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Easter has passed, but we are never short of a special someone to worship each day. If you are back to the daily grind today and needing a bit of a push, you might pause to invoke the magic of Saint Expeditus, the patron of urgent causes.
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April 19, 2022 8:01am
- cmm
  
  Sounds like something 99% of NZ government offices could do with a picture of Expeditus on their wall.
  
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  April 19, 2022 9:17am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    That would look nice. He is depicted as a Roman centurion, holding a palm leaf in his left hand, and raising a cross with the word hodie (today) on it in his right hand. His left foot is stepping on a crow, which is speaking the word “cras” (tomorrow).
    
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    April 19, 2022 9:32am
    - Don Beckett
      
      Thanks MMA. In the Catholic calendar of saints, today is St. Alphege (940? – 1012). He was an English saint – started off as monk, then became Abbot of Bath, then bishop of Winchester, then Archbishop of Canterbury. He convinced the Danish raider Anlaf to stop raiding England in 1005, but came back in 1011, captured Canterbury and Alphege. They demanded a ransom for him, but Alphege told them not to pay, so Thurm the Dane got angry, and despatched him with his battleaxe.
      Thus endeth the lesson. 😆
      
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      April 19, 2022 10:31am
- NoFax
  
  For someone who thinks they know the Church calendar you usually get it wrong.
  Today and until next Sunday is the same day – it is the 8th Day of the New Creation and still Easter. So Easter has not passed so happy Easter to everyone!
  
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  April 19, 2022 2:19pm
- MCōs
  
  Today is also Southland Anniversary Day.
  (When I was at school Catholic kids had a holiday on Easter Tuesday & because there were three terms it never fell in the school hols)
  I started my long career in Structural Draughting in the MOW for about three years. Talk went round there was a bloke who worked for the Dept in Roading Division going up and down the motu working on the highway system.
  For years he managed to be in the right places to take advantage of the customary holidays associated with the various Anniversary Days.
  Mind you everyday was a holiday in the MOW for some people.
  
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  April 19, 2022 2:57pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    [Deleted – please learn to post without the obligatory obscenity. mod.]
    
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    April 19, 2022 4:36pm
Maggy Wassilieff

A Hybrid Orchid bred in Singapore will be named for Jacinda Ardern

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/jacinda-ardern-new-zealand-visit-singapore-2631201
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April 19, 2022 8:03am
- Nickc2
  
  Does that mean each time I flush the toilet, I’m flushing away a Hybrid Orchid?
  
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  April 19, 2022 8:12am
  - Don Beckett
    
    It must be a bloody ugly orchid. 😉
    
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    April 19, 2022 10:32am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Perhaps not..
      
      Other visiting politicians have had pretty nice variants named for them
      
      https://biblioasia.nlb.gov.sg/vol-18/issue-1/apr-to-jun-2022/singapore-orchid-diplomacy
      
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      April 19, 2022 7:17pm
- Dougal10
  
  What a wonderful use of Air Horse 1 but they will need to get modifications done to the cabin doors to get her head in after trotting off to harvard for the fake degree next month .
  
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  April 19, 2022 8:14am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Might have to come home in a C130?
    
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    April 19, 2022 9:03am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Gosh, hasn’t she got an insect already named after her?
  
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  April 19, 2022 8:18am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Yep,
    A ground weta
    
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    April 19, 2022 9:14am
    - Nickc2
      
      Yuk, poor Ground Weta.
      
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      April 19, 2022 9:19am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Has no backbone
        
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        April 19, 2022 10:01am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Savage!
      
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      April 19, 2022 9:25am
    - Sarkozygroupie
      
      Ground wetas are vicious. Yesterday I came face to face with one and while trying to rehome it in the next door neighbours garden the little sod bit me. This is the second time I’ve been bitten and it’s pretty painful.
      
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      April 19, 2022 10:02pm
- ecco
  
  Ardern is going round peripheral countries like Singapore trying to look like she’s doing something re trade. What’s the point of that? If she wants to make meaningful headways in NZ trade partnerships she needs to talk to China and the US. Not the likes of Singapore. Not saying I don’t like Singaporeans, they are very nice people.
  
  Ardern’s just doing the easiest, low hanging fruit whom she knows are friendly to her (par for the course). She should just be doing a zoom call with Xi. LOL
  
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  April 19, 2022 8:21am
  - 70andstilllearning
    
    “It is the first of several trips Ardern is planning this year after two years of Covid-19 measures halted the usually busy international agenda of Prime Ministers – she has signalled she will also travel to the US, Europe and the UK as the usual leaders’ round of international summits start to kick off again.”
    
    She is simply trying to to catch her air points balance up to Jimmy’s again given he’s got a bit of a break on her in the last couple of years!
    
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-to-travel-to-singapore-japan-in-first-international-trip-since-covid-19/H2TDAF5MG7BX3MJHBRS2CVMBGQ/
    
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    April 19, 2022 9:25am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      It will be Doctor Ardern soon. That will really swell the head. Get those C130s fueled up!
      
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      April 19, 2022 10:05am
      - Alwynn
        
        It seems a great shame that she did not read the views expressed by Richard Feynman.
        
        After winning the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics, Richard Feynman received a letter from Dr. George Beadle at the University of Chicago offering him an honorary degree.
        This was his reply:
        
        Dear George,
        Yours is the first honorary degree that I have been offered, and I thank you for considering me for such an honor.
        However, I remember the work I did to get a real degree at Princeton and the guys on the same platform receiving honorary degrees without work—and felt an “honorary degree” was a debasement of the idea of a “degree which confirms certain work has been accomplished.” It is like giving an “honorary electricians license.” I swore then that if by chance I was ever offered one I would not accept it.
        Now at last (twenty-five years later) you have given me a chance to carry out my vow.
        
        So thank you, but I do not wish to accept the honorary degree you offered.
        Sincerely yours,
        
        Richard P. Feynman
        
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        April 19, 2022 10:35am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        George Beadle had received his Nobel Prize in 1958.
        
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        April 19, 2022 7:13pm
    - Paulus
      
      Do RNZAF give Airpoints too ?
      
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      April 19, 2022 10:38am
      - I remember when
        
        No, but they often travel by degrees.
        
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        April 19, 2022 2:40pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Not needed. No paying passengers and the fuel tanks are always full. The 757s do get around, lots of trips to Darwin in the last 12 months [deleted]
        Can’t track them anymore, FlightRadar24 not getting the signal —-WHY?
        
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        April 19, 2022 2:48pm
  - RoboRob
    
    Apparently the Ukraine war will be a big focus of discussion. What next, discussion of NZ / SG space exploration 🙂
    
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    April 19, 2022 9:26am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I would like to see her answer if asked “What does NZ have to trade?”
    
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    April 19, 2022 10:03am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      “Hugs and kindness” I believe.
      
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      April 19, 2022 10:37am
  - Scott
    
    Disagree ecco. I would like to see less reliance on China. Let’s not forget they allowed the virus to circulate around the world. They ruthlessly suppress their own citizens. They are setting up naval bases in the Pacific. And for years they have been engaged in ruthless trade practices such as the theft of intellectual property.
    
    China is not our friend.
    
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    April 19, 2022 10:11am
    - Ra Henare
      
      Hate to be picky…..China did not allow the virus to circulate around the world.
      Point one they couldnt control it.
      Point 2 Fauci and WHO said no need to close borders.
      
      Again Generalizations are crap.
      China is more that its leadership. Ther are 100s of millions of Good Chinese trying to make a living and taking care of their families every day
      
      Same as NZ is not about Arderns leadership(or lack thereof) but many thousands of Kiwis doing there best to get ahead despite the crap policies of this Government
      
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      April 19, 2022 3:29pm
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        China shut down internal travel to and from wuhan in late january 2020, while keeping the international flights from wuhan operating for weeks afterwards.
        
        18million excess deaths to date. 3 holocausts. Evil people.
        
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        April 19, 2022 5:42pm
  - curry4me
    
    Speaking of trade relationships; an FTA with India would be a lot better than a slap in the face with a wet fish. No chance of these turkeys seeking one.
    
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    April 19, 2022 10:18am
  - nathie
    
    I’d like to see some achievements from the PM (for example deals signed, greater cooperation announced etc), otherwise she is just a “tourist” jet-setting across the globe taking a look at things and snapping selfies …
    
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    April 19, 2022 10:19am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      eerrrr, there will be an announcement about an announcement about a future announcement right before the Election.
      Go hard go early and all that shit
      
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      April 19, 2022 2:51pm
    - Ra Henare
      
      Breaking news. Ardern announces increase in working Visa for young Singaporean. Up from 200 pa to……wait for it….300!!!
      
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      April 19, 2022 3:31pm
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      She will be a tourist, all countries she is visiting we have trade deals with, so what is she going to talk trade over?
      
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      April 20, 2022 12:06am
  - Paulus
    
    Singapore is only the first of her Publicity Stunts as she tries with her $105m media to portray herself as one of us !
    Media need a top up too !
    
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    April 19, 2022 10:37am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Soon, soon. When the media get a bit unruly they will be quietened with koha
      
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      April 19, 2022 2:52pm
- dubya
  
  I would have thought a rose would be more appropriate. Looks like shit most of the year, then puts on a big song and dance and a bunch of old women think it’s marvelous and worth the pain.
  
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  April 19, 2022 8:25am
  - RalphT
    
    Thanks dubya. Made my week; one of the best descriptions of our glorious leader ever.
    
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    April 19, 2022 9:44am
  - I remember when
    
    Perhaps a tulip. A short burst once-a-year.
    
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    April 19, 2022 2:43pm
- tf78
  
  It’s probably a Venus Fly Trap.
  
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  April 19, 2022 10:17am
- G152
  
  wheres the 245T when you need it
  
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  April 19, 2022 10:54am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Diesel, oopps, too expensive
    
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    April 19, 2022 2:54pm
- Harry Knuts
  
  ohhh it’s the new variety that promises a lovely scent and flower instead it produces nothing but still demands constant nurturing.
  
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  April 19, 2022 12:19pm
- Scooter
  
  Found this description online, quite fitting actually.
  
  Orchids “steal, lie, cheat” and look impudently good while doing so.
  
  Most flowering plants offer nectar to attract pollinators and reward them for their visit. Orchids on the other hand usually trick their pollinators into pollinating them and stick the pollinarium onto the animal without rewarding it for the visit. Some orchids evolved to look very similar as other flowers nearby so the pollinators can’t tell the difference. Others even look like female insects and even smell like them to trick the male insects into copulation and sticking the pollinarium onto the insects before they even realize that they got tricked.
  
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  April 19, 2022 6:28pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Yet back here the first born foal on August 1 will don the Marxists name
  
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  April 20, 2022 12:05am
kiwikidsnz

An informative critique of the Govts changes to DHB legislation over at TDB.

https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2022/04/19/guest-blog-ian-powell-bye-bye-subsidiarity-hello-democratic-deficit/
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April 19, 2022 8:06am
- mawm
  
  There is a large cohort of senior doctors in the DHB’s who are working beyond normal retirement age and who are prominent educators and leaders. I can imagine that many will retire in the next few months as they find out what this bill will do.
  
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  April 19, 2022 11:16am
Lee C

Posted on fb: Thought I’d share – The question needs to be asked of Z Energy why they chose to stop importing bitumen into NZ at the end of 2020? (Z as you know are a major shareholder in Marsden Point). Bitumen has this month been identified by NZTA as a strategic material to NZ lnc (in reality it always has been) and they have announced that they will now become the major importer of bitumen for all of NZ so as not to be held a price hostage to importers. Imported bitumen used to be processed through Marsden Point refinery and sold mainly to LTNZ.
Marsden Point is now in the process of decommisioning as a refinery supposedly due to lack of profitability and dubious reports of its age and commercial viability, and will become an pre refined fuel import terminal only.
To understand fully take a step back to last year. In May 2021 the Aust Govt announced an approx $2.4 billion bail out for the 2 OZ oil refineries including the Ampol Brisbane refinery. Stating very clearly the refineries were strategic assets that could not be lost.
Z (also Caltex) is now in the final stages of being bought out by Ampol Aust (first announced Aug 2021 and confirmed early Mar 2022) shortly after which Marsden Point started to be shut down. Ampol is a large refiner of crude oil in Australia so after the purchase of Z is finalised by the commerce commision they will have the monopoly of importing pre refined crude oil products into NZ and onselling through Z and Caltex to the public plus being a major shareholder in Marsden Point refinery. What is going on here? Something smells very fishy to me.
1) Z Energy announces end to bitumen late 2020.
2) lmportation and processing of bitumen through Marsden Point stops early 2021.
3) Aust Govt bails out Ampol refinery to the tune of approx $1.2 billion.
4) Aug 2021 Ampol announces planned buyout of Z.
5) March 2022 buyout confirmed and a few days later Marsden Point starts decommisioning from refining crude oil to refined product import terminal only.
6) NZTA announce bitumin is a strategic commodity and will now import their own supply.
7) June 2022 Ampol completes buyout of Z and becomes the major supplier of refined petrol to NZ as well as owner of the Z and Caltex brands here.
Is it all starting to make sense now?
Since last May Ampol have recorded a profit (dunno about the other refiner) so l’m pretty sure they miss out on some of that Oz govt funding? Nevertheless l’m sure that extra funding would have helped them buy out Z Energy here and helped in securing the Marsden Point closure. All of which works in their favour and to the detriment of NZ and us poor sods paying at the pump.
Meanwhile all this is happening our govt is dicking us around further and spouting off saying we are good little global citizens by selling off a significant amount of our strategic oil reserves. This while 31 other countries signed up to the same international agreement have openly refused to do this as its against their national interests.
New Zealanders are being well and truly rogered from behind here folks. All the way to the petrol pump and home again. Questions need to be asked of Z Energy, Ampol, NZTA the Commerce Commission and the NZ Govt but l haven’t heard one of our bought off MSM say boo about the FACTS shown above. It’s about time someone did.
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April 19, 2022 8:11am
- Benedict Yu
  
  I have no doubt that New Zealanders will regret having that refinery close. I think part of it is that politicians like Jacinda are ignorant of the central roles etroleum and gas play in modern society. If she was aware, why would she have banned exploration in New Zealand?
  
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  April 19, 2022 8:27am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Jaspinda is just keeping the loopy Greens happy.
    Not refining here and importing is just as stupid as not mining good coal and importing shit coal
    
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    April 19, 2022 9:09am
    - Don Beckett
      
      Aren’t there around the world Refinery Ships that travel around, refining oil on site at various places?
      The shot would be to buy one, and have it move around to the different storage ports, get a crude tanker alongside & refine on site.
      I don’t know how the logistics would work, but maybe worth exploring??
      
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      April 19, 2022 10:43am
  - Yvette
    
    Back when oil and gas exploration was banned, media were not fettered by Government as covid had not yet arrived, so much media conjecture was that the Greens pressured Labour and New Zealand First’s Winston “horse-traded”t in an outside of Cabinet agreement so he could get his waka-jumping bill passed. The ban was also to enhance Jacinda’s image on her first major trip overseas, allowing her to tell Macron of the ban, although France has to import most of what Ardern was banning and must have thought her to be nuts.
    The actual value of the Taranaki product, and the possible field off Oamaru, and run-on effects of banning exploration, so the innovative hydrogen industry – now to use electricity that may not so readily be available after New Zealand’s vehicle fleet convert, but the rest of the world manufactures from natural gas – was probably of little consideration.
    Yes, Jacinda seems to have been ignorant.
    
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    April 19, 2022 9:20am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Arrogant and ignorant must mean the same thing …..
      
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      April 19, 2022 2:58pm
  - peterwn
    
    Feedstock is the issue – not refinery capacity. Since NZ is dependent on overseas sourced crude oil which ever way you look at it the trick for NZ and its oil companies is to enter into contracts with crude oil producers for mid to long term supply augmented by oil futures. NZ oil companies can then buy refined products from the cheapest refinery which meets QA standards and can use swaps so the refinery can get its crude from its usual sources. In other words there in no need for NZ to take delivery of the crude oil it contracted to buy.
    
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    April 19, 2022 11:24am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    The refinery was owned by a company, not the government
    
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    April 20, 2022 12:08am
- Master Mariner
  
  Yes Indeed Lee C.
  
  I dont really know where to start or Finish here.
  
  https://www.newsroom.co.nz/overseas-investment-sign-off-for-aussie-fuel-giant-to-purchase-z-energy
  and,
  https://www.newsroom.co.nz/nz-bolsters-emergency-oil-stocks-with-offer-of-marsden-point-storage
  There is a lot of mis-information in these interviews. Mainly “Tickets” purchases for 90 Days energy reserves as per IEA.
  
  https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/business/iea-details-plan-to-release-120-mln-barrels-of-oil-over-6-months-to-cool-prices/articleshow/90723545.cms
  
  And Shipping Bitumen,
  “Bulk Bitumen Tanker availability on some Global Markets is quite tight and insufficient vessels are available,”
  https://www.nuroil.com/bitumen-bulk-shipment.aspx
  
  Never mind the fertiliser equation for NZ Biggest Industry, Farming.
  
  Scorched Earth Policies is the only Logical conclusion, Because surely you can not be this incompetent.//
  
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  April 19, 2022 8:30am
  - Nickc2
    
    Buts that’s what the children who bought their petition to Parliament wanted eh?
    
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    April 19, 2022 9:59am
- SoloView
  
  re”Marsden Point is now in the process of decommissioning as a refinery supposedly due to lack of profitability and dubious reports of its age and commercial viability”
  The shareholders voted to decommission this privately owned refinery.
  Do you think the government should have nationalised, bought out or otherwise passed legislation to force it to stay open?
  
  re “This while 31 other countries signed up to the same international agreement have openly refused to do this as its against their national interests.”
  
  The international agreement you refer to is presumably the IEA which is made up of 31 member countries. In addition the IEA also includes ten association countries.
  
  The link below refers to the release of oil from their reserves
  https://greekreporter.com/2022/03/02/oil-released-strategic-reserves/
  Which 31 countries “openly refused”?
  
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  April 19, 2022 10:06am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    If the Labour Govt bought the refinery, or forced it to stay open; that would be hypocritical right?
    What is wrong with that? Govt hypocrisy is on show every day!
    
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    April 19, 2022 3:03pm
- In Vino Veritas
  
  Here’s a fact for you Lee. Megan Woods, our energy minister, because she is utterly incompetent, did not think that Marsden Point was a “strategic asset”. When she changed her mind, it was way too late. So put the blame where it belongs. With the current Government. As Pink Floyd once sang, “the lunatics are in the hall”.
  
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  April 19, 2022 10:31am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    You lock the door
    And throw away the key
    There’s someone in my head but it’s not me
    
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    April 19, 2022 3:05pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    But it is still owned by a private company, it is not an asset for this rotten government at all
    
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    April 20, 2022 12:11am
Master Mariner

With her current advisors , I would not be surprised she makes an announcement in Orchid Towers.
Maybe 3 rd or 4 th Floor.
Orchid Towers is commonly called ” 4 Floors of Wh….s.
Appropriate in my mind to show off her flower with an announcement.
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April 19, 2022 8:11am
- Taieri
  
  The place is called Orchard Towers, not Orchid Towers.
  
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  April 19, 2022 9:03am
  - Master Mariner
    
    Whoops , my bad not having been a customer //
    
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    April 19, 2022 10:18am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      I went past but did not go in….
      I did try this but did not inhale …..
      //
      
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      April 19, 2022 3:08pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    But it is also know as 4 floors of who….s
    
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    April 20, 2022 12:12am
Yvette

Fears new history syllabus could create hostility in schools
“Without undertaking a critical learning journey themselves, kaiako of the Aotearoa New Zealand histories curriculum, and those for that matter delivering on the broader kaupapa of mana orite, mo te mātauranga Māori, they run the risk of being complicit in yet another form of cultural appropriation.
“It would not be tika to cherry pick all of the beautiful concepts and values of te ao Māori, and sort of skirt around or censor or just miss mana whenua narratives because they’re confronting or uncomfortable.”
https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/04/18/fears-new-history-syllabus-could-create-hostility-in-schools/

“… kaupapa of mana orite, mo te mātauranga Māori” according to Google Translate, apparently means “principle of equality, for Māori education”.
See? – now if you don’t know a great deal of Maori, as I don’t, you are faced as Maori in 1840, considering the Treaty they were asked to sign – your language sprinkled with words you don’t understand. How ironic, if not devious?

And does not “… the beautiful concepts and values of te ao Māori …” – with “te ao Maori” being the Maori worldview” – suggest that Maori religion will be perhaps taught under the guise of “History”?

Yet Fears new history syllabus could create hostility in schools are that Maori children may be uncomfortable with teaching that tells them once again (well, perhaps several times) that history has deprived them of land, and traditions.
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April 19, 2022 8:17am
- graham
  
  I saw the story last night, Yvette. There was much talk about the concern that students may feel vulnerable and culturally unsafe, that certain topics could be “triggering” for some students, that feelings of guilt, shame, blame, and anger might be generated, and a hostile environment for children.
  
  This concern seemed to be around how Maori students would be affected. But I wonder if there has been any thought given to how students of British descent, for example, might be affected. After all, if they are forced to endure lessons in which they are told that their ancestors were nasty evil colonisers who are entirely responsible for all the problems that affect Maori today, I rather think they might feel somewhat uncomfortable.
  
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  April 19, 2022 9:39am
  - Paulus
    
    Students of British descent do not matter as far as New Zealand history is concered – rotten Colonialists who stole everything.
    
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    April 19, 2022 10:42am
  - Ehlana
    
    I wonder what thought was given to the reality that all Maori today have some non-Maori ancestors and many have connections to more than one tribe. Are these children to feel ashamed of some of their ancestors now? What happens when local Maori history says their ancestors in Tribe A attacked their ancestors from Tribe B? Or that a Maori ancestor of theirs was the one who sold the tribe’s land?
    
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    April 19, 2022 1:18pm
  - Jack5
    
    The syllabus is State brain washing on a Stalinist-Hitlerian scale.
    
    Not how to think, but what to think.
    
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    April 19, 2022 1:20pm
kevn

Looks like NZer’s are just little pawns in the game and labour are playing along.
Rooting NZ.
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April 19, 2022 8:25am
Frank the tank

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/04/18/easter-bunny-interrupts-joe-biden-while-talking-about-afghanistan/

Obama dressed up as an Easter Bunny. Regardless what a joke of a president.
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April 19, 2022 8:26am
- Inandout
  
  Frank, Joe returns to that aimless shuffling around like a lost soul. It is actually cruel to confuse an already befuddled person.
  
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  April 19, 2022 9:17am
- krazykiwi
  
  Speaking of the Easter Bunny.
  
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  April 19, 2022 9:19am
- MCōs
  
  He’s not president anymore.
  
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  April 19, 2022 9:40am
  - Paulus
    
    Obama not President again yet but can stand again if the Democrats want.
    Watch this space.
    
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    April 19, 2022 1:51pm
    - Alwynn
      
      How on earth do you manage to come to that conclusion?
      The 22nd amendment prevents Obama, having served for 2 terms, from serving again.
      You would have to amend the constitution and that is not going to happen any time soon.
      
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      April 19, 2022 6:57pm
- curry4me
  
  I’m sure the Easter Bunny would make a better Resident than Brandon.
  
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  April 19, 2022 10:24am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    President too
    
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    April 19, 2022 3:24pm
- Loddenthinks
  
  The poor senile old coot – he looked genuinely alarmed, frightened and bewildered. You could see it in his eyes, a real Donnie Darko moment.
  
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  April 19, 2022 10:48am
  - curry4me
    
    Ordinarily, I’d sympathise with an Alzheimers sufferer. But not Brandon, and those who put him there. Its Karma.
    
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    April 19, 2022 7:02pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    You should have seen the footage of him finishing a speech , he turned, headed the wrong way, begged for direction, turned in a full circle, then wondered the other direction, then stopped and still did not know if he was heading in the right direction
    
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    April 20, 2022 12:19am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  That Easter bunny turned out to be Bidens topic strategist, she was put there to save the old fool, and by god did he look lost at a few things this week, he said something from the balcony of the Whitehouse, his wife had to tell him to wave FFS
  
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  April 20, 2022 12:16am
Maggie Pie

The NZ Herald reports, ‘one-man-crimewave’, Kaoss Price, shot by Police in New Plymouth on Saturday night, had told friends the day before… “he want’s to turn his life around”

https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1516130372593012749

Decides to turn car around instead.

LOL!!
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April 19, 2022 8:30am
- ecco
  
  Kaoss – good name eh for avoiding the gaze of the police.
  
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  April 19, 2022 8:32am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    That and half his face covered in tough stickers. He was a winner in life, just a shame the nasty police prevented him from turning his life around…
    
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    April 19, 2022 10:49am
    - GJM
      
      Turned his life around 90 degrees – from vertical to horizontal.
      
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      April 19, 2022 3:14pm
- pdm
  
  Lived up to his name – right to the very end.
  
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  April 19, 2022 8:33am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    With that name he was never going to turn anything around. Parents must share part of this.
    
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    April 19, 2022 9:18am
- Frank the tank
  
  Yeas get ready for weeks of “he was a young man full of promise” BS Mags. Funnily enough if special K hadn’t made it so easy to get bail said individual would still be alive and where he was going to be – behind bars…..
  
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  April 19, 2022 8:36am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    Don’t forget the Dudge who called his original sentence “manifestly excessive”.
    
    Due to their actions over the last 2 years, and in particular the first and last 3 months of that period I have very little respect for the police. But you have to wonder just how hard their job is with a useless Police Minister, a Corrections Minister that wants to play catch-and-release, the wettest woke Commissioner money can buy and now dud judges giving them a cuddle and having a whip-round to see them on their way.
    
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    April 19, 2022 10:52am
  - peterwn
    
    The Police should have waited until the doggies arrived before taking action against the offender. Then some poor police dog handler may have ended up being charged with assault with a weapon (to wit the dog).
    
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    April 19, 2022 11:28am
- Bobba Fret
  
  I love reading all these sob stories that come out now about how he was just mis-understood and actually a very nice loving guy. Would be interesting if they opened up the article for public comments as I’m sure I’m not the only person who thinks NZ is a better and safer place without him.
  
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  April 19, 2022 9:00am
  - Inandout
    
    it amuses me that our MSM allows comment on few articles. Big boys like Mail Online welcome comment.
    
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    April 19, 2022 10:46am
- surfing
  
  I’m interested in how a baby grows into such a evil person.
  
  The name gives some big clues. It is child abuse to name your child Kaoss.
  
  Where were the whanau support teams when he was a boy?
  
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  April 19, 2022 9:05am
  - Tauhei Notts
    
    I wonder if his mother’s name was Control and his father was a rangatira.
    Horse breeders would then refer to him as Kaoss by The Chief out of Control.
    
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    April 19, 2022 10:08am
    - Maggie Pie
      
      Don’t Get Smart now Toe…leave that to me 😀
      
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      April 19, 2022 10:23am
      - Bobba Fret
        
        Nice one agent 99
        
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        April 19, 2022 12:27pm
- Philview
  
  On a serious note, there has been 25% drop in the prison population since 2020. This has been ignored by most of the media I assume because Labour don’t want the public to be aware of it. However, some of us have concerns about the level of support given to these prisoners on release. I would assume based on how this Government operates there will be no support provided. Hence the level of anarchy we are starting to see in some communities.
  
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  April 19, 2022 9:59am
- Bobba Fret
  
  Kaoss paid the ultimate Price!
  
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  April 19, 2022 11:36am
Blog-aholic

This mornings National Radio news had Ardern saying that there is a chance she could catch Covid19 while she is overses but it was a chance she was willing to take for New Zealand blah, blah,blah….

Literally the most puke invoking statement.
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April 19, 2022 8:41am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Pass the bucket – empty it first please
  
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  April 19, 2022 10:20am
- ClanMcleod
  
  She is the most self absorbed, narcissistic, nauseating fake I have ever come across. She’s up there with Bono.
  
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  April 19, 2022 10:53am
- Maggie Pie
  
  Would this be a good time to close our borders again?
  
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  April 19, 2022 10:56am
- fisho
  
  Wow, I guess in today’s millennial world that’s the middle-aged white woman’s version of jumping on top of a grenade to save your fellow warriors? Such sacrifice and with ANZAC day just around the corner. VC perhaps?
  
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  April 19, 2022 11:03am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I don’t think she will address Ah tee rower.
    https://mch.govt.nz/anzac-prime-ministers-message
    
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    April 19, 2022 3:34pm
- peterwn
  
  Jacinda can say what she likes and get away with it. With Chris if he gets one word out unintentionally out of place then the Left and MSM are down his throat.
  
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  April 19, 2022 11:31am
- Harry Knuts
  
  i thought this trip is her job interviews junket ?? curious for a friend…
  
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  April 19, 2022 12:24pm
Frank the tank

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300568310/prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-touches-down-in-singapore-for-first-leg-of-asia-trip

Why the [deleted] is Gayford there? What possibly could he offer with regards to trade?
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April 19, 2022 8:41am
- cmm
  
  Playing his “cultural ambassador” role at Singapore Airways maybe?
  
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  April 19, 2022 10:12am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Something to note. When PM, John Key personally paid all of the costs for his wife to accompany him on official trips.
  
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  April 19, 2022 10:37am
  - rouppe
    
    What were the real costs?
    
    757? Going anyway, not priced by the seat.
    Hotel? Staying in the same room…
    Meals and drinks? Yep, costs there
    
    Not sure what significant extra costs are incurred when a spouse accompanies the PM. Unless she flew commercial separately.
    
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    April 19, 2022 12:54pm
    - Sarkozygroupie
      
      Formal VIP facilitation on arrival and departure, diplomatic travel in-country, Diplomatic Protection Squad details, “spouse programmes” to keep them occupied each day while PM attends business meetings, various other costs associated with NZ Embassies and High Commissions. These combined costs are significant (in the thousands), then multiply for x number of countries per trip.
      
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      April 19, 2022 10:42pm
  - MCōs
    
    On the other hand PM Bill English didn’t.
    
    A couple of high profile MPs had their careers blighted because they didn’t stick to the rules.
    Maybe more, but Judith Collins and Rodney Hide spring to mind.
    
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    April 19, 2022 1:52pm
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      And Wristy Jones
      
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      April 20, 2022 12:23am
- Ehlana
  
  Don’t partners usually travel with PM’s and the like?
  
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  April 19, 2022 3:11pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    You never have them slapped in your face, Do you remember seeing Broni, or Englishes wife, or the little strange guy married to Clark?
    
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    April 20, 2022 12:25am
vt

Took kids to a kids parliament tour recently. At the end of the tour some parents gave the staff their kids’ (looking about 5-6 year olds) hand-written letters to the prime minister. Sick!
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April 19, 2022 8:44am
- MCōs
  
  What’s sick about that?
  Kids have been writing letters to PMs and MPs since forever.
  Personally I don’t know why kids would have wanted to write to PM Key, but my sister who is a primary school teacher in the solid south tells me they did.
  
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  April 19, 2022 10:43am
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Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
Reported in the news today:
This October, 52 more Council seats across the country will be elected by the Maori Electoral role.
The Local Government Commission has accepted proposals for 52 dedicated Maori seats across 27 district and regional councils.
Gisborne will have 5 of its current 13 seats moved to Maori wards and 40% of the Far North seats will be taken from the Maori Role.
And Kiwiblog keeps myopically banging on about Rotorua and the end of suffrage.
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April 19, 2022 8:44am
- Frank the tank
  
  And the train with no breaks to the third world rolls forever on.
  
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  April 19, 2022 8:50am
- Swifty
  
  What is your point?
  
  (And by the way, have you thought about how much you damage your credibility with your spelling errors?)
  
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  April 19, 2022 8:50am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    Swifty he’s on pretty solid ground there – it’s not possible to damage his “credibility” any further.
    
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    April 19, 2022 10:55am
- Scott
  
  But John, isn’t all this designed to increase Maori representation at the expense of everyone else? Won’t the Maori 15% have more than 15% of the representation? And isn’t that what Maori radical activists want?
  
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  April 19, 2022 8:53am
  - John Pakes
    
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    So, is the Local Government Commission a part of the plot?
    And would the same sinister threat exist should it be a 15% rural community that was getting the same, as is happening in some regions, rather than Maori?
    
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    April 19, 2022 10:00am
    - Loddenthinks
      
      Of course it would you gammon. Equal suffrage is a human right; anything that destroys that is wrong, no matter by whom or by what means. Educate yourself, it’s embarrassing.
      
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      April 19, 2022 10:56am
  - Scott
    
    John, I was hoping you’d answer my questions? You posted on this.
    Again – isn’t all this designed to increase Maori representation? Won’t the 15% have more than 15% representation?
    That’s what DPF has alleged. That Maori people in places like rotorua will have disproportionate representation compared to other people. That the idea of one person, one vote is being undermined.
    
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    April 19, 2022 10:18am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Pakes did answer, just not an answer to your questions. He diverted!! Just as his boss (I refude that) does
      
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      April 19, 2022 3:43pm
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Is he not meaning they will have more councillors, meaning a higher vote for Māori on the council?
      
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      April 20, 2022 12:27am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Maori Roll, not Maori Role.
  
  Although, perhaps a Freudian slip.
  
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  April 19, 2022 8:58am
  - John Pakes
    
    Apologies Bollocks. My mistake. Please remember that I have explained in the past that I went to school to play cricket.
    
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    April 19, 2022 10:01am
- Nickc2
  
  This is not only bad legislation, it also sanctions corruption IMO.
  Take for example, Maori wish to totally control council determinations. If so, they can convince a number of like-minded Maori to enroll on the Non-Maori electoral roll, get elected which isn’t difficult given the apathy of Local Body electors and when in office, support Maori initiatives. Then, there’s nothing Non-Maori can do about it eh?
  
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  April 19, 2022 8:59am
  - Jack5
    
    Is this Maori equality? What’s mine is mine, and what’s yours is half-mine.
    
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    April 19, 2022 1:35pm
- surfing
  
  DPF has argued against maori wards before.
  
  You can thank John Key and Geoffrey Palmer for what is happening today.
  
  John Key’s biggest political achievement was signing the UN Indigenous peoples act. This has more impact on the future of NZ than anything else he did.
  
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  April 19, 2022 9:13am
  - Wayne Mapp
    
    DPF was not really against Maori wards as such. His primary concern was ensuring that all votes, irrespective of whether they are on a general roll or a Maori roll, have the same weight. It is an inherent part of equality.
    Have a read of his submission on the Rotorua bill which he posted a few days ago.
    
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    April 19, 2022 10:46am
    - Jack5
      
      So there are two issues: same weight for all votes, and whether there should be race-based division in voting.
      
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      April 19, 2022 1:36pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    That had nothing to go with trying to change democracy
    
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    April 20, 2022 12:29am
- Paulus
  
  Tauranga Local election after the current Mahuta Commissioners has been cancelled by Mahuta for another three years.
  New Maori Commissioners in October expected.
  
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  April 19, 2022 10:46am
- Kiwi Dave
  
  And Kiwiblog keeps myopically banging on about Rotorua and the end of suffrage.
  
  Today, as yesterday, you advance your opinion by misrepresenting your opponents’ views. The KB claim is not that the Rotorua bill is the end of suffrage, but the end of equal suffrage in Rotorua and, once this principle is accepted, will lead to the end of equal suffrage throughout NZ.
  
  In a recent post, DPF defined and distinguished between universal suffrage and equal suffrage. In his submission on the Rotorua bill posted on KB yesterday, in nine of his first 10 points on the bill, DPF used the terms ‘equal suffrage‘ or ‘equality of suffrage’, and also as a sub-heading, sometimes bolding the phrase. The problem with the Rotorua bill is that it violates equality of suffrage, a bedrock principle of modern democracy.
  
  It is possible, as in Parliamentary elections, to have racially separate electorates and representation without violating equal suffrage and, perhaps this is what the LGC has just done – I don’t know. I strongly doubt that racially separated electorates are a good idea, but recognise that a case can be made for them. However, the bigger problem which KBers have repeatedly and clearly objected to, is unequal and discriminatory representation on the basis of ancestry.
  
  Do you think some voters, by reason of individual ancestry, are formally entitled to greater representation? That is what you seem to be arguing for.
  
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  April 19, 2022 2:53pm
- Ehlana
  
  John, there are many people who feel that setting up more race-determined separate representation is a backwards step.
  
  What was proposed in Rotorua was that around 12,500 Maori roll voters would vote for 3 representatives and 37,700 voters on the General roll would also vote for 3 representatives. (Another 4 representatives would be chosen by the whole community). That is not equal suffrage, hence the objections.
  
  What is proposed in the Local Electoral Act is that the number of Maori roll seats will represent the proportion of the Maori population in the district. If Rotorua wants 10 Councillors, that would mean (12548/50250 x 10) = 2 Councillors.
  The remaining 8 would come from the General roll (or possibly, 7 from the general roll and 1 at large, since the actual proportion is close 2.5). It’s still race-based representation, but it does preserve the extremely important democratic concept of equal suffrage.
  
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  April 19, 2022 3:28pm
Maggie Pie

They don’t like it up ’em…. 😛

Members of Hamilton’s Cosmopolitan Club go to war with The Tron’s famous Adult Movie Star, LISA LEWIS…….And lose!!

https://twitter.com/NZStuff/status/1516102030430859271

You can just imagine those silly old codgers rolling out of there at night half-pissed…..”yeah, let’s give Lisa a toot!”

SHEESH.
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April 19, 2022 9:07am
- MCōs
  
  I would suggest Liza Lewis is not the sort of person you’d want to butt heads with.
  
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  April 19, 2022 10:00am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Butt heads with her? New kind of game I guess – go with the flow
    
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    April 19, 2022 4:05pm
- godruelf
  
  How will the old codgers handle the cost of the Jugs going up to pay the court costs?
  
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  April 19, 2022 10:32am
- backster
  
  She was a very good news reader.The news hasn’t been worth watching since she stopped.
  
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  April 19, 2022 11:20am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Old Codgers are usually at the RSA. There is a good spread of age at the Cosy Club. Played snooker there every year in the Waikato Open when I was younger.
  Larger Clubs will slowly disappear as the fun police keep moving in. Booze barns are now corner drinkie places, and get an Uber.
  The ‘Thunderbird’ on the Shore is where I met my partner. The fun places have gone, Milford Marina, Thunderbird, Mon Diser, Northcote Tavern, Birkenhead Trust, The Esplanade, Masonic Devonport, and the GT – Glenfield Tavern, The Brownsie.
  All before you go over that Bridge.
  
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  April 19, 2022 4:02pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    I met Mrs. Mainwaring at a notable booze barn in Wellington called the Cricketers’ Arms. It looked like a Russian power station. Such a solid building I’m sure it’s still there but I wonder what goes on inside.
    
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    April 19, 2022 4:48pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      From the structural brutalist school of architecture, that building.
      
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      April 19, 2022 6:58pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Don’t forget the famous Gluepot
    
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    April 20, 2022 12:34am
Amerikiwi

STATS NZ just released their Environment Aotearoa 2022 report.

Something significant has happened since the 2019 report (these are issued once every 3 years).

We now have a star sign colouring book of demi gods that we will all need to shape our lives around if we are to enjoy the bounty of New Zealand.

I threw off the shackles of Greek, Roman, Celtic gods ( that were linked to ‘scientific knowledge’ of my early ancestors) many many generations ago… and I personally made a choice to not live in fear or awe of a biblical sky god.

Why do my life choices now need to be tied back to sky and earth gods of a star sign?

https://www.stats.govt.nz/information-releases/new-zealands-environmental-reporting-series-environment-aotearoa-2022
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April 19, 2022 9:17am
- Ehlana
  
  “Bringing a Māori world view (te ao Māori) recognises the interconnectedness of all parts of the environment, including people, and speaks to something that connects us all to Aotearoa New Zealand.”
  
  Does Environment Aotearoa honestly think that Maori are the only people in human history to have recognised “the interconnectedness of all parts of the environment”? In English, it is called the ecosystem, which National Geographic defines as “a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as weather and landscape, work together to form a bubble of life.” It’s been known about and studied for a long time. And I’d be very surprised if a similar concept does not exist in every other culture on Earth.
  
  Environment Aotearoa gone on to say:
  “Wellbeing means different things to each of us, and how we define and understand our relationship with the rest of the natural world is diverse and evolving.
  
  In mātauranga Māori, wellbeing can be described using ‘waiora’. ”
  
  They do not tell us about what wellbeing means to people who are not Maori. So leaving out over 80% of the population.
  
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  April 19, 2022 4:15pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Why can’t NZ be like the US? Candace Owens:
Now that mask mandates have been struck down on airplanes, many people will be left floundering, wondering how they can go on in life with the option to breathe freely once again.
Worry not, friends.
You can still choose to wear six masks and a face shield if you so desire.
In America, having a mental disorder is not a crime.
Just stop requiring the rest of us to share a mental disorder with you.
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April 19, 2022 9:31am
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNRwcVYbvrU

It’s going from bad to worse.

Maybe a naval war between Turkey, and Russia next? [4:15]
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April 19, 2022 10:12am
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqkNkS_J0AY

Post midterm polls Biden Will be given a voluntary retirement.

If the mid-terms turn out to be a bloodbath for the Dems; Brandon could be looking at “retirement”. [4:58. Fancy winning by a “landslide” then being “retired” early. Is there no justice? /sarc]
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April 19, 2022 10:13am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  They will lose the house and the senate, polls even have Hispanics only giving Biden a 25% approval rating, it’s going to be a red wave, and Biden will be the silliest of lame ducks ever to flap on this earth
  
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  April 20, 2022 12:37am
MCōs

Alex Jones is a money grubbing, nasty piece of work
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alex-jones-1-million-sandy-hook-parkland-lawsuits_n_625da270e4b0be72bff8f125
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April 19, 2022 10:33am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  huffpo is a money grubbing, nasty piece of work too, with about as much credibility as Alex Jones.
  
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  April 19, 2022 11:31am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  He is off the planet, but people do listen to him – but will never admit they do listen to him.
  So you have never listened or watched MCos?
  
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  April 19, 2022 4:09pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING

I see the Aussies are saying…. NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, wants each Maori vote cast to count as 5 votes for each person.

It appears Albo thinks it’s a great idea as well for Indigenous Australians…..

https://twitter.com/stevol321/status/1515980424623058953
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April 19, 2022 10:35am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Bwhahahahaha, looks like Albow is tripping over his self
  
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  April 20, 2022 12:38am
Maggie Pie

What’s wrong with the West today summed up in one pic….

https://twitter.com/GioBruno1600/status/1516058817800331273
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April 19, 2022 1:02pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  For those who don’t recognize him, that is American Presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg (D)
  
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  April 19, 2022 1:19pm
- Inandout
  
  Putin has never had a better time to go to war. The West is drowning in woke.
  
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  April 19, 2022 2:18pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  How long will that last in FB?
  30 day ban for me??
  
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  April 19, 2022 4:16pm
Jack5

The Skeptics Society is in the Maori science debate again, and seemingly on the side of Maori knowledge as science. That contrasts with its stand a decade or two ago distinguishing Maori knowledge from science.

The society is linking to two short videos by American Rebecca Watson, a prominent atheist blogger. Below are transcripts to the two videos.

Of special interest to Kiwbloggerites is Watson’s reference to a letter by Scott Hamilton, who used to post comments frequently in Kiwiblog:

”Scott Hamilton (I assume the figure skater)[sic] that describes a New Zealand doctor in World War II turning to the Maori for help fighting dysentery in Allied soldiers:”

Watson’s right to the extent that Hamilton was typically on thin ice in his views.

A taste of her comments on Maori:

“…they used trial and error and the scientific method to develop canoes that could travel vast distances, fishing methods that allowed survival for long stretches at sea, and a compass that was divided into segments carved onto the canoe, allowing navigators to find their way depending upon the movements of the sun and stars.

“Once they reached New Zealand, the Maori could only survive through the scientific method. Whakaotirangi was one of the first to settle the islands, and she brought important seeds with her to ensure survival. But the climate was colder than where her people came from, so she traveled around experimenting with plants to find food and medicine, eventually building a garden of species advantageous to human survival called Hawaiki Nui.”

These aren’t myths or legends – they’re tales of science and human ingenuity in the face of overwhelming odds …

Transcripts of Watson’s two short videos:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/64891921

AND part 2:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/teaching-in-part-64896548
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April 19, 2022 1:06pm
- Scott
  
  And the fact remains that the nation of NZ is a product of western civilisation. Western civilisation is far superior to the Maori culture of the 19th century. And everyone agrees with me.
  Because no one, not one person, wants to go back to incessant tribal warfare and living in a mud hut.
  
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  April 19, 2022 2:09pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Maori did not have mud houses..
    Their whare may have had partial earthen walls..formed by excavating a sunken floor for the building.
    https://teara.govt.nz/en/maori-housing-te-noho-whare/page-1
    
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    April 19, 2022 5:48pm
    - Maggie Pie
      
      Some years ago we went on a walking tour to the site of ‘The-Palace-of-Minos’ on the island of Crete.
      
      Our tour guide was telling us it was built 1700 years BEFORE CHRIST!
      
      Tiled floors, marble baths….no partial earthen walls in sight.
      
      Just saying.
      
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      April 19, 2022 6:57pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Clever Cretans
        
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        April 19, 2022 7:00pm
  - Black with a Vengeance
    
    Because no one, not one person, wants to go back to incessant tribal warfare and living in a mud hut.
    ____________________
    
    I take it you’ve done some polling then and you’re not just making shit up ?
    
    Because living in a car or on the streets as the incessant tribal warfare of left vs right wages on endlessly sounds infinitely more preferable…
    
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    April 19, 2022 9:26pm
- greybeard
  
  “Once they reached New Zealand, the Maori could only survive through the scientific method. “…
  
  But how did they know, before they left wherever they lived, that New Zealand existed?
  
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  April 19, 2022 7:12pm
  - Black with a Vengeance
    
    The magic jawbone coded pathways in the stars by previous ancestors.
    
    Each island had a zenith star. Which at a certain time of the year positioned itself directly above land. For NZ it was Te Matau a Maui, the fish hook of Maui known in the west as the tail of Scorpio.
    
    When you’re navigating by traditional Pasifikan methods your canoe/boat is stationary and you’re essentially reeling an island towards you.
    
    When viewed through the lense of Pasifikan oral traditions, the story of Maui fishing up NZ with a hook fashioned from the magic jawbone of his ancestor then becomes fact.
    
    You’re welcome… 🙂
    
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    April 19, 2022 9:36pm
Maggie Pie

And if you’ve ever wondered why so many Americans are such lardos these days…you can put it down to all those extra Hormones 😀

https://twitter.com/MrSollozzo/status/1515324097223225345
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April 19, 2022 1:26pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Best way to make a Hormone is just not pay the bill
  
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  April 19, 2022 4:18pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Came by email. The Blaze. Yeah OK it is conservative, do you expect me to post fake news from CNN?
Study shows vaccines don’t prevent death.
https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-the-failure-of-the-mrna-shots-is-on-display-for-all-with-open-eyes
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April 19, 2022 2:38pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Grant Robertson says don’t blame the Government that inflation is ballooning.

While New Zealanders have reason to be concerned about the cost of living, Robertson said he does not believe Kiwis blame the Government for inflation.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/acting-pm-grant-robertson-announces-three-new-rma-fast-tracked-projects-at-post-cabinet-conference/5YNEZU56L5VRMTSQLTXZ4I7Y4Y/

Adrian Orr reckons the Reserve Bank got caught on the back foot by overseas events
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/465494/reserve-bank-not-in-a-good-place-admits-governor

Sure looks to me that the Government and the Reserve Bank Governor have been asleep at the helm of our little waka.
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April 19, 2022 3:57pm
- greybeard
  
  An inept and incompetent Finance Minister trades blows with an inept and indecisive Reserve Bank Governor.
  Just what New Zealand needs right now.
  Bill English, where the hell are you ?
  
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  April 19, 2022 6:24pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    And Robbo has just being saying that we’ve got to rein in our spending. Sounds good coming from a guy who’s got an extra 6 billion to spray around in the budget !!!
    
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    April 19, 2022 8:51pm
- billyt
  
  Asleep at the wheel of the waka gives them an excuse, a pretty shit one but an excuse non the less.
  This like so much of what is happening around us is beyond incompetent or uninformed its straight out scandalous and corrupt behavior that repeats due to the complete absence of accountability and moral sensibility of doing what is the right thing for all citizen’s of this once great country. I’m at a total loss really were this is all heading…
  
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  April 19, 2022 7:31pm
Nookin

Oops.
Looks like the government might have misled us a mite.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/miq%20not%20justified%20beyond%20november,%20health%20officials%20told%20govt%20last%20year/ar-AAWlYMn?ocid=entnewsntp&cvid=66d73f66e5db445fafd2b4921b0f4752
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April 19, 2022 4:57pm
Maggie Pie

Just saw Cindy on 1EWES meeting with the Singaporean Prime Minister.
My partner reckoned…. she just didn’t look right 🙁

Compared it to someone like me fronting ‘The-Biggest-Loser’

LOL!!
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April 19, 2022 6:21pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Sorry Mags can’t comment as I haven’t watched 1EWES for about 30 years. Can’t imagine why anyone still does, least of all an apparently smart woman like yourself.
  
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  April 19, 2022 8:58pm
kevn

@Maggie… Walking around grinning like a Cheshire cat. Zero gravitas.
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April 19, 2022 6:43pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Looks like our Dear PM and her Ministers didn’t listen to their top Health advisors.. Dr Ashley Bloomfield and Dr Caroline McElnay

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018838691/top-doctors-signed-off-advice-on-ending-miq-in-november

There was no scientific/health reason to keep NZers from returning to NZ since Nov 2021.
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April 19, 2022 6:50pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  A bird brain Cabinet. Also there is no justification for that advice to have been concealed.
  
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  April 19, 2022 7:08pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Seems there’s some explaining to do.
    
    I suspect our Dear Government had some deal going with Unions, Security companies and MIQ hotel owners.
    
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    April 19, 2022 8:25pm
    - Nookin
      
      I see that the advice was released despite attempts to withhold it. It took the ombudsman’s intervention. Timed to perfection though! Guess who is out of town and does not need to face the music?
      
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      April 19, 2022 8:59pm
Maggie Pie

One of the girls from tennis was sooo pleased to hear that John Campbell had been given the DCM from TV1 Breakfast, that she thort she’d tune in again.
But only to discover his slot had been filled by that guy Matty McClean, so she hasn’t been back since.

She just txt to say they’ve now got the same little creep fronting 7Sharp as well…replacing her fave hetero Jeremy Wells!

Prue said she’s outta there 🙁
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