm and Raphael,
      Thank you for your informative comments on the situation in South Africa.
      
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      July 14, 2021 7:58pm
Swifty

Hard-leftie, who spends his time advancing lefty-agendas and dreaming up new rules to control NZers lives and limit their freedoms while being lavishly supported by the taxes of hard-working NZ families, calls for families to be taxed even more to pay for more hard-lefties to be employed to advance lefty-agendas and dream up new rules to control NZers lives and limit their freedoms:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/446723/aotearoa-s-only-indigenous-rights-commissioner-calls-for-reinstatement-of-role

What about the human rights of taxpayers Mr Hunt?

In all my years I’ve never once heard you or anyone in your current role say a single thing about our rights to be free from being forced to fund the massive infiltration of our institutions by lefties like yourself hellbent on ordering us about, limiting our freedom to do and say what we like and all the while calling us all racists.

Oh and by the way Mr Hunt, any half decent Human Rights Commissioner with any sense of history would be actively campaigning for keeping the NZ state as small as possible – as we all know what happens when states get bigger and bigger – citizen’s rights and freedoms shrink smaller and smaller…..
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July 14, 2021 12:59pm
JohnnyOverton

Whoopee it’s ‘Vive la France’ day so I apologize on behalf of NZ for getting our filthy colonial hands on these island before you, dear revolutionary France, did.

You gotta love the French, I do; they’re so bloody feisty & in the kitchen they’re top notch.

If our history had been a tad different; today we’d be eating snails, we wouldn’t be having divisive Maori separatism challenges & the ultra-liberal Napoleon aspirant Macron would be our glorious fuehrer. Have a good one Frenchie’s (woops, that may be hate speech).
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July 14, 2021 1:25pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  The only time the French wanted a War was when the German Army was sipping coffee in Paris. From someone on FB
  
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  July 14, 2021 1:47pm
- trout
  
  Interestingly the residents in New Caledonia continue to vote down independence; they love the pseudo French lifestyle and have become totally dependent on the French Government for handouts and subsidies. Good place to visit; good people, good food, and excellent wine.
  
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  July 14, 2021 3:51pm
cas

I had the misfortune to have Midday report on at lunchtime ( i was going to count the number of words of te reo but gave up). There has been yet another report released saying Maori and Pasifika are being failed by the system and this time it was Plunket. Dr Rawiri Jansen interviewed, said it all goes back to Sir Truby King who was a white supremacist. ( the interviewer didn’t pull him up on it).

Is this hate speech?
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July 14, 2021 2:13pm
- JohnnyOverton
  
  No it won’t be, as it’s open season on all evil white people, especially the ones who have the audacity to show pride in their ethnicity, culture & history.
  
  You’ll only be hounded or prosecuted if you offend ring fenced & protected special people e.g. nonwhites, indigenous (aren’t we all), women, disabled, gay/trans, liberals & green/labour voters.
  
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  July 14, 2021 3:18pm
  - oldfella
    
    Johnny, women are in danger of being thrown out of that special group. Especially the ones that keep pushing that silly biological argument. /s
    
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    July 14, 2021 5:08pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  Truby King, the Plunket Man. He must have saved thousands of babies through his work.
  
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  July 14, 2021 5:28pm
Libertarians are right

I know that there’s a ridiculous push for actors to only play roles that resemble them in the real world (i.e. only gay actors can play gay roles, trans actors play trans roles).

Meet David Harbour who plays a Communist super hero in the new Black Widow movie (note, these quotes are from the actor, not the satirical super hero):

“I don’t know that there’s anyone who could disagree with socialist ideology. If you work at Starbucks and you make the coffee, then you should own it. You’re the one making the coffee!”

“The idea of a kindergarten-type society where we share things is my ideal society; as opposed to this world where we’re hunting and killing and destroying for our own personal hoarding, our own personal greed.”

Congratulations casting directors – you nailed it!
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July 14, 2021 2:20pm
- Yabster
  
  assume he will be sharing his actors fee with crew etc? yeah nah.
  
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  July 14, 2021 2:45pm
  - Libertarians are right
    
    He also “stars’ on Stranger Things where he gets $350k per episode, $100k more than the kids who are the actual stars.
    
    I think he’s just jealous because his wife (Lily Allen) is worth more than him so he’s gotten it into his head that everything should be shared.
    
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    July 14, 2021 4:16pm
Captain Mainwaring

Why do French country roads have trees down both sides?
So the German army can march in the shade.
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July 14, 2021 2:26pm
- Ehlana
  
  Do you realise that if you were 21 years old when WWII ended, you would now be 97? Which means basically everybody who could be held responsible for what the Nazis did must now be dead.
  
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  July 14, 2021 3:41pm
- fightingtemeraire
  
  No
  
  So Napoleon could do that
  
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  July 14, 2021 4:54pm
lifesgood

Just saw a tweet that said John McDonald on Newstalk ZB Canterbury treated Judith Collins with hostility and open contempt this morning. The tweet also said that a lot of listeners texted their complaints in. Firstly, who the hell is John McDonald and what gives him the right to teat anyone with contempt and, secondly, I didn’t know Canterbury had their own version of Newstalk.
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July 14, 2021 3:18pm
- gorse
  
  Lifesgood, yes, I parked my car so I could listen to it. He was truly terrible with her. I wondered if he would speak to Ardern that way. Judith stood her ground, answered intelligently, more so than him, and he couldn’t get his way. Well done Judith, I thought.
  
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  July 14, 2021 3:38pm
- Ceepar
  
  Lifesgood, I listened to the interview after reading your comment. Contempt is a good description of how he came across with Judith. Judith has to put up with this constantly from some members of the media. If Newstalk ZB have replaced Chris Lynch with him, it would be a backward step in my view.
  
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  July 14, 2021 5:41pm
Maggie Pie

BREAKING 🙁

Yet another high-rise has just collapsed in China leaving lots of people dead….

Cause ‘unknown’. LOL!

https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1415155345593413635

Even my partner knows the cause – crap Chinese Rebar.
And he’s 50,000km away!!

How many tons of this stuff were imported in NZ he wonders?
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July 14, 2021 4:02pm
- Okahu
  
  50,000 kms? Has he struck out for greener pastures on the moon?
  
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  July 14, 2021 4:37pm
Okahu

Tony Stuart ahove tells us the ban on new offshore exploration licences has caused the importation of coal to swell. Many people were of the understanding that the halving of gas production from our biggest onshore field, the poor inflows to our hydro lakes and the stellar year our dairy sector was enjoying (1kg coal for 1kg mlk powder) were factors. But good to know it was actually the failure to produce thermal generation fuels from undiscovered, (let alone commercially developed) offshore hydrocarbon fields.

To their credit Fonterra have brought forward their plans to get out of coal but say it can’t be done instantly. The other factors are somewhat beyond the government’s control. Still, that shouldn’t stop us blaming them, eh Tony?
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July 14, 2021 4:31pm
Benedict Yu

So this guy has lived in Australia for 20 odd years, has been a star player for the Australian Rugby team and cannot get Australian citizenship.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/international/300357359/quade-cooper-gets-a-doubledown-no-over-his-bid-to-be-australian-citizen

That seems crazy. I mean if he does not qualify for Australian citizenship, who does?
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July 14, 2021 4:39pm
- kowtow
  
  You’d have thought the Media pardy running a story about this issue would explore all the issues .
  
  Perhaps he doesn’t pass the character test.
  
  ‘Cooper’s lawyers said the withdrawal of the charge followed completion of a justice mediation process with the complainants, which was conducted through the Department of Justice and Attorney-General.’
  
  The charge was burglary.
  
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  July 14, 2021 5:27pm
- fernglas
  
  He’s a New Zealander who was allowed in under a special arrangement that by-passes Australia’s usual immigration policies. Just because he is a good rugby player doesn’t mean he now meets those criteria. If he becomes unemployed he will not get the benefit, and if he gets in trouble he will be deported. If he had not been a New Zealander he wouldn’t be there at all.
  
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  July 14, 2021 6:01pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Poll on Newshub:
Is it appropriate for gang-linked social services to be funded by the Government?

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/07/have-your-say-is-it-appropriate-for-gang-linked-social-services-to-be-funded-by-the-government.html

Not running in favour of the Government at the moment
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July 14, 2021 5:53pm
hookerphil

85% No
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July 14, 2021 6:23pm
WaveyDavey

A Dunedin businessman says using glue and white-out pen to alter financial documents was the “stupidest thing” he has ever done in his life.

FFS at least put SOME effort in mate.

Tipp-Ex and glue? Potatoshop has been around for decades now

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/better-business/300357275/lawyer-cites-businessmans-18-months-of-hell-after-being-caught-forging-documents
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July 14, 2021 9:35pm
theoldbloke

And so it begins.

Arriving home on a Singapore airlines flight. Pre landing they played a biosecurity video.

except it started. Welcome to Aotearoa…..
No mention of New Zealand at all.

I have just put in an OIA request for the names and positions of the people responsible for production and distribution of said video.

Lets “”out”” the wankers who are changing our beloved countries name by stealth
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PO Box 12270, Thorndon, Wellington 6144

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