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krazykiwi

Quad-vaxxed, double masking, Paxlovid chopping, multi-Covid sufferer and CCP-style lockdown architect throws in the towel. Yes, Dr Anthony S. Fauci, the consummate health hobbit has announced he’s quitting. This from a few hours ago:

I am announcing today that I will be stepping down from the positions of Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and Chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Immunoregulation, as well as the position of Chief Medical Advisor to President Joe Biden. I will be leaving these positions in December of this year to pursue the next chapter of my career.

My hope is that some part of the ‘next chapter’ involves him being held to account for his lying to congress, and for his lying to the senate, and for his lying to the public, and for his continuous shilling for his Big Pharma paymasters which started decades ago when he disastrously prevented inexpensive treatments for AIDS and focused exclusively on AZT – a failed chemotherapy drug which was later discontinued due to extreme toxicity and deadly side effects. That was Fauci’s Covid-19 vaxx trial run.

This is a particularly good read on Fauci joining an increasingly long line of senior lockdown and vaxx aficionados heading anxiously for the door: Why are the Top Vaccine Officials Suddenly Quitting?

The safest places for Fauci now would be federal prison, or panic-room equipped villa in some non-extradition treaty country. He could write his undoubtedly self-aggrandizing memoirs from there, while only occasionally needing to look over his shoulder.
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August 23, 2022 8:04am
- ClanMcleod
  
  KK – we’ve seen this before, but worth watching again. Someone who understands the real science calling out Fauci for the complete fraud that he is.
  
  https://twitter.com/AdHominemIzBad/status/1506868620110057473?s=20&t=Z7uCVQ0qQP0FZpcWZ-irtw
  
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  August 23, 2022 8:47am
  - Opie
    
    When was that filmed?
    
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    August 23, 2022 9:14am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      I’m guessing late eighties or early nineties. It would have been after AIDS had hit the headlines. Fauci had some dark deadlines around that also. Suffererers couldn’t get effective off market treatments. No money in those. Instead they had to go on big pharma, hugely expensive concoctions.
      There’s a great movie that covers the topic very well called the Dallas Buyers Club. Highly recommended.
      Mullis invented the PCR test.
      
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      August 23, 2022 4:46pm
- cmm
  
  kk it is good to dream, but it ain’t gonna happen mate.
  
  He was of course acting with the best science available at the time etc etc etc.
  
  I expect the “next chapter” is more likely to involve board positions, country clubs and sports cars.
  
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  August 23, 2022 9:03am
- Ross Campbell
  
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  Well lucky the world still has some sense of proper justice then because if his next chapter was decided by anonymous bloggers making sensational allegations on a regular basis then his fate would have been determined long ago.
  
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  August 23, 2022 9:06am
  - R
    
    Ross, you ignore the fact that Fauci is a duplicitous charlatan who privately said that mask use was for the infected only. Alas he didn’t tell that to the world.
    
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    August 23, 2022 10:01am
  - Frank the tank
    
    His next chapter will be decided by who takes the house and senate in November.
    
    We can only hope Orange is the new Black.
    
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    August 23, 2022 10:20am
- Frank the tank
  
  LOL timed with the expected change of house majority. The ‘Feltch’ obviously didn’t want to answer any questions……
  
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  August 23, 2022 9:21am
- lastmanstanding
  
  Supporters of the Labour Party are suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.
  
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  August 23, 2022 9:26am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I hear there is an opening for a lying fraudulent Doctor in a Lab in Wuhan
  
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  August 23, 2022 9:34am
  - Mummy
    
    Doesn’t he already have shares in it?
    
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    August 23, 2022 11:07am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Great when you can fund your retirement with millions of other people’s money
      
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      August 23, 2022 3:37pm
- R
  
  Fauci was mostly opposed to mask use and claimed that only infected people should wear them! Then he became a cheerleader for their use. He’s a charlatan.
  
  https://www.newsweek.com/fauci-said-masks-not-really-effective-keeping-out-virus-email-reveals-1596703?amp=1
  
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  August 23, 2022 9:59am
- coge
  
  Easier to move these characters on, that the elected political classes who unquestioningly endorsed their ‘solutions’
  
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  August 23, 2022 4:26pm
- covfefe
  
  AZT didn’t have particular “extreme toxicity and deadly side effects” – it wasn’t effective on its own on account of rapid development of resistance – RNA virus – no proof reading mechanism, etc. Was used in combination for years before more effective drugs became available. That is how drug development tends to go. I don’t like Fauci but I think this kind of almost hysteria doesn’t help things. All drugs have side effects – some more than others. All potentially deadly – penicillin for example can be deadly.
  
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  August 23, 2022 7:33pm
- Doc Holliday
  
  You mean one of the most distinguished, respected, and cited scientists in the world isn’t a crackpot?
  
  Mask-wearing has two different functions: protect the wearer and protect others. Therefore the grade of mask varies, and in the context of public health availability and risk.
  
  The advice on wearing masks changed as the evidence and circumstances changed. That’s science.
  
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  August 23, 2022 11:49pm
Warren

What a bunch of hypocrites the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern her Welfare Minister Carmel Sepuloni and Labour MP’s are.
This after Labour went ape shit at National Leader Chris Luxon after he had said while announcing some of there Welfare policy to the same beneficiaries on the jobseeker benefit, you might have a free ride under Labour but under National it ends.
Now it has been released that Labour have cut the benefit for around 4,000 sick injured or disabled job seekers in the last 5 years because the wern’t preparing for work fast enough. This after the Government replied it shows how out of touch National and Chris Luxon are with Labours Nelson MP Rachel Boyack sending a message which was liked by multiple Labour MP’s ” just let’s be very, very clear people who are unwell or have disabilities and are not able to work or are having difficulties finding work shouldn’t be sanctioned”.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/08/22/govt-sanctions-sick-jobseekers-for-failing-to-prepare-for-work/
Well isn’t this the pot calling the kettle especially when you have Labour Minister’s learning the same trait as our Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern if your caught out lie, no one will hold you to account.
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August 23, 2022 8:04am
- G152
  
  Professional liars got caught out again.
  Compliant media make sure its all hushed up
  
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  August 23, 2022 8:18am
  - kowtow
    
    Compliant media reporting Her Royal High Vaxness is concerned about the expense to parliament the last freedon protest caused.
    
    Any questions from her reporter courtiers concerning the vast expense she put the country to over her mandates , lockdowns .
    
    Didn’t think so .
    
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    August 23, 2022 8:37am
    - Nickc2
      
      She wouldn’t know the first thing about expenses. She gave $2,5m to the Mongrel Mob for their faux drug addiction program and only $200k to the people of Nelson for their flood-induced disaster relief.
      Meanwhile, she was at the Turangawaewae Marae pushing her Co-Governance rort while Nelson flooded, the Far North became isolated due to flooding, and the Dr. Sharma fiasco was turning into a major disaster for the Labour Govt due to managerial neglect, lies, and innuendos.
      IMO, there’s a vaccination for that behaviour but it’s normally administered for Mad Cow Disease.
      
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      August 23, 2022 10:02am
      - Matt Long
        
        At least she didn’t use the 200k to inflict an opening ceremony on Nelson.
        The sum is a joke alright.
        
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        August 23, 2022 10:19am
- Ehlana
  
  Oh, but, Labour kindly and transparently cut their benefits, don’t you know. It makes all the difference.
  
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  August 23, 2022 8:19am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Luxon went out of his way to say this is not for the disabled or sick
  
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  August 23, 2022 8:55am
  - Lance
    
    Labour never let the facts get in the way of a good beat up.
    Infact, I would be rather shocked if Labour didn’t lie about something National said.
    
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    August 23, 2022 11:24am
Benedict Yu

Yesterday Jacinda was lamenting that the Nelson flood was caused by climate change.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/22/new-zealands-flood-prone-areas-not-ready-to-cope-with-climate-crisis-ardern-says

The rainfall this winter has been extremely high. However, these outlier events have happened before. The following link shows a very helpful NIWA chart showing winter rainfall in Nelson since the 1940s.

This shows a clear pattern. There are wet winters and dry winters. There are three extremely wet winters. These are 1970, 1998 and 2022. But critically the data shows no TREND for higher rainfall in winter in Nelson.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/129649739/understanding-just-how-wet-it-has-been-this-winter

There may be data that shows that the intensity of rainfall in Nelson is increasing. I have not looked.

The PM has not provided any evidence that over the next 20 years Nelson will be subject to higher rainfall. It is more likely that rainfall in winter will revert to the pattern in the NIWA chart. Dry winters and wet winters.
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August 23, 2022 8:05am
- rouppe
  
  And interestingly no one is talking about the huge quantities of water vapour that were ejected into the atmosphere only a few months ago in the South Pacific.
  
  Except NASA.
  
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  August 23, 2022 8:19am
  - cmm
    
    The water vapour is one thing. The other is all the dust etc fired up into the atmosphere.
    
    Raindrops need to form around a nucleus, typically a dust particle. More dust = more rain.
    
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    August 23, 2022 9:08am
    - Master Mariner
      
      Hi BY.
      As previous posts stating the obvious 2 or so years ago about wet weather eastern seaboard Oz and here in NZ.
      Its called La Nina.
      Nothing more . Nothing less and highly predictable as per posts years ago.
      Unusually we are heading for a third year.
      
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      August 23, 2022 4:15pm
  - JimBobJoe
    
    Send it up…
    
    Watch it rise…
    
    See it Fall…
    
    Gravity’s Rainbow
    
    To quote that noted performance artist and now obviously talented amateur meteorologist, Laurie Anderson.
    
    Cant have a massive evaporation event injecting water into the atmosphere as steam and not expect it to drop form the clouds
    
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    August 23, 2022 9:14am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    That must be ‘natural’ climate change
    
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    August 23, 2022 9:42am
- All_on_Red
  
  https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/08/over-1000-scientists-and-professionals-sign-formal-declaration-there-is-no-climate-emergency/
  
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  August 23, 2022 8:22am
- Ehlana
  
  If they really believe what they are saying, I expect to see the government requiring that rebuilt houses are elevated above any expected flood, like the beach houses are in the US. And in high wind areas, I expect to see them mandating round ended houses, like these: https://www.deltechomes.com/galleries/
  
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  August 23, 2022 8:23am
- Stellaboxer
  
  BY Ardern doesn’t need evidence she just pushes the narrative and the media beneficiaries clap and print it as fact
  
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  August 23, 2022 8:30am
- kowtow
  
  The Maitai has a history of flooding .Basically since the settlers built houses /infrastructure on the little flat land available ( created by flooding ) right on on estuary , and that flat land would have been a swamp until improved by drainage and stop banks.
  
  As you point out 50 years ago almost to the day the news reports “Nelson devasted by floods”
  
  https://photonews.org.nz/nelson/issue/NPN119_19700919/t1-body-d18.html
  
  Two were killed in that event.
  
  But now politicians and their paid for , agenda driven, lying media put natural events , which have occured for eons down to man made climate change .
  
  This so they can impose more control , more tax and more command over our lives.
  
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  August 23, 2022 8:48am
  - cmm
    
    The flat area around a river is not called a flood plain for nothing.
    
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    August 23, 2022 9:36am
    - Ehlana
      
      Flood plain. It’s almost as if the people who named them wanted to tell us something.
      
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      August 23, 2022 9:39am
      - cmm
        
        Yup they jinxed it.
        
        They should have called it “drainage diversity”, then everything would be OK.
        
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        August 23, 2022 10:45am
    - Master Mariner
      
      And the big ones are called Delta .
      Sure cant beat nature.
      
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      August 23, 2022 4:18pm
  - Benedict Yu
    
    Readers may recall the ‘millenial drought’ in Australia. This was very severe and ran from about 1998 to 2011.
    
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000s_Australian_drought
    
    This was attributed to climate change, with many commentators saying that Sydney’s water storage dams would never fill again. The NSW Government spent about a billion dollars on a desalination plant (which was probably prudent). Then in 2011 the drought broke.
    
    The last two years has seen well above average rainfall in NSW. The first 6 months of 2022 is the highest rainfall recorded in Sydney since records began 164 years ago.
    
    https://tinyurl.com/2p8wp2vv
    
    Of course this above average rainfall is also being attributed to climate change. 🙂
    
    https://www.climatechange.environment.nsw.gov.au/storms-and-floods
    
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    August 23, 2022 9:38am
    - cmm
      
      No, no, no, BY: what has increased is extreme weather of all kinds.
      
      These days 50% of years are above average! Yes a whole 50%!
      
      Please airbrush out of history the 1940s when Canterbury had snow on Christmas day (some areas around Darfield copping nearly a foot).
      
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      August 23, 2022 10:53am
  - trout
    
    Back in the late 1950’s I recall the Maitai river running as high as it did last week (up to the underside of the Hardy street footbridge). The harmful effects of heavy rainfall in Nelson and particularly in the Rai valley are largely the result of land clearing and forestry activities in the upper river catchments. Land subsidence in the hills above Tahunanui Beach is not unknown. Clearing land, cutting into hillsides for roads and subdivision seem to be unwise activities in this region.
    
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    August 23, 2022 9:50am
    - jon
      
      Where is the Nelson City Council in all of this, permitting subdivision on known unstable ground. My grandparents owned 26 acres of land along Wakefield Quay, in the early 1900s and there was evidence of the unstable ground on the hills above Wakefield Quay and further round, to the cliffs above Rocks Rd, which was once the old Moncrief farm, which now is covered in residential housing and to no surprise, of some, is now experiencing issues with land movement. Questions need to be asked of the NCC?
      
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      August 23, 2022 1:50pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  I remember crossing all the bridges several times in the 70s all these rivers were regularly flooded, the floods around Ashburton a while back they said one in 500 year event, only for a farmer still there saying it’s the worst he has seen since the 50s and also an event in the 70s
  
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  August 23, 2022 8:57am
- Chris Nisbet
  
  Our government have produced this surprisingly sane report that talks about expected changes in rainfall.
  
  https://environment.govt.nz/assets/Publications/Files/Climate-change-projections-2nd-edition-final.pdf
  
  For many regions they’re not sure if there will be more, or less, rain, let alone how much different.
  It does reference RCP8.5 a bit, which has pretty much been declared to be unlikely by anyone except politicians and MSM, so we can pretty much ignore any predictions based upon that.
  They do predict a bit more rain for Nelson, but that isn’t the same as attributing this recent heavy rainfall to CAGW.
  Something I’ve read multiple times from people who seem to know their stuff (e.g. Cliff Mass) now is that the more extreme a bit of weather is, the _less_ likely it is that ‘global warming’ caused it. ‘Global Warming’ _might_ make an event a little bit worse, but the event was likely to happen anyway.
  
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  August 23, 2022 9:25am
- Bullion
  
  Nelson (and the West Coast and possibly other areas) are on track to break the most amount of rainfall on record. Even if Nelson had no rain from now until the end of the year it will still be close to the 90th percentile for rainfall in a year. This recent rain event broke the record for most amount of rain to fall in 3 days.
  
  You are possibly going to get more extremes with a warming planet as there is a greater capacity of the atmosphere to retain water – so when it does rain there is likely to be more of it (Dallas just had their average summer rainfall in one day).
  
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  August 23, 2022 10:20am
  - kowtow
    
    Record breaking ! Argh ! Oh noes !
    
    Records !
    
    How long have those records been kept here ?
    
    A blink of an eye in terms of Gaia .
    
    Meaningless .
    
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    August 23, 2022 11:20am
- NZer In Exile
  
  BY I think this cartoon sums up the alarmists and their ever changing stories.
  
  http://thebullelephant.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Wheel-climate-change.jpg
  
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  August 23, 2022 6:39pm
mikenmildagain

Happy International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition!
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August 23, 2022 8:09am
- fightingtemeraire
  
  Remember the thousands of RN men who died serving in the W African Squadron when fighting the slave trade.
  
  This fight put huge pressure on the RN to fulfill its world wide commitments.
  
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  August 23, 2022 8:12am
  - G152
    
    Doesn’t fit with the posters agenda mate.
    Stand easy
    
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    August 23, 2022 8:21am
  - cmm
    
    British Army too, and all through Africa: West, East and South West (pretty much everywhere except South Africa).
    
    Slavery was still rife in German colonies and Arabian-controlled regions into the 1900s (South West Africa – now Namibia – and German East Africa – now Rwanda and Tanzania). That was only sorted out when the Brits removed them in WW1.
    
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    August 23, 2022 9:17am
- krazykiwi
  
  A rare uptick from me. I am descended from someone who worked tireless in support of the UK’s Slavery Abolition Act 1833, having spent the preceding 6 years in Sierra Leona working to frustrate/stop the trade.
  
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  August 23, 2022 8:13am
- Nickc2
  
  …. and welcome in the new age of Ardern Tyranny.
  
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  August 23, 2022 8:14am
- mandk
  
  Do you miss it, Mikey?
  
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  August 23, 2022 8:21am
- Stellaboxer
  
  Remembrance of the slave trade? I didn’t realise it was over
  
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  August 23, 2022 8:31am
  - kowtow
    
    Sure ain’t .Even here.
    
    “How slavery is defined has been the basis of a hearing in the Court of Appeal for the first man in New Zealand sentenced for using someone as a slave.
    
    Joseph Auga Matamata, 66, was sentenced to 11 years last year by Justice Helen Cull in the High Court at Napier after being found guilty after a jury trial in March of 10 charges of trafficking people and 13 charges of dealing in slaves.”
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/124963843/slaver-appeals-sentence-and-conviction-in-new-zealands-first-slave-case
    
    And there was a case recently reported of a wealthy couple from Nigeria , arrested in the UK for trafficking someone there for organ harvesting.
    
    Wilberforce would turn in his grave.
    
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    August 23, 2022 9:07am
- Suze Wainwright
  
  Was slavery by Maori abolished at the same time?
  
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  August 23, 2022 8:34am
  - Libertarians are right
    
    Taking of slaves was abolished with the signing of the Treaty. I believe the last Maori slave died in the 1890s (if I remember correctly).
    
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    August 23, 2022 8:56am
    - Libertarians are right
      
      It’s also worth noting that Transportation was ended in 1857 which means that while England had stopped enslaving Africans, they kept enslaving Irish “criminals” through Transportation for another 20 years.
      
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      August 23, 2022 10:57am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Not quite, the transatlantic slave trade, on which much of England’s wealth was built only took about 200 years to be abolished. Slavery in Maori society disappeared later, but took several decades to be removed.
    
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    August 23, 2022 9:07am
    - JimBobJoe
      
      Speak the truth Mikey.
      
      Slavery was REMOVED by those naughty White folk it didn’t disappear as if by magic or a sudden cultural epiphany among Maori.
      
      Give the European some credit for once
      
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      August 23, 2022 9:17am
      - ISeeRed
        
        Mikey won’t mention the Arab slave trade that dwarfed the European one in size and cruelty. Past or present, the white man is the only one to be blamed and shamed.
        
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        August 23, 2022 10:14am
      - Jack5
        
        Milky’s …transatlantic slave trade, on which much of England’s wealth was built ..
        
        That’s a gross exaggeration, Milky.
        
        Britain’s wealth began to be built from international trade, and trading with those times’ equivalent of Third Worlders required setting up of trading posts, many of which grew into colonies.
        
        If slavery made Britain wealthy, how come it had to rely on merchants like the Rothschilds to finance its wars against the French, and others?
        
        The real wealth of Britain came from the Industrial Revolution, and this was built on brain power and scientific and engineering skill. The fact that sugar plantation owners contributed some capital was a minor factor grossly exaggerated to fit a Leftist world view.
        
        The Industrial Revolution that made Britain rich moved on to other countries, creating the power of Germany, for example, then of the United States. Industrialisation, or new industrial revolution, lifted hundreds of millions of Chinese out of poverty in the last 75 years . Earlier it did the same for Japan, and is now doing the same in new Asian “economic tigers”, such as Vietnam.
        
        Meanwhile, slavery is rampant today. The Woke and “decolonisation” ravers preferring to pick on the past of soft-target countries, rather than on the present of nations such as India, which has about 8 million slaves, according to this source:
        
        https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries-that-still-have-slavery
        
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        August 23, 2022 11:04am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      See Mike? You can be a great source of History if you try. Keep it up. Uptick for you.
      
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      August 23, 2022 10:44am
    - James Stephenson
      
      In actual fact, contrary to what London’s disaster of a mayor would have you believe, slaves and sugar accounted for maybe on 3% of the country’s wealth. This is about the same as the brewing industry.
      
      Yes, some individuals became fantastically rich, but what actually secured Britain’s wealth was a focus on trade where European competitors were simply grabbing for territory and being first out of the gate with industrialisation. Take a step further back and it was being the first to have a political climate with a rule of law to enable capitalism-like innovation, that made Britain first to industrialisation. We can thank Alfred the Great and the Vikings for that.
      
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      August 23, 2022 10:46am
    - david
      
      Those earlier inhabitants of the Chatham Islands who were not eaten by marauding Taranaki Māori, were enslaved. This was after slavery was made illegal by the NZ Parliament. The conquering tribes were later rewarded with land and cash settlements approved by the Waitangi Tribunal.
      Short memories or very selective memories it would seem.
      
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      August 23, 2022 12:11pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      ” Slavery in Maori society disappeared later, but took several decades to be removed.”
      
      Removed by who Milky? Do tell.
      
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      August 23, 2022 8:26pm
  - thirteenstars
    
    Maori slavery, and cannibalism, was eradicated by Europeans, namely British.
    
    If not the Maori would still have been enslaving and eating each other as if there were no tomorrow. Rapidly diminishing food supplies, obvious to early European visitors, would have seen to that as the human body provides plenty of protein.
    
    Roasts and tastes just like pork, they say.
    
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    August 23, 2022 9:27am
    - Jack5
      
      I wonder if Paul Moon’s 2009 book on Maori cannibalism was purged from the National Library in the great destruction of the national book collection?
      
      https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/national/565544/Maori-cannibalism-widespread-but-ignored-academic-says
      
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      August 23, 2022 11:12am
      - thirteenstars
        
        Indeed. If you never teach a point of view, that point of view will never be known. But at least, we might think, there’s always the source material to go back to. The books, the reports, the minutes, the references themselves. But what if they, too, are expunged from view and then removed altogether?
        
        The neo-Marxists are very clever. They know it’s not enough to take control of schools and indoctrinate children if there’s an alternative source of truth. It’s also why they hate private education and fight tooth and nail to maintain the state’s monopoly over learning and teaching. It’s why councils run by Marxists try to prevent certain speakers from using public facilities. And the same at universities. And why speech is being restricted to ban “disinformation”, or “hate”.
        
        It must be total control. No alternative must be allowed.
        
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        August 23, 2022 12:38pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Why don’t you check the catalogue?
        
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        August 23, 2022 1:52pm
      - Cassandra
        
        I’ve got a copy!
        
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        August 23, 2022 2:00pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Jack could get a copy too, but would prefer to believe it has been ‘purged’.
        
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        August 23, 2022 3:32pm
      - than
        
        I was amazed that $1uffed would ever publish an article like that, but then I looked at the date. You wouldn’t ever see them make an article like that now.
        
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        August 23, 2022 5:35pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Might be time for someone to investigate why MBIE allows bonded slavery to thrive in parts of the RSE scheme.
  
  Sumeo said the RSE scheme was in essence being run in a way that allowed modern slavery to take place and the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) had been called in along with police to investigate the concerns raised.
  
  https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/08/government-to-conduct-full-review-of-recognised-seasonal-employer-scheme.html
  
  https://www.ruralnewsgroup.co.nz/hort-news/hort-general-news/rse-scheme-modern-slavery-claim
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/129496019/blatant-exploitation-migrant-workers-packed-in-freezing-damp-rooms-for-150-a-week
  
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  August 23, 2022 8:38am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Indeed. It’s shameful how some industries moan that ‘Kiwis don’t want to work’, when the work they are offering is only profitable for the owners if they can import slaves.
    
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    August 23, 2022 9:09am
    - JimBobJoe
      
      Baseless claim – got the data showing its not profitable Mike? Or you making a sweeping left attack statement… AGAIN
      
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      August 23, 2022 9:18am
    - cmm
      
      Calling this slavery is beyond ridiculous.
      
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      August 23, 2022 9:44am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Silly of me to agree with Maggy, wasn’t it?
        
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        August 23, 2022 1:53pm
      - cmm
        
        mma: This is not slavery. Slavery is involuntary.
        
        This is closer to indentured servitude. This was common for Irish immigrants into USA, but it is also common for immigrants all over the world.
        
        The USA H1B1 visa scheme has remnants of that in it, as do work visas in NZ (to a lesser extent).
        
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        August 23, 2022 3:21pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        when the work they are offering is only profitable for the owners if they can import slaves
        
        You are not agreeing with me, mikenmildagain.
        
        You’re confusing the parts of the RSE that work well…
        Horticulturalists paying a decent wage to happy recipients… to the part that has been allowed to develop into bonded “slavery”
        
        I’m specifically referring to the rip-off middle-men agents who suck the wages out of the RSE workers by charging them exorbitant accommodation, transport, & equipment fees….and all whilst the Government (MBIE and Labour Dept ) turns a blind eye to this scam.
        
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        August 23, 2022 4:45pm
    - Jack5
      
      Milky is on solider ground in that 9.09 post.
      
      On the one hand temporary imported labour isn’t a bad form of foreign aid. The user country gets some economic return, and the recipient countries get a more dignified form of help.
      
      On the other hand, rising labour costs drive industrial progress.
      
      Robot picking is being pioneered in New Zealand by a German co-operative using Californian technology. The driver for such innovation is high labour cost, or lack of labour, but the result is higher productivity.
      
      Cheap imported labour takes the pressure off a drive for higher productivity, which ultimately provides competitive power in exports, and higher living standards.
      
      It also diverts capital into business reliant on cheap labour. Ultimately this business will be beaten out by competitors in countries with surging productivity from new technology made possible by the silicon revolution.
      
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      August 23, 2022 11:21am
    - GJM
      
      Isn’t there a minmum pay they have to pay, whcih si well above minmum wage?
      They also used to be queing up to come here from Vanuatu etc to pick fruit, so they can’t have been that hard done by,
      
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      August 23, 2022 2:40pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Not “slavery” (except for a few cases of actual criminal slaver employers) but definitely sweat shopping and definitely standards of employment conditions that would be well below what NZers would find acceptable (even though wages and conditions in NZ for the NZ battlers are relatively piss poor when compared to similar countries that the NZ govt likes to imagine NZ is on par with).
      
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      August 23, 2022 8:32pm
  - cmm
    
    Rinse and repeat even for professionals on work visas. They have restrictions who they can work for – probably not as onerous as fruit workers but still destructive (especially because it makes NZ a less attractive option for potential immigrants).
    
    Still, is this really slavery? All those fruit pickers have a choice to come to NZ or not and it must be a good deal for them or they would not come.
    
    If you live in a real shit hole, then even these levels of “exploitation” in NZ look like a wonderful opportunity.
    
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    August 23, 2022 9:43am
  - Master Mariner
    
    Also cheap labour on NZ fishing vessels with pay disguised as a share of the catch.
    Bugger all
    
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    August 23, 2022 4:25pm
- Libertarians are right
  
  It’s very important to remember that slavery is only really “abolished” in the Western world.
  Africa, the Middle East, Asia and South America all have varying degrees of slavery.
  
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  August 23, 2022 8:59am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Vulnerable migrant workers in NZ might well come within a definition of ‘slavery’ that you or cmm find too challenging. Passports confiscated, living on premises, working for well below minimum wage, no access to help, etc.
    
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    August 23, 2022 1:58pm
    - Libertarians are right
      
      Almost always done by people from the same countries. It’s actively illegal here though. The slavery I’m talking about isn’t illegal or at least isn’t penalised.
      
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      August 23, 2022 2:25pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        So it can’t be ‘slavery’ unless it is a system of extreme human exploitation that is formally permitted by some legal structure that satisfies your specific criteria?
        
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        August 23, 2022 3:35pm
      - Libertarians are right
        
        No Mike,
        
        Slavery is always going to exist in some way or another because humans are often awful.
        
        There is a big difference between slavery as a tiny issue that’s explicitly illegal, as it is in the West and straight up sanctioned or ignored by Government.
        
        You’re taking a tiny corner case and trying to equate it with truly horrendous practices in other countries.
        
        It’s like racism. Sure calling someone the N word is bad, but it’s not in the same league as shooting up a neighbourhood.
        
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        August 23, 2022 3:48pm
    - cmm
      
      Who the hell are you to make the judgement about someone and decide that they are a “vulnerable worker”?
      
      Surely this is something that a person should determine for themself (is that the right pronoun – I’m getting lost).
      
      For someone living on less than $2 a day in shitholistan, getting a chance to travel to another country and earn even $20 a day and have their expenses met is an amazing opportunity.
      
      It is far too easy to lose perspective if you’ve never lived in the third world and interacted with the people properly and really understand what life is like on the other side.
      
      It is not our fault that they live in shitholistans. It is corruption and other problems.
      
      From our naive viewpoint it might be hard to see things as an opportunity, but they really are.
      
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      August 23, 2022 3:32pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        On that worldview, one could justify any sort of exploitation as doing someone a favour. And no doubt that’s the attitude of some of these employers.
        
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        August 23, 2022 3:43pm
      - Libertarians are right
        
        Hey Mike, next time you talk to your Union buddies you should really have a chat with Matt McCarten.
        
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        August 23, 2022 3:50pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  “Happy International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition!”
  
  Yay! And what caused the pre-European slave trade to end in NZ boys and girls?
  
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  August 23, 2022 6:32pm
Simon

Do you know anyone who has had the series of covid19 vaccinations? They were the safe and effective ones. Please advise them to start screening for a full range of cancers.

If you have had the jaxx then start cancer screening.

https://www.cancer.org.nz/cancer/finding-cancer-early/screening-and-early-detection/

Cancer screening for team of 5 million. We have got this.
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August 23, 2022 8:13am
- krazykiwi
  
  Have a look at the gene TP53 and it’s role on the generation of the cellular tumor antigen p53, also known as ‘Guardian of the Genome’. There is some evidence of the experimental mRNA injectables downregulating the production of P53 thereby lowing the body’s defenses against cancers. I’m a couple of papers into this topic right now. Not going to lie, it’s heavy going for a layperson.
  
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  August 23, 2022 8:24am
  - ISeeRed
    
    Conspiracy theorist. You’ll be saying smoking causes lung cancer next.
    
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    August 23, 2022 8:55am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    Luckily your advanced qualifications in biochemistry enable you to explain it all for the less clever folks.
    
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    August 23, 2022 9:14am
    - JimBobJoe
      
      Why don’t you just pump the brakes on the Snarkmobile occasionally Mike? We all know you’re a bright person, you have posted some insightful stuff at times, but this endless vendetta you pursue against KK is overwhelmingly tedious!
      
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      August 23, 2022 9:20am
      - Loddenthinks
        
        “bright” you say? Ooooooh-kay
        
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        August 23, 2022 11:20am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        When krazykiwi refer to his audience as a ‘layperson’, surely it is safe to assume he is claiming specialist professional expertise in this area.
        
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        August 23, 2022 2:01pm
      - Observer of Life
        
        Mikey: I took it from KK’s comments the “layperson” is himself. Maybe re-read what he said and take a deep breath?
        
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        August 23, 2022 8:08pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      You don’t need advanced qualifications in biochemistry to realise that the coronovirus was never going to be transmitted via frozen products, a rubbish bin lid, or a lift button.
      
      https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/08/new-zealand-baffled-by-new-covid-19-cases-eyes-frozen-food-packaging/
      
      _ You’d have thought some of our experts in NZ would have done some basic biology somewhere in their training.
      
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      August 23, 2022 9:35am
      - Bullion
        
        Can you explain how a virus can not be transmitted by frozen products?
        
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        August 23, 2022 10:25am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @ Bullion
        
        Viruses are not bacteria, or spores with protective cell walls.
        
        They are little bundles of chemicals that don’t survive very long outside living cells.
        
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        August 23, 2022 11:10am
      - Bullion
        
        There are studies that show virus’ being cultivated after being in the freezer for at least 30days.
        
        Often virus’ have a fatty layer that protects the virus, hence washing your hands for a certain length of time breaks down the fatty layer.
        
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        August 23, 2022 12:14pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Often virus’ have a fatty layer that protects the virus
        
        aha, so you do know something about coronoviruses.
        
        Excellent.
        
        I’ve yet to see a study that acknowledges fomite transmission for this group of viruses trumps aerosol transmission.
        
        Crikey, why did NZ go through the deep-cleaning pantomime for well over one year, before our authorities acknowledged that the virus was being transmitted person-to-person through the air….in the same manner as other respiratory coronaviruses spread through the human population.
        
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        August 23, 2022 1:01pm
      - Bullion
        
        Of course it doesn’t trump aerosol transmission, just when there is little to no circulation in a population of a virus, these edge cases of transmission can show up.
        
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        August 23, 2022 1:16pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Bullion
        Were you amused by that strawman defence of krazykiwi’s ‘layperson’ schtick?
        
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        August 23, 2022 2:02pm
    - Bullion
      
      Hope those are peer reviewed papers from reputable journals.
      
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      August 23, 2022 10:23am
    - Local Miller
      
      Maybe you should read this again, KK was referring to himself as a layperson. He has the humility to admit he doesn’t know everything, and is prepared to go out and do research and learn so he can make informed decisions.
      When was the last time you actually did some research like this and added something of genuine value to the blog?
      
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      August 23, 2022 3:17pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Inane. But full marks for consistency.
      
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      August 23, 2022 6:14pm
    - krazykiwi
      
      I’m the layperson, you idiot. I have never claimed classically obtained qualifications, but I read and learn. I’d recommend to you but it would be a waste of keystrokes.
      
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      August 23, 2022 7:10pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Quite often Milky it does take a “lay person” to explain in plain English what a highly qualified “science dork” has no ability to articulate to a lay person. I’ve known very highly educated STEM people who are in many respects retarded on the communication front. We also have the interweb to check these things with various “experts” for ourselves. It’s as plain as daylight that science (especially science that has any political element attached to it) has been corrupted by “educated” grifters, careerists, obsessives, posers and nefarious entities hiding behind narratives these days.
      
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      August 23, 2022 8:42pm
      - krazykiwi
        
        Quite.
        
        “People who are supposed to be the experts and claim to understand the science, are precisely the people who are blind to the evidence” — Professor Freeman Dyson, acclaimed physicist
        
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        August 23, 2022 11:00pm
  - Doc Holliday
    
    No apostrophe is “its role”, layperson.
    
    Other than that, whatever you say may be taken down an used in evidence.
    
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    August 23, 2022 11:52pm
- Mrs_Right
  
  It will be blamed on climate change.
  
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  August 23, 2022 10:24am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Prostate biopsy for me soon 35 tests General anesthetic. Hope there will be no anaphylaxis this time – they know.
  
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  August 23, 2022 10:54am
  - oldfella
    
    Good luck, Steve.
    
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    August 23, 2022 11:13am
Tony Stuart

Remember how the Left piled onto Christopher Luxon when he said on Newshub Nation a week ago that disabled beneficiaries could be eligible for sanctions? I wonder how they’ll react today:

The Labour Government has cut the benefits of around 4000 sick, injured of disabled jobseekers in the last five years because they weren’t preparing to return to work fast enough.

The Green Party’s social development spokesperson Ricardo Menéndez March says it is awful and is accusing the Government of actively targeting disabled New Zealanders with sanctions.

“It needs to immediately stop,” he told 1News.

The Green MP believes many Labour MPs don’t realise what their own Government is doing.

“We’re calling on Labour to stop focussing on attacking National MPs for their policy and to look at their own.”

In early August, National leader Christopher Luxon revealed the party’s ‘Welfare That Works’ policy designed to get young people off jobseeker benefits and into jobs.

“To young people who don’t want to work, you might have a free ride under Labour but under National it ends,” he told the party’s annual conference in Christchurch.

Young people who didn’t comply with the policy, such as being job coached, would face sanctions, including the roughly 35% of young people who are on jobseeker benefits because they are injured, are sick or have disabilities and are unable to work.

The Government said it showed how “out of touch” Luxon and National are.

The Labour MP for Nelson Rachel Boyack tweeted the following message which was liked by multiple Labour MPs.

“Just to be very, very clear, people who are unwell or have disabilities and aren’t able to work or are having difficulty finding work shouldn’t be sanctioned!”

But the Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni said it’s justified.

“It’s not hypocritical, when you look at the small numbers and the expectations that are in place, it’s us following the guidelines that we have.”

Sepuloni said the Government only sanctions people if medical advice shows they are fit to return to work.

https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/08/22/govt-sanctions-sick-jobseekers-for-failing-to-prepare-for-work/

This is a real own goal for Labour, and especially for likely one-term Nelson MP Rachel Boyack, who should probably stick to helping her flood-ravaged constituents for a few weeks.

Meanwhile Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni was happy to quote from a critic of the National policy two weeks ago in the House, but she now has to eat her words, and from the limp excuses she gave last night, she’s choking on them!
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August 23, 2022 8:13am
- Tricati
  
  Another day and another load of hypocrisy from Labour – Go figure.
  With the continual exposure of these types of contradictions, and Labour policy cock-ups, I’m at a loss Labour/Ardern are so high in the polls. With the ammo available, it is a worry Luxon cant get any cut through.
  
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  August 23, 2022 8:24am
  - 70andstilllearning
    
    You only need to look at the vomit inducing 0:24 – 0:51 part of this video to understand. NEMA jacket swapped for the hijab, hugs and kisses all round. The kar’s are loving it – maybe not so much the kids.
    
    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/08/weather-government-gives-further-200k-to-flood-affected-areas.html
    
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    August 23, 2022 9:00am
  - amospicton
    
    It is concerning Tricati but most people’s sole source of news (the truth?) is the media. Through that lens there’s hardly any criticism of the PM, plenty of the Nats, and no mention of co-governance etc. I can’t see this changing until enough people’s own lives are impacted by the reality such that they can no longer be convinced black is white.
    
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    August 23, 2022 9:11am
    - Tony Stuart
      
      The irony though amospicton, is that there are more and more negative stories about the government and PM being broadcast and published. It’s almost as though the media can see that the tide has turned, and they are starting to accept the reality that there is likely to be a change in government next year.
      
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      August 23, 2022 10:25am
RockyJ

Te Whata Ora, the new national health management agency has come up with a plan to speed up surgeries. It has directed hospitals to make a fixed schedule for when everyone on a waiting list will get their surgery. In addition it has instructed specialists to cut back on post operative consultations.

Who would have thought that micro-management was still alive? This brilliant policy is based on the assumption our hospital staff are lazy and don’t care about their patients.

It has never worked well in businesses and will have negative outcomes.
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August 23, 2022 8:14am
- Ehlana
  
  Is there a fixed schedule for workplace, motor vehicle and other accidents too? I mean, what’s a surgeon to do – life-saving surgery on a worker injured on the job, or scheduled surgery on someone who will live without it? Will there be a Ministry hotline for them to call for a decision?
  
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  August 23, 2022 8:31am
- Benedict Yu
  
  “in addition it has instructed specialists to cut back on post operative consultations.”
  
  What could possibly go wrong? ☹️
  
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  August 23, 2022 8:35am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Post Op Consultations are needed.
    For me, I want to know the result of a prostate 35 samples result to see if my cancer is stable, or increasing
    
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    August 23, 2022 11:14am
    - Nickc2
      
      E-mail the Maori Health Authority, claim you’re Maori, and suggest the ToW owes you big time. You’ll get everything you want bro!
      Also, if you tell em the lack of specialist appointments is preventing you from getting to your Te Reo Classes, you’ll be quids in eh?
      
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      August 23, 2022 11:41am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        It has crossed my mind. A blue eyed Maori? Plenty of them LOL
        
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        August 23, 2022 12:53pm
    - rouppe
      
      Not only that, this is the only opportunity for the surgeon to assess the success of the operation.
      
      I had my gall bladder removed a year ago. As it happens it had zero complications or post surgery issues. The consult was unnecessary, but how does the surgeon know?
      
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      August 23, 2022 1:49pm
- pdm
  
  Te Whata Ora – is that the same as New Zealand Hospital Board?
  
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  August 23, 2022 9:00am
- DeepBlue
  
  Do they think the DHBs (Darn Helpful Bunch) were not trying to work through backlogs within their resorcing?
  
  Do they think DHBs weren’t sharing patient regional operating capcity where possible?
  
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  August 23, 2022 9:08am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Admin is/was a problem. Those on the floor in ED and ICU work their arses off, and it is much appreciated
    
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    August 23, 2022 11:17am
- Ghost
  
  Here is an idea, fire the bleep who locked down all the hospitals and told them they couldn’t do elective operations when there were no cases of Covid in their district or even bloody island. Jacinda has caused so much suffering, death and delayed diagnosis she should be prosecuted
  
  And for god sake listen to the surgeons. Had a relative who needed a hip replacement, every time his surgeon went to the ministry of health to beg for them to approve it, he was below the new points they had brought in, the op was denied until a complete collapse of the hip and as the surgeon said a fucken mess that took much longer to repair than it should of.
  
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  August 23, 2022 10:06am
  - artemisia
    
    The government also commandeered some private hospitals, requiring them to be empty in case. Not needed, but at least one I know of had the devil’s own job getting the government to pay the agreed amount.
    
    At least it was evidence of some planning when there were many unknowns. Or panic.
    
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    August 23, 2022 12:11pm
    - rouppe
      
      But that’s a dumb way to do it. Let the hospitals continue with surgeries on the proviso that they can be commandeered IF NEEDED.
      
      Don’t have them sitting there empty when nothing is going on.
      
      Even Monique thinks that’s dumb
      
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      August 23, 2022 1:52pm
- mawm
  
  I wonder if they will schedule in cancelled surgeries due shortage of bed space created by government failure to fund the beds. Or if they are going to shorten waiting lists by making it harder to get onto a waiting list (and thereby removing those that are no longer eligible). Or if the surgeons are in for a windfall as weekend lists at inflated rates are going to be reinstituted (where those predicted to be easy complication-free get done in extra quick time).
  
  The other option is to emulate Wayne Brown from when he was in charge of ADHB and try to fire the senior SMO’s because they cost more than the junior SMO’s, and stuff all that learned experience that they bring. That’ll save a packet. //s
  
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  August 23, 2022 11:01am
- rjay
  
  This will simply lead to inefficient use of theatre space. Why?? In order to allow for acute cases there will have to “bookings” for accidents etc. You can’t book at the average but at the peak load for acute needs. That is the only way to provide certainty for planned surgery. Thus there will be many empty hours when below peak.
  
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  August 23, 2022 1:43pm
  - Paulus
    
    But remember Maori First now, in all aspects of Medicine.
    List will have known ethnicity first.
    
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    August 23, 2022 2:19pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8CnlL8I4HE

Please Stop Commenting How EVs Are Around The Corner And How ICE is Dead.

Refueling a combustion car to 100% takes between 2-7 minutes and gives you an average range of around 500km (310.6 miles). If the vehicle is a diesel the range is usually around 700km or more. At the extreme end of the scale we of course have combustion vehicles whose ranges easily exceed 1200km. Now according to the USA Federal Highway Administration – Department of Transportation the average american drives 14,263 miles or 22.954 kilometers. The average EU citizen drives 7021 miles or 11.300 km every year. Now if we take the average between USA and EU to be the global average this gives us 10642.224 miles or 17.127 km per year. Now let’s forget our optimistic 2 minute gas station stop. Let’s say that we spend 7 minutes at the gas station every time. The end result is that the average citizen of planet earth spends 239.8 minutes or 3.99 hours every year refueling the average combustion car. [20:36]
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August 23, 2022 8:16am
- All_on_Red
  
  Meanwhile…
  Hydrogen powered ICE cars are happening.
  https://www.pistonheads.com/news/ph-japanesecars/hydrogen-powered-gr-yaris-debuts-in-europe/46110
  
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  August 23, 2022 8:47am
  - ISeeRed
    
    Hydrogen isn’t viable. It takes more energy to produce, transport and store than what it yields. It’s that simple.
    
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    August 23, 2022 8:58am
  - kowtow
    
    How much power does it take to make the hydrogen.
    
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    August 23, 2022 9:02am
    - Local Miller
      
      You need at least as much power to split the water into Hydrogen and Oxygen (or whatever source is used, like methane), slightly more if you want to account for loss in cabling, etc. You then teed to spend money compressing and cooling it for transport, otherwise you have a very explosive gas at high volume to transport.
      Hydrogen is also (in case you forgot) the smallest atom, it’s really difficult to create and maintain hydrogen proof containers. this is expensive and there is leakage/loss.
      Then as with any combustion engine, burning the hydrogen doesn’t give 100% return on energy input (heat loss etc.). In the end for every erg of energy used to split water, you’re not getting anywhere near the same amount of energy out.
      Here’s a good paper on the research:
      https://afdc.energy.gov/files/pdfs/hyd_economy_bossel_eliasson.pdf
      The abstract sums it up well:
      “The analysis reveals that much more energy is needed to operate a hydrogen economy than is consumed in today’s energy economy. In fact, depending on the chosen route the input of electrical energy to make, package, transport, store and transfer hydrogen may easily double the hydrogen energy delivered to the end user.”
      
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      August 23, 2022 3:39pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Hydrogen cars are such a bad idea. The fuel is just too bulky and dangerous to store. It only works for larger vehicles. Trucks, Planes, Ships, Trains.
    
    Toyota senior management got into hydrogen 20-30 years ago and have held on grimly to the idea in the face of all logic and evidence that batteries have won – their personal egos and reputation are on the line, but they are screwing their company’s future as a result
    
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    August 23, 2022 9:17am
  - Ian Boag
    
    There’s a bloke called Avogadro who came up with a physical law that makes the idea of a hydrogen ICE very hard.
    
    Go back to the days of CNG. A heavy bottle on the vehicle full of (pretty much) methane and pumped up to about 200 atmospheres. Suppose that bottle had a range of 100km. 16 kg of methane occupies the same volume as 2 kg of hydrogen … so the same bottle pumped up with hydrogen and burned in the engine would have a range of about 12 km. Equal vols = equal moles and all that ….
    
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    August 23, 2022 9:37am
    - cmm
      
      Trying to store anything as a gas significantly reduces the amount of material you can store and increases the dangerous pressures you need to work with.
      
      LPG is stored as a liquid which is why so much can be stored in a small volume.
      
      Hydrogen cannot be effectively liquified as that requires cryogenics. It is not realistic to keep your car at -250 degrees C.
      
      The only viable option would be chemical storage – where the hydrogen is chemically bonded to some other material (eg. metal hydrides) to reduce the vapour pressure, but this is still bulky and heavy.
      
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      August 23, 2022 9:59am
      - Ian Boag
        
        And burning it in an ICE is still a bit of a killer. Thermal efficiency of ICE a bit low and all that. Second law of thermodynamics ….
        
        High pressure hydrogen leaks through connectors and embrittles steel pipes/bottles. Storing a reasonable amount in a vehicle is pretty hard. That’s all just chemistry, physics and engineering …
        
        Pretty much the only sensible way to turn hydrogen into motive power is through a fuel cell which can give much higher efficiency than an ICE. This has been known about for yonks and is still one of those “we will have this sorted in 10 years” things that has been going on for the last 40 ….
        
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        August 23, 2022 10:42am
  - All_on_Red
    
    And yet the car works…
    And do the filling stations.
    
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    August 23, 2022 12:25pm
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      Hydrogen tanks the size of 44 gallon drums pressurised to 700x atmospheric pressure inside cars that occasionally have crashes are nothing less than bombs waiting to go off. The energy those tanks can release in a crash is similar to 1kg of TNT
      
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      August 23, 2022 3:10pm
      - Ian Boag
        
        FWIW It’s rather less than the energy stored in 50 liters of petrol …. and there is no way you can pressurise any reasonable size/weight vessel to 700 atmospheres if you want to put it in a car ….
        
        Go figure.
        
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        August 23, 2022 5:37pm
    - kowtow
      
      At what cost , compared to / relative to , the cars and filling stations we have now , already , working just fine , thank you .
      
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      August 23, 2022 3:43pm
    - Ian Boag
      
      The car – according to the article – did an enthusiastic squirt down a 15km course
      
      Makes an old Nissan Leaf look pretty good 🙂
      
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      August 23, 2022 5:41pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Every time I hear about hydrogen cars I remember the Hindenburg
    
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    August 23, 2022 8:25pm
- quarterpack
  
  The internal combustion engine has surely had its day….remember the first liquid cooled internal combustion engines were around before ww1, sharing many of the basics…poppet valves, lead acid batteries, oil pumps, radiators that we see today. Compare how the aviation industry has moved on in a similar time frame. Change must happen, but not share your reservations on the ev.
  
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  August 23, 2022 9:43am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    A good modern diesel is up to 45% efficient, F1 engines have hit ~50%. PEM Fuel cells in cars like the Mirai are only about 45-50% efficient, but the hydrogen is a nightmare fuel. Better to use the hydrogen to manufacture synthetic hydrocarbons that are so much easier to handle and so much cheaper to convert to power using an IC engine.
    
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    August 23, 2022 3:14pm
    - Ian Boag
      
      modern diesel is up to 45% efficient
      
      That’s the big ones used to power ships. Think (maybe) 30% for car diesels which still looks good compared to low 20’s for car petrol engines.
      
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      December 23, 2021 7:16pm
  - kowtow
    
    ‘Change must happen, but not share your reservations on the ev.’
    
    Why must change happen ?
    
    It will change if needed and market driven.
    
    Maybe not so much when it’s all coming from the top down , for all the wrong reasons .
    
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    August 23, 2022 3:44pm
    - Chris Nisbet
      
      This.
      If people thought EVs were better they’d be buying them already.
      Fossil fuels are (or were until politicians really started getting involved) convenient, cheap, etc., and this is why people buy them. Some people even argue that they have a hidden benefit of warming the globe a little bit.
      We’ve had electric cars for well over a century. They pretty much have the same problems now as they did back when they first came out – short range, long time to charge etc. This is why they faded from use.
      Queering the pitch by buggering the FF market, and then claiming that it makes financial sense to buy EVs, or telling us what sort of car we need or don’t need (think utes and 4WD) isn’t the same thing. The net result is a lowering of our standard of living.
      
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      August 23, 2022 4:24pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  Yes many people do not realise how far many Americans drive. Note that 22,000 km is an average. Many would drive way more. It is not uncommon for folk to drive 150 km to work and back each day.
  
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  August 23, 2022 9:46am
- cmm
  
  Yup curry, liquid fuels (petrol etc) transfer energy extremely quickly.
  
  An EV “fast charger” can maybe achieve 120kW.
  A standard petrol bowser at a filling station delivers almost a litre of fuel a second – around 20-30MW.
  
  Thus, the petrol bowser is transferring energy into the vehicle about 200x as fast as a Tesla “fast charger”.
  
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  August 23, 2022 10:04am
  - Wayne Mapp
    
    The 800 v system of Taycan and Audi GT can charge at a rate of 350 kw. 80% charge in 20 mins in cars that have round 500 km range.
    
    This technology will move into cheaper EV.s pretty quickly. Most major brands seem to already do around 400km, a huge increase on the 100 to 150 km that was typical a decade ago.
    
    In any event most EV owners do all their charging at home, so their car is almost always fully charged each day.
    
    How many of us need to do 500 km every day? Maybe on a holiday trip. As the EV charging network expands these range anxiety issues will disappear.
    
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    August 23, 2022 10:25am
    - cmm
      
      Wow, a whole 350kW … assuming you can get the power connection to feed it.
      
      If we’re going to talk about the higher speed stuff, then let’s compare with the high deliver diesel bowsers at some petrol stations. Those deliver fuel at almost 2 litres a second – around 60MW!
      
      That’s 170 or so times as fast. Filling a car to 80% will take you 20 seconds – not 20 minutes.
      
      Do you seriously expect people to stand around for 20 minutes at the filling station waiting for a charge?
      
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      August 23, 2022 11:01am
      - Wayne Mapp
        
        cmm,
        You missed my key point. Most people will charge their vehicles at home in the evening. Each day they will start off with 500 km range. How often will they even use public chargers? Not often, mostly on holiday.
        The reality is that EV’s will become the norm for new cars within a decade. I suspect you won’t even be able to buy a new ICE car in the western world by 2035.
        
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        August 23, 2022 12:24pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Where is all the Electricity coming from if every car in the world is Electric?
        Indonesian Coal?
        The ICE car is not going away.
        
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        August 23, 2022 12:28pm
      - Nickc2
        
        Wayne Mapp @12:24PM
        Each day they will start off with 500 km range but the owner will start each day with a cold shower due to all the electricity being consumed in charging the damned car.
        
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        August 23, 2022 12:49pm
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Wayne – what do you think will happen at public EV chargers at Easter? Thousands of motorists queued up at the three working chargers in Taupo?
        
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        August 23, 2022 8:28pm
    - Cassandra
      
      Source of batteries? We’ve got supply chain problems now – how do we increase supply x 50? And the electricity etc.
      
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      August 23, 2022 2:08pm
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        We needed to start power generation expansion 5-10 years ago if we really wanted a switch to EV. But that would have required a competent govt.
        
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        August 23, 2022 3:15pm
    - lemuzz
      
      Lots of families have more than one car. Home chargers can charge only one car at a time. IC vehicles will be around for a long time yet. Don’t see many emergency EV vehicles nor back country farmers either. Many of those have a supply which, when they switch on the shearing plant the house lights dim.
      
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      August 23, 2022 4:30pm
curry4me

https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=463736272069899

Chantelle Baker talks about her ban from Facebook.

Chantelle Baker has been banned from Facebook-Meta. She had 97000 followers.
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August 23, 2022 8:17am
- Yabster
  
  She is doing a great job- Stuff and Penfold are poison- they may not have directly reported her but that piece of propaganda Fire and bollocks certainly led to it. As she and Plunket have said- gives her an even greater profile – well done Stuffed.
  
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  August 23, 2022 8:29am
  - Gravelroad
    
    Who will be the next individual or group which will be cancelled by fb or meta because “we” disagree with their views and don’t like them personally?
    Sadly, NZ is being turned into a loathsome, intolerant country by undemocratic processes.
    
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    August 23, 2022 9:03am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      Probably ‘co-governance’. Opponents will be labelled ‘racist’ or ‘far right wing’.
      
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      August 23, 2022 9:24am
    - Matt Long
      
      Illustrating the principle of synchronicity or coincidence, “news” outlets in the US are user the terminology of Super Spreaders of disinformation in regard to people who are challenging The Narrative, at the same time as the Smearald has a list of Super Speakers of Disinformation in NZ.
      The Smearald adds to Stuffed in calling for people including Baker to be deplatformed for daring to question The Narrative.
      
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      August 23, 2022 10:44am
      - Matt Long
        
        Super Spreaders not speakers 😠😠😠
        
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        August 23, 2022 10:45am
- Sacha
  
  Facebook is not the drawcard it once was. I only use it for keeping up with friends in a light-hearted way, and do not use twitter, or any other socially toxic mediums.
  
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  August 23, 2022 9:32am
- mogg
  
  Sean Plunket has offered her a platform on The Platform. She is a very fluent speaker and gets her ideas across very clearly, without the need for doublespeak, head nodding or hand waving.
  Unlike Pinocchio she is not inclined to just keep talking and talking and talking when she has nothing to say.
  
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  August 23, 2022 10:40am
  - Ross Campbell
    
    Sean Plunket(and the money man Wayne Wright behind The Platform) is just trying to be the NZ version of Fox News or Sky Australia.
    Give a platform for all the conspiracy theorists to spread their nonsense and then claim its all about free speech and balance when in reality it is all about ratings and political barrow pushing.
    
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    August 23, 2022 12:46pm
    - Nickc2
      
      Ross, you must be running out of fertilizer for that Bull Shit you’re spreading.
      
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      August 23, 2022 1:09pm
    - mogg
      
      The only person pushing a barrow is you. Plunket repeatedly invites PM, Ministers, anybody with a point of view, the opportunity to speak out. He will not however be asking patsy questions, hence they will not appear. You have either been sucked in by MSM dumbing down, or you have got your head stuck firmly where the sun don’t shine.
      
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      August 23, 2022 1:41pm
      - Tony Stuart
        
        I found it hugely ironic that The Spinoff, which has received millions of dollars of taxpayer funding in the last five years, was critical of a rival that hasn’t asked for private funding, but got out and raised its own support. For that alone, Sean Plunket deserves plenty of plaudits.
        
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        August 23, 2022 1:49pm
    - Gravelroad
      
      And what are you all about, Mr Campbell?
      What’s your background?
      You come on here and lecture people about “political barrow pushing” but offer nothing of substance.
      I bet you wouldn’t have the guts to debate your views, whatever they may be, with Mr Plunket.
      
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      August 23, 2022 3:38pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Ross, I know I’ve asked this before, but which conspiracy theories and why are they conspiracy theories? Take as long as you want.
      
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      August 23, 2022 6:23pm
RockyJ

Kiwibank is to be bought by the government. This will be a pretext to load the board with Maori grandees.

I have considerable fixed deposits in Kiwibank. I will switch them to another bank to protect my interests as much for my own ideological reasons
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August 23, 2022 8:17am
- Yabster
  
  like I said yesterday- soon to be Iwibank…
  
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  August 23, 2022 8:29am
  - Colville
    
    and the Mahuta’s will get paid $10mil to rename it as such….
    
    “cool idea eh Bro…?”
    
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    August 23, 2022 9:36am
- peterwn
  
  Kiwibank is obviously a turkey. Government pressured NZ Super and ACC to take up part ownership of Kiwibank and those organisations have no doubt pressured the Government to take back the holding.
  
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  August 23, 2022 8:33am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Why is it a turkey? The only possible way a bank can be a turkey is through deliberate malfeasance. Banks don’t lose money.
    
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    August 23, 2022 9:59am
    - peterwn
      
      A bank has to be properly capitalised by shareholders and these shareholders have their arses on the line first if the bank goes belly up. These shareholders expect to receive a reasonable return on their investment plus a bit more because of that risk. The BNZ has failed twice in its history, the second time because yuppie managers (not the traditional ‘I am going to say no’ branch managers – their lending decisions were sound) were lending money all over the place.
      
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      August 23, 2022 12:01pm
  - Pavel
    
    Kiwibank is a total joke. 20 years and their market share is still in the single digits. When any real estate agents hear their buyers say “subject to finance through kiwibank” they roll their eyes and mutter f%#k because they decline the vast majority of loans. Take a look at their Facebook page, all beneficiaries moaning “I’ve been at the atm for 2 hours, where’s my dole, I’ve gotta feed my kids”. Kiwibank is really just a benefit payment provider. No one in business uses them and good luck getting a mortgage through them.
    
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    August 23, 2022 10:08am
    - artemisia
      
      I have a business account and 2 mortgages with Kiwibank. The account works pretty well but it is not complex.
      
      The mortgage accounts were originally with HSBC, onsold to AMP, onsold to Kiwibank. Average service only. Last change, earlier this year, as example – all changes agreed on phone and confirmed by email. Until unexpected changes happened, not in a good way, more than once. Something wrong in their systems, or the people administering them. PITA.
      
      Looking now at Heartland.
      
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      August 23, 2022 12:18pm
  - Libertarians are right
    
    I believe the issue is that ACC and the NZ Super Fund require their investments to meet certain market criteria. Co-Governance will be outside that criteria so if Labour want to bring in co-governance at Kiwibank they have to remove ACC and the NZ Super Fund as owners.
    
    Co-Governance is the only reason I can see for the Government buying ownership of Kiwibank.
    
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    August 23, 2022 11:30am
  - Tom Hunter
    
    Another Jim “Back To The Future” Anderton brainfart that business people knew was going to be a dog from day one.
    
    And it’s so typical of the Left that with examples like this and Kiwifail they still bang the drums for more State ownership and control – now with Climate Change as the emergency (see Bradbury, “Bomber”)
    
    It could have been worse; I recall Anderton yammering in 1999 about the fabulous success of the Japanese government and businesses working together, unaware that they’d been flat or in recession for most of the 1990’s. I recall he also thought we should be building “FABS” (Silicon chip factories) here in NZ. Apparently risk meant nothing to the man when it was only a billion dollars of other people’s money.
    
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    August 23, 2022 12:13pm
Paulus

Who said yesterday to the media when questioned about Dr Sharma’s expulsion today.
“You know me” !
Well, we sure do, you are a person of doubtful character being not only a liar so often that you would not know the truth.
You have overseen the moral, social and economic destruction of our country and still have no idea of the ideologists, and your tarnished political obsession behind you carving up our nation.
What will the children, who are today suffering, must think of you ?
You came in blaring about the plight of children, today it is worse than ever – only you and your idealist must take the blame.
Your legacy will be such as when your name is mentioned serious scorn will take place, and sadly your family good name will remain tarnished.
Go, Now !
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August 23, 2022 8:20am
- Tony Stuart
  
  What the PM actually said was “people have gotten to know me”.
  
  My reply was “People HAVE got (not gotten!) to know you Prime Minister. That’s why so many people believe what Dr Gaurav Sharma is saying and alleging.”
  
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  August 23, 2022 10:22am
  - Ross Campbell
    
    Outside the bubble of Kiwiblog and your National Party circles how many people actually believe Sharma’s allegations Tony?.
    I have not seen any polls taken around this so how do we know either way?.
    
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    August 23, 2022 11:05am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Most people i know say they believe him, they no longer trust the lying pm, many of these people are lefties, the media let it slip that in the airport that lots of people were patting him on the back as they passed him
      
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      August 23, 2022 6:49pm
Cassandra

Read Ann Salmond today on Newsroom for a way forward in race relations in NZ.
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August 23, 2022 8:21am
Stellaboxer

A very sobering view of New Zealand under the Ardern regime. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koI9hfY2xK4&t=1020s
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August 23, 2022 8:21am
- Swifty
  
  Thanks Stellaboxer – that was an excellent listen.
  
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  August 23, 2022 9:44am
- Roberta
  
  Agree, that is an excellent watch.
  
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  August 23, 2022 5:35pm
- glowworm
  
  Yes, as depressing as it is, this is an excellent summary of recent NZ political history. Worth listening to all of it.
  
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  August 23, 2022 7:48pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Dame Anne Salmond sees the Elephant in the room and mistakes it for a whale.

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/anne-salmond-injustice-is-like-a-whale
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August 23, 2022 8:22am
- Cassandra
  
  We’ve got to try something, Maggie, can’t have this Mexican standoff forever. What she’s suggesting might be a way forward.
  
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  August 23, 2022 8:46am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Race politics stinks!
    
    Everyone should have realised that by the end of WW2.
    
    The ToW in 1840 was between the British Crown and Maori folk….. NZ as a Nation didn’t exist at that time… It was a British Colony – run as a Dependency of New South Wales.
    
    NZ didn’t become an independent Nation until the 20th Century…
    
    Change the narrative…
    
    The founding of our Nation isn’t from the TofW.
    
    It’s from when NZ becomes a self-governing nation with one set of laws for all citizens.
    
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    August 23, 2022 9:51am
  - Ehlana
    
    No Maggy, I think Dame Anne has hit on something important. The Treaty process has become all about lawyers, the Crown and “Maori”. That excludes the over 80% of NZers who have no Maori blood. Too often we are hearing talk about Maori (sometimes with Pacific Islanders tagged on) and their issues in a way that makes it sound like the Government doesn’t care about anyone else. The race-based focus is driving polarisation.
    
    Contrast that approach with the Charette method used in 1971 in Durham North Carolina to resolve school issues (se The Best of Enemies, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4807408/). That method looked at acknowledging issues and identifying concerns for everyone, then trying to solve them together. That’s what we lack now – a place in the process for non-Maori New Zealanders, to both hear and be heard.
    
    When you think about it, the idea that long-standing and deep issues can be resolved in a community by a process that leaves over 80% of the people out is just plain dumb.
    
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    August 23, 2022 9:54am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      @Ehlana.
      
      I think we may be discussing things at cross-purposes.
      
      I’m in full agreement with Dame Anne Salmond re Race…
      In Humans, race is a biological nonsense…and I was so surprised in the 1990s when I first became aware that Academia was again using “race” as a weapon (often disguised as culture/indigeneity).
      
      The social scientists are creating a new eugenics monster in NZ.
      
      I suspect Dame Anne has realised where the emphasis on a bicultural NZ will lead.
      
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      August 23, 2022 10:43am
Maggie Pie

Goof’s Auckland…..
The quicker he fucks off out of here the better-off we’ll all be.

To think we were shopping here less than 36 hours ago 🙁

https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1561799542990938112
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August 23, 2022 8:23am
- alex Masterley
  
  Whoever at council is dragging the chain on bollard installation for this property needs to be pilloried.
  Goff has left the room. We have a vacum until the election.
  
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  August 23, 2022 8:48am
- Frank the tank
  
  You think the ‘Fes’ will be any different you are kidding yourself.
  
  Or indeed Wayno or Viv.
  
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  August 23, 2022 9:25am
Benedict Yu

I heard on the grapevine that a State housing tenant was evicted yesterday. It involved a firearm, an assault, and explosion. At least we now have a benchmark. 🤡
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August 23, 2022 8:29am
- pdm
  
  BY – would that be the first eviction in New Zealand since October 2017?
  
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  August 23, 2022 9:02am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    I don’t know. Probably not. However I understand that evictions are very rare.
    
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    August 23, 2022 9:49am
- Harry Knuts
  
  was that 10 strikes and they are out?
  
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  August 23, 2022 10:48am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    I don’t know exactly. All I know is that he is terrifying. There was a ‘flare gun’ involved which misfired. It was then used as a club. It then exploded.
    
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    August 23, 2022 12:29pm
Maggie Pie

RANDOM IMPERTINENT QUESTION

Should WESTPAC be concerned now the gubmimt has nationalized Kiwibank?
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August 23, 2022 8:35am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  No way.
  
  Westpac will continue to be the NZ Government banker.
  
  https://www.westpac.co.nz/institutional/relationship-management/government-banking/
  
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  August 23, 2022 8:42am
- Tricati
  
  No Maggie, Westpac have access to the reserves to cover the Governments growing debt, Kiwibank don’t.
  Going to be interesting to see who Robertson places on the board of Kiwibank.
  
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  August 23, 2022 8:47am
- Nickc2
  
  Everyone should be concerned with any form of Govt Nationalisation in NZ.
  
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  August 23, 2022 8:48am
- peterwn
  
  Were you thinking of Government banking business? Kiwibank has not wanted that business because its capital base is inadequate. Presumably Robbo could try and beef this up. Other issue (as far as I know) is Kiwibank systems are not up to it – they are OK for personal and small business accounts but would not scale up for large businesses and Government agencies.
  
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  August 23, 2022 8:51am
- RoboRob
  
  Nope. The government (Labour and National) has directly or indirectly owned Kiwibank since its inception and has made no move to ready them to become the governments bank.
  
  I suspect that the $ cost of systems to support the governments needs outways the benefits of the government using KB. I don’t think the other big AU banks even compete for the job either.
  
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  August 23, 2022 8:56am
- Frank the tank
  
  No my guess is poor man’s Gordon Brown will more likely use it as a front for sub prime loans for dead beats. Kinda like Barry Osama did in the States that led to the GFC.
  
  Or there is another Clint Smith brain fart economic theory out there.
  
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  August 23, 2022 9:28am
- Harry Knuts
  
  Westpac should be concerned only with giving away millions of $$’s through their own processing errors. Their own track record isn’t the best.
  
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  August 23, 2022 10:49am
Cassandra

See this from Victor Davis Hanson: https://amgreatness.com/2022/08/21/the-worst-and-the-stupidest/

It’ll resonate here. Woke = Broke
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August 23, 2022 8:43am
- cjn
  
  Worth reading. Worth re-reading.
  
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  August 23, 2022 7:46pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Looks like someone didn’t get a ‘heads-up’ on Teacher Registration requirements

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2208/S00189/whos-telling-the-truth-on-mandatory-te-reo-maori-for-teachers.htm
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August 23, 2022 8:48am
- Oskar
  
  This requirement has been around for a while – see this RNZ report from 2021
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/441360/council-taking-more-rigorous-approach-with-teachers-failing-te-reo-requirement
  Some quotes from it.
  “Teachers must declare that they are developing and practising te reo and tikanga in order to renew their annual practising certificate.”
  and
  “Principals’ Federation president Perry Rush said he expected all teachers would eventually have to meet minimum levels of competence in te reo Māori.”
  Then there is this article
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/430513/government-wants-all-education-providers-to-use-te-reo-maori-every-day
  Basically if you wish to teach in New Zealand you have to be prepared to learn and use te reo.
  
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  August 23, 2022 10:37am
  - Oskar
    
    The latest Tremain cartoon says it as to where our education system is going – see the latest cartoon
    https://garricktremain.nz/cartoons
    
    Teacher is saying “this term we are going to learn to say ‘I failed English, Maths and Science’ in Te Reo”
    
    In todays teacher education Te Reo trumps content knowledge
    
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    August 23, 2022 4:14pm
- Jack5
  
  Good work by Seymour.
  
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  August 23, 2022 11:29am
Maggy Wassilieff

Who remembers the Ministry of Works?

(and the great work they did keeping NZ’s infrastructure ticking over)

https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2022/08/22/nzs-emergency-management-agency-is-put-to-the-test-and-flood-devastation-suggests-it-needs-a-repair-function/
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August 23, 2022 8:51am
- RoboRob
  
  I remember that. 5 guys standing on the road all day to do a small repair.
  
  1. Set up little tent
  2. One guy works (slowly) while the other 4 stand around and watch. Tea breaks every 2 hours minimum.
  3. Come 2pm, regardless if finished or not, tent goes down. Sit in the truck untile 3pm and then depart (assumedly home).
  
  Max of one job per day. At least twice as many to do the repair as required.
  
  I believe the deal, for at least a while, was the MOW and Rail would employ all the people who couldn’t get work. This kept unemployment down and was essentially a ‘work for the dole scheme’. Might have actually been a good idea as at least the unemployed kept a routine.
  
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  August 23, 2022 9:03am
  - coge
    
    Happens all over. Four vans turn up around 8.30am. At the building site. A few of the occupants get out and stand around having a discussion. Twenty minutes later they get back in the vans and leave. And that’s it for the day.
    
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    August 23, 2022 4:30pm
- JimBobJoe
  
  I have vivid memories of watching MoW road crews leaning on shovels doing jack as a kid sitting in the backseat of the family car observing NZ going by….
  
  Not that the current private crews seem to work any harder.
  
  Personally I would like to see NZ recruit road crews from Japan on 2 or 3 year contracts plus their management. Things would get build and/or fixed very quickly and the job would be done well.
  
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  August 23, 2022 9:25am
  - H. Upmann
    
    The major change since then is that there is now an additional squadron of cone movers and sign flashers added to every job.
    
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    August 23, 2022 10:58am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    These days they have road cone Inspectors, Managers, and Guards.
    
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    August 23, 2022 11:39am
Rusty

Can anyone confirm if the Australian constitution still has a clause/invite for NZ to become a state of Australia?

Pre-1840 treaty of Waitangi NZ was governed by NSW.

Just curious.
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August 23, 2022 8:51am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  New Zealand was administered as part of New South Wales until 3 May 1841 when it became a colony in its own right.
  
  New South Wales and New Zealand continued to have close ties for many years to come. Volunteers went to fight in the New Zealand Lands wars in 1863 and Sydney made two gunboats for the war. New Zealand participated in the Federation talks in the 1890s but decided against becoming a member of the Commonwealth of Australia, instead progressing from a colony to a dominion in 1907.
  
  https://www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/collections-and-research/guides-and-indexes/closer-ties-new-zealand#:~:text=New%20Zealand%20was%20administered%20as,for%20many%20years%20to%20come.
  
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  August 23, 2022 9:59am
  - Harry Knuts
    
    wow super interesting – never knew that.
    makes you wonder what miserable twat gave you a downtick??
    
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    August 23, 2022 10:51am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I get more worried when I don’t have a downtick…
      
      Have my trolls given up on me? I muse.
      
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      August 23, 2022 12:38pm
      - Harry Knuts
        
        good attitude! 🙂
        
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        August 23, 2022 12:58pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  It is more than that. Clause 6 establishes New Zealand as a ‘State’ of Australia. The constitution was written in the period between about 1895 and 1899. It provided for New Zealand to be part of the New nation. However after the constitution was finalised, New Zealand walked away. However the provision is still there.
  
  If the New Zealand Government now said “yes please’ I am guessing that New Zealand would need to be admitted. The alternative would be to amend the constitution to exclude New Zealand, which would require a referendum.
  
  TBH the way things are heading now, I predict that opposition to New Zealand becoming a state of Australia would be less than it was a generation ago (or even 5 years ago!).
  
  https://www.aph.gov.au/constitution
  
  “The States shall mean such of the colonies of New South Wales, New Zealand, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, and South Australia, including the northern territory of South Australia, as for the time being are parts of the Commonwealth, and such colonies or territories as may be admitted into or established by the Commonwealth as States; and each of such parts of the Commonwealth shall be called a State.”
  
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  August 23, 2022 10:02am
  - Jack5
    
    One of the rumours about the Australian constitution talks was that NZ politicians thought having to travel across the Tasman for a Senate was too daunting.
    
    The age of air travel changed that.
    
    Western Australia’s main city, Perth, is 3088km by air to Canberra, compared with 2366km from Wellington to Canberra.
    
    For comparison in 1900’s: sea travel from Fremantle to Melbourne at 15 knots, typically about 4 days 2 hours.
    
    Sea travel Wellington to Melbourne at 15 knots about 3 days 20 hours.
    
    If South Island senators had sailed from Bluff it would have been about 3 days 5 hours.
    
    https://www.bednblue.com/sailing-distance-calculator
    
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    August 23, 2022 12:35pm
- ISeeRed
  
  What’d be in it for Australia? We’d become the poorest state, even poorer than Tasmania.
  
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  August 23, 2022 10:26am
  - JerJer
    
    …and Australia would get all the scumbag 501s back that they are doing so well at exporting back here, and a bunch of other scumbags that are probably already banned from Australia.
    
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    August 23, 2022 12:17pm
  - Benedict Yu
    
    Nothing. However, it may be that if New Zealand sought to be admitted as a state that the Australian Government would be required by the Constitution to agree. It would be up to Australia’s High Court to rule as it is the arbiter of the Constitution.
    
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    August 23, 2022 12:32pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Paywalled unfortunately..

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/nanaia-mahuta-was-associate-minister-when-her-husbands-firm-was-awarded-government-contract/A65FQ6NYXHEDB2T3CUBZWSZFJU/

but, I’m sure Our Dear PM will assure us that there’s nothing to see here.
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August 23, 2022 8:54am
- kowtow
  
  Kate MacNamara , one of the few there who hasn’t drunk the Kool Aid.
  
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  August 23, 2022 9:10am
- Harry Knuts
  
  One question i’ve pondered recently. Prior to Minister Mahuta’s ministerial or associate positions, what other govt contracts has Mr Ormsby’s companies won? Or did the winning of contracts only kick in when she was in an associate ministerial or ministerial position? fair question.
  
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  August 23, 2022 10:54am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Here’s the first few paragraphs of this morning’s Herald piece; well done to Kate McNamara for getting it past the censors:
  
  A government contract worth $72,299 including GST was awarded by the Crown housing agency to a company co-owned by Gannin Ormsby, the husband of Labour Minister Nanaia Mahuta, in a period when Mahuta had associate ministerial responsibility for housing.
  
  Ormsby’s consulting firm, Ka Awatea Services, was engaged in August, 2020 by Kāinga Ora to provide “specialist advice, support and resources” to facilitate six meetings (hui) and 14 workshops to engage with Māori and to provide a “high-level overview” of the agency’s Auckland housing projects.
  
  The agency said the meetings and workshops were delivered variously, online and in-person, and lasted roughly six hours apiece.
  
  A spokesman for Kāinga Ora said the Ka Awatea work, “did not fall under the ministerial responsibilities of Minister Mahuta at the time as this was in relation to our urban development programme (which comes under the responsibilities of the Housing Minister).”
  
  Mahuta was Associate Minister for Housing (Māori Housing) when the contract was awarded. The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet’s schedule of delegated responsibilities for associate ministers for the period noted Mahuta’s role included work that related to: “ensuring that housing for Māori whānau is appropriately catered for in Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities initiatives … [and] procurement policies to enhance Māori community development.”
  
  Hinemoa Awatere, acting deputy chief executive – Māori at Kāinga Ora, said there was “no communication with ministers in respect of the selection process” for the Ka Awatea contract, and that “no conflicts of interest were identified at Kāinga Ora.”
  
  A spokesperson for Mahuta said: “The contract did not require ministerial approval so no conflict was raised.”
  
  Unlike one or two of the other allegations against Ms Mahuta and her husband, this one relates directly to a time and place where she was an Associate Minister. It is inconceivable that neither she nor Ormsby, not Kainga Ora for that matter, sought to raise a conflict of interest.
  
  And Christopher Luxon is asking a different question to what he usually asks the Prime Minister today:
  
  CHRISTOPHER LUXON to the Prime Minister: Does she have confidence in all of her Ministers?
  
  https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/order-paper-questions/list-of-oral-questions/oral-questions-23-august-2022/
  
  Popcorn is at the ready!
  
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  August 23, 2022 12:54pm
kowtow

To date three stories on Democracy Project re Uffindell .

Still waiting for even one on the Sharma Drama .
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August 23, 2022 8:59am
- Philview
  
  The Democracy Project used to provide balanced political analysis but in recent weeks the output has dried up and seems slanted in favour of the Government. Has something happened behind the scenes?
  
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  August 23, 2022 9:43am
igm

Ardern’s union scum are trying to stop the anti-government demonstration . . .
https://thebfd.co.nz/2022/08/23/a-ferry-breaks-down-and-curious-coincidences/
It will not work Labour leeches!
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August 23, 2022 9:03am
- Nickc2
  
  A very interesting link.
  
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  August 23, 2022 9:33am
Joely Doe

FFS! There weren’t even schools to be truant from!

Mana College principal John Murdoch told 1News there are many causes.
“I don’t think truancy was invented before colonisation …” Murdoch said.

That this guy has a position of authority within a community is absurd.

Student attendance ad campaign launched
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August 23, 2022 9:09am
- R
  
  Clearly truancy by Maori is all down to colonisation. Nothing to do with being chased by cannibals. 🙂
  
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  August 23, 2022 10:15am
- slightlyrighty
  
  Actually, Elementary Schooling was not compulsory in the UK until 1880, some 40 years AFTER the treaty!
  
  In NZ we were far more enlightened, making school compulsory 3 years earlier.
  
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  August 23, 2022 10:15am
- Harry Knuts
  
  Random comment of the year from Mr Murdoch at Mana College.
  
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  August 23, 2022 11:31am
- oldfella
  
  JD: Mrs Oldfella and I heard that comment last night and almost fell about. To think this guy is in charge of a state secondary school. Our kids in his hands. It explains a lot. //
  
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  August 23, 2022 11:35am
- Tauhei Notts
  
  I read that comment before 10 a.m. It made me so angry that I refrained from responding as I was so angry and might write something dreadful.
  Our young people have absolutely no far kin show if such a commentator can make express such awful thoughts.
  But the worry is that he is not a first year teacher and wet behind the ears. HE IS A SCHOOL PRINCIPAL.
  
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  August 23, 2022 8:43pm
Maggie Pie

I came in for a wee bit of flak on GD yesterday from a few ‘doubters’, who questioned my post about MUHAMMAD being the most popular baby-boys name in the UK for the last 5 years.

Anyway, even more proof ….(if it were needed)

https://twitter.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1560991468197666816
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August 23, 2022 9:15am
- igm
  
  Ardern is trying for the same outcome in NZ. What are the latest ME muslim refugee intake figures?
  
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  August 23, 2022 9:26am
- Ross Campbell
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Your extra proof is to link it to a racist Twitter post about the Great Replacement Theory.
  Why am I not surprised.
  
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  August 23, 2022 9:28am
  - slightlyrighty
    
    Well, what do you think about The BBC?
    
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-45638806
    
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    August 23, 2022 10:10am
- MCōs
  
  I thought everyone knew that.
  The reason being that just about all Muslims call their boys by that name or Muhammed or Muhamad or Mohammad or Mohammed or Mohamed, which are all derived from مُحَمَّد meaning ‘Praiseworthy’.
  
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  August 23, 2022 9:31am
- Benedict Yu
  
  I would place more trust in the UK Office of National Statistics. The latest data set is from 2021.
  
  https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/bulletins/babynamesenglandandwales/2020
  
  MUHAMMAD is ranked at #11. Not #1.
  
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  August 23, 2022 10:22am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    OK I retract that.
    
    “Variations included Muhammad, Mohammed, Mohammad, Muhammed, Mohamed, Mohamad, Muhamad, Muhamed, Mohamud, Mohummad, Mohummed, Mouhamed, Mohammod and Mouhamad.
    
    However the ONS treats each spelling of a name separately and ranks them according to the number of times that individual spelling appears on birth certificates.”
    
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-45638806
    
    Current demographic projections are that the Muslim population in the UK will comprise 17 percent of the total population by 2050, compare to 6 percent today.
    
    https://www.statista.com/topics/4765/islam-in-the-united-kingdom-uk/
    
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    August 23, 2022 10:31am
    - cmm
      
      Those projections are based on birth rates: Muslims are well ahead of the curve while native Brits are dying off (ie. not breeding fast enough to replace deaths).
      
      The other factor is immigration. Africa is full and overflowing into Europe. Likely that’s going to add a few million to UK too.
      
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      August 23, 2022 11:13am
      - MCōs
        
        All those various Muhammads or similar born in the UK who together make the name #1 are native to the country by definition.
        
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        August 23, 2022 11:49am
      - cmm
        
        MCos, I am not disputing that at all.
        
        What I am disputing is the 17% number. That assumes no immigration – just breeding.
        
        I think they’re going to see massive immigration because Africa is full and stressed and breeding faster than everyone else. Their population is expected to almost double by 2050. Where are they all going to go?
        
        Meanwhile native European populations are tanking fast.
        
        By 2050 there will be another 1.2 bn Africans. They will be streaming into Europe. That will make all the statisticians change their minds.
        
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        August 23, 2022 12:38pm
      - MCōs
        
        The UK is pretty full itself.
        
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        August 23, 2022 3:55pm
    - kowtow
      
      By 2050 the UK aims to be carbon neutral .
      
      That’s all that seems to matter to polllies and the media .
      
      meanwhile…….
      
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      August 23, 2022 11:30am
- Ghost
  
  Maggie here are some links from yesterday’s post that show the top boys name for each year
  
  https://www.babycentre.co.uk/a25024456/babycentre-unveils-top-100-uk-baby-names-of-2017
  
  https://www.babycentre.co.uk/top-baby-boy-names-2018
  
  https://www.babycentre.co.uk/top-baby-boy-names-2019
  
  https://www.babycentre.co.uk/most-popular-baby-names-of-2020
  
  https://www.babycentre.co.uk/top-baby-names
  
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  August 23, 2022 10:30am
- Bigted
  
  According to http://www.ons.gov.uk, the Office for National Statistics, Muhammad is ranked 5th in 2020 (the latest figures they had), up from 7th in 2019, 8th in 2018, 10th in 2017. 2020 saw Oliver, George, Arthur and Noah ahead.
  
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  August 23, 2022 10:34am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    See my explanation above.
    
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    August 23, 2022 12:33pm
- Ehlana
  
  Try https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/bulletins/babynamesenglandandwales/2020
  
  It’s the Office of National Statistics, based on birth registration, so it’s likely to be the most accurate.
  
  Muhammad, Mohammed & Mohammed are counted as separate names by the Statistics office, but are variations on the one name. So added together, they could well be top.
  
  But what does that mean other than that many Muslims all choose the same name?
  
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  August 23, 2022 10:41am
- Harry Knuts
  
  who would have thought 1 name would have flipped out so many lids on KB. some need better work stories.
  
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  August 23, 2022 11:00am
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    Because terrorism correlates with that name?
    
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    August 23, 2022 12:29pm
Surely Knott

Schools were asked 4 weeks ago to make kids wear masks to get through the wave so they did. Today that 4 weeks is up and there is another three weeks being added because we are told by the school masks are a tool along with their other tools of hygiene, ventilation etc to deal with a range of bugs going around. Yip so any bug can justify forced masking. Wonder how this affects learning, mental health and socialisation. It certainly teaches fear and compliance. My body your choice.
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August 23, 2022 9:21am
- 2ic
  
  Where did you see this?
  
  I’ve just sent my kids’ schools a polite ‘please explain’ email this morning, because from what I can see the latest advice is still “We strongly recommend students in Years 4 and above wear face masks in all indoor settings for the first 4 weeks of Term 3.”:
  
  https://covid19.govt.nz/traffic-lights/life-at-orange/education-at-orange/#latest-update-%E2%80%94-22-july
  
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  August 23, 2022 12:34pm
  - Surely Knott
    
    This is the decision for our local high school.
    
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    August 23, 2022 4:18pm
- glowworm
  
  My children give me updates on the various mask Nazi teachers at their School. Some teachers are worse than others. I’m hearing some truly distopian stories… I suspect the masks are actually part of the problem and are probably helping cause other illness. It’s madness.
  
  Meanwhile, apart from around Thorndon I’ve noticed much lower rates of masking outdoors in Wellington…
  
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  August 23, 2022 8:13pm
Liberty

The labour government should stop spending other people’s money.
Here is why. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=461609615857270
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August 23, 2022 9:23am
- MCōs
  
  Previously the Nats spent other people’s money.
  That’s the way countries operate.
  Fortunately neither of them waste taxpayers money on bloated standing armies or worthless mega projects financed by China.
  
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  August 23, 2022 9:37am
  - cmm
    
    We all understand that governments need to spend other people’s money.
    
    What is important is:
    * How they spend it.
    * They they do so with suitable thrift and are cognisant that it is not their money and they have a duty of care.
    
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    August 23, 2022 10:12am
Thought Criminal

Still not a single media outlet calling rogue MP a whistle blower.

The Horrid ran a long article where they lined up as many people as they could to say how nice Labour are.

53m Well spent.
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August 23, 2022 9:24am
- MCōs
  
  Wasn’t it the NZ Herald who published Doc Sharma’s oped that explained his grievances with the Labour Party?
  
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  August 23, 2022 9:44am
  - Tricati
    
    Given the editor is besties with Ardern, I buggered if I know how Sharma’s piece got published.
    Its like something is not adding up.
    
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    August 23, 2022 2:12pm
Suze Wainwright

Yet more Mahuta whanau nepotism; further evidence that trying to dodge OIA requests is actually a worthwhile endeavour for the Labour team (although it came from a rainbow member of the Māori caucus, so it could never be challenged); and now a survey result noting that Ardern is no longer considered the sole source of truth regarding COVID by a number of aotearoa’s citizens.

I bet Jacinda’s relieved she appointed that hard line, fascist Sociology academic to be one of her Chief Propaganda Communicators (sorry, Evils of Disinformation Advisors).
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August 23, 2022 9:28am
JJ56

Had to laugh. Guess which of our authoritative MSM boasting 150 years of reliable journalism published this?

“Correction: A previous version of this article referred to Robert A Lee instead of John A Lee. Corrected August 23, 6.20 am.”
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August 23, 2022 9:34am
Maggie Pie

GO PALMY 😀

Passed thru there once on our way to Paraparam.
Would have been about 10 years ago. Great little town by the sound of it.

https://twitter.com/Evie_B2/status/1561632851434819586
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August 23, 2022 9:39am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

According to yesterday’s contest, I won with 30 comments. Now that Ra Henare has set a target, I will see if I can play this game better today.
Retired and waiting for surgery, there is nothing else to do – not even boating, too risky.
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August 23, 2022 9:47am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Count me out today SO(NS).
  
  Sun is shining, weeds are rampaging, and the pool awaits this arvo.
  
  I hope the powers-to-be have got your name high up on the surgery list….
  looks like quite a few other folks need to be shoved onto surgery lists in the next 8 days.
  
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/473303/hospitals-directed-to-book-surgical-slot-for-thousands-of-patients-by-month-s-end
  
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  August 23, 2022 10:11am
- Ra Henare
  
  It wasnt a contest at all.
  Merely an observation
  
  I saw it more of a list of those with time on their hands and nothing else to do rather than blabber on about their opinions 🙂
  
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  August 23, 2022 6:34pm
Maggie Pie

Just about spat my Prawn-Toast all over the Monitor 😀

CNN have given that horrible DON LEMON the arse!
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August 23, 2022 9:53am
- Frank the tank
  
  Can they do the same to 3 given they own that too.
  
  Start with the Project, continue with Gower and then shit kick the Ronny that presents the Nation.
  
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  August 23, 2022 10:31am
  - Harry Knuts
    
    The Project & Gower = dumbs down a nation successfully.
    
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    August 23, 2022 11:40am
- Libertarians are right
  
  Brian Stelter too.
  
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  August 23, 2022 11:43am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  They realised that he really is a lemon
  
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  August 23, 2022 11:52am
cmm

We all know Rule #1: Cindy doesn’t go under the bus.

But with all the crap of late, the bus wheels are probably getting pretty hungry and need to be fed.

Mahuta has become a thorn in the government’s side. Is she being sized up to be fed to the bus wheels?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/nanaia-mahuta-was-associate-minister-when-her-husbands-firm-was-awarded-government-contract/A65FQ6NYXHEDB2T3CUBZWSZFJU/

(No I don’t subscribe, the headline is enough).
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August 23, 2022 10:08am
- Frank the tank
  
  No Mahutacorp is untouchable and is Steamboat Willy.
  
  She would be more prepared to thrown Poor man’s Gordon Brown and Peewee Wood under the bus.
  
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  August 23, 2022 10:32am
- Harry Knuts
  
  Unfortunately no. Cindy needs Mahuta more than Mahuta needs Cindy. Mahuta will be a leading influence within the Maori caucus on whether they oust Cindy or not.
  
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  August 23, 2022 11:42am
A Nonny Mouse

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/jacinda-ardern-responds-to-gaurav-sharmas-latest-release-of-internal-messages-rules-out-a-by-election/P2PUNG5XP5ZLDSOO4NCOFLC6EY/

“If expelled, the party could try to use the waka jumping law to force him out, but Ardern pointed to the cost of a byelection.

“That is not something at this stage that we are intending to discuss or indeed to trigger. Top of mind for us is not to cause undue expense for the taxpayer.””

So NOW she is worried about taxpayers money!!!

“Asked how she felt about the claims Sharma had made about her, Ardern said what she found most difficult was claims Sharma had made about other MPs who she knew were working hard and capable.”

Insert Batman style bounce! as she deflects the question.
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August 23, 2022 10:20am
- Matt Long
  
  Yeah, it’s the public cost of a by-election that concerns her, not getting smacked over by the voters.
  
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  August 23, 2022 11:13am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    And if you believe that, you’ll believe anything. $1m for a by-election is small beer compared to the $2.1 billion Robertson committed to yesterday to buy Kiwibank back.
    
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    August 23, 2022 1:00pm
    - septic skeptic
      
      And $2.1 billion is small beer compared to what the actual costs to run Iwibank will be including re-capitalization and bailouts.
      
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      August 23, 2022 3:57pm
  - Paulus
    
    She fails to comment that Sharma can say bgg y’all ,
    I will resign and have a bye election.
    In this case not Arderns decision to make.
    Expensive Bye Election – after what she spends hourly it is peanuts.
    And Labour will get beaten as she knows.
    
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    August 23, 2022 2:36pm
- MCōs
  
  It’s as obvious as night follows day Labour never expected to win that seat, which had been safe National with a 22% majority & will revert back again next time there’s an election in that seat.
  Of course Labour will never admit the real reason to let him stay where he is.
  
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  August 23, 2022 12:13pm
Lee C

New Zealand 2022:

Three Cheers for Chantelle Baker.

You are amongst friends

https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=463736272069899

She mentions the ‘degredation of journalistic integrity in New Zealand’.

I think it goes further than that.
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August 23, 2022 10:32am
- Ross Campbell
  
  The same person who stated that police started the fires in Wellington to discredit protesters even though this was later categorically shown to be untrue and she is talking about integrity.
  What a joke…
  
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  August 23, 2022 11:11am
  - Ghost
    
    The same person who herself corrected that statement and said it wasn’t police within hours, unlike a lot of the false statements you make when stalking Maggie
    
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    August 23, 2022 12:42pm
    - Ross Campbell
      
      Oh come on get over yourself.
      If someone is going to regularly come on here and openly post bigoted racist material they should expect some pushback from others who don’t agree.
      You attempting to paint me as the villain is rather telling.
      
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      August 23, 2022 1:43pm
      - Don Beckett
        
        Fair enough Ross. If you wish to constantly be the contrarian on here, expect a lot of push-back.
        
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        August 23, 2022 2:13pm
      - Ghost
        
        Pot meet the kettle.
        
        And you show form again to ignore she corrected her statement about the police just so you could continue your stalking of maggie
        
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        August 23, 2022 2:15pm
      - Ross Campbell
        
        Don
        If I was worried about pushback, abuse, downticks and all the rest I would have left a long time ago.
        The day I’m no longer entertained by the theatrics on here will be my voluntary stage exit.
        
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        August 23, 2022 2:21pm
      - Pineapple Lumps
        
        Ross you are generally adept at painting yourself as the villain – help not generally needed from others.
        
        What your comment highlights is a complete lack of objectivity. As an example how about you critique the media integrity today in reporting crowd numbers – 1000 with Tamaki, 500 against. Again, the on the ground images just didn’t support the narrative.
        
        Or the legacy media descriptions of Chantelle as Alt-Right. It’s absolutely slanderous. But when you see how the wack jobs at The Disinformation project frame the Alt-Right then it starts to come clear. I’m a family man, I believe a strong society is based on strong family. According to TDP I am Alt-Right. Yet they are regularly quoted in The Herald as a credible expert source.
        
        NZ media is in the worst state I have ever seen for journalistic standards and integrity. Helped by the swamping of newsrooms with journalist apprentices from the PIJF and a lack of experienced staff to mentor, guide and correct. Thank God for Chantelle Baker!
        
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        August 23, 2022 10:19pm
  - Yabster
    
    we all know who the joke is here Ross/Mike- she did say that on a live cross that she was told the police started the fires- later when the facts came out she corrected that – she was big enough to correct herself as opposed to the woman you worship lol
    
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    August 23, 2022 12:47pm
  - Lee C
    
    Sorry Ross.
    
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    August 23, 2022 3:42pm
  - Pineapple Lumps
    
    The reason you and legacy media and Jacinda are worried about Chantelle is her 97,000 followers on Facebook. Why? Because she gave real on the ground coverage of the Parliament Protest. Legacy media cowered on parliament’s balcony and wouldn’t cross the line imposed by Mallard. With the exception of B Soper. Or any news that was given was heavily anti-protest, dehumanising and inaccurate. Most NZers know people who were at the protest and on the whole we know them to be good people. So this drove people to find news sources they could trust.
    
    Given the number of people that watch rather than follow Chantelle is probably 5-10x more that is a lot of viewership.
    
    Coincidental that she was deplatformed and Rebel News Avi Yemeni stopped from entering the country this week? Cook Strait Ferries taken down for maintenance resulting in many STH Island protestors stranded.
    
    Ross, keep up your partisan slurs and slander, does the party pay you well for this comrade?
    
    The truth will shine through.
    
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    August 23, 2022 10:06pm
Maggie Pie

JUST IN. Twitter spy reporting Dr Sharma was pacing back and forth outside the caucus room waiting for the motion to expel him.
He’s now been in there for 20 minutes.
More soon…
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August 23, 2022 10:42am
- Ghost
  
  Still haven’t expelled him, they must need more Fibre in their diet
  
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  August 23, 2022 10:54am
- Harry Knuts
  
  His goose is cooked. It’s a forgone conclusion. To go this far as he has done there’s no going back.
  
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  August 23, 2022 11:44am
Suze Wainwright

The Labour Party’s control of aotearoa’s msm and its desire to remove dissenting voices and label them dis/misinformation really is ironic.

I wonder if any of Labour’s younger activists and power players have heard of Uncle Scrim and his impact?
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August 23, 2022 10:55am
septic skeptic

Newshub should hang their heads in shame. They won’t of course. In one item last night they discussed Kiri Allen’s message to Sharma and the other MPs. They could and should have read out this message in full. It’s not that long. It clearly tells their new MPs not to send anything in writing that they have not talked about beforehand, due to the OIA Act. When they asked Ardern about this she said that it was about confidentiality of constituents details (!!?) and denied that it directed MPs to avoid the intent of the OIA. This went unchallenged. This must be the softest interview of a minister on a matter that may involve breaches of law since Jack Tame interviewed Mahuta and assisted her to dismiss allegations of conflict of interest as racist.
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August 23, 2022 11:01am
- Suze Wainwright
  
  You’d dare to critique a govt minister who’s also a member of the Maori caucus and rainbow community!
  
  Who the heck do you think you are?!
  
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  August 23, 2022 12:40pm
- Harry Knuts
  
  Mahuta – if you have no strong counter argument to justify actions just yell out racist!
  Cindy – if you want to evade answering a question properly with facts just yell out I refude that!
  
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  August 23, 2022 1:03pm
Chris Nisbet

Are the protestors really anti-government, or just anti _this_ government?
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August 23, 2022 11:17am
- Harry Knuts
  
  anti-this-govt for sure. no doubt about it.
  
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  August 23, 2022 11:45am
- cmm
  
  Protesting is a fundamental part of the democratic process and should thus be accepted, if not welcomed, by any democratic government.
  
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  August 23, 2022 12:11pm
  - Ross Campbell
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    I’m sure next time there is a BLM or climate change protest you will be on here equally vocal in your support.
    
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    August 23, 2022 12:25pm
    - Libertarians are right
      
      I fully support their right to protest. They aren’t being denied their right though so how is your comment relevant?
      
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      August 23, 2022 12:59pm
    - Ghost
      
      I support their right to protest, I do not support their right to burn down businesses, attack people, or even kill a child.
      
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      August 23, 2022 3:01pm
    - cmm
      
      What a wally…
      
      I fully support BLM, climate protestors, flat earthers, flying spaghetti monster supporters or you and your mates protesting.
      
      I support commies marching and waiving their banners. I support blacks, whites and one-legged lesbians doing so.
      
      I fully support EVERYONE protesting in a peaceful manner.
      
      But what I do not condone, from anyone, is sabotage, looting and mayhem.
      
      Burning down buildings, looting and beating people up is not protesting.
      
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      August 23, 2022 3:03pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Labour are not democratic, look at what happened today. Don’t want to listen? Cover up the lies? Then throw him under the bus.
    
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    August 23, 2022 1:33pm
graham

Headline on the NZ Herald:

‘Proud’: TVNZ responds to viewers’ complaints over te reo Māori weather report

This is in response to Sunday night’s weather report, where the presenter used a mix of Maori and English. Apparently some people complained on social media, and TVNZ has responded with:

We are proud of our presenters and how they embrace New Zealand’s unique cultural identity. Our presenters and journalists are welcome to use a combination of English and te reo Māori where appropriate.”

(Highlighting is mine).

I’ve said before and I’ll say it again – I have no objection to people using Maori where appropriate. On this I agree with TVNZ. But I cannot agree that presenting the news and the weather – a service which used to be considered essential – is an appropriate forum. The presentation of the national news, and the weather, should be done in such a manner as to communicate clearly and unambiguously. If that can be done using some Maori, then fine. But TVNZ News isn’t achieving that. They are regularly using an unwieldy mixture of Maori and English in contexts that make it very difficult to follow the story, or in this case the weather report.

With the devastation wrought in Nelson, I would have thought that the primary consideration is to communicate upcoming weather events as clearly as possible. But not, apparently, in TVNZ’s mind. It’s as if in their rush to embrace the use of Maori, they’ve completely forgotten their job description.

The Herald article is actually misleading, in that it makes out that the presenter simply used Maori and English for cities. If that was all she had done, then the argument that people should be able to cope with that might have some validity. But in fact, if you watch the Sunday weather on-demand, you will see that is not the case. She used Maori phrases through-out the presentation – not just for place-names – to a degree where neither my wife nor I could understand it.

It’s a shame that inevitably, when this topic comes up, it’s reduced to the media saying that they don’t see a problem with using Maori and implying that the people who voice complaints need to simply accept it. Because they never address the true issue that is raised – many viewers simply can’t understand the news or the weather because of this. My wife is an avid viewer of the weather report, using it to plan her day ahead, but last Sunday evening she simply skipped over it and instead went to the computer and looked it up there. Because she could not understand it.

My wife won’t take to social media to complain. She won’t write in or grumble to her friends. She’ll simply stop watching.

Until such time as the regular presenter returns – who my wife can understand – she’s chosen to get her weather report from the Internet instead. Because she can at least understand it. And TVNZ meanwhile will continue to dismiss people like my wife as racist or a dinosaur, ignoring the simple truth that many people around the country genuinely … can’t … understand … their … presenter.
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August 23, 2022 11:46am
- septic skeptic
  
  The simple solution is to turn off TVNZ and use a weather app.
  
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  August 23, 2022 1:14pm
  - graham
    
    … which is exactly what my wife has chosen to do.
    
    She couldn’t care less about the debate over whether Maori should or shouldn’t be used in the news or the weather. She’s not on Facebook, Instagram, or any other social media, and doesn’t follow these debates. When it comes to the weather, she’s interested in one thing – can she understand it?
    
    And the fact is, she can’t. So she quite naturally will turn to another platform that she can understand.
    
    Sadly, TVNZ seem to have stuck their head in the sand, fingers in their ears, and choose to treat anybody who dares say “Well your weather presenter can obviously speak both English and Maori very well, which is impressive … but, umm, I can’t actually understand what she’s saying, I can’t follow the weather report, and isn’t that kind of the point?” as a racist dinosaur.
    
    The idea that they might just have a valid point never occurs.
    
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    August 23, 2022 2:13pm
    - Jack5
      
      TV3, owned by the American company, Discovery, seems to promote Maori language as vigorously as TVNZ.
      
      If there’s a market gap in NZ’s news media, it’s on the Right.
      
      Discovery paid $20 million for TV3. If it sold the NZ broadcaster, for a little less, someone could make money repositioning TV3 on the Right, and sticking to English language.
      
      There are enough Maori-language media choices now, with two Maori TV channels, a network of 20 tribal radio stations, semi-Maori Radio NZ, and with Stuff which recently experimented with dual-language stories, in English and Maori in alternative paragraphs.
      
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      August 23, 2022 3:08pm
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        How much advertising is from govt? Direct and soft bribery of media has expanded hugely under labour. If 3 were to become right wing what’s the bet that most govt advertising with them would cease? Wonder how much the platform get relative to other similar media outlets.
        
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        August 23, 2022 3:40pm
- Chris Nisbet
  
  Is it their decision what the ‘appropriate’ language to use is? Their statement gives the impression that it’s up to individual presenters/journalists which language to speak, but I would have thought the target audience would dictate the ‘appropriate’ language to use.
  
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  August 23, 2022 4:29pm
thirteenstars

And just in case any of you needed reminding what the January 6th select committee is for, here’s the vice chair of that committee, Liz Cheney, speaking about her intentions going forward after she lost her seat in Wyoming:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkyExk5__VU&t=1099s

“I will be doing whatever it takes to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office.”

Remember, the committee is still “investigating”. Apparently its decisions have already been arrived at. Impartiality? What’s that?
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August 23, 2022 11:54am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  So blatantly a RINO. The other RINOs will be getting edgy.
  Trump has them all in the crosshairs
  
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  August 23, 2022 1:29pm
  - thirteenstars
    
    And unfortunately difficult to achieve in the NZ context both in terms of a democratic selection of the leadership and the notion of collective responsibility.
    
    So the NINOs in the National Party (which is a fair portion of them) could never be called out by their leadership even if such leadership could be elected to correct such a problem.
    
    It’s essentially a closed shop in NZ politics whereas in American politics, it’s wide open for all to see.
    
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    August 23, 2022 1:50pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    I’ve yet to see any post-2016 definition of a RINO that doesn’t equate to unconditional love for Donald Trump.
    
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    August 23, 2022 2:04pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      It is not 2016 anymore Doctor Mike…..
      
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      August 23, 2022 3:42pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Sorry, ‘post-2016’ means after 2016, and
        I also got the rest of the sentence confused. It should have read:
        
        I’ve yet to see any post-2016 definition of a RINO that doesn’t equate to rejection of unconditional love for Donald Trump.
        
        Following Trump’s ascension to the presidency, the definition of Republican became a simple test of fealty to him and anything he said or did. Criticize Trump, and you are a RINO.
        
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        August 23, 2022 3:49pm
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      What about Ron De Santis? Not a trump supporter/booster, but certainly showing a lot of resistance to ‘uni-party’ Federal power. No Rino
      
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      August 23, 2022 3:44pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Not daring to openly oppose Trump, is he?
        
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        August 23, 2022 3:50pm
Maggie Pie

My partner’s mum retweets….

“If that old b**tards 55 – I’m 37!”

https://twitter.com/Ray_Norshine/status/1561713675068510208
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August 23, 2022 12:03pm
- Ghost
  
  I know that is the way there, but don’t you just wish the camera crew would just grab the child and run
  
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  August 23, 2022 12:27pm
- Observer of Life
  
  Magz: That is just bloody awful.
  
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  August 23, 2022 9:45pm
trout

Sharma has spoken to reporters post caucus expulsion. Comes across as articulate and reasonable. Caucus members have been given clear talking points for interactions with MSM. Brand Sharma as ‘untrustworthy’. Pretty pathetic really. Can’t have a proper investigation of a complaint, got to protect the Queen. Thing seem to be getting pretty tense in the Labour party right now; who is next to walk??
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August 23, 2022 12:04pm
- Ghost
  
  And now we wait for the leaks, followed by the trolls.
  
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  August 23, 2022 12:34pm
  - Tony Stuart
    
    The first leak from Sharma is that his expulsion was not unanimous; al least one MP voted against the motion from the PM, and one abstained.
    
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    August 23, 2022 1:03pm
    - Ghost
      
      I wonder if those two will get a special hug from jacinda
      
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      August 23, 2022 1:21pm
    - Dougal10
      
      The PM being the chair wouldnt have cast her deciding vote and Sharma voted for himself.
      
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      August 23, 2022 10:06pm
  - Tricati
    
    There’s clearly some validation to Dr Sharma’s claims as the framing of Ardern’s responses are very scripted, eg untrustworthy, colleagues feel betrayed etc, coupled with a very guarded comment over the OIA training from Aysha Verrall, who apparantly ran that part, seem a little contrived.
    Not all what Dr Sharma has said maybe 100% correct, but there’s enough uncertainty to warrant an independent investigation. If its all as Ardern has said, she would be vindicated, but alas I feel she (and the Labour Party) will be found wanting so its not going to happen.
    
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    August 23, 2022 1:35pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Next will be the one that voted against, then the one that abstained
  
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  August 23, 2022 1:26pm
  - Ghost
    
    How many more bullied MPs can they make Ambassadors for Gender Equality
    
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    August 23, 2022 4:07pm
Jack5

A good l aside by Chris Trotter in his Bowalley Road blog on Saturday:

THERE’S A STORY I HEARD about Nikita Khrushchev and his famous speech to the Twentieth Party Congress in February 1956. This was the speech in which he denounced Stalin’s crimes against the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and its long-suffering peoples.

At the conclusion of the speech, and after the obligatory standing ovation, one of the delegates shouted out: “Why didn’t you say all that when Stalin was alive!”

“Who said that?” Khrushchev shouted back.

A deathly silence fell over the congress.

Khrushchev waited a full minute before smiling grimly and saying: “That’s why.”

https://bowalleyroad.blogspot.com/
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August 23, 2022 12:14pm
- slightlyrighty
  
  I read that too. I think everybody needs to.
  
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  August 23, 2022 1:45pm
Alan Wilkinson

It’s high time our grovelling paid-for MSM went rogue too.
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August 23, 2022 12:36pm
- kowtow
  
  The Media Rouge Party .
  
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  August 23, 2022 1:22pm
surfing

Today’s Tremain cartoon is a cracker….

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52aca146e4b06d986ca82df3/6271fd08-2200-4bbd-8a4a-8766e21133ed/curriculum+copy.jpg?format=750w
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August 23, 2022 12:44pm
- Harry Knuts
  
  that is gold. But sadly it will be very true. Te Reo in maths, science as well?? what are they thinking?
  
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  August 23, 2022 2:36pm
  - Batman
    
    As you may recall, education materials use context when asking children to do maths and science. i.e. “how much water can Billy fit in X sized container?”, or whatever the desired problem to solve is.
    
    There’s no reason why Maori themes and scenarios can’t be incorporated in that way.
    
    The core numbers won’t change, nor the periodic table.
    
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    August 23, 2022 2:50pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Maybe. But get the STEM and um, attendance, sorted before trying to force minority interest virtue signalling on the kiddies????
      
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      August 23, 2022 3:18pm
    - septic skeptic
      
      Batty, the elephant in the room is that most of the underachieving Maori in school don’t actually speak Te Reo – and neither do their parents. Do you think the widespread virtue signalling insistence on ramming Te Reo down our throats at every opportunity helps these Maori engage in our society? I reckon it is counter-productive.
      
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      August 23, 2022 4:09pm
    - tf78
      
      But what would actually be the point.
      
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      August 23, 2022 5:07pm
      - Ghost
        
        If giving Māori the option to learn subjects in Te Reo encourages more Māori to thrive in education then it is a win
        
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        August 23, 2022 7:01pm
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  The number of empty desks in the image means the commentary works on three levels around the issues with education under Labour/wokeness/Maori nationalism efforts.
  
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  August 23, 2022 2:42pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING NOW….

Clunt calling the crowd at between 800 – 1000.

Ani estimates nearer 5 – 10,000!

Who to believe?

https://twitter.com/aniobrien/status/1561868734884560897

LOL!!!
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August 23, 2022 12:48pm
- Tony Stuart
  
  Ani’s smart; she’s given herself a margin of error of 9995!
  
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  August 23, 2022 1:04pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    😀
    
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    August 23, 2022 1:14pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Why are these people not working?
  
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  August 23, 2022 1:23pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    That’s why this country is sooo f***ked Steve.
    Ever since this gubmint took the reins no one really needs to anymore. It’s only the sillies like us that have to work! To feed the rest of the losers who prefer to sit round on their lazy arses all day. They call it ‘working-for-families’….it just happens to be everyone elses.
    
    Don’t get me started 🙁
    
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    August 23, 2022 1:44pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      I am retired. Can’t live off the crumbs they call Super
      
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      August 23, 2022 3:44pm
      - Maggie Pie
        
        My partner reckons he should take a leaf out of Bishop Brian’s book and register as a charity. If he did that of course, think of how many families in south auckland would starve 🙁
        
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        August 23, 2022 4:00pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Become a guru? Guru Steve?
        
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        August 23, 2022 7:35pm
- Suze Wainwright
  
  Oh silly Billy! Surely Ani’s numbers are all those counter protesters that lefty activists said would turn up…
  
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  August 23, 2022 1:51pm
- Harry Knuts
  
  “I love being lied to on a daily basis by state run media, really Iron Curtain retro.”
  this should be quote of the day.
  
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  August 23, 2022 2:39pm
Yvette

Labour Caucus organise protest outside Parliament to distract from Ardern’s expulsion of Sharma from Labour Caucus :o)
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August 23, 2022 12:54pm
Libertarians are right

It’s totally unreasonable of Sharma to expect Labour to do an investigation into their bullying behaviour.

Maria Dew QC is currently contracted to the National investigation so they don’t have access to the QC they usually use.

No wonder they’re so against having a review.
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August 23, 2022 1:05pm
Harry Knuts

Dr Sharma expelled – just on the 1pm news. Not surprised really. He did stop drinking the coolaid and started questioning and quite reasonably.
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August 23, 2022 1:05pm
Maggie Pie

One thing I can’t stand is men-who-cry!!

$TUFF headline…..

“Tearful Auckland Mayoral hopeful Efeso Collins tired of being called a coconut”

Honestly, what a f**ing snowflake!
He wouldn’t last 5 minutes playing Tennis with us.
We always call each other ‘bitch’ and I’ve never yet seen anyone burst into tears over it. Just saying.

SHEESH!!
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August 23, 2022 1:33pm
- Harry Knuts
  
  I have to agree Maggie. He’s proving way too thin skinned for the job. I consider myself being called pakeha an insult but i don’t cry about it.
  
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  August 23, 2022 1:58pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    That’s just it Hazza!
    If I had a hundy for every time someone called me a slut… I’d have retired to the beach years ago.
    
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    August 23, 2022 3:23pm
- Yvette
  
  Hey, Maggie – isn’t “f**ing snowflake!” oxymoronic?
  
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  August 23, 2022 2:12pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    You can blame Batz for that!
    He even rides shotgun for ‘Ross’ on a few occasions.
    
    https://i.imgflip.com/45mg4i.jpg
    
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    August 23, 2022 3:03pm
- graham
  
  And yet, apparently it’s just fine to call men such as myself a “pale stale male” … and I’m not allowed to get upset by it. The Media Council considers it to be simply “freedom of expression”.
  
  https://www.newsroom.co.nz/stale-pale-male-and-fail
  
  Funny how this “freedom of expression” gig doesn’t work the other way …
  
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  August 23, 2022 2:55pm
mogg

More flip flop government; ‘Labour reverses immigration settings’. A couple of months ago Robbo was telling us that reducing immigration was necessary to make NZ employers pay higher wages. Now ‘higher wages and shortage of workers are causing inflation’. Is there anything left for this bunch of incompetents to get wrong. The black comedy continues.
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August 23, 2022 2:13pm
- Harry Knuts
  
  So much flip flopping by Labour recently. At this rate Grunter could represent NZ at the next olympics in gymnastics. Imagine that. 😉
  
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  August 23, 2022 4:13pm
Pineapple Lumps

Are you now classed as far right / alt right?

According to The Disinformation Project, if you believe in conservative ideals around family and family structure then you subscribe to far right ideologies.

Snippet from their report:

“The ecologies and spread of mis- and disinformation point to a broader threat: that Covid-19 and vaccination are being used as a kind of Trojan Horse for norm-setting and norm-entrenchment of far-right ideologies in Aotearoa New Zealand. Such ideologies include, but are not limited to, ideas about gun control, anti-Māori sentiment, anti- LGBTQIA+, conservative ideals around family and family structure, misogyny, anti- immigration. Mis- and disinformation and ‘dangerous speech’ pose significant threats to social cohesion, freedom of expression, inclusion, and safety.”

Full report can be found:

https://thedisinfoproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/2021-11-09-FINAL-working-paper-disinformation..pdf

[Mod. note: for the link to work, select & paste the entire link in browser (incl. the ..pdf) ]
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August 23, 2022 2:51pm
- Suze Wainwright
  
  Seems fair and balanced to me. Disagreement with Jacinda & Chloe is outright misogyny
  
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  August 23, 2022 4:02pm
- westernScientist
  
  or land rights, this is from further up in the report rather than the conclusion:
  
  The most recent Covid-19 outbreak and the vaccination are highly visible, potent symbols used to push various far-right and conservative ideologies around issues such as gun control, rural land rights and 1080, Māori sovereignty and water land rights, ‘freespeech’, faith (Christian evangelical or Pentecostal), abortion, euthanasia, cannabis law reform, families and family structure, LGBTQIA+ rights, including conversion therapy, immigration, race, and gender. The growing polarisation, engineered by leading misand disinformation producers within Aotearoa New Zealand, between those who are vaccinated and those who are not, seeks to normalise the increasingly intense negotiation of difference
  
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  August 23, 2022 4:56pm
Ra Henare

Its seems to me that Kiwis have lost their sense of humour in the current woke world.

This reminded me how to have a good belly laugh.

News flash

On August 20th, a group of HELLS ANGELS, South Carolina bikers were riding east on 378 when they saw a girl about to jump off the Pee Dee River Bridge.

So they stopped.

George, their leader, a big burly man of 53, gets off his Harley, walks through a group of gawkers, past the State Trooper who was trying to talk her down off the railing, and says, “Hey Baby . . . whatcha doin’ up there on that railin’?”

She says tearfully, “I’m going to commit suicide!!”

While he didn’t want to appear “sensitive,” George also didn’t want to miss this “be-a-legend” opportunity either so he asked . . . “Well, before you jump, Honey-Babe . . . why don’t you give ol’ George here your best last kiss?”

So, with no hesitation at all, she leaned back over the railing and did just that . . . and it was a long, deep, lingering kiss followed immediately by another even better one.

After they breathlessly finished, George gets a big thumbs-up approval from his biker-buddies, the onlookers, and even the State Trooper, and then says, “Wow! That was the best kiss I have ever had! That’s a real talent you’re wasting there, Sugar Shorts. You could be famous if you rode with me. Why are you committing suicide?”

“My parents don’t like me dressing up like a girl.”

It’s still unclear whether she jumped or was pushed.
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August 23, 2022 2:53pm
Pineapple Lumps

The Disinformation Project definitions for mis, dis, mal and dangerous information:

Misinformation: “false information that people didn’t create with the intent to hurt others”
Disinformation: “false information created with the intention of harming a person, group, or organization, or even a company”
Malinformation: “true information used with ill intent”
“dangerous speech is any form of expression (e.g. speech, text or images) that can increase the risk that its audience will condone or participate in violence against members of another group.”

There is no frame of reference for how to decide what is true or false information. Nor do they see room for grey areas – information is only categorised as true or false.

Funny that we didn’t hear TDP in the media decrying the dangerous speech of Michael Woods calling parliamentary protesters “rivers of filth”. The effects of this dangerous speech have been evident by some of the KB trolls who feel the violence meted out to Parliamentary Protestors was justified.
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August 23, 2022 3:03pm
- graham
  
  You’d have to be just a wee bit sceptical on “The Disinformation Project”, surely.
  
  Described as “an independent research group studying misinformation and disinformation in Aotearoa New Zealand”, it was set up in early 2020. I presume the people involved don’t do this for free, and the group receives funding, although I don’t know. I notice it was “brought together” by Te Pūnaha Matatini, a Centre of Research Excellence hosted by the University of Auckland.
  
  But the problem is that, once you have set up a research group to study something, that “something” has to exist, and continue to evolve. There’s no point in continuing on with studying something that really isn’t there, or is at such a low level as to not be worthy of investigating. If you have a vested interest in the continued existence of the group, you have to continually find fresh mis/dis-information to report on and analyse.
  
  I can’t help wondering how self-fulfilling “The Disinformation Project” is. They think, surely there must be mis/dis-information out there somewhere; so they go hunting for it; and eventually they find … something … that looks like mis/dis-information to them. “Ah-ha!”, they say, “We were right! Look at this … MISINFORMATION!”
  
  Sounds like a bunch of conspiracy theorists, if you ask me …
  
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  August 23, 2022 3:59pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Inevitably just another orwellian ‘fact checking’ crypto govt propaganda outfit, defending govt (and multinational sponsored) political narratives and attempting to silence dissent.
    
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    August 23, 2022 10:25pm
- Harry Knuts
  
  I disagree and reject The Disinformation Project and all they publish on the grounds it’s just soft, woke bullshit. Organisation of snowflakes with hurty feelings. let’s move on and “cancel” them.
  
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  August 23, 2022 4:17pm
Maggie Pie

And I’ll tell you something else…

If I hear that fucking revolting ‘Duro-Tuss’ ad on ZB one more time while I’m eating….the trannie gets it!
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August 23, 2022 3:07pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Now you have upset them – all 53 genders
  
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  August 23, 2022 3:45pm
  - Harry Knuts
    
    including the ones that identify as cats and dogs.
    
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    August 23, 2022 4:19pm
- emmess
  
  Never heard it but Duro-Tuss is quite a good product.
  Have had a cough as the lingering effects of corona for a fewe weeks, and that in combination with a couple of other medicines have almost got rid of it.
  
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  August 23, 2022 4:33pm
NZer In Exile

From Bret Weinstein’s Dark Horse Podcast:

WIKIPEDIA AND THE WAR ON SCIENCE (and no, in case you hadn’t noticed, Wikipedia are not the good guys in that war):

https://odysee.com/@BretWeinstein:f/wikipedia-and-the-war-on-science-bret:6
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August 23, 2022 3:22pm
mogg

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nbmHvBiqepw&t=769s
Labour have left the door wide open for this man.
I am no supporter of Winston but if he campaigns on this at the next election, NZ first will not only make the 5% but they could be in double figures. There are plenty of Gold Card holders who will feel strongly about the way Labour are trying to force change on NZ without having declared their intentions. The Māori Party could very quickly find themselves on the rubbish heap.
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August 23, 2022 4:11pm
- mandk
  
  If they have left the door open it is because Ardern is a power whore.
  
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  August 23, 2022 4:29pm
  - Ghost
    
    The interviewing was rather telling. Arden lied to Winston over Ihumātao and he will never work with her again over that. Wont work with labour with the direction they are going now.
    
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    August 23, 2022 6:18pm
    - [email protected]
      
      Personally believe that Winston Peters will work with any party that promises him what he wants.
      
      I do not trust Winston Peters.
      
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      August 23, 2022 9:52pm
- Pineapple Lumps
  
  The parties leaving the door open are the Media party and the Opposition. Did either main opposition party go and talk with the Parliamentary protesters? Winston did.
  
  Don’t get me wrong, he is a charlatan, who should never, ever be trusted with your vote. After 2017, it is very clear, you are better to chose who you give your vote to than to give it to Winston to chose for you. The shinier the baubles on offer the faster the campaign promises will be forgotten.
  
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  August 23, 2022 7:00pm
igm

This cannot be factual . . .
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/129102277/teenage-driver-in-fatal-shelly-bay-crash-has-court-charges-wiped
Ardern’s soft on crime stance must surely bite either her or her sycophants on the arse sooner than later!
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August 23, 2022 4:15pm
- kiwikidsnz
  
  There’s another recent example of an identical discharge without conviction after causing a death. Dont know if it was the same judge, thought it was in ChCh.
  
  And the judiciary can’t understand why they’re held in contempt by the public.
  
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  August 23, 2022 6:44pm
ClanMcleod

Ross – this question is getting boring but I’ll ask it again knowing you won’t answer because you can’t, otherwise you would clearly expose yourself as the know nothing, useful idiot that you are.
Which allegations and why are they sensational?
Like Baker in NZ, Fauci has lied repeatedly. These are facts, not allegations.
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August 23, 2022 4:51pm
Chris Nisbet

Hmm, so after days of being fed a line that would be the freedom protesters who might turn violent, and the police were at the ready it seems that the only ‘violence’ (egg throwing) was directed _towards_ them, not from them.
Who’d a thunk it?
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August 23, 2022 5:04pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  No Barry Manilow? Sad. I think the Duck has gone underground, seeing as he was such a cock last time
  
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  August 23, 2022 5:37pm
  - Ghost
    
    Mallard has retired as of 1.45 tomorrow
    
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    August 23, 2022 5:54pm
Prince

Listening to the 3PM News bulletin on State Radio RNZ, the following item struck me as interesting.
“Brian Tamaki has baselessly accused the Transport Minister of cancelling the Interisland Ferry sailings…”
So RNZ now adds their own opinions of any accusation. Later on in the bulletin allegations of protestors being ‘facist’, Sharma being a ‘bully’ etc were not accompanied by the ‘baseless’ description.
Increasingly, State-funded media in particular are adding their own descriptions to the news to signpost for us which claims need to be rejected as ‘baseless’, or someone ‘lashing out’ etc.
I think this is a a very bad trend.
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August 23, 2022 5:22pm
- fernglas
  
  Didn’t you know that media is where young, earnest people get subsidised by the Government to express their opinions to people they consider to be too stupid to be allowed to form their own? Welcome to the 2020’s
  
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  August 23, 2022 6:41pm
- krazykiwi
  
  The media’s new role as state propagandist is to foment digital pogroms against undesirables. Their choice of words makes this clear.
  
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  August 23, 2022 7:18pm
- Doc Holliday
  
  Conspiracy ideation.
  
  Do kiwibloggers believe any old crap that defies reason?
  
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  August 24, 2022 12:00am
Warren

Kieran McNulty might not appear to be a bulley but he’s surely loves to put himself out there as a man’s man and show his arrogance by pushing it on others that he is a Labour Party man for all to see, now you might ask why well who else liked to show off in Politics than Kieran with his red Labour Party ute for all to see .
I have always thought he was a ponce and a loud mouth and I should know because several people have called me a loud mouth many times.
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August 23, 2022 5:35pm
- Ghost
  
  Surprised the media haven’t contacted his ex wife
  
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  August 23, 2022 6:56pm
  - kowtow
    
    Do tell.
    
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    August 23, 2022 7:35pm
    - Ghost
      
      https://twitter.com/martydwhite/status/1558070157703909377
      
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      August 23, 2022 8:51pm
    - DimChappie
      
      I tried [ Mod : politicians families off limits ]
      
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      August 23, 2022 9:10pm
      - slightlyrighty
        
        Tonight, I spoke to a man who ran a business in the Wairarapa, and has had first hand dealings with McAnulty.
        
        He told me that McAnulty is a complete bully, abd that he has also spoken with a woman who was best friends with McAnulty’s ex girlfriend. He also told me that the rumours about what happened at the time of his election are completely true.
        
        While Politicians families may be off limits, if the media deem it appropriate to lambast Sam Uffendel for what he did at 16, then it would be just as approrpiate to challenge McAnulty for his behaviour 5 years ago, especially if the other party is no longer family.
        
        It certainly goes to support Sharma’s opinion of the man.
        
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        August 23, 2022 10:51pm
  - igm
    
    That would be a breach of their share of taxpayers’ $55 million.
    
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    August 24, 2022 2:21am
- igm
  
  He, along with Nash, will be given the arse card next election . . . they are not welcome any longer in most parts of their electorates and it is getting worse for them.
  
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  August 24, 2022 2:20am
Pineapple Lumps

If the public interest journalism fund contained a condition for accessing it, that it was necessary to support the labour government that would have been clearly unethical and anti-democratic.

But what if you could create a proviso for access that is supported by a high proportion of your voters but very few of the oppositions. In effect you would create a slush fund financing journalists likely to support your political party.

So what if there was evidence that the conditions of the PIJF were selected because it was understood that this would result in a journalistic cheerleading squad for labour?
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August 23, 2022 6:38pm
- septic skeptic
  
  I guess the answer, sadly, is “so what?”. There has been scant response to solid evidence that Labour are training their new MPs to subvert the OIA. Scant interest in the Mahuta conflicts of interest. Journalism in this country is mostly corrupt. That is something that 3, 6, or 9 years of having a level playing field and the majority of journalists reverting to a role of holding the government to account isn’t going to fix. It’s going to take some determined action and the courage and conviction to see it to a conclusion.
  
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  August 23, 2022 7:00pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Attn Maggie Pie:

Time to stock up with Loo paper again

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/kawerau-145-workers-at-toilet-paper-manufacturing-mill-locked-out-for-two-weeks-without-pay/O5AHEGRETBL5O5VDNHDX4OO4C4/

(p.s. Don’t tell anyone else)
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