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NeverMindTheBollocks

Wellington City Council has decided to drop local speed limits close to walking pace [an exaggeration, but I’m channeling the crap spewed out by Council].

All sorts of mealy-mouthed rubbish advanced by its proponents, but the one question conspicuous by its absence is whether residents actually want this. I’m betting a penny to a pound of **** that they don’t.

And, to anticipate the usual chorus of ‘you voted for this shower’ – I didn’t, and nor did thousands of other Wellingtonians.
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September 16, 2022 8:05am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  I heard the mad Iona Pannett being asked that very question. The response – ‘That’s not how we make decisions’.
  
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  September 16, 2022 8:22am
  - pdm
    
    Capt – I heard her too – is she the full 6 pack?
    
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    September 16, 2022 8:24am
    - kowtow
      
      She sounded like an anti democratic fruit loop.
      
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      September 16, 2022 8:40am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    I heard her too, how pathetic she is, it is sounding like the people saying this government will push to get people out of their cars were right
    
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    September 16, 2022 9:24am
  - zulumonster
    
    And yet she keeps getting voted in (not by me!)
    And apparently she has never driven a car in her life …
    
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    September 16, 2022 10:38am
  - graham
    
    If anybody is interested, you can listen to Heather du Plessis-Allen’s interview with Iona Pannett here:
    
    https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/heather-du-plessis-allan-drive/audio/iona-pannett-wellington-city-councillor-on-wellington-speed-limits-going-down/
    
    Ms Pannett was quite clear that she wants to stop people from driving, apart from – maybe – the elderly. And when she uttered that insane response – ‘That’s not how we make decisions’ – Heather just broke down into laughter and basically ended the interview right there.
    
    It was an utter trainwreck, and I understand that Ms Pannett has NEVER driven anywhere in her life. Which explains a lot.
    
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    September 16, 2022 10:45am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      “To clarify, first of all we haven’t decided to do this — blah blah blah”
      And there girls and boys, it the ‘OUT!’
      Never driven a car? I guess she needs a horse then?
      
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      September 16, 2022 3:58pm
    - Alan Wilkinson
      
      Why is this country run by utterly useless women who can’t do anything?
      
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      September 16, 2022 4:01pm
  - greybeard
    
    “I Own the Planet”
    
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    September 16, 2022 10:56am
- Blog-aholic
  
  Cyclists will exceed 30kph easily.
  
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  September 16, 2022 9:05am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Give them a ticket. Oh wait, they don’t even have a cycle License or pay RUC. No ID at all
    
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    September 16, 2022 9:46am
    - Loddenthinks
      
      At risk of opening a whole other can of worms, I’m a regular and keen cyclist and think all cycles should be registered, just like motorbikes. Would help to educate some cyclists that they can’t flout the laws the rest of us have to follow.
      
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      September 16, 2022 11:09am
      - James Stephenson
        
        Yeah, F that. I’m a regular and keen cyclist and own six of the bloody things, plus two motorbikes a scooter and two cars. I do not need more bureaucratic meddling and costs in my life.
        
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        September 16, 2022 11:39am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Most cyclists are ok, but there are a lot of arrogant pricks that the road (all of it) is theirs, and not made for vehicles.
        Registration is a good idea.
        
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        September 16, 2022 12:07pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Registration – not quite. In my school years we had to give the school the serial number of the bike. It was stamped into the frame under the seat. The reason being, to identify the bike if stolen.
        Don’t know if bike have serial numbers now.
        
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        September 16, 2022 12:12pm
      - Observer of Life
        
        JamesS: Accidentally upticked you. So if we are all forced to dump cars (never going to happen) and go biking everywhere. Who exactly will pay for the road costs/repairs? Seems to me that cyclists are going to have to be charged. I agree, there is way too much meddling g in our lives by these pricks, but we all have to pay our fair share. Maybe sell a couple of the bikes to cover costs?
        
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        September 16, 2022 12:58pm
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Any cyclist aged 16+ (say) should have in some way to pass a road test, or at least prove that they know the road code. Maybe the Learners licence should be mandatory?
        
        It’s outrageous (their word) that some individuals can legally be in charge of vehicles, powered or otherwise, on the public highway & not have to be licenced.
        
        Those cargo ebikes are not small machines. Downhill with a lick of speed, they have plenty of mass & can be a danger to other road users.
        
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        September 16, 2022 1:03pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        @James Stephenson. Six bikes? Nothing wrong with that – just pay your way. I am not talking about road wear from bikes…
        I am talking about the costs of road marking, Give Way and Stop signs (which none of you obey) Footpaths! Hear the word? FOOT path, not a fucking cycle path. Traffic lights (which none of you obey)
        Back to road marking, dotted yellow lines means ‘no stopping’ not no parking. Yet these seem to be starting places for a race!
        Maybe you are NOT one of them James Stephenson, but the arrogant pricks are out there.
        Rant over – thankyou
        
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        September 16, 2022 4:07pm
  - pdm
    
    Yep – I could do30mph on metal roads with a bit of a following wind when I was in my early teens. No gears etc either.
    
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    September 16, 2022 11:29am
- Taieri
  
  but the one question conspicuous by its absence is whether residents actually want this
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  Why should the council be interested in what residents want?
  
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  September 16, 2022 9:32am
  - peterwn
    
    They do not care because many residents blindly vote Labour or Green candidates regardless of potential consequences.
    
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    September 16, 2022 10:35am
  - pdm
    
    Listen to the interview Taieri.
    
    That was what sent HDPA into hysterics – Pannett could not give a stuff about what ratepayers/residents want.
    
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    September 16, 2022 11:32am
    - Taieri
      
      Pannett could not give a stuff about what ratepayers/residents want
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      I’m not aware of any council that pays the slightest attention to what their constituents want. Yet, they still get re-elected…
      
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      September 16, 2022 12:26pm
    - Observer of Life
      
      Pannett’s words to HDPA asking what will happen if the majority of Wellingtonians say NO to this plan… “that’s not how we work”. Unbelievable arrogance. If that’s the case Pannett, why bother wasting money on consulting the public you plan on ignoring? Jesus wept I despair at the mind set of these people.
      
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      September 16, 2022 1:01pm
- Justitia
  
  THAT is the problem. YOU didn’t vote, along with thousands of other Wellingtonians. THIS time VOTE for goodness sake, anyone but Labour and the Greens and the clowns who supported this absurd measure. LET’s do this!
  
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  September 16, 2022 2:19pm
Scott

Now that it is Maori language week our newspaper formerly known as stuff, now known as puna, had a headline at the top of the page “racism a cause of health gaps”.
https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/2022/the-whole-truth-te-maramatanga/#/1214055304/racism-is-a-cause-of-ethnic-health-gaps

Specialist Maori reporter, Glenn McConnell, tells us that racism is a cause of ethnic health gaps and quotes an authority “AUT public health director Dr Heather Came says the health system is built around Western values for Pākehā patients. She says the inability or unwillingness for that system to change, to better serve Māori patients, is proof of “institutional racism”.
McConnell then writes that “studies show Māori are more likely to die and have poorer access to treatment, information and diagnosis. For lung cancer, Māori mortality rates are 2.5 times higher than Pākehā.”
This article is headed up with an appeal to support the fight against health misinformation in public health by making a contribution.

Where does one start with such foolishness masquerading as fighting the fight against health misinformation? First of all when Captain Cook discovered New Zealand in 1769 the average life expectancy of a Maori person was about 30. He saw some very old Maori men who were about 40. So Maori life expectancy has improved dramatically since 1769.

Secondly the health system is built around Western values. Because there was no health system prior to 1769. There were no hospitals, there may have been folk remedies but there was no science, there was no written language, there were no doctors and nurses, Maori people died on average around age 30.

Thirdly the lung cancer rate for Maori may be higher than for Pakeha. But I do a quick Google search – “Maori rates of smoking”. I find this information – “The current Māori smoking rate is 31.4% in 2019/20… Māori smoking rates remain much higher than those for the overall population. Māori women have New Zealand’s highest smoking rates, at 32%.”
So in the 10 seconds it took me to access Google I find that Maori people smoke at a much greater rate than the overall population! Could this possibly account for the different lung cancer mortality rates???

How can we be united as a cohesive nation when national newspapers print such foolishness? When they tell us the health system is racist and by implication that doctors and nurses are racist?

I’d like to see our media held to account. They are deliberately pursuing a divisive agenda and slandering the good men and women of our health system. They are falsely painting Maori people as victims. They are deliberately spreading lies in the guise of combating health misinformation.
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September 16, 2022 8:06am
- Clyde
  
  I would also like our media to be held to account, but how will it ever be when it has been transformed into an Orwellian Ministry of Truth? Who controls the narrative controls the future and that is exactly why Ardern and her rabble have controlled the media. And why “alternative” media has arisen and is being decried by the new Ministry of Truth.
  
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  September 16, 2022 8:29am
  - Ruawai
    
    Surely you would rather know what Jacinda plans to say to King Charles III when she comes face to face with him!
    
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    September 16, 2022 9:11am
  - Lee C
    
    The Queen’s death was just the kind of distracton they’d been hoping would arise so they could drop the mandates while people were distracted, in my view.
    
    Their guilty secret washed away.
    
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    September 16, 2022 9:41am
- Benedict Yu
  
  I think what he is saying on lung cancer is that a Maori person with lung cancer has a higher mortality rate than a non Maori person with lung cancer. He is saying they have poorer access to treatment and diagnosis.
  
  There could be many reasons for that, if it is correct, but racism is least likely. Maybe Maori are slower to seek treatment. Maybe they don’t go to appointments. It would need much analysis that is absent in the article.
  
  I just find it difficult to believe that if a Maori person turns up at the ER complaining of chest pains that they get less attention than the Chinese person with chest pains who turns up at the same time. However what happens AFTER that initial treatment may be vastly different. The Chinese person may have money and family who swing into action to encourage the patient to get follow up treatment and to make lifestyle changes. That does not make the health system racist.
  
  Finally, lung cancer it is not a helpful example here. If you are a long time smoker and you get lung cancer you are pretty much screwed, regardless of your ethnicity.
  
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  September 16, 2022 8:33am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    There could be many reasons for that, if it is correct, but racism is least likely.
    
    Yep,
    and the old-time socialist would have pointed to the obvious: class structure.
    
    Health outcomes for NZers are worst for those folks at the bottom of the heap… be they Maori, Pacific Islanders, Asian, or African.
    
    But only one Ethnic Identity seems to matter nowadays in Aotearoan analysis.
    
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    September 16, 2022 9:08am
    - Jack5
      
      No mention by Stuff’s Maori activists of skin cancer, from which Maori suffer less than non-Maori.
      
      New skin cancers total about 82,000 per year, according to the source below, compared to a total of 16,000 for all other types of cancer. Our skin cancer rates are the highest in the world.
      
      If it were Maori, rather than non-Maori, who were suffering severely from skin cancer, Stuff and the rest of the activists would be screaming “racism!”
      
      https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/1329-new-zealand-skin-cancer-statistics
      
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      September 16, 2022 11:17am
    - gravedodger
      
      Or god forbid a whitish person who has fallen on hard times, possibly from Government actions.
      I know of a couple of cases where house and business ownership have evaporated due to the economic disaster induced by the Rona disruptions.
      
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      September 16, 2022 12:58pm
  - Sacha
    
    ” Maybe Maori are slower to seek treatment. Maybe they don’t go to appointments. ”
    When I worked in Public Health this was the common theme: Maori only sought help when they were at death’s door, and then, if they survived would disappear when discharged from hospital and not keep appointments. Maybe they were frightened of the hospital or the treatment or of dying away from their marae.
    I do know that District Nurses were sent out to find people who had missed appointments and needed life-saving drugs. Quite often it was a wild-goose chase.
    But that was 40 years ago. I would have thought that, if they value their lives, they would have become more responsible by now.
    
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    September 16, 2022 10:36am
    - cjn
      
      Dr. Lance O’Sullivan’s book about his experience in the North is about his Maori patients’ attitude to appointments, prescriptions and their responsibilities for their own health and their children’s health. As a Maori doctor he felt he was fighting a losing battle. Pretty depressing reading.
      
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      September 16, 2022 12:48pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    They have no less options than anyone else, it is sickening, where does it say you fullas get out we can’t help you? And how does dying of lung cancer have anything to do with what colour you are, you either die or survive
    
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    September 16, 2022 12:23pm
  - DeepBlue
    
    A lot has to do with the rural/urban health divide. People just don’t have time or money for others to travel 2 or 300km+ to appointments, especially long treatments like chemo. Then there is a tradional skepticism that you only go to hospital to die.
    
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    September 16, 2022 4:32pm
    - Sacha
      
      Well, it may be traditional, but if you choose not to start trusting your health care providers, the racism might be coming from your own self. Pot/kettle?
      It’s easier for some to blame others rather than try to adjust ones own attitudes.
      
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      September 16, 2022 6:49pm
- Skippytony
  
  Researchers such as Dr Donna Cormack have highlighted barriers for Māori patients accessing healthcare. These include financial, physical and cultural difficulties for Māori accessing primary healthcare services, and differential treatment at higher levels of healthcare, meaning it’s harder to get specialist care, even when Māori patients are diagnosed at the same stage as others.
  
  I call BS on this, too. What financial barriers that are specifically targeting Maori? What physical barriers? That fact that you anyone lives 100k from a hospital can be a problem for treatment, but thats not racist FFS.
  Id like to see the evidence that there is “differential treatment at higher levels of healthcare”
  
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  September 16, 2022 8:53am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    Maori in very remote parts of New Zealand do have less access to health services. So would I if I moved there.
    
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    September 16, 2022 10:35am
    - Gravelroad
      
      I and my family live in what could be described as a”remote area” – nearest town with medical facilities an hour away.
      That hasn’t ever stopped us accessing necessary health care though.
      If people are motivated to manage their own health instead of just denying symptoms cause can’t be bothered, then that is down to them.
      Over the years there have been some medical events here – heart attacks, accidents etc – and there has never been a problem getting ambulances and/or emergency helicopters to attend.
      
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      September 16, 2022 12:06pm
- Philview
  
  I read a quote from Jesus yesterday “A kingdom divided against itself will fall”. NZ is certainly becoming a kingdom divided against itself because of the poisonous rhetoric coming from our media. A country that has a constant looping conversation about race and racism isn’t a happy or healthy place. It is like a race based version of the movie “First Fifty Dates”. Every day in the media “Did you know we are a racist country with a racist history” next day “Did you know we are racist country with a racist history”. next day “Did you know we are a racist country with a racist history” and so on. Journalist, Karl Du Fresne has spoken often of what the current media don’t talk about. Pakeha men and women and Maori men and women saw a lot of good in each other, fell in love, had children, built a new country. Karl’s view is a positive story of our history and I like that version.
  
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  September 16, 2022 9:03am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    A “quote from Jesus”? Ooooh-kay.
    
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    September 16, 2022 11:17am
    - iMP
      
      Brilliant. A quote from Christ. Great stuff.
      
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      September 16, 2022 11:28am
    - G152
      
      Mexicans handing out quotes eh
      
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      September 16, 2022 12:10pm
- Dave
  
  Here is stuff, pleading for money, at the end of a sympathetic report, paid for by the PIJF, on the struggle to reach one million Maori speakers by 2040, explaining why it is not a newspaper, but an opinion paper on a mission.
  
  As a 100% Kiwi-owned media organisation, we represent you. Our mission is simple: to make NZ a better place for everyone – no matter where you were born, who you love, what you believe or how you live. Pou Tiaki is our commitment to fair representation, equity, diversity and inclusion for all.
  
  No, stuff. You don’t represent me, nor should that be your role; your job is to help NZers be better informed, leaving it to your readers to decide what would be a better NZ.
  
  So, yes, there was some useful information about Maori language growth, with lengthy opinions from supporters of that growth, but little to nothing at all as to why the growth was so slow, nor anything at all as to the overall advantages of this growth and the costs of attaining those advantages. Of course, it’s possible some future news story will examine these matters dispassionately… yeah, right.
  
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  September 16, 2022 9:07am
- Yvette
  
  Scott, from the article you link to –
  
  “But removing all of these barriers and mending every disparity will take time and deliberate effort, across many different services. It will also require attention to social factors that lead to poor health.
  “Health workers and researchers say these broader issues, such as the prevalence of cold, damp homes, aren’t considered ‘health’ related in government — but will continue to create unequal health outcomes as long as they exist.”
  
  So, if the Maori Health Authority, newly established by Ardern’s Labour Government fails in social related factors, it will be because Ardern’s Labour Government has failed in Kiwibuild or lifting groups of New Zealanders out of poverty?
  
  So Ardern’s Labour Government’s own promotion of ”He Ara Waiora – A Pathway towards Wellbeing – [which] draws on four tikanga principles: manaakitanga (care and respect); kaitiakitanga (stewardship/guardianship); whanaungatanga (the relationships/connections between us); and ōhanga/whairama (prosperity)”* fail, it was because Ardern’s Labour Government fails to observe these themselves.
  
  Consider that Willie Jackson and Kelvin Davis
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  * from the failed Tax Working Group Report
  
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  September 16, 2022 9:09am
  - JimBobJoe
    
    ”Health workers and researchers say these broader issues, such as the prevalence of cold, damp homes, aren’t considered ‘health’ related in government — but will continue to create unequal health outcomes as long as they exist.”
    
    So this is incorrect.
    
    There are units inside what where the DHB’s that address housing as a health issue. If those units say a house is cold and damp and needs heating and insulation, then it becomes an automatic Warmer Kiwi Homes install job (private homes only I understand).
    
    For rental properties there is legislation regarding standards of insulation.
    
    A chunk of the problem around dampness in homes is people not airing houses correctly. Open the goddamn windows when cooking if no extractor fan! Open the bathroom window when showering/bathing if no extract fan. And open the windows everyday to allow fresh air through the house…
    
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    September 16, 2022 10:14am
- Stellaboxer
  
  If you walk into any hospital in NZ you are likely met with what is possibly the most diverse workforce in the country. Are we really expected to believe that all of those ethnicities get together to be racist to Māori? It’s so absurd. The gender pay gap must be the result of sexism, Māori health outcomes like the over representation in crime and prison stats must be systemic racism there’s just no other explanation, well not one the supports the post modernist neo Marxist theories that is and god knows they needs plenty of support.
  
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  September 16, 2022 9:39am
- rouppe
  
  I stopped reading that, because the author was constantly conflating access to outcomes.
  
  I don’t believe that Maori have lesser access to healthcare based on their race.
  
  Outcomes are based on seeking advice, and following it. The differences in healthcare required for a particular health problem for any given race are so minor as to be irrelevant.
  
  If a person is manifestly overweight and they are told they need to lose weight or die early, it doesn’t matter what race they are. Follow the advice and get a better outcome. Don’t follow the advice and die early. Pretty simple.
  
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  September 16, 2022 9:47am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Moari don’t have lesser access to healthcare, they are just pushing to see how far they can push ‘racism’ against all non Moari
    
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    September 16, 2022 9:58am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Maybe you could go and work at ‘puna’ Teach them how to research. Can’t see that happening though, you are only allowed to research as fast as the dumbest kid in the class
  
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  September 16, 2022 9:52am
- RockyJ
  
  Recently it was reported that the new centralised health authority instructed all hospitals to schedule a time and date for everyone on a waiting list. It has also instructed specialists to spend less time on follow up consultations and more doing operations. In addition it is well known that the government considers our health system to be institutionally racist.
  
  I find it hard to see how an organisation can be racist. Maybe in apartheid South Africa. People can be racist.
  
  In summary, if you work in health your bosses consider you to be lazy, stupid, uncaring and racist. Nice.
  
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  September 16, 2022 10:17am
- Jack5
  
  Another of Stuff’s many Maori activist scribblers, Joel Maxwell, writes of the toil of staying in Maori language for Maori week and the mental toll it’s taking on him.
  
  He writes: “Alarmingly, having supplied extra capacity to my mouth, the rest of my brain seems to be deflating.”
  
  Proof! Maxwell’s brain is full of hot air.
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/300684389/te-wiki-o-te-reo-mori-offers-a-reminder-to-start-our-reo-journey–now
  
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  September 16, 2022 11:08am
- Ra Henare
  
  I guess the Journo/activist did not read any real research on supposed racism in Health.
  Apparently even the Government cant point to any.
  
  https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/dr-bryce-wilkinson-every-life-is-worth-the-same?
  
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  September 16, 2022 11:59am
Tomtoddy

Is it just my being a techno runt or has Sky Sport made a total FU of their programme front page.
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September 16, 2022 8:08am
- Simon
  
  You can vote for FU in the Albert Eden wards in Auckland Shitty Council elections.
  
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  September 16, 2022 8:12am
iMP

So “unsubstantiated no evidence rogue mp” Dr Sharma was right all along.

“Labour MP Anna Lorck in leadership training after bullying accusations.”

MSM apologies much? Crickets.
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September 16, 2022 8:08am
- G152
  
  Inagine just how it is behind the scenes in liebor currently.
  Dr Sharma is correct and those poll figures are falling off the page.
  Love it
  
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  September 16, 2022 8:12am
  - pdm
    
    I see Jacinda has 2 meetings with the King over the next few days.
    
    What will she do if he asks this question:
    How are you going to solve the problem of rampant bullying by members of your Labour Caucus and Party Whips?
    
    Followed by:
    Why did you send that thug Mallard as Ambassador to Ireland?
    
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    September 16, 2022 8:28am
    - kowtow
      
      ‘Mallard as Ambassador to Ireland’
      
      nah , he’ll say ” One is so pleased you sent him thare and not London”.
      
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      September 16, 2022 9:11am
    - Jack5
      
      As long as Ardern doesn’t flog Charles’s fountain pen.
      
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      September 16, 2022 11:25am
      - pdm
        
        Jack – does she have kleptomania tendencies?
        
        If she does nick it better make sure she gets the one that doesn’t leak.
        
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        September 16, 2022 11:36am
      - Jack5
        
        PDM, on reconsideration: would Jacindarella blot her record, and risk ink-carceration in a pen-itentiary, just for one of His Nibs’s royal signature scratchers? ✍
        
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        September 16, 2022 4:33pm
- Ross Campbell
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Bit early in the season to be cherry picking isn’t it?.
  Part of an accusation Sharma made about Lorck now seems to have some substance so you pronounce him correct in the process ignoring all the other accusations that are completely unsubstantiated at this time.
  If you make enough claims just on the odds of probability you should get a hit of some sort on one or two.
  It’s called the scattergun approach but it works well if you have a ready audience of people wanting to believe your story,just look at Trump for example
  
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  September 16, 2022 8:44am
  - Libertarians are right
    
    True. If only there was an actual review into the issue to see if it were true or not.
    
    The fact he wants that and Labour don’t PLUS the fact that Lorck is an issue does suggest on the balance of probabilities that Sharma is telling the truth.
    
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    September 16, 2022 9:00am
  - All_on_Red
    
    I know what you mean Ross. Look at all the morons who believed the Russia Collusion Hoax about Trump. And all the rest. AlfaBank, Peegate. The list is endless. And all of it was wrong.
    As for Sharma. He looks pretty organised to me and as you say, is being proved right.
    Lets see what else he has got.
    Popcorn
    
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    September 16, 2022 9:15am
  - Lee C
    
    zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
    
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    September 16, 2022 9:42am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    But here’s the thing, Ross, Dr Sharma has been right on more than one occasion.
    
    *He has shown us clearly that Parliamentary Services does not handle employment matters in a timely manner.
    (Even our Dear PM admitted the issue dragged on for much too long)
    
    * His suspension by the Labour Caucus was a jack-up job
    (Even our Dear PM had to back-track about her “pre-determined” meeting)
    
    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/08/labour-s-dr-gaurav-sharma-breaks-silence-accusing-prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-of-cover-up-releases-secret-recording-of-mp.html
    
    Beginning to look like Sharma holds a bowl of cherries.
    
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    September 16, 2022 9:52am
    - Ross Campbell
      
      I think if we take the partisan blinkers off for a while it will turn out that Sharma scores the odd hit here and there but by and large the bulk of the accusations will remain unsubstantiated.
      Not what KB’ers want to read but the most likely outcome.
      
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      September 16, 2022 10:20am
      - Libertarians are right
        
        Of course it’s the most likely outcome. Labour has told us all that “there’s nothing to see here” and are refusing to spend any time looking into it, despite Sharma scoring the odd hit here and there.
        
        This in itself is reason enough for any reasonable person to take issue with Labour – if they took off their partisan blinkers.
        
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        September 16, 2022 11:06am
      - Don Beckett
        
        Well, that’s your opinion Ross, and fair enough. Do you have any citations/evidence to support your view? or are you cherry picking like you accuse the others of?
        
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        September 16, 2022 11:15am
      - Ross Campbell
        
        Yeah my opinion Don is based on the fact Sharma says he has “hundreds of pages” of documents to support his case but we are still waiting for him to produce them.
        So the onus is on him and until he does the case is unsubstantiated.
        
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        September 16, 2022 11:26am
      - All_on_Red
        
        Oh, so ‘believe all women’ is ok but not Dr Sharma.
        Sounds like you’re a racist.
        
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        September 16, 2022 11:41am
      - Ross Campbell
        
        Yeah and sounds like you are just making stuff up.
        
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        September 16, 2022 12:30pm
      - Paulus
        
        So far – but suggest that Sharma is keeping his powder dry as they say.
        Unlike so many Labour MPs he is not stupid but well eduacated and qualified.
        
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        September 16, 2022 1:19pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        More like you’re the one making it up.
        
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        September 16, 2022 3:15pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Your TDS is showing beneath your skirt. Everyone can see it
    
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    September 16, 2022 10:03am
    - Ross Campbell
      
      I don’t need to hide my disdain for Trump Steve as it’s out in the open for all to see.
      Much like your adoration and idol worship of the him is also.
      
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      September 16, 2022 10:28am
      - Libertarians are right
        
        It’s possible to despise Trump but still think rationally about him.
        
        I’m just not sure if it’s possible for you.
        
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        September 16, 2022 11:07am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        @Libertarian. In Trump’s words:
        ‘You don’t have to like someone to respect them – and with that respect you gain respect back’
        
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        September 16, 2022 12:15pm
  - pdm
    
    RC – I don’t think Sharma accused Lorck of anything.
    
    It is two staff members accusing her. Maybe she put the `hard word’ on them.
    
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    September 16, 2022 11:37am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Jaspinda apologies? NEVER!
  
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  September 16, 2022 10:00am
- Bullion
  
  Wasn’t Sharma given leadership training after he bullied his staff? With him seeing the leadership training as a form of bullying to him?
  
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  September 16, 2022 10:09am
  - Ross Campbell
    
    Yes correct but your not supposed to introduce facts into this debate….
    
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    September 16, 2022 10:25am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Leadership training was a typical Labour diversion. Oh look, over there, a squirrel.
      Then the old man with the broom sweeps the shit under the carper. Thera are a lot of skeletons under that carpet – sorry the closet is full…..
      
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      September 16, 2022 4:22pm
  - Libertarians are right
    
    That is correct. Labour used a fixer to try to make Sharma do as he’s told.
    Labour have now used a fixer to cover up Lorck’s issues.
    
    See, the problem is that Labour have used fixers in two different situations but called them the same thing (Leadership Training). It’s really smart politically because it offers apologists an out.
    
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    September 16, 2022 11:37am
Tomtoddy

Last night’s Bledisloe game will be remembered for a strange call by the ref. What we fans seek is consistency. The Boks wandered around the field at a snail’s pace and no penalty applied.

The second point about the game is Fozzie showed he can’t coach for consistency. He isn’t up to it.
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September 16, 2022 8:13am
- pdm
  
  TT – the ref regularly chased up the Aussies for slow play right through the game.
  
  Obviously they went a step to far too slowly.
  
  Having said that it was more of the disappointing same from the All Blacks almost again snatching defeat from what should have been a comfortable win.
  
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  September 16, 2022 8:30am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Karma. Aussies are well know for wasting time, it gives the players a rest.
    There is a limit – they were warned. Ref was correct, it was not a one off to let the ABs win. It is a stern warning to Oz.
    
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    September 16, 2022 10:23am
    - Libertarians are right
      
      Surely, had the ref let him get away with it (about 40 seconds to kick the ball), it would have been the All Blacks that were robbed.
      
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      September 16, 2022 11:39am
- Colville
  
  The aussie player behind Foley was yelling at him to kick it.. He knew Foley was in trouble.
  Biggest call of the night was the yellow card on Swain for a cynical foul that has cost Tupaea a year out of his career.
  Second foul on Tupaea in five minutes by Swain.
  Should have been a red and I hope he picks up a decent ban.
  
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  September 16, 2022 8:52am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Swain should be banned for the same period of time that Tupaea is out injured.
    
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    September 18, 2022 5:41pm
The Boss

Can the ram raid and shootings stats please be removed from this page if not updated?
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September 16, 2022 8:13am
- Bridgenag
  
  Yes please
  
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  September 16, 2022 8:54am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Trouble is the paid off media are hiding a lot of facts.
  
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  September 16, 2022 10:25am
Simon

“The Government is facing backlash over its decision to drop vaccine mandates and its Covid Projection Framework. Nurses and public health experts are feeling blindsided by the move…even some members of the public aren’t ready for it”

https://twitter.com/mediaspotnz/status/1569619096177885184?cxt=HHwWgIDSxY6QtMgrAAAA

The “expert” reaction to the Cindy clown show ending mandates etc is batshit insane. You cant even unpick their positions as its mad as meat axe to begin with.

Its “pandemic of the unvaccinated” levels of retardation. The Experts.

Its so bad it might even be a set up. To make government look normal and functioning contrasted to the insane “Experts”
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September 16, 2022 8:13am
- Harry Knuts
  
  Labour started and continued this whole Covid fear for the last 2+ years and some are still onboard. The reality is the majority of us said about time and are getting on with our lives and some are working bloody hard to rebuild them after the carnage to our economy these lockdowns caused and are still causing. If ya that paranoid over a virus then keep wearing ya mask by all means but don’t drag the rest of us into your dark fear hole.
  
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  September 16, 2022 8:26am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Some have lost their lives, because Companies folded for good.
    If the sheep want to wear a mask then ok. Wear a tin foil hat as well. Do not expect me to follow.
    
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    September 16, 2022 10:34am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  There are many fully brainwashed sheep in NZ. At last we can pick out the Labour voters!
  “even some members of the public aren’t ready for it” Really? I was not ready for lockdowns and vaccine mandates. Fuck them, take back your freedom – if it still exists.
  
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  September 16, 2022 10:31am
Simon

We estimate that the total costs of crime in New Zealand in 2003/04 amounted to $9.1 billion. Of this, the private sector incurred $7 billion in costs and the public sector $2.1 billion. Offences against private property are the most common crimes but offences against the person are the most costly, accounting for 45% of the total estimated costs of crime.

https://www.treasury.govt.nz/publications/wp/estimating-costs-crime-new-zealand-2003-04-html

From 2004. Not sure if there is an update.

It will be much worse now. NZ cant afford not to build new prisons and scoop the shit off the streets. Get the shit into prisons and keep them there and the benefits to society will flow. Its about Well Being.
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September 16, 2022 8:15am
- Ruawai
  
  Yes look after the well being of the good folk, if you want to be bad off to jail, your choice. Poor decisions should have consequences.
  
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  September 16, 2022 9:16am
- cmm
  
  That is an extremely low estimate.
  
  Consider all the things you do because of criminals:
  * You lock your house and car etc. That costs you money in locks, alarms, getting keys cut, etc etc. It costs you time when you lose your keys.
  * Ditto passwords and PIN numbers on bank cards etc.
  * Insurance costs.
  * Avoid certain areas after dark because of crime. Many businesses thus get less business because people are reluctant to visit an area due to crime.
  
  That’s all on top of the stuff they normally measure:
  * Insurance costs
  * Costs of policing/incarceration etc.
  
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  September 16, 2022 9:45am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  It’s all about protecting your voters
  
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  September 16, 2022 10:36am
Captain Mainwaring

Lizette Reymer is doing a wonderful job for TV3 in London. So why does the twit Paddy Gower need to be there as well?
I’m still relishing the time that John Key tore the silly bugger a new one live on TV.
Or was it John Campbell?
Doesn’t matter, they’re as bad as each other.
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September 16, 2022 8:16am
- Harry Knuts
  
  I agree Lizette is a total professional and bloody good at her job.
  Gower – quite the opposite – just a fame whore now. Scrambling for any bit of TV time he can. Most of us have switched off from him completely.
  Campbell’s gone because he lost the audience – quite literally. Gower’s down the same path now.
  
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  September 16, 2022 8:29am
- kowtow
  
  Last night the idiot Gower used a sentence along the lines of ” in a week of constitutional upheaval” .
  
  What constitutional upheaval .
  
  The transition has been seemless .
  
  And people rate these morons?
  
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  September 16, 2022 8:30am
  - Harry Knuts
    
    Maybe Gower is having his own constitutional upheaval that he’s referring to.
    
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    September 16, 2022 8:46am
- Flossie
  
  Other half and I were debating this morning – who is worse? Gower or Campbell? The “winner” by a smidgeon was Campbell.
  
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  September 16, 2022 8:30am
  - kowtow
    
    Both. Are insufferable.
    
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    September 16, 2022 8:45am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Both interview themselves
      
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      September 16, 2022 10:43am
  - Harry Knuts
    
    was… it…. because.. Campbell….talked… with …long …drawn… out… pauses… all… the…. time?
    
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    September 16, 2022 8:48am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    A presenter that wears a dress shirt, waistcoat, sports jacket – and then jeans with rolled up cuffs, loud socks and brown shoes.
    Classy!
    
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    September 16, 2022 10:41am
- Frank the tank
  
  He is a clown. It is almost like they have to justify his role.
  
  Unfortunately he will be the clown chairing any election debate and you know which side of the political spectrum he is on…
  
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  September 16, 2022 8:31am
  - Lee C
    
    Campbell is a simp.
    
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    September 16, 2022 9:43am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      From the google machine:
      Simp –
      idiot · halfwit · nincompoop · blockhead · buffoon · dunce · dolt · ignoramus · cretin · imbecile · dullard · moron · simpleton · clod · tomfool · noddy · clodpole · loggerhead · spoony · mooncalf.
      Who wooda thunk that?
      
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      September 16, 2022 10:45am
    - Sacha
      
      ‘simp’ – haven’t heard that for years, lol.
      
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      September 16, 2022 10:52am
- Ruahine
  
  It was Campbell and it was masterly.
  
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  September 16, 2022 8:32am
  - Colville
    
    Yeah Campbell did a very good flappy arm impression of Virgil out of the Thunderbirds (.showing my age ). Campbell tried to pack up his papers and go home early but Key had him skewered.
    
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    September 16, 2022 8:58am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      “you have done so many stories that are absolute nonsense” Papers everywhere.
      6.38. from 4 mins Key hands Campbell his arsehole on a plate.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWxdIMdkrKM
      
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      September 16, 2022 10:53am
      - Nickc2
        
        If there is such a thing as a Low Life below a Low Life, John Campbell is it.
        Remember the theft of Military Medals from the Army Museum in Waiouru and the Campbell low life used an actor to simulate knowing who the thief(s) was/were?
        FWIW, I wouldn’t trust Campbell to escort Granny across the road.
        
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        September 16, 2022 12:12pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Campbell should be a writer and director for short of talent street. He would fit right in.
        
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        September 16, 2022 4:27pm
- Chris Nisbet
  
  I confuse the two of them as well. Has anybody seen the two of them in the same room at the same time?
  Which one turned into the white supremacist hunter after March 15? Gower, wasn’t it? Wasn’t he convinced that the country is riddled with them?
  And which one of these ‘journalists’ (of all people) didn’t seem to realise the importance of free speech, seriously asking the question why people should be allowed to say things other people didn’t like? I couldn’t believe what I was hearing when he came on the radio to talk about it.
  
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  September 16, 2022 8:41am
- oldgolfer
  
  Reymer is a pro; Gower is a blow-hard. Must be galling for her to have clowns like him arrive to steal limelight.
  
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  September 16, 2022 9:07am
  - rouppe
    
    Not to mention Sam Hayes. She’s in Londond and does some schpiel, and then hands over the Lisette who… is also in London.
    
    What Hayes brings I dunno
    
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    September 16, 2022 9:53am
    - Flossie
      
      So is TV3’s Melissa Chan Green from their AM Show. Why?
      
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      September 16, 2022 12:59pm
Captain Mainwaring

So TV3’s The Project is going to do their entire show tonight in Maori, a language only 2% of the population can understand.
I wonder if they’ll do an audience survey to count how many viewers switch to another channel. And will they ask the advertisers what they think of this dumb idea?
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September 16, 2022 8:32am
- Frank the tank
  
  I’d rather a whole program in Maori than the pidgin dialect that they spew out every other night.
  
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  September 16, 2022 8:35am
- kowtow
  
  It really is a clown show of how all these bodies try to outdo themselves with pointless wokery and the print media little better.
  
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  September 16, 2022 8:47am
- Harry Knuts
  
  So 98% of the population won’t watch it because they can’t understand the language?
  
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  September 16, 2022 8:50am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Correct, but the advertisers still have to pay for the 98% who won’t see their ads. They should sue.
    
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    September 16, 2022 10:19am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      4,900,000 of the team of 5,000,000 will not watch
      
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      September 16, 2022 10:58am
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    Most won’t watch it because it is crap in any language. Our tv is just about redundant.
    
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    September 16, 2022 10:25am
- Paulus
  
  Trying tocatch up TV2 as Shortland Street is now a Maori Hospital with all top jobs to whanau.
  
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  September 16, 2022 1:23pm
  - Ghost
    
    Nothing wrong with shorty, it’s not a Māori hospital and oh no it has two Māori in top jobs.
    
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    September 16, 2022 1:29pm
Frank the tank

So given GDP figures don’t account for inflation in a high inflationary environment why do these matter?

If annual inflation is circa 8% every quarter you need GDP growth of 2% just to stand still.
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September 16, 2022 8:34am
- David George
  
  GDP is supposed to be adjusted to take account of inflation. Whether that is an accurate adjustment is another question. For most the high and rising prices of fuel, power, food and rent make it a recession for them.
  
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  September 16, 2022 9:06am
- Benedict Yu
  
  No. GDP growth is ‘real’ growth. I have not checked the methodology. However I do know that the methodology for calculating these indicators is standardised internationally.
  
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  September 16, 2022 9:29am
- Jack5
  
  “Real GDP” is GDP adjusted for inflation. “GDP” without the adjustment is also called “nominal GDP”.
  
  To obtain “real GDP”, (nominal) GDP is divided by an “inflation deflator”.
  
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  September 16, 2022 4:12pm
kowtow

Brook Sabin at $tuff.

“The Government has quietly kept one of its most frustrating Covid rules, and even worse – it looks here to stay.”

Traveller declaration , in order to freely travel back to NZ .

Where’s the rest of the media on this .

Where’s the Human Wrongs Commissioner.

The Opposition.

She said “we take back control” . Another in a very long list of lies , misinformation and disinformation. Looks foreign to me , very un New Zealand .

Yes , the regime retains control , over our freedom of movement with continued unlawful and pointless surveillance .

https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/300687933/the-government-has-quietly-made-one-covid-rule-long-term–its-a-complete-waste-of-time
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September 16, 2022 8:35am
- Harry Knuts
  
  Traveller declaration – another reason tourists will be put off coming to NZ in our summer season. Especially if they don’t have to do this in other more attractive countries.
  
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  September 16, 2022 8:53am
  - Charmaine Hawke
    
    Yes Canada is finding this with the ArriveCan app but it seems Jacinda and Justin are still following the WEF script not realising the rest of the cast have changed the play.
    
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    September 16, 2022 9:46am
  - Ross Campbell
    
    Anyone who is put off coming to NZ by having to fill in an online form was obviously not very keen anyway.
    I suppose you think having to fill in a biosecurity declaration puts people off coming here as well…
    
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    September 16, 2022 10:33am
    - Harry Knuts
      
      where on this biosecurity declaration form does it state where you have to declare if your vaxed or not? the rest of the world has moved on from covid ross, you should too. Comparing the 2 forms is hardly comparable. try again.
      
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      September 16, 2022 10:54am
      - Ross Campbell
        
        You say I need to move on from Covid yet you are the one getting wound up about having to declare your vaccination status on the form.
        Who is not over it?.
        Your too funny…..
        
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        September 16, 2022 11:16am
    - Observer of Life
      
      Ross have you had to fill that online declaration in? It is time consuming and a joke. People will be put off. Get real man/woman/??
      
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      September 16, 2022 7:25pm
- Prince
  
  The Opposition has consistently railed against this.
  
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  September 16, 2022 8:55am
- JimBobJoe
  
  The Opposition (Chris Bishop in fact) have been panning the new declaration form for quite some time and want it dropped.
  
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  September 16, 2022 9:12am
- mawm
  
  kowtow – The travel declaration is not going to go away as it is “the foot in the door” for vaccine passports (personal QR codes) internationally.
  
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  September 16, 2022 10:15am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  The control will be there as long as Jaspinda is there.
  You know what to doo
  
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  September 16, 2022 11:02am
BeaB

Lizette told us ‘a ripple of silence ran through the crowd’. Another blonde gave us a heap of incorrect stuff about the Royal family. Despite the loud clatter of hooves from military horses, yet another lame NZ reporter talked about the ‘pitter pat’ of horses.
They could have all stayed home. Much better for us to watch on BBC etc to people who have some knowledge of history and not just snippets from the tabloids.
Even dim Corin Dann is there and the ridiculous Paddy Gower.
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September 16, 2022 8:40am
- cmm
  
  Dann and Gower are there to do something very important – keep the focus on the most important person there: Cindy!
  
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  September 16, 2022 10:53am
Frank the tank

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/09/15/democrats-freak-desantis-flying-illegal-aliens-marthas-vineyard/

If there is a god we have President Ron in 2024.
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September 16, 2022 8:41am
- virtualmark
  
  Careful.
  
  Firstly, high chance this stunt backfires on de Santis. Transporting people across state lines on the basis of fraudulent offers is inviting a kidnapping investigation.
  
  And, morally, using vulnerable human beings to make performative political theatre is disgusting and bankrupt. I wonder what de Santis grandparents (Italian immigrants) would make of it.
  
  Secondly, de Santis is the American Orban. Smart, but an autocrat bully. If you value democracy and human rights then I struggle to see why you’d encourage autocracy. But perhaps you just don’t value democracy and human rights.
  
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  September 16, 2022 9:06am
  - Frank the tank
    
    “But perhaps you just don’t value democracy and human rights”
    
    Desantis was voted in as Governor of Florida. These migrants are in his state illegally.
    
    “And, morally, using vulnerable human beings to make performative political theatre is disgusting and bankrupt.”
    
    Sums up Biden’s open borders and democrat-run sanctuary cities succinctly.
    
    “Firstly, high chance this stunt backfires on de Santis. Transporting people across state lines on the basis of fraudulent offers is inviting a kidnapping investigation.”
    
    That would be a politicization of the FBI. There is a discernable difference between kidnapping and transporting. Politically that is a dangerous thing to do so close to mid term elections.
    
    The democrats are committing to an open-border policy on the basis of poorer migrants having a voting record of favoring them and leaving them in red-leaning states as a blatant gerrymandering strategy. In the interim these Southern States are left to deal with unskilled, illegal migrants and the resulting social problems that go with them.
    
    What Abbott and DeSantis are doing cunningly is throwing the problem back in the faces of the proponents of the plan, who surprise, surprise don’t like it.
    
    The left hate Desantis almost more than Trump because unlike Trump – he does not just say. Ergo why he would be an excellent President.
    
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    September 16, 2022 9:43am
    - virtualmark
      
      Frank,
      
      De Santis sent a plane to Texas to pick up those migrants. They weren’t in Florida.
      
      Thought experiment: Hop in your car this afternoon, drive to your local primary school, offer some kid lollies if they’ll get in your car. Then drive them to Hamilton. Don’t do anything sleazy, just drive them to Hamilton and then drop them off. Oh, and don’t give them the lollies.
      
      Would that be okay? Or do you think the Police would come to have a quiet chat with Frank?
      
      Transporting people across state lines (using the US legal parlance) on the basis of fraudulent promises is abduction. I don’t know that this was a good idea by de Santis.
      
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      September 16, 2022 10:04am
      - virtualmark
        
        18 US Code § 1201
        
        https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1201
        
        The legal term for the fraudulent promise is “inveigling”.
        
        Transporting adults is punishable by up to 20 years. Transporting children (<18yrs old) is punishable by at least 20 years.
        
        Quite a legal risk to take just so you can look tough on Fox News.
        
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        September 16, 2022 10:23am
      - alloytoo
        
        It’s my understanding that the free trips are voluntary, and that Martha’s vineyard was chosen because it is a self proclaimed “Sanctuary” destination.
        
        I cannot see what is fraudulent about it, unless the self proclaimed sanctuary destinations renege.
        
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        September 16, 2022 10:56am
      - virtualmark
        
        Alloytoo,
        
        The people being transported to Martha’s Vineyard were told that they would have expedited work permits and so on if they travel there. Which wasn’t true. That’s the inveigling part. That’s the bit that creates the legal risk.
        
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        September 16, 2022 2:19pm
      - Frank the tank
        
        Marky – Is that the democrat strategy incarcerate all the GOP until it is only Liz Cheney left?
        
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        September 16, 2022 2:22pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        OMG
        You’re hilarious. Your amateur lawyering is just so funny.
        The other day you were telling us you knew more than this guy
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Hamburger
        
        Hey, found those Nuclear Codes yet?
        What about the secret tunnel in Melania’s underwear drawer which goes to Putin’s Dasha?
        Lol
        
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        September 16, 2022 3:13pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Bonus
        https://babylonbee.com/news/marthas-vineyard-resident-calls-police-to-report-a-latino-in-the-neighborhood-not-operating-a-leaf-blower
        
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        September 16, 2022 3:21pm
- Tom Hunter
  
  Adding diversity to Martha’s Vineyard.
  
  I like it.
  
  It also gives Democrats a chance to really show how much they care about illegal aliens outside of Texas and the other border states.
  
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  September 16, 2022 10:31am
  - kowtow
    
    Have you seen how the progressive ,gentle folk of fabulously , famously, avant garde Greenwich Village have had enough of drug addicts shitting on their front steps and shooting up all over the show , crime and associated grime etc
    
    They’re stumping up for private police .
    
    And like the results .
    
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    September 16, 2022 10:59am
  - Frank the tank
    
    They have already said they can’t house them.
    
    Obviously not enough room for tennis courts and migrants at the same time.
    
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    September 16, 2022 2:24pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Obamas have a mansion at Martha’s Vineyard. I guess they will open the doors and welcome the illegals?
  
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  September 16, 2022 11:09am
Maggie Pie

Thort this worth sharing….

One of the girls at tennis works for the Catholic Diocese here in Auckland. She was telling me in confidence that Pope Francis, who is certainly not a financial advisor, has instructed all Vatican Entities to move ALL FUNDS to the Vatican Bank by 24 September.
As my partner said when I told him….”Wonder what he knows?”

Hmmm.
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September 16, 2022 8:46am
- Albert_Ross
  
  Somebody told you something “in confidence” and you “thort it worth sharing”.
  
  What do you actually understand by the words “in confidence”?
  
  And one has to wonder also where your (presumably former) friend got it from, and whether she, or her source, still has their job.
  
  Or is it just a teensy weeny bit possible that somebody here is making shit up?
  
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  September 16, 2022 9:56am
  - Ghost
    
    It’s been in the news for a while
    
    http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/amp/news/252093/pope-francis-instructs-vatican-entities-to-move-all-funds-to-vatican-bank-by-sept-30
    
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    September 16, 2022 10:01am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    An apology for your nasty inSINuation would be in order don’t you think, Uncle Albert?
    
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    September 16, 2022 10:18am
    - Albert_Ross
      
      I didn’t “insinuate ” anything.
      
      I pointed out what you yourself had clearly stated: that you were posting information that had been given to you in confidence.
      
      Either that’s true, in which case you betrayed a friend’s confidence, or it’s not. Which is it? Neither reflects particularly well on you anyway.
      
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      September 16, 2022 10:38am
      - Maggie Pie
        
        Never forget…explaining is losing Uncle.
        
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        September 16, 2022 11:00am
MCōs

I watched the ABs run away with the game last night as a consequence of the silliness of the Australian first five taking an eternity to kick the ball after they were awarded a penalty several minutes before full time.
Several American sports have shot clocks, with baseball the latest. Plus cricket.
Maybe something could be organized for rugger. Particularly after the ref hollers ‘play the ball’ and when sides drag their heels getting to set pieces. Maybe ten seconds at set pieces from when the ball is available.
Unrelated.
I hope the Australian chap has the book thrown at him for mangling whathisname’s knee.
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September 16, 2022 8:51am
- Nickc2
  
  I think that game will forever be known as ‘Foley’s Folly’. He definitely lost the plot, where wasting time wasn’t of the essence at the time. All they had to do was kick the damned thing out, stroll to the lineout, polish the ball, throw it into the lineout and then kick the thing out again. The final hooter would have sounded while the lineout was being formed.
  PS: IMO this wasn’t one of the ABs’ most memorable matches and that is confirmed by the player rankings as published in the Herald (Paywalled).
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/all-blacks-v-wallabies-how-the-players-rated-in-new-zealands-bledisloe-cup-win-over-australia/I5FW3XVASVVWC25RCGBHTYEMIY/
  
  Free version here.
  https://www.msn.com/en-nz/sports/other/all-blacks-player-ratings-vs-wallabies-rugby-championship/ar-AA11RJCR?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=74d14932a217475d91de29b9b0d0664a
  
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  September 16, 2022 9:23am
graham

How to tacitly acknowledge that your town has utterly gone to the dogs.

The Rotorua NZ website has made a point of listing accommodation providers that don’t take emergency housing or mixed-use bookings. IE, here’s where to stay if you prefer to avoid holidaying in a ghetto.

Looking for visitor only accommodation? Rotorua has many top-quality accommodation options for our visitors. All accommodation providers listed within this site accept visitor bookings only; they do not take any type of emergency housing or mixed-use bookings. We welcome you to book directly with these preferred accommodation providers.

Alternatively, you’re welcome to seek advice and book your Rotorua accommodation through our friendly travel experts at either of our Rotorua i-SITE Visitor Information Centres who provide a 100% money back guarantee if your accommodation is not as they promise.

https://www.rotoruanz.com/accommodation
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September 16, 2022 8:53am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Yeah but the problem is that you could find a ghetto next door. Best to stay in an Airbnb out of town and self cater. Why would you walk the streets of rotorua at night or during daylight for that matter.
  
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  September 16, 2022 9:32am
Colville

Tupaea.
I hope so too.
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September 16, 2022 9:01am
Dodger

On page 16 of NZ Herald this morning, David Seymour writes we only have 4.5% of international students back.
On Page 21 Grant Robertson tells the audience of business leaders hosted by Westpac that international student enrolments were nearly at 50% of pre covid.
Who to believe
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September 16, 2022 9:10am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Not Robbo.
  
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  September 16, 2022 9:42am
- cmm
  
  They could both be right because they are talking about different timescales.
  
  Maybe:
  * 4.5% are already back.
  * 50% are enrolled, but enrolled for next year.
  
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  September 16, 2022 10:49am
  - kowtow
    
    Just like with climate change and any number of other regime scams.
    
    Where you start your measurements matters.
    
    All the world’s a stage .
    
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    September 16, 2022 11:02am
Ghost

Sean Plunket talking to the countdown muppets about their Māori PR stunt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XSI6XyBdQY
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September 16, 2022 9:11am
emmess

Oh look, most of here including me, have just been diagnosed with a mental condition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsafxsxY-fU
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September 16, 2022 9:13am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closest friends; if they seem OK, then you’re the one.//
  
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  September 16, 2022 11:18am
  - Ghost
    
    What if you’re a labour voter with only labour friends?
    
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    September 16, 2022 11:26am
    - Libertarians are right
      
      I have lots of Green voting friends so I know I’m safe.
      
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      September 16, 2022 11:45am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Gets real difficult then
      
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      September 16, 2022 12:23pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      I answered that wrong.
      “What if you’re a Labour voter with only Labour friends?”
      Well then I guess they are all mentally unbalanced.
      
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      September 16, 2022 4:33pm
nathie

Probably not new to some here, but last night I came across this Archive NZ film of the 28th (Maori) Battalion returning back to NZ (Wellington) in January 1946.

Wow what a welcome back on a stunning day and the preparation of the food beforehand was a concerted effort by their whanau and the Marae’s.

(Good thing today’s “authoritarian” health academics and officials weren’t around back then – look at all that meat and fat being prepared – let alone the old Kuia smoking a pipe)!

Anyway good to see the old Wellington waterfront (some things haven’t changed much), also amazing to think that the oldest of the people there presumably would have been born in the 1870’s-1880’s (if not possibly earlier).

And good to see that Maori were living longer lives back then too, as they are today (which is something today’s radical academics and MSM tend to forget when disparaging the benefits of “colonisation” when Maori had a shorter life expectancy pre-European times etc)!

Another interesting snippet is at the 8 minute mark, a memorial for gunner Jack Seymour is unveiled …. any relation to ACT’s David Seymour by chance?

Well Maori, Pakeha, Asian or any other, this is our shared history and something to be proud of!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9PuhVKE4xY
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September 16, 2022 9:16am
ClanMcleod

A good article in the BFD today. Vote to be free in 2023.

Do you remember the heady freedom we had before Jacinda Ardern became Prime Minister? The days when the police only used force on criminals, not people who weren’t wearing masks? When babies smiled at you and you smiled back? Do you remember when the children behind their masks gave up trying to see what was behind yours? Have you noticed a level of coldness in society that wasn’t there before Jacinda Ardern became Prime Minister?

https://thebfd.co.nz/2022/09/16/vote-to-be-free-in-2023-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vote-to-be-free-in-2023-2
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September 16, 2022 9:17am
- mogg
  
  Covid lockdowns have had a knock-on effect in many areas. Shocking school attendance figures, children. doing ram raids, more gang crime, street crime, domestic violence. Alongside this we have rocketing food price inflation and a plunging standard of living for the less well off.
  
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  September 16, 2022 10:22am
  - alloytoo
    
    Vaccine mandates will also have a knock-on effect on standard Childhood disease vaccine programs, making people reluctant to participate.
    
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    September 16, 2022 10:58am
- Ross Campbell
  
  “Have you noticed a level of coldness in society that wasn’t there before Ardern became PM”.
  No I haven’t actually as people seem pretty much the same and really if anyone thinks that this is a good article from the BFD maybe they need to get out of their own bitter unhappy group a bit more.
  
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  September 16, 2022 10:43am
  - JimBobJoe
    
    Are Sir Cullens Sidekick burner account? Trialing some more ectreme satire?
    
    You are totally hilarious. Keep up the good work
    
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    September 16, 2022 12:02pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Shit Ross, if I wasn’t such a reserved chap I’d say you were a total fuckwit. And I’d suspect that most Kiwibloggers would agree with me.
    
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    September 16, 2022 9:06pm
Colville

http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/300678028/injured-man-rescued-from-tree-in-rural-manawat-taken-to-hospital-with-serious-injuries?cid=app-android

How the fuck did he get into the tree?

🤔
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September 16, 2022 9:18am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Avoiding the police 🐶 dogs? 😀😀😀
  
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  September 16, 2022 10:28am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  https://loveforquotes.com/i/6e09dbf5632643b1b54946ce02d3994c
  
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  September 16, 2022 11:30am
- zulumonster
  
  Brilliant picture of a tree accompanying the article – but lacking in context.
  Was that the offending tree or has this tree been falsely implicated?
  Does the tree have a case for harassment?
  Can it complain to the Media Council?
  This is an important story – inquiring minds need to know ….
  
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  September 16, 2022 1:06pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Bryce Wilkinson discusses our Race-based Public Health delivery

https://theplatform.kiwi/opinions/examining-the-official-case-for-race-based-privileges-in-public-health
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September 16, 2022 9:22am
Maggie Pie

OMG! Watch this….it’s hilarious 😀 😀 😀

https://twitter.com/Toquiski1/status/1568945076776177669

(full screen – sound up)
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September 16, 2022 9:26am
- nathie
  
  Move over “DJ” Jacinda, you’ve been outplayed!
  
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  September 16, 2022 9:36am
Maggy Wassilieff

I think it is only Maori politicians who can judge if someone is maori enough

https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/129737322/massey-university-lecturer-told-mori-students-they-dont-look-mori
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September 16, 2022 9:28am
- Benedict Yu
  
  The guy with long ginger hair looks as Maori as me. 😳
  
  You need to draw the line somewhere. Like if the guy with ginger hair said, “actually I am Chinese”, I would be skeptical. But in today’s New Zealand I would be called racist and mean for shaming ginger haired Chinese. ☹️
  
  There are folk who have Chinese ancestry. There great great great grandmother was half Chinese. But that doesn’t make them Chinese.
  
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  September 16, 2022 9:39am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Elizabeth Warren (pocahontas) is 1/1024th Cherokee//
    
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    September 16, 2022 11:42am
    - cmm
      
      1024 is 2**10, so that would mean one ancestor 10 generations ago.
      
      Right… How do you prove that?
      
      For all we know, ten generations ago some girl got knocked up by her (white) boyfriend, but didn’t want to get him into trouble so blamed an Injun!
      
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      September 16, 2022 12:03pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        I think she was proven wrong. The Cherokee Elders had a powwow with her.
        
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        September 16, 2022 12:25pm
    - GJM
      
      That was before she was bitten by a mosquito. There goes the Cherokee portion!
      
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      September 16, 2022 2:30pm
  - Libertarians are right
    
    That’s not a guy, they’re a they.
    
    And now you know why they’re making a big thing about it.
    
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    September 16, 2022 11:47am
- I remember when
  
  Tom Galloway: “I hope this isn’t offensive, but you guys don’t look Maori at all.”
  Hope obviously isn’t Tom’s biggest strength.
  Matenga said she felt the comment was ‘highly racist.’
  Monk whose name ‘doesn’t look Maori,’ obviously went along with her opinion.
  
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  September 16, 2022 10:55am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Willie Jackson’s name does not ‘look’ Moari either
    
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    September 16, 2022 12:28pm
Tom Barker

Trump is being pursued for tax evasion by the NY legal system. He has, of course, loudly proclaimed that the case is nothing but political persecution. If so, Donnie, why has your legal team twice offered a confidential cash settlement? Since you’ve got nothing to hide, why not be a man and stand up in court, instead of trying to make shady backroom deals?
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September 16, 2022 9:30am
- JimBobJoe
  
  Tom. A settlement with no admission of guilty is normally cheaper to a high value individual than going through the whole legal process.
  
  I know for Liberals and Lefties is orange man bad but frankly when a democrat DA goes after a republican it all seems a little stinky of political motivation.
  
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  September 16, 2022 10:35am
- Libertarians are right
  
  The DA literally campaigned on “I’m gonna get Trump”. Regardless of validity (it’s common and no-one gets in trouble for it but may be technically illegal), the intent is to punish Trump.
  
  Also note that it’s his company being pursued and they’ve already given immunity to the CFO, the guy who would actually be legally accountable for any “crime”.
  
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  September 16, 2022 11:51am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    ‘punish Trump’
    What they forget is Trump hits back double
    
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    September 16, 2022 4:38pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Best he have a chat with Hillary and Obama. What they do not know about shady deals is not worth knowing.
  
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  September 16, 2022 12:30pm
- All_on_Red
  
  Actually its one of Trumps staff who fiddled his Tax Returns and didnt disclose the extent of his perks.
  Hence the evasion.
  Trumps company is getting a smack because they should have picked it up.
  But Trump himself has not been charged.
  Barker is wrong as usual.
  Hey Tom, how’s Energiewende working out in Germany?
  What a fool
  
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  September 16, 2022 3:04pm
mogg

How to make your point; DeSantis has started flying illegals north to Martha’s Vineyard, giving no prior notice. Massachusetts declare humanitarian situation. DeSantis has named Martha’s Vineyard a ‘sanctuary destination’.
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September 16, 2022 9:35am
- alloytoo
  
  Martha’s Vineyard declared themselves a santuary destination.
  
  Ron is just taking their word for it.
  
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  September 16, 2022 11:01am
Lee C

Isn’t it strange how the media are reporting reduced numberes of ‘covid cases’.

Why, now masks have been dumped, you’d think there would have been an upsurge of ‘cases’ –

Wouldn’t you?
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September 16, 2022 9:39am
- cmm
  
  The science is settled. The virus might be sneaky and cunning, but it listens to Cindy.
  
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  September 16, 2022 9:47am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    The virus also knows if you are standing or sitting – so clever.
    
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    September 16, 2022 11:45am
- MCōs
  
  The masks have been ‘dumped’ because the there’s been a reduced number of cases.
  
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  September 16, 2022 9:50am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Let’s analyse the logic here…
    
    We were told to wear masks to stop/slow down the spread of the virus…
    
    The virus spread through the population when we were masked-up….. then as the number of infections began to fall away, we remain masked……until a couple of days ago.
    
    I suspect we will have to wait a couple of weeks- 1 month before we notice if there’s been any upswing in infections.
    
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    September 16, 2022 10:06am
    - Its only I
      
      You had to mask up while walking around M10 isles then take it off while sitting in the cafe. The cafe is partly in the isle or the garden section with everyone else who had to mask up!
      
      We had one particularly strict bakery who wouldn’t serve you without a mask unfortunately they purchased the full premium covid package Labour had to sell.
      Except…all I had was some safety gear…what could possibly go wrong?
      …they let me pick up a coffee and a fine cream donut wearing a mesh chainsaw visor and earmuffs!
      I thought the earmuffs would muffle the howls of outrage but no, not needed, those big rona bugs aye?
      Yep, that works.
      Normally I wouldn’t bother but they make some fine coffee and food, I mean real good.
      
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      September 16, 2022 10:40am
    - kowtow
      
      We were also told by the Ministry of Truth that mask wearing was a mark of kindness .
      
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      September 16, 2022 11:05am
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    Really? I thought it was for political convenience.
    
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    September 16, 2022 10:15am
  - I remember when
    
    A reduced number of cases.
    What, of mask wearing?
    
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    September 16, 2022 10:39am
  - R
    
    The masks have been ‘dumped’ because the there’s been a reduced number of cases.
    
    So, it has nothing to do with poor internal polling by Labour?
    
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    September 16, 2022 10:42am
    - Observer of Life
      
      I got the impression masks had been dumped because there’s new medicines available. Well that’s what the nice person on the radio advert told me yesterday. So I tried to phone the Covid 0800 number and Healthline, but they couldn’t tell me just what those new meds are. I was told to phone my GP to get the low down on these amazing new wonder drugs.. that no one can tell me about. I’m a wee bit confused.
      
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      September 16, 2022 8:11pm
      - Ghost
        
        Good advice from healthline, your GP is the one you should be talking to about that not healthline.
        
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        September 16, 2022 8:15pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    The masks have been dumped because Jaspinda’s popularity is in the gutter. 2023 is looking sad for her.
    
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    September 16, 2022 11:47am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    The masks have been dumped for political expediency. The masks had no bearing on the number of cases. Ardern’s internal polling showed her popularity is tanking.
    The stench of desperation everywhere. And the gall, to tell people to “respect” the choices of others, after almost two years of harassing, bullying, coercing and browbeating into sticking an experimental concoction into their bodies? The woman is a narcissistic clown. She wouldn’t know empathy if it bit her on the arse.
    
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    September 17, 2022 7:28am
MCōs

A school bus has had an accident and been left hanging over the edge of a bridge.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-school-bus-crash-dozens-of-students-onboard-vehicle-left-dangling-on-bridge-above-northwestern-motorway/RDCFQYIYAZ7EBNOQ36E7PIKOTE/
A passerby who came along just after the incident noted that the kids were filing off the bus. There was no panic. Nobody screamed, cried or weeping.
Secondary school children are more mature than a lot of people think.
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September 16, 2022 10:05am
- kowtow
  
  or just keen fans of the movies.
  
  The Italian Job.
  
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  September 16, 2022 11:06am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  How the hell could that happen? Tyre blowout? Steering balljoint broke?
  Lucky kids.
  
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  September 16, 2022 11:54am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Medical event / elderly driver?
    
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    September 16, 2022 12:03pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      That does happen, even though a Med Cert is required for the job
      
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      September 16, 2022 12:33pm
Its only I

Is the troll activity lower when the PM is out of the country?
Certain handles comment bombing on Stuff went quiet every time the PM went walkabout. It stuck out because of the incredible amount of comments they could get past the mods would just simply stop.

I wonder why?
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September 16, 2022 10:15am
- MCōs
  
  One needs to be an avid reader of the comment sections of Stuff articles to be able to judge these these things.
  In that respect I’ll have to take your word on the matter.
  
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  September 16, 2022 12:16pm
  - Its only I
    
    Your better informed if you do. Thank me later.
    
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    September 16, 2022 3:32pm
Alan Wilkinson

I see another guy is being prosecuted and his dog will be killed for killing a kiwi on his property up here. If I saw a kiwi on mine I would shoot it myself to make sure the vanity project virtue signallers didn’t get an excuse to kill one of our dogs.
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September 16, 2022 10:19am
- I remember when
  
  “his dog will be killed for killing a kiwi on his property”
  Well that will teach the dog a lesson.
  Of course, given the opportunity, every other dog in the country will kill a kiwi.
  
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  September 16, 2022 10:35am
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    Just another insane law.
    
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    September 16, 2022 12:43pm
- Inandout
  
  Alan, our foxie kills possums, rats, rabbits and occasionally flying birds, so if she came across a kiwi in our stand of native bush she would be over the moon.
  
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  September 16, 2022 11:09am
- MCōs
  
  How do the authorities know this chap’s dog killed a kiwi?
  Were they trespassing on his property and just happen to catch the dog in the act?
  
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  September 16, 2022 12:28pm
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    The mug must have let them onto his land to do pest control and they found a kiwi nest (or put it there?) and set up a camera to watch it probably without telling him. And this is his reward.
    
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    September 16, 2022 12:39pm
  - Ghost
    
    The nest had a camera on it
    
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/wealthy-northland-property-owner-admits-his-dog-killed-a-kiwi/NK7XOKKEUQ3VB32R3STWD7LYXY/
    
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    September 16, 2022 12:58pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Any downticker tell us why the dog should die for your kiwi fetish?
  
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  September 16, 2022 12:51pm
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    Nope. Thought not.
    
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    September 16, 2022 1:47pm
    - Its only I
      
      Endangered native bird I guess.
      
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      September 16, 2022 3:35pm
      - Alan Wilkinson
        
        It’s not endangered. It’s been living up here with humans and dogs for centuries. The lunatics are now bringing it into our towns along with weka which are a thriving pest. The irony is that kiwi thrive on private properties where there are people and pets and die out in public DoC forests with their uncontrolled predatory pests.
        
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        September 16, 2022 3:53pm
      - Colville
        
        Two years in prison and 100$k fine?
        
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        September 16, 2022 4:56pm
      - Its only I
        
        Fair enough Alan.
        
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        September 16, 2022 6:07pm
      - Alan Wilkinson
        
        @Colville – mad, isn’t it? The lunatics are running the place and most of them couldn’t do up their shoelaces. Luckily neither do they know what happens in the real world
        
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        September 16, 2022 7:10pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Partners Sister and her Husband had a vineyard in Hastings. Had a female ‘outside’ cat, friendly but never came inside. ‘Tiger looked after the vineyard – killed rabbits and ate them. She rarely wanted food –
  maybe a bit of milk. Birds? rare but a shotgun with birdshot. 3 LPG canons on the property.
  Sorry, the comment was about Tiger the rabbit killer
  
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  September 16, 2022 6:53pm
Maggie Pie

And can anyone explain to me why this Labor Government wants everyone to be gay?
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September 16, 2022 10:22am
- Nickc2
  
  Some of the Maori Caucus and Finance Minister is running out of people to talk to.
  
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  September 16, 2022 10:28am
- I remember when
  
  I think it is to do with their likely voting preferences.
  
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  September 16, 2022 10:36am
- Ross Campbell
  
  Can anyone explain to me why you would post such a bizarre comment?.
  
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  September 16, 2022 10:47am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Bizarre is the bizarre comment
    
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    September 16, 2022 6:55pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Must be something to do with our wellbeing
  
  Gay (defn.) – Full of joy and mirth; exuberantly cheerful, merry.
  
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  September 16, 2022 10:58am
  - alloytoo
    
    Certainly better a bundle of sticks.
    
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    September 16, 2022 11:04am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Yes, that’s exactly what I was meaning!
    
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    September 16, 2022 11:17am
- kowtow
  
  They’ve bummed all of us these last few years , so does it matter?
  
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  September 16, 2022 11:08am
Benedict Yu

Just heard a guy on the radio. He heads some group demanding that the Government “restore passenger rail services in New Zealand”. If they don’t get their way they will engage in “civil disobedience”.

What is wrong with these people? ☹️
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September 16, 2022 10:25am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Why stop at passenger rail services? What’s wrong with stagecoaches and bullock carts?
  
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  September 16, 2022 10:34am
- cmm
  
  I demand that the government protect the law abiding decent people from the nutters.
  
  If not, we will be forced to step up and protect ourselves, eg. carry riding crops to administer swift justice when we encounter these people.
  
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  September 16, 2022 10:44am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Riding Crops? Now who makes them again? Must be those assault rifle people that work for Colt???
    
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    September 16, 2022 6:58pm
- kowtow
  
  As an aside the Queen’s body was meant to travel by train from Scotland to London , a carriage had even been specially adapted, but some Muppet must have told them they couldn’t guarantee there’d be no disruption .
  
  That’s the state of play in the heads of some of their top people .
  
  Pity , as the proof is the vast vast majority are respectful , law abiding and on board as it were.
  
  ( So much for “experts” and risk aversion)
  
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  September 16, 2022 11:11am
  - MCōs
    
    Although in the last number of years the Queen has been held in very high regard in the UK it hasn’t always been that way.
    I’m picking that KCIII won’t get the same universal love by the time his coronation comes round particularly if projected cost of living problems bite over there while huge amounts are spent on the civil list.
    
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    September 16, 2022 12:49pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      Charles has said he is going to reduce the number of working Royals so I guess he’s already thinking ahead about trimming costs.
      Also the Royal Family generate Billions of income for the UK. So there’s that.
      I guess someone has to help pay for Scotland.
      The UK could probably reduce the House of Lords a bit though. There’s a lot of them.
      
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      September 16, 2022 2:55pm
      - MCōs
        
        I’ve heard that sort of talk before.
        
        There’s also a bit of a double standard going on here.
        Whilst some of the royal family undoubtedly earn their keep opening and closing stuff (funny how all those sort of indispensable duties are dispensable over here) there seems to be a lot of people with their snouts in the trough; usually a red rag to a bull on this forum.
        
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        September 16, 2022 3:35pm
- Frank the tank
  
  Yesterday the 11.40am train pulling out of Penrose Station going towards Onehunga had one person on it.
  
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  September 16, 2022 2:26pm
  - MCōs
    
    You
    
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    September 16, 2022 4:08pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Even I am not dumb enough to downtick that. Your uptickers are waiting to see who goes first
      
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      September 16, 2022 7:02pm
I remember when

Te Wiki o Te Reo:
What is going to increase the number of competent Maori language speakers?
Attendence at a Maori Immersion or Bilingual school.
The number of pupils attending these schools will largely decide the number of people using Te Reo.
That and their parents speaking Maori at home.
The rest is window dressing.
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September 16, 2022 10:30am
- alloytoo
  
  Of course a Maori Immersion is likely to render them completely incapable of participating in the mainstream economy.
  
  Talking about structural discrimination.
  
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  September 16, 2022 11:06am
  - Don Beckett
    
    Not quite – they also have a few lessons in English as a foreign language. 🙂
    
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    September 16, 2022 11:45am
  - Hebe123
    
    Not true. My neighbours lad goes to an immersion school. Articulate little guy for 6. Solemnly told me all the subjects they do at school – maths, literacy etc. and he loves school.
    I think the language is useless myself but they are a lovely family and I bet that kid will be a success.
    
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    September 16, 2022 11:56am
- kowtow
  
  But those pupils will still emerge to the real world of English speaking .
  
  This is a hugely expensive vanity project .
  
  See the waste of limited resources it has been in the R of Ireland .
  
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  September 16, 2022 11:13am
- Taieri
  
  What is going to increase the number of competent Maori language speakers?
  Attendence at a Maori Immersion or Bilingual school.
  
  That and their parents speaking Maori at home.
  —————————–
  
  One of the greatest disadvantages in resurrecting/saving the Maori language is almost complete lack of Maori-language literature, both prose and poetry. Virtually all Maori writers use English as their medium, I’m not aware of any literary work in Maori, apart from that what is contained in the five volumes of Te ao mārama which was published from 1992 to 1996. But even that was not entirely in Maori.
  
  A language without literature can’t survive.
  
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  September 16, 2022 12:13pm
  - Paulus
    
    A Language without the ability to clearly speak, write and understand English first is doomed to very expensive failure.
    
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    September 16, 2022 1:50pm
    - Taieri
      
      A Language without the ability to clearly speak, write and understand English first is doomed to very expensive failure.
      —————-
      Nonsense. Is English required to speak Russian, Spanish, Portuguese and all varieties of Chinese to name a few?
      The problem with Maori is different. It has been displaced by English, because it wasn’t sufficiently developed to cater for the needs of its speakers in the modern world. Rightly or wrongly its speakers decided that English is of far greater utility to the point when it became their vernacular. This process was facilitated by the attitude of quite a number of prominent Maoris (Apirana Ngata for example) until it reached the point of non return.
      Can it be reversed? I doubt it. The only example of successful revival is Hebrew, but its story is completely different from that of Maori.
      
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      September 16, 2022 3:08pm
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    Just yet another pointless vanity project for people with nothing better to do.
    
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    September 16, 2022 8:29pm
Bobba Fret

Viv Beck has pulled out of the mayoralty race.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-mayoralty-viv-beck-withdraws-from-campaign-with-heavy-heart/Z27GXHGH6NDCCCO6CEF7IKRHTA/

I bet Effeso is worried now.
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September 16, 2022 10:40am
- greybeard
  
  If the independent candidate also dropped out it would be even better.
  
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  September 16, 2022 11:28am
Maggie Pie

And dopey FES is going to reintroduce….. ‘Carless-Days’

https://twitter.com/AT_TravelAlerts/status/1570512213819150336

https://twitter.com/AT_TravelAlerts/status/1570535671541993472

LOL!! 😛
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September 16, 2022 10:54am
R

Didn’t Audrey Young recently rate new Justice Minister Kiri Allan very highly? Allan looks like she is going to be one of the weaker Ministers if her comments about the Alan Hall case are any indication of her abilities.

The Minister cannot see any conflict of interest even though the Justice Ministry unreasonably denied Hall’s applications for the Royal prerogative on three separate occasions. In addition, in 2019 Ministry officials didn’t even want to look at his case.

Yet, two years later, when the same evidence was presented to the Supreme Court, Hall’s convictions were immediately quashed, with both Crown Law and the Supreme Court aghast at the deliberate attempts by police and prosecution to manipulate and obscure evidence in order to convict Hall.

Indeed, Crown Law took the exceptional step of criticising the Department of Justice’s advice in Hall’s second and third applications for mercy, stating bluntly that it was wrong.

Now the Ministry is heavily involved in Hall’s application for compensation.

This is reminiscent of the Justice Ministry’s involvement in the Ministerial Inquiry into the Peter Ellis case in 2000. The Ministry’s chief legal counsel at the time had previously made it clear she believed Ellis was guilty. Yet she had considerable involvement in advising the inquiry head throughout the year long inquiry. (Furthermore, the inquiry head was a mate of the Ellis trial judge and should’ve declared a conflict of interest, but didn’t.) Needless to say the inquiry concluded that Ellis’ conviction was safe.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/129866746/injustice-and-insult-why-is-alan-hall-having-to-prove-his-innocence

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/New-evidence-in-the-Peter-Ellis-case-Francis/df7292438de615aeb2abf6a6e7f496c109baf36c
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September 16, 2022 10:56am
- slightlyrighty
  
  Just read this as well. This is disgraceful!
  
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  September 16, 2022 11:33am
R

Indeed it is disgraceful.

Crown Law didn’t even ask for a re-trial of Hall as it knew it would have been a waste of time and money, not to mention unethical as it knows he is innocent. But the Justice Ministry doesn’t seem to be so sure. The reason we have a Criminal Cases Review Commission is because the Justice Ministry cannot be relied upon to accurately and honestly review wrongful convictions. Yet Ministry officials are involved with assessing whether compensation should be paid for wrongful convictions! It’s unbelievable that the Minister cannot see the problem with that arrangement.
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September 16, 2022 12:09pm
Maggie Pie

The science is settled….white people DO make you fat.

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1569719562391912449
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September 16, 2022 12:22pm
- Ghost
  
  Ah no, you’re fat because you won’t stop eating crap. Let’s just admit you are fat because you lack self responsibility.
  
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  September 16, 2022 12:28pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    YUP – Totally.
    
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    September 16, 2022 12:39pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Fat because the input hole is bigger than the output hole.
  Nobody is forcing her to eat, but we must blame whitie
  
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  September 16, 2022 12:38pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Tweet now deleted – took just 20 mins to come down
  
  (Mod – tweet is still there)
  
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  September 16, 2022 12:43pm
- Libertarians are right
  
  She’s actually kind of right weirdly.
  There is more access to food now than in any other time in history, mainly due to the spread of western technology etc. Some peoples in areas with low food had, over a very long period of time evolved to require less food. Those people now have access to a huge amount of food and their systems aren’t as capable of dealing with it.
  
  The up side of course is that they aren’t dying of hunger.
  
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  September 16, 2022 12:59pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

NZ Health needs to brace itself for an influx of Monkeypox. But it won’t be the fault of gays, oh no. No, it’ll be those pesky people with penises who insist on having sex with other people with penises.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/destinations/australia/129878848/by-the-numbers-worldpride-sydney-one-of-the-worlds-biggest-queer-events-in-2023
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September 16, 2022 12:42pm
Steve Todd

Local authority voting documents started arriving in letter boxes today.

If you live in Lower Hutt, you will be aware that there is also an electoral systems poll taking place. I recommend you have a quick read through this section of the HCC website, https://www.huttcity.govt.nz/council/elections/2022-local-government-elections/electoral-system-poll, comparing the current FPP electoral system with the greatly superior STV system, before you vote.

This is your one chance to hugely increase the power and effectiveness of your vote at the 2025 and 2028 local elections — and almost certainly beyond.

Vote STV!!
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September 16, 2022 12:52pm
Alex

Ukraine needs air defense systems to protect against dam busting. Come on US and Germany you promised.
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September 16, 2022 12:57pm
- Paulus
  
  Germany is still haveing a Committee Meeting.
  Doesn’t want to upset Putin.
  
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  September 16, 2022 1:53pm
Libertarians are right

I’ve noticed with the removal of mask requirements one of the main groups to keep wearing masks are Mongrel Mob affiliates. No idea why.
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September 16, 2022 1:02pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Rawiri Waititi is upset that his ancestors were described as Stone Age people.

We were told we were Stone Age people and we had no written language.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/rawiri-waititi-goes-from-a-kohanga-sandpit-to-playing-in-new-zealands-biggest-playground/FELCQ426GYRRDWG4GIDEJNSMMY/

Whereas it doesn’t bother me a whit to view the works my Stone Age ancestors built.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broch#/media/File:Scotland_Glenelg_broch.jpg
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September 16, 2022 1:13pm
- mandk
  
  “We were told we were Stone Age people and we had no written language”
  
  Why get upset over something that is so obviously true?
  
  Perhaps he feels inadequate because of the technological and cultural backwardness of his people.
  
  That might explain why he resorts to cultural appropriation in his dress.
  
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  September 16, 2022 1:45pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Of course it isn’t your stone age ancestors that are the problem, it is the stone age nephews on their couch and meds.
  
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  September 16, 2022 1:50pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Quite right Alan. They have swapped the Stone Age for the Stoned Age.
    I guess that’s evolution for you.
    If we were harsh we would point out that in the Stone Age they had the wheel. Maori didn’t.
    
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    September 16, 2022 2:46pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Just reading a FB thing about gun control by the left.
“You must be defenceless to feel safe”
Serious, that is how they think!
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September 16, 2022 1:21pm
Maggie Pie

Our cleaning lady has only just left. Thnx goodness!

She’s just re-tweeted this link from her parents in the Ukraine.
What I found fascinating…..was how Ukrainian troops appear to speak fluent English with an American accent.

https://twitter.com/ivan_8848/status/1570025559001800704
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September 16, 2022 1:38pm
- fernglas
  
  There are over 1 million Americans of Ukrainian descent. It’s not hard to imagine that some of those might have returned to Ukraine to fight for their other country.
  
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  September 16, 2022 6:14pm
kevn

@Maggie… Question is, who is paying these mercenaries? There seems to be lots of them.
Must pay well. Paymasters… UN, NATO, Ukraine (unlikely), Soros, USA?
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September 16, 2022 2:08pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Lefties, ask mum for the basement keys and go read this. Take your Cool Aid.
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/trump-says-indictment-wont-stop-him-from-running-for-president-in-2024/?
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September 16, 2022 2:14pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Oh boy, here is a beauty!
https://www.facebook.com/TeRangitira/posts/pfbid02EicN3dkG8gaXE1sWHUrmpJ3wbGy1pYqXPguSwvaiVcdjPBRQHexWfXJvscLVaNd8l
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September 16, 2022 2:17pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

We have these in NZ, and they vote Labour. Beware!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBK3jyrDu50
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September 16, 2022 2:28pm
Maggie Pie

Here’s something that has really pissed me off…..

Just back home from NW after getting a few things to take up to Tindalls tomorrow.
When I went to put all the stuff into our Beach-Bag, I noticed there was a tin of ‘SPC Rich Tomato Spaghetti’ missing out of the 4pk cardboard holder!
Obviously someone has stolen one then put the outer back on the shelf. What a f***ing cheapskate!!
Cindy voter no doubt 🙁
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September 16, 2022 3:49pm
Ghost

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-09-16/NASA-s-Mars-rover-sees-hints-of-past-life-in-latest-rock-samples-1dmVbn27LJm/index.html

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has detected its highest concentrations yet of organic molecules, in a potential signal of ancient microbes that scientists are eager to confirm when the rock samples are eventually brought to Earth.
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September 16, 2022 4:03pm
bjools

Ardern at Queen’s funeral, offers opinion on potential NZ republicanism.
Diplomatic pho par?
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September 16, 2022 5:26pm
- fernglas
  
  I think a pho par is a Vietnamese soup for scratch golfers.
  
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  September 16, 2022 6:16pm
  - greybeard
    
    Now that was bloody good !
    Poor old bjools. Almost got there.
    
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    September 16, 2022 7:06pm
Maggie Pie

Oh dear…looks like my Twitter bestie might have hit nerve with this tweet!
LOL!!

https://twitter.com/ErikaPearce17/status/1570179560997793792

And the replies – OMG.
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September 16, 2022 5:34pm
crikey

The Lancet Commission on lessons for the future from the COVID-19 pandemic

The Lancet Commission has just released this report. You can read an html version or download the pdf (57 pages) at this link:

https://www.thelancet.com/commissions/covid19

The second article on this page refers to what they call ‘prosociality’ (1 page) which provides a brief discussion of a way ahead for dealing with future pandemics. Here is the first paragraph of this document:

“The Lancet Commission on lessons for the future from the COVID-19 pandemic, published on Sept 15, lays bare what has been nothing less than a massive global failure—a failure of rationality, transparency, norms of public health practice, operational coordination, and international solidarity. The Commission shows that national governments were too slow and too cautious in their response to the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2. They paid too little attention to the most vulnerable groups in society. Their responses were hampered by low public trust and an epidemic of misinformation and disinformation. The result was millions of preventable deaths and a reversal in progress towards sustainable development for many countries. A multilateral system developed after the World War 2 did not hold up to a modern pandemic. Global collaboration and solidarity were good in business and science but poor in politics and international relations. The Commission proposes five pillars that are essential in fighting emerging infectious diseases: prevention, containment, health services, equity, and global innovation and diffusion. To achieve these pillars the Commission argues that governments, regulators, and institutions must be reoriented toward society as a whole, rather than the interests of individuals—a concept the Commissioners call prosocialty. Without this shift, the world is vulnerable and unable to tackle effectively any global threat.”

Much to read and think about. It’s going to be very interesting to see international reaction.
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