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November 7, 2021 7:00am by David Farrar

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I’m glad they told us it was about the three water reforms, as it could apply to so many issues!

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Jim

Wow is that a rare case of free independent journalism reporting the unadulterated truth and supporting true democracy? I thought it had gone extinct.
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November 7, 2021 7:09am
- mikenmildagain
  
  You might have missed the ‘Local Democracy Reporting’ logo on the article, which shows that the reporting was funded by taxpayers.
  
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  November 7, 2021 8:24am
  - 70andstilllearning
    
    “The reporters are employed by, and report to, their host newsrooms but receive extra mentoring, training and support from RNZ. All of their stories are shared with a wide range of media partners, including RNZ.
    
    The programme is managed by RNZ with the support of the News Publishers’ Association and NZ On Air. It was designed to fill gaps in reporting, mostly in regional New Zealand, brought about by decreases in reporting numbers in traditional media.”
    
    “receive extra mentoring, training and support from RNZ” says it all – eh mike!
    
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/ldr/about
    
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    November 7, 2021 9:32am
    - emmess
      
      “receive extra mentoring, training and support from RNZ” AKA Political Commissars
      
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      November 7, 2021 10:51am
  - Than
    
    Congratulations mikenmildagain. The blatant racism and corruption of this government got so bad that even their bought and paid for media couldn’t keep ignoring it, so you get an excuse to claim the media is impartial.
    
    One article slamming the government versus hundreds praising them no matter what they do, yep, that’s balance all right.
    
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    November 7, 2021 10:08am
Mr_Blobby

Yes I initially thought it was about the covid lockdown tyranny.

Yet another example of an out of control authoritarian government.

I think that they are a long way from finished.

As the poll numbers plumet they will get increasingly desperate, that will make them very dangerous.

The communism by stealth will continue until we are a one party state.

No need for polls and elections then.
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November 7, 2021 7:10am
- Bob
  
  communism by stealth will continue…
  Mr Blobby, there is no STEALTH in ARDERNS AGENDA now! Once she had a majority government she set in motion a whole string of undesirable events; many of which had been obvious for at least three years. Covid provided the camouflage required to initiate the action.
  ARDERN has been groomed for many years just for this occasion. She was their ideal candidate; young, impressionable, naïve and inexperienced in real world economics.
  The World Communist movement has been endeavouring to establish a Communist base in the South Pacific since the mid 1960’s.
  
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  November 7, 2021 9:48am
  - Gulag1917
    
    With Soviet help ie the Socialist Unity Party.
    
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    November 7, 2021 1:36pm
- QuiteRight
  
  Yes I would love to be a fly on the wall of the internal polling company…..I hope they are heading south big time.
  
  I have never rated Adern for anything meaningful like leadership or intelligence etc…..however one thing I think she does possess is the ability to be very dangerous to our country and democracy…..her rolling of eyes and rubbing hands when delightfully explaining how she planned two tiers of society looked a little psychotic to me….
  
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  November 7, 2021 10:55am
Jade Warrior

The Three Waters initiative has all the potential to get very nasty very quickly for this government, and coming on top of the nation’s growing frustration with the Covid lockdowns, Mahuta’s stubborn determination to ram this project through is the last thing Jacinda needs.

And it’s not just National and ACT supports who oppose this. I have spoken with many Labour and Green supporters and many of them have also expressed serious concerns about Three Waters.

I’m wondering what the PM’s political advisers are telling her about this. Surely they see the enormous danger for both the PM and her government if this Three Waters project continues.
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November 7, 2021 7:13am
- JackRabbit
  
  Mahuta’s stubborn determination to ram this project through is the last thing Jacinda needs.
  
  Its why Mahuta was given the job.
  1. Shield Ardern – so if it all goes south, Mahuta will be thrown under the bus.
  2. She is Maori, so any objections can be deemed racist.
  3. Mahuta is the Minister for Local Governemnt. So that would entail protecting, enhancing, and streamlining local government.
  
  But what Three Waters is doing, is plundering local council assets, owned by the ratepayers and giving the middle finger to the councils.
  
  Mahuta is as unsuitable as Minister of Local Governmentas would be appointing a fox the Minister if Hen Houses.
  
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  November 7, 2021 8:39am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    It isn’t just about plundering local council assets – despicable though that is. It’s about anointing yet another cadre of light-brown hucksters, shysters and charlatans and giving them 50% of the control of those assets.
    
    DPF has reported on the almost-byzantine means of electing or appointing the people that will have control over this, and the tl;dr version is that the people who actually own these assets (rate-payers) will be so far removed from the process it may as well be taking place on Mars.
    
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    November 7, 2021 9:19am
    - JackRabbit
      
      it’s about anointing yet another cadre of light-brown hucksters, shysters and charlatans and giving them 50% of the control of those assets.
      
      Loddenthinks,
      
      That is how it may appear, but
      
      [1] If you don’t have control of it, you don’t own it. So it has been plundered.
      
      [2] Tyrants don’t give away control to anyone. The “light-brown hucksters, shysters and charlatans” will be in their pockets, doing what they say.
      
      The apparency of “light-brown hucksters, shysters and charlatans” is simply a veneer for their totalitarian plans. Any $ that Iwi might make out of the water will the reward for rubber stamping the tyrants dictates. Same principle as the $millions the media got, except much easier to control.
      
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      November 7, 2021 11:09am
  - Colville
    
    Te Mari Parti would just LOVE it if Labour had a spat with Mahuta … as they would be the winner in Sept 2023.
    
    and then we would have the possible 3 headed hydra of Labour (with Grunter as PM) Greens and MP as government.
    
    Thinks its bad now? !!!!!
    
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    November 7, 2021 10:06am
- Gravelroad
  
  @ Jade Warrior-
  “Surely they see the enormous danger for both the PM and her government if this Three Waters project continues.”
  No, I don’t think they do.
  They think spinning out the Covid fear for long enough will see them through until the next election.
  It is a win/win situation for them.
  They are delighted to keep the fear going, aided by their paid for “scientific advisors” and media, while at the same time pushing through huge, controversial legislative changes under the Covid radar.
  And – for many of our easily manipulated, complacent citizens, the three waters changes “don’t affect me”.
  
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  November 7, 2021 8:41am
  - Deane Jessep
    
    Nah, their polling has fallen for the first time during a lockdown. And stuff like this is popping up in mainstream and clubs everywhere. Here’s another example sent to me yesterday:
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RpZb2b2nGo8&feature=youtu.be
    
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    November 7, 2021 11:02am
    - Debsta
      
      Yep, the silence is the problem, it’s deafening!
      
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      November 7, 2021 11:51am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Why doesn’t Ardern challenge the Maori Caucus? She is PM. The ministers answer to her not the other way around.
  
  Do they have some hidden hold over her? She has put herself in the middle of a potential Maori inter-tribal conflict (remember fishing rights?) and upset her Pakeha constituency too.
  
  Something is awry.
  
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  November 7, 2021 1:39pm
- GJM
  
  Since the details are not reported in teh MSM, many pwopel are unaware of the true extent of the 3 waters confiscations, and the implications.
  Many think it is a bout clean water, and who doesn’t want that? Many are nto aware of the Maori takeover of the assets, using taxpayers moeny to pay a pittnace for the taxpayers and ratepayers own assets.
  I am sure the poor reporting and fudging is purely coincidental for our government, who cannot tell a lie
  
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  November 7, 2021 6:47pm
mikenmildagain

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
But I’ve read many, many allegations from Kiwibloggers that the taxpayer funding of news media means that there is no criticism of government policy.
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November 7, 2021 7:22am
- R
  
  The exception proves the rule.
  
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  November 7, 2021 8:25am
- Sarkozygroupie
  
  Our little newspaper, throughout this whole saga of the many things this Government has done, has always maintained its journalistic integrity.
  
  We’ve had some very good reporters who have been unafraid in the face of being cancelled and excoriated, to do their job properly.
  Unlike the rest of the sycophantic ‘media’ who spend their time kowtowing for a hand out.
  
  The Wairarapa Times-Age is one of the last bastions of fearless journalism left, and it should be very proud of its journalists and its ethical integrity continuing to maintain a true and honourable Fourth Estate in the face of authoritarianism.
  
  Stand tall and be proud Wairarapa Times-Age we salute you!
  
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  November 7, 2021 8:37am
  - Agricola
    
    Agree. Such a headline has become a rarity in these days of anodyne, gutless ad sheet “journalism” peopled by the self regarding dregs of a suicidal institution.
    
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    November 7, 2021 11:19am
- JackRabbit
  
  Keep reading those allegations. In time you will realise they are not allegations, but truths.
  
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  November 7, 2021 8:40am
- Mr_Blobby
  
  Is it just me or is dear leader looking tired and old, robbo and chippie look like they are about to shit their pants and the back bench is distancing itself.
  
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  November 7, 2021 8:44am
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  Even former Labour party MPs in local council are opposed openly to 3 waters.
  It seems that even regional media can put aside their fawning obligations to the centre in favour of the local flavour.
  
  Note the example is regional media, not the national media. National media is still almost silent on details like iwi boundaries and the race-based panels of 3 waters – yet make sure to slip in a reference to Havelock North water issues into almost every article (but not that that contamination issue already lead to huge effort and investment in that particular council).
  
  I am sure you are aware that the majority of journalists do identify as ‘left’ based on surveys of their political beliefs, and also that the public interest funding ($55 million) has Treaty principle/Maori interest clauses attached?
  
  And you do of course realise that people can hold more than one idea at a time, or more than a single thing be true at the same time?
  i.e. nuance?
  
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  November 7, 2021 8:44am
- ronsegal
  
  Yes an escapee, damnit! Clearly the Government needs to substantially increase its media slush fund.
  
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  November 7, 2021 8:49am
- Libertysparks
  
  I think you miss the point Milkenmaidagain. The media has been soft on Miss Ardern and her government, and have clearly avoided asking her the hard questions. The fact that a news outlet publishes an article like this, reflects a growing level of disillusionment with the fairy tale that had been spun around Miss Ardern and her caucus by the news media.
  
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  November 7, 2021 12:45pm
Rumblestrip

The Wairarapa Times-Age just happens to be a locally owned newspaper not controlled by Stuff or NZME.
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November 7, 2021 7:23am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  But also collecting taxpayers’ money through the Local Democracy Reporting project.
  
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  November 7, 2021 8:25am
  - Hollyfield
    
    This is the second time within this post that you’ve raised this matter. (As I keep reading down the page maybe I’ll find a third and fourth…) I have looked up the Local Democracy Reporting (LDR), and do not understand the point you are making. Please could you elaborate? At the moment it appears you’re trying to distract from the main issue.
    
    The website says it is about reporting on local issues eg councils, DHBs etc. “The brief is to report on the decision-making process: what decisions are made in the public’s name and how are they arrived at; what evidence is presented to the councils, etc. It also means going out and talking to the people affected and sharing their stories and perspectives.”
    
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/ldr/about
    
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    November 7, 2021 9:24am
  - peterwn
    
    Why not? The Times-Age seems to effectively have NZ-on-Air over a barrel with this.
    
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    November 7, 2021 9:28am
  - Jack5
    
    Even the South Island owned free newspaper, the Star, the biggest paper in Christchurch, advertised recently for a “local democracy” reporter in North Canterbury.
    
    The handouts are State corruption whether the takers toe the line or not.
    
    Hooray for the Wairarapa Times-Age for remaining fiercely independent for now. Sooner or later, the paymasters will wield the whip. Then the newspaper can be a true hero by telling its readers this and rejecting further subsidies.
    
    Incidentally, has the Wairarapa Times-Age taken a position on Treaty issues? On school-history curriculum revision?
    
    How to get on the Local Democracy Reporting band wagon:
    
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/ldr/about
    
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    November 7, 2021 10:00am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    Which just shows they’re not stupid.
    
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    November 7, 2021 10:12am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    That does not compel sycophancy or lying, surely?
    
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    November 7, 2021 1:41pm
artemisia

And here is a very big, bold idea from Mark Hanson, posted on the NZ Centre for Political Research site. It has a big advantage in being up front from – and on – Day One, not the creeping underhand changes we have see from the current government.

An Act of Parliament to repeal Jacinda Arden’s un-democratic laws, regulations, and appointments.

” There are two democratic ways of dealing with this.

First, is to draw up a list of amendments to every relevant law or regulation in need of repealing. This, however, would take years to achieve and would not restore democracy on a timely basis.

Secondly, the most time efficient and democratic approach is to draw up one Repealing Act of Parliament to repeal every law and regulation she has placed by law, before the next election. In addition, all persons who have been appointed under laws and regulations should be removed from office the day the repealing legislation is passed into law.

This legislation would be introduced into Parliament on day one of the new session before the Queen’s speech. It would receive three readings on day one of the new Parliament and then be taken to the Governor General that same day to sign into law (including the removal from office all persons appointed by such laws etc.).

http://www.nzcpr.com/repealing-act-of-parliament/
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November 7, 2021 7:28am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Well, that’s certainly an appealing fantasy. How about the government’s opponents concentrate on the necessary first step: winning an electoral mandate?
  
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  November 7, 2021 8:27am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Yeah, but apart from that, it is a pretty good plan even you have to agree Mike . . .
    
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    November 7, 2021 8:50am
  - Duncan Bayne
    
    They have opponents?
    
    I’m still waiting for National to undo the Resource Management Act, Working for Families, and expunge the concept of Treaty Partnership from any and all legislation.
    
    I’d *love* for there to be an *actual* opposition.
    
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    November 7, 2021 2:03pm
- peterwn
  
  This is my thoughts. However it needs to be managed very carefully. If Labour thinks it is possible they will put it ‘in issue’ non their terms before the next election.
  
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  November 7, 2021 9:31am
- Stephen Russell
  
  One of the core jobs of an Opposition and its MPs is to track all these law changes and appointments and prepare appropriate countermeasures against the time they gain office. If they are doing that job then the brute force chaos-creating proposal Hanson advocates should be quite unnecessary.
  
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  November 7, 2021 10:14am
Frank the tank

Take a page out of the GOP’s playbook and make it a kitchen table issue NOT a beltway issue. Unfortunately 3 waters is beltway; issues such as school curriculum is not.

In regards to the Zimbabwefication of our country you need something that will strike home with mothers and females over the age of 35.
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November 7, 2021 7:33am
- Grizz
  
  Ensuring you have the freedom to flush the toilet would be a good place to start.
  
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  November 7, 2021 8:53am
  - Lance
    
    Auckland was held in drought mandated oppression until the fucking dams were only just recently 97% full !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Assholes
    
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    November 7, 2021 11:06pm
- Bob
  
  mothers and females over the age of 35….
  more importantly something that will strike home with the 16 to 35 age group, male and female.
  
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  November 7, 2021 9:51am
krazykiwi

The fine people of Wairarapa helped install that pack of lying bastards by tossing their long valued National seat onto the bonfire of common sense and going Labour.
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November 7, 2021 7:34am
- mikenmildagain
  
  The national party handicapped itself with poor MPs in that seat from the mid-200os.
  
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  November 7, 2021 7:47am
  - Scott
    
    Sadly Mikey is quite right. The previous National MP was a business guy that never actually lived in the province. But you would see him regularly. Yes sir, every 3 years at election time he would appear, regular as clockwork. ?
    
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    November 7, 2021 8:28am
- Benedict Yu
  
  I checked. Party Vote for Labour in Wairarapa was 32 percent in 2017. In 2020 it was 48 percent.
  
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  November 7, 2021 7:52am
  - Cassandra
    
    Bet they regret it now. Too late, stupidity which let the rest of us down. How can otherwise sensible people be so daft?
    
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    November 7, 2021 8:14am
- R
  
  KK
  
  No candidate or party should simply expect to turn up and win an electorate seat. The Wairarapa electorate hasn’t always been a National Party seat. Georgina Beyer won two terms in 1999 and 2002. The fact that Labour has won the seat recently could reflect a number of things, including the state of the National Party.
  
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  November 7, 2021 8:02am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    The MP till 2020 didn’t endear himself to locals by being an absentee landowner from Wellington.
    
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    November 7, 2021 8:29am
    - peterwn
      
      Assuming the ‘absenteeism’ claims have any substance this would have been a misjudgment on the part of the National Party activists in Wairarapa. They selected him as the National electorate candidate, not Head Office.
      There are people who consider Wairarapa their home even though they spend three to four nights a week in Wellington (eg students and employees with Wellington jobs). This matter arose some years back when votes of such people were challenged because it was considered they should have been enrolled in a Wellington electorate.
      
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      November 7, 2021 9:44am
- Scott
  
  Sadly krazy you are quite right. One can only apologise for the temporary abberation of the good people of the Wairarapa and hope and pray that their former good sense will return in time for the next election. ??
  
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  November 7, 2021 8:16am
- Gravelroad
  
  They were suckered by the huge wave of Covid fear launched by the cynical Ms Ardern – our only saviour.
  Also, the gentrification of several parts the Wairarapa has seen soft, wealthy socialists, celebrity types and paid for media influencers colonise that province.
  Wouldn’t be surprised to see the same voting pattern continue next election – cheerleading for Ardern (if she is still here).
  
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  November 7, 2021 8:21am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    The current MP is a local, from Eketahuna, and replaced one of the colonising gentry you complain about.
    
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    November 7, 2021 8:30am
    - Sarkozygroupie
      
      Because Kieran McAnulty is not a white middle class descendant of your so-called colonising gentry?
      
      Try again.
      
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      November 7, 2021 8:49am
    - Truman lodge
      
      Funny how Anglo Saxon males are colonisers, yet everyone else that’s arrived in nz the last 30 years like Asians and Africans are not adding to colonisation? So all the Chinese and Indians who have come in huge numbers last 20 years are not colonisers just Anglo males?
      
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      November 7, 2021 1:07pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        The reference to colonising and gentry came from Gravelroad’s comment. I merely reflected if back to him in an attempt at irony that might have escaped you and Sarkozygroupie.
        
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        November 7, 2021 3:38pm
      - Fight4NZ
        
        John Key told me they were here for vibrancy.
        Now we need 3 storey cities and a govt takeover of infrastructure to accommodate them.
        Bring on that vibrancy.
        
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        November 7, 2021 3:52pm
- Sarkozygroupie
  
  Many of us didn’t!
  
  After 30 years of MMP a lot of older people still don’t understand how MMP works and they voted Labour to give a mandate hoping it would keep out the Greens, who in a rural area, would destroy this place.
  
  The only Labour Party member who doesn’t like MMP is Helen Clark and she fought against it in 1991 by putting in place not one but two referendum votes. Unfortunately it didn’t work.
  
  SOME Wairarapa people made a tactical error, misunderstanding that Labour was always going to invite the Greens to the table, but you can be sure they won’t make it again.
  
  So stop blaming the election result on a group of about 15-20,000 voters. It’s peanuts.
  
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  November 7, 2021 8:47am
Benedict Yu

It is not an issue I have followed closely. As I understand it there are differing degrees of under performance by local authorities in managing water infrastructure. Which is clearly a problem. So we then need to look at the causes and possible solutions.

I cant by bothered checking but I doubt that you would find developed nation where water articulation and waste water systems are managed by national government. For obvious reasons.

More pragmatically, everything this government touches fails. So it is literally possible they could spend billions, cause chaos, and we end up with water quality at a higher cost.
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November 7, 2021 7:35am
- Suze Wainwright
  
  Nah, there’s no way iwi-led organizations would let that happen…
  
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  November 7, 2021 7:43am
- mikenmildagain
  
  I suspect the root cause is councils, many in more rural areas, that no longer have the ability to maintain, let alone improve, their infrastructure. So this will effectively be another way to tax urban residents to provide services to more isolated communities.
  
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  November 7, 2021 7:53am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    So why does Wellington Council waste so money? Their transport policy is idiotic. They are building a convention centre. They have invested in an airport.
    
    If the water in Wellington is wrecked it is down to council stupidity.
    
    How about the government legislate performance standards for the councils and sack them if they fail.
    
    All developed countries have water systems. What makes New Zealand unique that they should be run by the central government? Especially this one that has a ZERO track record on successful implementation.
    
    I challenge anyone to convince me that this government can achieve better water quality at lower cost than the current model.
    
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    November 7, 2021 8:43am
  - JackRabbit
    
    I suspect the root cause is councils…
    
    It is completely irrelevant. The water systems are council owned assets. If the government thinks they are poorly run, they could offer principles an templates as to how it could be improved.
    
    But this Government, is even less accountable than local councils, so they have no principles to offer. Three Waters is just another example of overt Totalitarianism.
    
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    November 7, 2021 8:47am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      It’s grand scale theft by Maori activists. If they haven’t already agreed on the division of the spoils (water and land) there could be some terrible squabbles.
      
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      November 7, 2021 1:49pm
  - Taieri
    
    I suspect the root cause is councils, many in more rural areas, that no longer have the ability to maintain, let alone improve, their infrastructure.
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    It is not really the question of “ability”, more a question of priorities. Such as cycleways used by no-one, buses carrying fresh air, rainbow crossings and the plethora of countless vanity projects.
    
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    November 7, 2021 10:15am
  - Deane Jessep
    
    The root cause was Helen Clarks 2002 Local Government Act; the powers of general competence, and triple bottom line reporting specifically.
    
    It’s playing out exactly as Labour planned. Some of us have long memory’s.
    
    Labour opened the flea market that councils used to sell the family silver.
    
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    November 7, 2021 1:03pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  Sorry that should have been “lower water quality at higher cost”
  
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  November 7, 2021 7:53am
- Leofric
  
  There are certainly issues, in some cases. But confiscating the assets, leaving the debt, and effectively handing the whole lot over to the Maoris is not the way to fix them.
  
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  November 7, 2021 8:35am
- ronsegal
  
  “.. literally possible .. ”
  
  More like ‘literally impossible’ not to cock it up not only from general track record to date, but from the 3W cluster fuck so far.
  
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  November 7, 2021 8:57am
kevn

@BY… Exactly. I gather 90% of councils are NOT for the 3 Waters.
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November 7, 2021 7:39am
Lee C

They tried to ‘amend’ local elections but were caught out. (And that’s when an Opposition is most useful). I have a chilling feeling that they will exploit covid-fear to somehow affect the timing and results of the General Election.

For example, will you be allowed to vote if you are not ‘double-vaxed with boosters’ (Do you want fries with that?).

what if, like In Israel, the Government suddenly declare all the vaxed are no longer vaxed, because the old stuff has ‘worn off’?

Not to worry! we could simply use an electronic system like in the USA. Lots of people here would support that.

I know there re those who will say this is tin-foil hat stuff, but when you have a Government which produces a Public Health Act and has to be ‘reminded’ to add reference to the Bill of Rights into it (a rumour is that section (7a) has been rescinded)

People wake up to what is going on here and quickly.

And by ‘people’ I mean you.
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November 7, 2021 7:43am
- mikenmildagain
  
  They were ‘caught out’ by opposition MPs reading proposed legislation?
  
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  November 7, 2021 7:48am
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    The idea that an MP should actually read legislation is a novel one to Labour MPs. They did not do it when they were in Opposition so they do not expect National MPs to do it now.
    
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    November 7, 2021 10:25am
Lee C

@ Benedict: ‘Reticulation’…
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November 7, 2021 7:44am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Yes thank you.
  
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  November 7, 2021 7:49am
Yvette

As fucked up and undemocratic as so many people already think “3 Waters” ito be, has the Government of almost total non-delivery of everything they touch, not already missed on delivering one of the crucial elements of “3 Waters”? – a 4th Water?

Dr Mike Joy, from the Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, will be considering the role of the new independent water regulator, Taumata Arowai (Three Waters) and why he thinks a crucial fourth ‘water’ has been missed – the source of water.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajiUjL3O2eM – video

administered centrally by a new independent regulator, Taumata Arowai. Considering the perilous state of the three waters in New Zealand this sounds like a great idea, but the approach is classic government ‘ambulance at bottom of cliff’ thinking. For drinking water, they have forgotten the fourth water. Rather than trying to treat the symptoms we should be looking at the source of the problem – that is the source of the water.
https://www.otago.ac.nz/news/events/otago816046.html

Perhaps recind “total non-delivery” – here is something – a whole new Government department –
The Ministry of Health is the current drinking water regulator. Taumata Arowai will become fully operational when it takes over from the Ministry of Health when the Water Services Act 2021 comes into effect on 15 November 2021.
– https://www.taumataarowai.govt.nz

In eight days time – some several have been “a deceitful, lying pack of bastards” – Government, Opposition, or media – take your choice: either “deceitful, lying pack of bastards” or
“ignorant sods” – ‘sod’, as dead and buried in a grave.

(The greatest motivator behind the argument for 3 Waters is the Havelock North water supply disaster – at least this new department blows that argument out of the water)
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November 7, 2021 7:46am
- mikenmildagain
  
  I don’t know if Kiwibloggers would respect Mike Joy’s opinions though – he’s the guy about whom John Key claimed he could always ‘get another expert’.
  
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  November 7, 2021 8:33am
- Taieri
  
  administered centrally by a new independent regulator
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  Independent? Of whom?
  
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  November 7, 2021 10:16am
kevn

Newshub is chocka with arden headlines today.
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November 7, 2021 7:53am
- Leofric
  
  She’s had a rough week. The Propaganda Department is having to stay on top of it all.
  
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  November 7, 2021 8:37am
  - sooty
    
    Yep the PR dept of 50 odd are having to work the weekend trying to make the DL come up smelling of roses!
    
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    November 7, 2021 12:38pm
Truman lodge

Sad thing is Labour will get reelected despite the carnage. Auckland will be shut off over Xmas and people will still vote for jacinda. The media party obviously plays a role.
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November 7, 2021 8:00am
- Libertysparks
  
  What polling has indicated is that while Labour will lose some of its vote at the next election, those that abandon them will likely vote Greens. So no change of direction or policy will result from this change in party loyalty. And likely, because Labour will still have more votes than Greens, they will remain the governing party.
  Unfortunately, things have to get a lot. lot worse in NZ before the voting majority see any value in National/ACT/Conservative coalition.
  
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  November 7, 2021 12:56pm
  - Truman lodge
    
    And a labour led govt with greens with 20 percent of the vote will mean harder left wing govt..
    
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    November 7, 2021 1:08pm
igm

“Times-Age”, obviously well run and supported publication not relying on government (taxpayers’) handouts to survive . . . was absolutely elated when I had this Emailed to me some days ago.
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November 7, 2021 8:00am
KevO'Brien

These public utilities are local utilities paid for or responsible to be paid for out of local sources–mainly ratepayers who are still on the hook for long term council borrowing. Because the people have committed to pay they expect a say, not a Wellington Controller.

What do Maori have to do with this? They have been playing their Te Ao card about water for a while. This scam has been underway from at least early 2017. The Labour, greenish, PR plotters fed the hints.

Water in NZ is as clean as is reasonable. Any aberrations will be transitory. NZedders don’t usually bathe in rural streams and farmers value their long term assets so don’t attempt to spoil their environment. Councils will all naturally differ as to the present state of their services–some cities are over 100 years old.

This mixing comparisons of local sewerage, drinking water, farm run offs and natural waterways is plain nonsense. Its only purpose is as an excuse for activist Maoris to try to wrongly seize power and assets. The Maori Elites hope to become even more so.

Maori have already been adequately paid for any possible grievance they may have had over having their lives saved by the Treaty. Now they want to steal it back. If so, we want our money back too.

Why is ~~govt~~ HM Ardern allowing this to happen?
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November 7, 2021 8:04am
- Cassandra
  
  Yes, that’s the real issue, a grab by Maori tribes for yet more of the country’s resources and, importantly, political power, aided and abetted by the Labour Party. The headline has it totally correct. Deceitful, lying, bastards, Labour.
  
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  November 7, 2021 8:17am
  - david
    
    Yep, Control water and you have control over the population along with a heap of their electricity generation, farm production (irrigation and stock water), several large industries which use water extensively (meat works, orchard and vegetable washing and grading, brewing etc – yes they ARE coming for your beer as well, wine, etc etc) , virtually the whole economy.
    You would need to be certifiably insane to agree to putting that much power into that little number of hands.
    
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    November 7, 2021 1:10pm
- Scott
  
  Kev – the 3 waters fulfills two purposes for the labour government. Socialism, the centralisation of everything, thereby giving more control to the central government. Secondly a desire to rewrite history by giving Maori the assets of Western civilisation.
  These are the two major aims of socialism. Government control of everything and overturning Western civilisation.
  
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  November 7, 2021 8:23am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    It will surely overturn Govt too. Effectively taking the land and the water back returns NZ to pre-Treaty.
    
    Watch out the scheme is probably more about land than water. The ancient linkage of Maori to land and water is being invoked as a driving background motive. The foreground is the rise of a new activist class seeking to establish their mana now that many of the seniors have passed on.
    NZ is effectively in a state of anarchy.
    
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    November 7, 2021 1:58pm
- tavita
  
  Why is Ardern allowing it to happen? Can I suggest it might be that she thinks she is cleverer than Mahuta? Just as the Councils will retain nominal “ownership” in the new regime but will have absolutely no say, the iwi will gain 50% ownership but will they have any say? Is this a clever way to meet the demand for Maori ownership of the water without actually giving them any real power? It depends on the fine print – will the new authorities have rating powers and rely on rates for financing, in which case it gives the iwi huge power (but also unpopularity down the track), or will they rely largely on government funding, in which case the real power will be with Ardern’s socialist government.
  
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  November 7, 2021 8:33am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    How can local authorities have rating power if they don’t have control over the asset? That’s really rent, tribute or extortion from the ratepayers.
    
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    November 7, 2021 2:01pm
Prince

Who owns Wairarapa Times-Age ?
No Government lollies for them.
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November 7, 2021 8:09am
- Hollyfield
  
  Whoever owns them, I doubt regional newspapers are going to feel particularly favourably about Jacinda at the moment. We found out last week that Jacinda will only answer questions from media accredited with Parliament’s press gallery. A PM visiting a town is something regional newspapers would want to report on, and they’ve basically been told she won’t answer questions from regional newspapers.
  
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  November 7, 2021 8:31am
  - 70andstilllearning
    
    “Whoever owns them, I doubt regional newspapers are going to feel particularly favourably about Jacinda at the moment.”
    
    In my neck of the woods it seems that the two main locals are more than happy to support Jacinda since coming under Ferald ownership. Any “balance” type articles are now carefully categorized as “premium”.
    
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    November 7, 2021 8:53am
  - Mr_Blobby
    
    It was bizarre, why not just answer the question and move on.
    
    Only taking questions from a beholden press Corp who can be trusted to follow the script and not ask any hard questions.
    
    Perhaps kiwiblog should have a press gallery patsy questions of the day, week, month,
    
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    November 7, 2021 9:05am
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      Known as The Tova, the Jessica Weekly Award.
      
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      November 13, 2021 10:35pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Andrew Denholm
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/80896661/nzme-sells-wairarapa-timesage-to-masterton-businessman-andrew-denholm
  
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  November 7, 2021 9:12am
TripeWryter

I suggest you all read Graham Adams’ piece on Jacinda, Nanaia and the Maori caucus.
It’s probably the best explainer of the lot.
Graham’s doing the work that the ‘regular’ media should be doing but are not.
I see The Southland Times – often a source of independent writing down the years and you still see it sometimes under the Sinead regime – has an editorial calling Mahuta’s assertion that she consulted ‘arrant nonsense’.

Anyway, Graham Adams:
https://democracyproject.nz/2021/11/01/graham-adams-jacinda-ardern-and-the-ghost-of-david-lange/
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November 7, 2021 8:20am
- Toko
  
  Great article, needs to be shared everywhere. Most people are completely unaware of all this rapid legislating to make NZ an ethno- state, where elite Iwi executives rule over major aspects of our government.
  
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  November 7, 2021 8:42am
70andstilllearning

The most interesting point about this post is that the newspaper concerned survives as an independent and hasn’t been gobbled up by one NZ’s MSM sycophant corporates. Consequence is different views to the governments propaganda get expressed.

The article itself is worth a read as well.
https://times-age.co.nz/three-waters-plan-boils-over-at-council/
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November 7, 2021 8:20am
dime

How can it be bad? Jacinda told us yesterday that all the pipes were falling apart.. that there was shit running down the walls.. wait, that was the hospitals..

Labour need to double down on 3 waters. it will pay off in the long run lmao
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November 7, 2021 8:25am
artemisia

Polls are still indicating a Labour / Green government. Or a Green / Labour government if the former is kingmaker.
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November 7, 2021 8:30am
- gorse
  
  The polls won’t indicate that in two year’s time I’ll bet. Wait until the economic pain is being being felt by a large number of voters.
  
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  November 7, 2021 1:42pm
Give a Man a Fish

Water is essential for life.
Water is the most precious global resource. All life forms are dependent on it.
Currently, in NZ we have a voting system whereby we all get an equal vote on water through our local councils.
Is it essential we all get a fair and equal vote on water? In a proper democracy, that’s an obvious yes.
But we don’t live in a proper democracy. The Labour government strongly disagree and say New Zealanders don’t deserve equal votes on water.
Labour aim to pass their divisive 3 Waters reforms into law in December 2021.
3 Waters introduces a voting system based on race:
There are 2 different race groups:
1) Maori humans (12.5% of adult population)
2) All other humans (87.5% of adult population)
Maori humans with their 12.5% get 50% of the total votes (weighting of vote 50/12.5 =4.0)
Other humans with their 87.5% get the other 50% of total votes (weighting of vote 50/87.5 = 0.57)
Everyone still gets a vote under 3 Waters. That’s nice.
The kicker is that the strength of your vote depends on what type of human you are: I use points to illustrate the strength of your vote. The higher your points, the stronger your vote.
Every person gets the base rate of 100 points for a vote but then that base rate is multiplied by your race weighting to determine the strength of your vote.
1 Maori human’s vote is worth = 400 points (100 points * 4.0 race weighting)
1 Other human’s vote is worth = 57 points (100 points * 0.57 race weighting)
This policy is fantastic for Maori humans like Nanaia Mahuta (The Minister in charge of 3 waters) and Labour’s Maori caucus as their individual vote will be 7 times stronger than other humans (400/57). A Maori opinion regardless of merit will carry 7 times the weight of another human’s opinion. They clearly aren’t worried at all about the screaming conflict of interest here and their sense of entitlement and greed know no bounds.
What about you! Are you worth 57 or 400 points? Will you settle for 57 points if that applies to you?
Labour call 3 Waters enlightened policy.
Let’s be honest, it’s the complete opposite of enlightened policy.
3 Waters is a malignantly hostile act by a corrupt government against the best interests of 87.5% of adult New Zealanders who don’t call themselves Maori.
The proposed 3 Waters voting system is a disgusting real-life and real-time example of “Racial discrimination” 100% backed by Labour.
Protesting against this abomination of a law is something I will do in the near future. For my own integrity, I can’t stand by much longer without trying to stop the demise of our country from being a proud democracy with a constitution and rule of law that used to validate all New Zealanders to quickly becoming a totalitarian tin-pot state whose laws advantage Maori at the expense of other citizens on every issue.
I know I am not alone. I strongly believe that one person with courage holding up a protest sign against 3 waters, will soon turn into half a dozen and before you know it there will be a wall of protestors at your side. This would be repeated across the country.
If we protest, we shine light on the government’s rotten agenda. If we shine enough light on 3 Waters we start the debate and if we start the debate we will win because the government’s racist position on 3 waters is indefensible.
Who’s in for a bit of protesting?
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- Drone
  
  Hi #Give a Man a Fish sadly any protest against the proposals will be denounced as RACIST and won’t happen. More importantly and I know this probably hasn’t been fully considered yet is how the new three waters business structures will actually be implemented and work. There are no doubt a number of questions many have like:
  Will it ever be implemented,
  Will my rates go down,
  Will I get a separate water bill from the new organisation for each of the services I use,
  Will council workforces downsize to reflect the reduced responsibilities,
  Will we see three new HQs built and new CEOs and the staff currently involved in managing the assets transferred into the new structures or something else based on BAU under another name..
  
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  November 7, 2021 9:37am
  - Give a Man a Fish
    
    Hi #Drone
    I understand any protests will immediately be called racist, which is ironic when they are protesting against a racist voting system.
    Courage is the ingredient needed to take the hits and to keep saying the truth. Here’s some examples of Protest banners against 3 Waters:
    “STOP 3 Waters b/c of racist voting system”
    “STOP 3 Waters b/c it cheats NZers of EQUAL say on WATER.
    “STOP 3 Waters b/c 85% of citizens get inferior say on WATER
    “LABOUR want Maori to control everyone’s WATER. STOP THEM”
    I believe strongly that each person is as good as the next, so will never submit to unfair racist voting systems.
    Three waters has been dressed by the Labour Government as one issue, but is obviously two very separate issues.
    Issue 1: Water infrastructure needs upgrading and financing. Should the assets remain with local councils or be centralised. Fine, debate the best way to fix it and then do it. No big deal. It is important to be done properly, but it can be done.
    Issue 2: Giving Maori tribal elites 50% control over everyone’s water needs. A big deal. An obviously wrong, unfair and divisive move.
    
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    November 7, 2021 12:06pm
  - artemisia
    
    And another question – if the billions of ‘compensation’ to be paid to councils be used to reduce or completely repay borrowing for water assets? So that ratepayers don’t have to continue to pay for the assets. Or will the billions be used for vanity or nice to have projects.
    
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    November 7, 2021 12:42pm
- Rich Prick
  
  Let’s apply that weighting to income tax. Fair’s fair.
  
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  November 7, 2021 10:00am
Tony Stuart

Even better, the front page headline has been printed onto a t-shirt, available from the Taxpayers’ Union for a mere $27.

https://www.taxpayers.org.nz/shop?fbclid=IwAR2nz2yBv1ZGOWXPvh7Ch_dgAoSC3lHwqR-5m5V4xubOy1pjXw7Vkz6ilhI#!/Stop-Three-Waters-T-shirt-Wairarapa-Times-Age-front-page-splash/p/413540871/category=0

I’ll bet mikenmild will be placing an order as soon as he reads this wonderful news 😀
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- mikenmildagain
  
  I’m not allowed to comment about the Taxpayers’ ‘Union’.
  
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  November 7, 2021 9:15am
Rich Prick

Interesting. Perhaps the local media has tumbled to the realisation that without water functions, not one of their three councils (Masterton District Council possibly excepted, and only because of local roading) would need to exist.
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November 7, 2021 9:57am
- Gravelroad
  
  Yes Rich Prick-
  What will be the future role of Regional Councils under the Three Waters regime?
  I thought Regional Councils were set up to manage environmental issues (eg managing water and rivers etc based on water catchment areas).
  This to take away that “specialist” area of governance from other elected councils – except for District Councils.
  What the heck have Regional Councils been doing re water all these years – with significant rate payer funding? They must be for the chop, surely?
  Once Three Waters is ratified, next focus will be on getting rid of a range of other democratically elected local bodies.
  The path for this was being paved by the furtive attempt to interfere with local elections due next year.
  Look out for the rhetoric to start from the communists about how we don’t need all these local councils and they should only be four governing all NZ.
  
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  November 7, 2021 10:51am
ABS4EVA

You have to realise

THIS GOVERNMENT HATES
New Zealand and

IT HATES most of the People in it

Everything they utter is HATE SPEECH

They do everything FOR YOU that is not in YOUR
or The Countries INTERESTS.
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November 7, 2021 10:05am
Thought Criminal

I saw Jacinda in parliament trying to say that centralising control of water in Wellington will improve quality and efficiency.

Yeah right. Just like centralising housing construction with Kiwibuild lead to more houses.

Wellington is where efficiency goes to die under many layers of bureaucracy, no transparency and incompetent leadership.
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November 7, 2021 10:31am
surfing

3 waters was never about water…. it has always been a trojan horse to give maori control of water (and therefore money).

The media have rarely mentioned this aspect…how much money will maori get per year for their control of water?
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November 7, 2021 10:44am
- ronsegal
  
  The Maori control aspect is hardly ever explicitly mentioned by dissenting local Mayors and others, most of whom don’t quite seem able to grow quite enough of a pair to confront the issue
  
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  November 7, 2021 12:58pm
- ronsegal
  
  Yes it’s about realising a weapon with which to beat the opposition into compliance on all sorts of issues, whilst also making some dough.
  
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  November 7, 2021 1:09pm
iMP

“This government has just proven themselves to be a revolting pack of thieving liars.”

Quote: Chch city councillor James Gough ( Fendalton, Gerry’s patch).
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November 8, 2021 3:37pm
John

Regional News … the last bastion of honest media in NZ? Whilst the headline is an honest attempt at “shock media”, perhaps the message would be better served, said less shrilly.

I sent off a missive FB comment to my local mayor asking him to describe his “take on the political diversity of the working committee” … seems he doesn’t indulge in FB these days. (Which is a common theme with our current political scene – block out all detractors) Our (We “the electorate”) government is behaving as if they no longer wish to govern. It gives me to wonder if, behind closed doors, there is a conflict between the Liberals and the old-style unionist factions. Perhaps it explains that grumpy look Little has of late …?
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