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NeverMindTheBollocks

Funny!

Mad cat ladies protesting at a Canterbury hunting competition are outraged after they were confronted by children shouting “meat, meat, meat” and taunting them with dead cats.

But organisers said that the activists provoked the incident by calling the kids “murderers”.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2023/06/protesters-slam-north-canterbury-hunting-competition-after-kids-parade-dead-cats-shout-meat-meat-meat-at-them.html
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June 27, 2023 8:01am
- mandk
  
  The same nitwits who protest about the culling of feral cats are probably the same ones who bleat about the decline of native fauna.
  
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  June 27, 2023 8:46am
- Observant Octagenarian
  
  They weren’t ‘mad cat ladies’!
  They were vegan activists!
  
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  June 27, 2023 8:48am
  - sirknz
    
    Potato, tomato.
    
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    June 27, 2023 9:14am
  - NothingLeft
    
    definitely mad then.
    
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    June 27, 2023 9:15am
  - kowtow
    
    I hope they know what cat shit does to their ,no doubt very extensive, back yard vege patches .
    
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    June 27, 2023 10:07am
  - slightlyrighty
    
    Well, those cats aren’t meat eaters now!
    
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    June 27, 2023 10:46am
- nathie
  
  I would have thought the likes of Forest and Bird and perhaps even DOC would have come out supporting the culling of feral cats?
  
  After all they support the culling of wallabies, wild horses, tar and deer etc.
  
  Plus support 1080 poison drops which apparently kill a variety of wildlife (and bird life … and the odd dog when people take them for bush walks)??
  
  How strange they remain silent …. surely it’s not because they are “anti-farmer” or something?
  
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  June 27, 2023 8:53am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    @nathie – more evidence that most of the green movement are delusional ideologues. Like DOC who successfully translocated endangered weka to an offshore island in 1951.
    60 years later, someone in the Department decided they would like different types of bird to be protected. The problem was, the native weka are a ground feeding bird and have been know to eat the eggs of other birds and even the young chicks. A dilema!
    DOC’s response? Bombard the island with 15 tonnes of brodifacoum. Ostensibly to get rid of the rat population. However, there was a resident population of around 500 native weka. Also, many other native birds like hawk, kereru, fantail, waxeye etc etc.
    
    When challenged about this, DOC obviously realising the optics weren’t great, made a token gesture of removing 64 of the native weka and moving them to Mount Bruce, in the Wairarapa. A number died in transit. Who knows how the others fared after being taken from a sub tropical island to what is a bitterly cold location in winter.
    
    The irony of all of this is, the birds they wanted to encourage are migratory seabirds, they aren’t even native species……..
    They decided they could be God and make decisions around what is to live and what is to die. In this instance they slaughtered hundreds of native birds in pursuit of ideological fantasy.
    
    The whole organisation is now riddled with careerist ideologues who quite likely are genuine and well meaning. The problem is, they are delusional. Just like the climate ideologues are, just like the covid elimination ideologues were.
    
    Fantasists, all of them, but they have the power to cause enormous damage to all of us.
    
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    June 27, 2023 10:32am
- GregM
  
  That was hilarious, Then the kids told them to “go eat a carrot”. Utter comedy gold.
  
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  June 27, 2023 9:05am
  - rouppe
    
    On HDPA last night, the woman organizer was sighing theatrically about how the children had been”conditioned” and it was so sad children had been manipulated like this
    
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    June 27, 2023 12:31pm
    - gravedodger
      
      Conditioned yessiree, they learn at a very young age some animals do not belong in their world of producing wealth and they are culled.
      Pity Justice has moved on and now protects animals that threaten a way of life those petal’s forebears once enjoyed and now threaten, maim and even kill innocents.
      Not advocating capital punishment but some humans need to be confined to protect innocents
      
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      June 27, 2023 3:20pm
- lastmanstanding
  
  Countries that have race based leglislation and regulation are divided societies. Prior to the introduction of such legislation and regulation NZ was a cohesive society.
  Now even one of the most basic necessities of life health is decided according to race (a breach of the UN Charter and the hippocratic oath).
  Until the citizens elect a Government that will repeal this legislation and regulation and enact a law that requires 75% of the Parliament to approve any race based legislation or regulation NZ will continue to be divided.
  
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  June 27, 2023 9:10am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Race-based legislation?
    What percentage blood of that race do you have to be to qualify? (This used to matter but the law was changed.)
    What happens if you can’t document your race? (Who’s your daddy?)
    
    Fractional-bloods, self-identifying with a minority of their ancestry to gain an advantage over their countrymen. How can this be good for nation-building?
    
    A house divided against itself can not stand.
    
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    June 27, 2023 9:26am
    - kowtow
      
      ‘A house divided against itself can not stand.’
      
      perhaps ( at least for the more cunning among them) that’s the point .
      
      as things get more chaotic and anarchic ,or as more dangers emerge and/or are perceived , “they” can justify passing more and more and increasingly repressive legislation , to “protect” us you see.
      
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      June 27, 2023 10:05am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      I ticked a box and identified as Maori on the electoral roll. That’s all it took. Someone suggested we all do it and the race based system collapses.
      
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      June 27, 2023 10:34am
      - Ghost
        
        More people on the maori roll, the more seats that will be created for them. You are helping to increase the maori seats in parliament
        
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        June 27, 2023 10:48am
      - Dougal10
        
        You would be better off ticking pacific islander as it is true.
        
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        June 27, 2023 11:04am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Ghost – it isn’t set in stone, if it is any use strategically I’ll use it, but I haven’t figured out the difference yet.
        
        Basically I’m highlighting the stupidity of the whole concept of identifying as Maori. It’s as inane as identifying as a woman when you’re a man. The vast majority of Maori have far higher percentage of other genetic material than Maori.
        
        The point is, if everyone identifies as Maori then there can be no preferential treatment so there would be no extra ‘Maori’ seats. Everyone running for any seat would be ‘Maori’ except they wouldn’t.
        
        To save all the angst, the best idea of all would be to abolish race based electoral, health and education systems. Basically any system that gives preferential treatment for one person over another.
        
        Anyway, I’ll figure it out and make my mind up before the timeframe to decide runs out.
        
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        June 27, 2023 12:36pm
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        Ok. Many people self-identify as Maori.
        
        Are there genes that are unique to Maori?
        If so, how could this happen?
        Let’s say that in 1223 AD several groups of Rarotongan natives sail to New Zealand. (I’ll call the ancestral home island group Rarotonga simply for convenience.)
        
        Eight hundred years later, would the Maori genes have mutated enough to distinguish a Maori genotype from an original Rarotongan one?
        
        One way that the Maori could have a unique genotype is if the population that stayed behind in Rarotonga was wiped out by disease, famine or invasion by other races. Only the New Zealand population of once-we-were-Rarotongans would remain.
        
        Is it possible to genetically test for unique “Maori” genes that are not found anywhere else in the Pacific? Can today’s genetic tests tell the difference between a self-identifying Maori, a Rarotongan, a Samoan, or a Tongan?
        
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        June 27, 2023 12:53pm
      - emmess
        
        Make sure you vote Labour in the electorate vote then
        
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        June 27, 2023 5:32pm
- Colville
  
  Shooting cats is just necessary.
  People dump them at road ends and they eat everything.
  
  Walking back after a deer hunt..always have scope wound down to low magnification..light one up with the head torch (huge green eyes) and its all over.
  
  DOC kill them but dont tell people they do.
  
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  June 27, 2023 9:23am
  - Fuzzysnuggleduck
    
    By all means, shoot moggies, but shooting after dark on public land specifically is illegal IIRC.
    
    There was a lady brushing teeth with a headlamp on that got shot in the head & killed many years back – mistaken for an eye shine, and those people were: A: shooting from a vehicle and B: shooting after dark and C: shooting near a track or hut, all of which are No Nos.
    
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    June 27, 2023 2:34pm
    - Colville
      
      …and were pissed out of their scones.
      
      Shooting at a red single light and thinking it was a deers eyes (huge and green) from approx 15 meters IIRC.
      
      Always identify your target.
      
      and I didnt say I was on public land 🙂
      
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      June 27, 2023 4:05pm
- In Vino Veritas
  
  Funniest thing I’ve read for a long time. Good on the kids and good on the parents for letting them know how to treat activist vegan nutters. They’ll go far!!
  
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  June 27, 2023 9:54am
- emmess
  
  Sorry, but encouraging kids to kill cats is not going to end well
  What happens when they start killing the neighbour’s pet cat?
  Many serial killers start out by torturing pet animals.
  
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  June 27, 2023 12:21pm
  - Colville
    
    Oh fuck off.
    Kids raised as hunters have very clear ethical boundaries around what is fair game and not.
    While a feral deer that just jumped onto the wrong side of the DOC boundary may be a slightly grey area shooting/torturing the neighbors moggy is something more likely contemplated by a bed wetter as yourself.
    
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    June 27, 2023 12:34pm
  - rouppe
    
    When?
    
    These kids have been brought up around guns, by people who understand property rights.
    
    These kids aren’t going to wander into someone else’s property with a gun to shoot random things. That’s a stupid contention.
    
    The whole hunt was organised, it was on land that is supposed to support native fauna.
    
    If someone’s microchipped cat has wandered into that bush, it isn’t there to korero with the local weka. It’s there to kill it or it’s offspring.
    
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    June 27, 2023 12:37pm
    - emmess
      
      I don’t give a shit about birds
      Cats are a higher form of life.
      There is a reason why no-one cares about swatting a fly.
      
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      June 27, 2023 2:29pm
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        You’re entitled to your opinion, but most New Zealanders value native birds over introduced cats when the latter are feral.
        
        There’s a reason why the RNZAF centre roundrel is a kiwi & not a tabby.
        
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        June 27, 2023 3:21pm
      - Colville
        
        ..a moggy is great while its sitting well fed by the fire. Leave it for a week out the back of a bush block (because some sook got bored with it and didnt have the balls to take it to the vet to be put down) then it becomes a murder machine.
        I will happily shoot cats but never a Kereru.
        
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        June 27, 2023 4:10pm
      - kowtow
        
        By that token humans are a higher form of life and killing cats is just like swatting flies.
        
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        June 27, 2023 4:41pm
      - emmess
        
        I will happily shoot a Keruru but never a cat.
        
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        June 27, 2023 5:05pm
      - AitchW
        
        Surely you jest. Or you’re a professional troll.
        
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        June 27, 2023 6:22pm
    - Ehlana
      
      How do you know it isn’t there to korero with the local weka?
      
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      June 27, 2023 3:30pm
  - Ghost
    
    They aren’t going to kill neighbour’s cats. They are out hunting for feral cats. Kids who would normally go hunting anyway. Stupid to even compare this with serial killers or neighbour’s cats. Got to get rid of the pests somehow. Cats that will be killed anyway with bait drops as well
    
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    June 27, 2023 2:39pm
  - Fuzzysnuggleduck
    
    I don’t think this is any comparison to torturing or creating sadism. Encouraging rural kids to take part in pest control is great.
    
    Pest control, and that includes feral cats, is a good thing.
    This is not going through the urban or suburban centres knocking off fur babies either.
    If there was a beloved pet roaming onto distant farms and being caught out in the pest cull, then that is a sort of collateral damage, even if it was considered a scenario.
    
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    June 27, 2023 2:46pm
  - Vercingetorix
    
    “Many serial killers start out by torturing pet animals.”
    
    Who were their parents?
    
    These ‘cats’ are not cute next door kitty. They are literally decimating our bird life. These kids will be taught that.
    
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    June 27, 2023 5:05pm
- artemisia
  
  HDPA interviewed a protester, Sarah Jackson, yesterday. Ms Jackson said the children ‘are being raised with inconsistent morals’. (Really?) HDPA asked multiple times who started it, and had to eventually say she was not getting a straight answer. All up, close to a train wreck interview.
  
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  June 27, 2023 2:43pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

NZ sex workers call for cheap foreign competition.

I think they’ll live to regret getting their way

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/06/calls-for-law-change-to-allow-migrants-to-work-in-new-zealand-sex-industry.html
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June 27, 2023 8:01am
- mawm
  
  I’m surprised that the sex industry actually has enough paying clients when in almost every pub across the country on Friday nights it is so freely available.
  
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  June 27, 2023 9:10am
  - gravedodger
    
    Today is Tuesday long wait for Friday, it could be an emergency?
    They do happen yu know I have seen it raised in support of a mad mullah student of the head bangers as mitigation.
    
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    June 27, 2023 10:47am
    - mawm
      
      Ha Ha! I remember that sexual emergency case. Can you imagine how much the lawyer pissed himself by getting his client off with that excuse?
      
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      June 27, 2023 2:45pm
- GJM
  
  I expect there are a huge number of immigrants already “on the game” Cash income, no quesitons asked, so you can work on a tourist visa.
  
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  June 27, 2023 4:35pm
artemisia

Looking like taxpayers are going to step in to help universities who didn’t manage their already huge taxpayer funding.

Thanks to all those hospo workers, apprentices, tradies, retail staff etc out there. Your contribution is very much appreciated.

Fortunately Victoria Uni has ‘paused’ its $10million debt underwrite with ‘only’ $1mill spent so far (just call it money, guys) for a new Pasifika fale building on the the waterfront. Be fun to know the reasoning behind that decision as it is not a uni project and uni connection seems tenuous.

Maybe the uni was flush at the time, looking around for a suitable virtue signal?
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June 27, 2023 8:06am
- Ian Boag
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  You no doubt got your uni education for free …. so I guess the unis would have been better funded (relatively) then.
  
  Go figure
  
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  December 27, 2022 8:48am
  - artemisia
    
    Actually, left school and went to work. Uni not an option.
    
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    June 27, 2023 8:54am
    - krazykiwi
      
      Likewise. I wrote some software while at high school, and the company the licenced it offered me a job for immediately following my 7th form year. Never looked back.
      
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      June 27, 2023 9:28am
  - Yabster
    
    another pointless comment- what has previous funding got to do with wasteful current spending in your world Boag?
    
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    June 27, 2023 9:01am
    - Ian Boag
      
      Takes me way back that – I haven’t been “Boag” since my last year at high school (1963). 🙂
      
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      June 27, 2023 10:34am
      - Tarquin North
        
        Is than when you became old before your time?
        
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        June 27, 2023 11:08am
  - RoboRob
    
    Are you sure the unis were better funded then. Got a link Ian 🙂
    
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    June 27, 2023 9:21am
    - Ian Boag
      
      Sorry. No link for that one. Just a bit of reasoning.
      
      Education (when I went there in the 60’s) was essentially free for the student. Universities (essentially 100% state funded) were not in dire financial straits.
      
      Now – uni is not free for the student. Universities (mainly state funded) appear to be in dire financial straits.
      
      Go figure
      
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      June 27, 2023 10:05am
      - kiwikidsnz
        
        Because Unis have become a make work job creation scheme for non jobs, particularly in the public sector.
        https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/01/elite-revolt/
        
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        June 27, 2023 10:34am
      - JimBobJoe
        
        Ian you know full well how we have arrived at the current situation.
        
        Entry to Uni was very restricted when free (not really free – early 90s its was something in the order of a few hundy a year and basically funded by central government).
        
        Entry opened up and more options started being offered with the introduction of large student cost supported by the student loan scheme which started operating in 1993
        
        The prevailing view was a Uni education was a pathway that should be open to all. A delusion as it has turned out…in my view. Lots of dumbed down content, lots of pointless BAs in BS costing the student a small fortune in debt
        
        The old it was free in your day chant is just rubbish…. A much small Unii sector turned out a lot more quality professionals who paid a lot of tax on earnings to fund ongoing Uni sector provision.
        
        Todays Uni and wuder tertiary sector is chocker full of crap course turning out a lot poorly skilled people with a chunk of debt. Been great for academics, been questionable for NZ overall…
        
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        June 27, 2023 10:48am
      - GJM
        
        Probalby because bakck then, there was no expectation for “degrees for everyone” and the concept of genders tudies and basket weaving qualifications would have been treated with the derision they deserve.
        Not so much better funded, but better run and less wasteful.
        
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        June 27, 2023 4:38pm
  - cmm
    
    Nobody gets university education “for free”.
    
    Even if you don’t pay a cent, you’re giving up that time which is lost income. Time is money and all that.
    
    As a result, more and more people want value out of their education.
    
    Whether or not that semester-long basket weaving course is “free”, it still consumes 10 hours a week (or whatever) over 16 weeks. 160 hours at the minimum wage is still ~$4000.
    
    Odds are, you’d have learned a whole lot more spending an afternoon on youtube.
    
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    June 27, 2023 9:25am
  - In Vino Veritas
    
    It’s been many a long year since Uni was free Ian. Even better, students had to borrow money from a bank, not from the taxpayer. And they had to pay it back in short order. Universities these days provide a whole pile of courses that are utterly worthless, and get funded for them.
    
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    June 27, 2023 9:57am
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Pay back to banks, with interest
      
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      June 27, 2023 9:41pm
  - gravedodger
    
    Prevarication Mr Boag, Uni is heavily subsidised now for the wannabe owner of a piece of parchment who contributes bugger all, it just looks bad until compared to a Young Farmer borrowing to buy his first herd, now that is real debt and harder to minimise.
    
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    June 27, 2023 10:52am
  - rouppe
    
    University was never free.
    
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    June 27, 2023 12:40pm
- kowtow
  
  There’s a myth , believed principally by acadamia but many others too , that university types are clever wallahs .
  
  But how clever are you if you can’t do the very basics and balance the books ?
  
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  June 27, 2023 9:24am
- Handyman
  
  Notice the language of the left. The problem is always “competition” and the answer is always government funding.
  In other words, the problem is allowing ordinary people to have choices. The danger is that students, and their parents, will opt to take better courses at better universities. The danger is that parents might prefer their kids to attend a safe functional university in Christchurch rather than a woke, expensive university in a crime ridden Wellington.
  
  Secondary school teachers are looking on and saying “we told you what would happen if we allowed parents’ choice”.
  
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  June 27, 2023 10:24am
- burt
  
  I hear we are building a second university next to each existing one as a backup. It’s the new golden pathway for our dear leader.
  
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  June 27, 2023 10:33am
Warren

[ Mod :try to manage your cut/paste a bit better ]
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June 27, 2023 8:06am
- Warren
  
  My opology but have you ever though to get your delete and edit buttons right when people go to use them.itried to delete it wouldn’t work after three attempts nor did the edit button work.
  But then I not a expert like you mods try to make out.
  [Point noted. mod.]
  
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  June 27, 2023 9:05am
  - RoboRob
    
    On my list for web site issues the other day I forgot about these. The delete button almost never works and the edit button mostly works but never returns back to the post, need to back button in the browser.
    
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    June 27, 2023 9:23am
  - Matt Long
    
    Delete doesn’t work, use edit, delete all content except a full stop.
    Press ok.
    
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    June 27, 2023 10:57am
Cassandra

I wrote to Chris Luxon recently: Dear Mr Luxon, made a recommendation (borstals should not be run by the Army), Yourself sincerely Casswell Cassandra. Got acknowledgment yesterday “Kia Ora Casswell, blah blah Nga mihi nui Mary Smith Comms Officer. Seriously? Is this the new normal? It’s why National will never get another vote or dollar from me.
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June 27, 2023 8:07am
- Colville
  
  Get over yourself.
  
  Do you seriously think you are going to get a personal heart felt response from the LOTO on an issue where he has taken a public stance??
  
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  June 27, 2023 9:27am
  - Cassandra
    
    No, I was complaining about the use of my first name and Maori greetings. Did you actually read what I write or do usually just launch? Obviously I do not expect a reply from Luxon and I’m happy to get one from his office but I’m surprised that I’m not addressed as Mr and by the use of Maori from the National party.
    
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    June 27, 2023 11:47am
    - hookerphil
      
      Why surprise, my wife received a letter from the Prime Minister with the now apparently normal Maori openings etc. For that she did not bother reading it.
      However the date of the letter is 30 June 2023, I presume that was to give a few extra days grace for achievement of all the great things that he stated that I was not aware of had ever been.
      
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      June 27, 2023 12:34pm
    - alphabeatrium
      
      Culturally we’re at a loss here. Not using Maori greetings is now consideed odd for professional emails. But more than that, I never know how to address people. I work for a charitable organisation with an average age above 60. I’m half that so I address people formally as {title} {surname}. I’ve had multiple replies from said people to instead refer to them just by their first names. Yet I imagine if I did that, someone else would take exception. We used to have nice, tidy rules for this; I remember my parents teaching these to me. Now it seems we have no consensus.
      
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      June 28, 2023 1:16am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Then why did you write him FFS, comms staff will think if they don’t use that language someone will shop them , they cant win
  
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  June 27, 2023 2:58pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Some announcement this afternoon on Education.
“Acting Prime Minister” Sepuloni made the announcement about the announcement this morning on play school TV1.
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June 27, 2023 8:08am
- Dougal10
  
  The announcement will be shitloads more borrowed money thrown at university’s and students thinly disguised as helping NZs future but in reality helping labour buy votes.
  
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  June 27, 2023 8:14am
- Swifty
  
  More dough for gender and fat studies.
  
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  June 27, 2023 8:14am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Cat Pause
    
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    June 27, 2023 10:15am
    - LB
      
      That would be the late Cat Pause, Steve. She passed away, not sure from what, I am sure it wasn’t obesity related.
      
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      June 27, 2023 10:55am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Yes.
        
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        June 27, 2023 11:45am
- Tempist
  
  So….throwing more money at the universities
  
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  June 27, 2023 8:16am
- Vercingetorix
  
  It is about a bail out of the universities.
  
  Honestly if I had school aged children I would be encouraging to think about post school options other than university.
  
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  June 27, 2023 8:20am
  - Souvlaki
    
    Exactly…..unless you’re doing professional training…eg Dentistry/computer programming etc etc.
    In NZ most degrees these days not fit for anything practical….and CERTAINLY under the current Labour junta…narrow rather than broaden the minds of students!
    So, I think Sepuloni is really throwing good money after bad…totally in keeping with their modus operandi to date however…so full marks for consistency at least.
    
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    June 27, 2023 8:29am
    - cmm
      
      “unless you’re doing professional training…eg Dentistry/computer programming etc etc.”
      
      Yup, but most of the universities are filled with bullshit studies. We see more and more time spent trying to support them (eg. STEM morphing into STEAM and Cindy’s “free first year”).
      
      I’d say you’re wasting your time learning computer programming in a university any more (well a bricks and mortar university anyway). All that gives you is a bit of paper to wave around, but little real training.
      
      30 years ago, universities were at the front of computer science research. Now they’re lagging behind industry by 5 to 10 years – especially in smaller places like NZ.
      
      I was recently looking around for some MSc-level computer science stuff and could find nothing worth doing at any NZ university. Found a bit of useful online material elsewhere though.
      
      Good to see the NZ university arts programmes are in free fall. They’ve been doing so for a long time and that is only increasing as people want value out of their time and money.
      
      According to this RNZ article in 2018, the humanities seems to have peaked in 2010 and have been sliding ever since. That was back in 2018. Since then things have fallen off a cliff.
      
      This is what the “free first year” was really about: it was not a gift to students, but a gift to useless, irrelevant people providing useless, irrelevant courses at universities.
      
      https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/368436/universities-face-a-crisis-of-the-humanities
      
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      June 27, 2023 8:47am
      - mawm
        
        cmm – I’m shocked that you find it irrelevant that your barrister has a degree in gender studies. //s
        
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        June 27, 2023 9:15am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        By the time these children have done 3, 4, even 5 years at UNI they have lost all incentive to work. Getting a degree in political science at age 22, 23, they are still children. They will never help NZ economically. Just an office job doing nothing and get a gong at the end.
        New Zealand needs manufacturers, builders, sparkies, plumbers. chippies. You know, real jobs. NZ can not continue importing without exporting. Think farms.
        
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        June 27, 2023 9:22am
    - Stellaboxer
      
      They’re talking 500 million dollars. As most of the cuts would be support and admin staff and the “studies” departments is anyone surprised Labour want to save them . They are the parts of the university that spawn new far leftists. What I would like to know is for how long can a government fund a business model that doesn’t work anymore? Young people have smelled the rat and are no longer prepared to get into massive debt so they can be indoctrinated and then sent out into the world with a completely useless degree and end up working in hospo anyway may have just as well cut out the middle man.
      
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      June 27, 2023 8:56am
      - Tony Stuart
        
        The $500m is what was budgeted for tertiary education in the May Budget. However a big chunk of that was to bail out the failed polytechnic mega-merger Te Pukenga. This will very likely be additional expenditure, requiring reprioritisation of someone’s pet policy, or more borrowing.
        
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        June 27, 2023 10:22am
    - Taieri
      
      In NZ most degrees these days not fit for anything practical
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      An university is not and should be not a trade school. Its purpose is a promulgation and expansion of a knowledge. The fact that its original purpose has been corrupted in recent times should not be a reason to question its existence as such.
      
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      June 27, 2023 9:14am
      - kowtow
        
        No doubt these courses are good for getting you into the public “service” and a lifetime on the taxpayer tit.
        
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        June 27, 2023 9:25am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Art History should be something done in your spare time. An interest, a hobby.
        
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        June 27, 2023 9:27am
      - cmm
        
        ” Its purpose is a promulgation and expansion of a knowledge.”
        
        That made sense in the old days of limited communications – intelligent people come together at one place to share ideas etc.
        
        Now we have pretty much infinite communications. Anyone can connect with anyone else in seconds. Universities need to re-think that role.
        
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        June 27, 2023 9:30am
      - In Vino Veritas
        
        Yep Taieri, for instance, Massey has “Maori Knowledge” majors in Business, Creative Arts, Health, Humanities and Science.
        
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        June 27, 2023 10:02am
      - JimBobJoe
        
        While lawyers and dictors say they are in professions not trade… There are just trades like a bricklayer…
        
        So unis have always had dual purposes producing trades people and the pure knowledge generation thought research and concept creation…
        
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        June 27, 2023 10:52am
  - Ehlana
    
    TV3 had a University student rep and a staff rep on this morning. Unsurprising, we heard that under-funding was the problem. And competition.
    
    I’m starting to think no-one should be eligible for employment in the public service (of any sort) until they’re 30. I don’t see how you can prepare students for a world you’ve never been part of, or serve the public when you don’t know what they face.
    
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    June 27, 2023 8:40am
  - sirknz
    
    Have a nephew who was thinking about going to uni, steered him towards being an electrician instead and he will soon be earning more than his parents as he moves through his apprenticeship. Early 20s and bringing in more than enough money to be comfortable.
    
    I advise those of you who have kids coming up to school leaving age to tell them consider the trades if they are remotely practical. Paid to train, paid t learn, no student loans, and once they are outside of the training institutions, minimal wokery.
    
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    June 27, 2023 9:30am
    - Reg Perrin
      
      Agree. Having a trade can also lead to White collar jobs. Know plenty of people who have progressed from being on the tools into other roles. I think having practical experience is way more use than having learnt everything from a text book
      
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      June 27, 2023 10:36am
      - Martonman
        
        From Panel beater to NZ ‘s richest man, Starting as a Tradie worked for him.
        
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        June 27, 2023 10:57am
  - Simon
    
    Yep best thing is learn a trade and run it like a business in Australia.
    
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    June 27, 2023 10:26am
- krazykiwi
  
  “Acting Prime Minister Sepuloni”
  
  This statement has just usurped “I’m from the government and I’m here to help” as the most terrifying. I do hope she is tasked with nothing more complicated than adjudicating an amateur origami competition.
  
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  June 27, 2023 8:25am
  - pdm
    
    kk – she wasn’t too flash at the obligatory post cabinet press go yesterday.
    
    Nor with Mike Hosking this morning.
    
    Another of the Labour heirarchy who does not know much or want to take responsibility for anything.
    
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    June 27, 2023 9:10am
    - Loddenthinks
      
      It’s not (so much) that they don’t know much or want to take responsibility; it’s that so many of them are so glaringly incompetent, slow-witted or quite possibly stupid.
      
      Kelvin Davis – functionally illiterate, comes across as a gibbering idiot
      Jan Tinetti – look up “rabbit in the headlights” in the dictionary and there’s a picture of Jan
      Ginny Anderson – ditto
      Carmel Sepuloni – desperately trying not to look as chuffed as anything that she gets to sit in the big chair, spinning around and singing “lala lala, I’m the boss!”
      Ayesha Verrall – stupidity on display for all to see, nasty piece of work when called on her appalling performance
      Peeni Henare – Minister for ACC, Forestry, Tourism, Veterans and Whanau Ora. has anybody ever heard or seen this man say anything publicly, ever?
      
      The depth of “talent” is extraordinarily shallow, and we haven’t even mentioned the arrogant Wood and Nash, both now gone (like Curran, Whaitiri and others). What a shit-show!
      
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      June 27, 2023 12:18pm
  - Dougal10
    
    I get the feeling this is being announced today and labour is hoping chippys meeting with Xi will push it out of the headlines fast
    
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    June 27, 2023 11:11am
- Inandout
  
  SO, and there is the Ruapehu ski taxpayer proposed deal that includes ‘Maori input’. No private enterprise will touch this.
  
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  June 27, 2023 8:27am
  - pdm
    
    In&Out
    
    Looks like Tuwharetoa all the way from here.
    
    Reading between the lines from what Sepuloni said this morning.
    
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    June 27, 2023 9:12am
    - backster
      
      Or else there will be no decision before the end of the ski season.
      
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      June 27, 2023 9:22am
  - Vercingetorix
    
    It is a commercial ski field.
    
    I heard some minister on the radio yesterday. She described it as a “taonga” 😳
    
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    June 27, 2023 9:13am
    - Taieri
      
      She described it as a “taonga”
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      Wasn’t the Marsden Point refinery also a “taonga”?
      
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      June 27, 2023 9:15am
    - RoboRob
      
      Heard a reporter the other day state ‘obviously it is vital the fields stay in NZ ownership’ as if that was really obvious:)
      
      So what if a ski field is run by an overseas owned company. At least it might not go broke and leave NZ based creditors in the lurch.
      
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      June 27, 2023 9:26am
      - Loddenthinks
        
        There are many people Rob, who believe that when an overseas buyer purchases land, a farm, a house or business, that it is then taken away from New Zealand, never to return.
        
        Which of course is nonsense, but it doesn’t stop the headlines such as: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/300829716/the-auckland-suburbs-where-overseas-investors-are-scooping-up-land
        
        Overseas investors are scooping up land, are they? Must be a bloody big shovel and bucket, that’s all I’ll say!
        
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        June 27, 2023 12:23pm
    - emmess
      
      Did someone say taonga?
      Cha-ching
      
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      June 27, 2023 12:25pm
  - Jack5
    
    In the meantime, the Government is throwing $5 million to the liquidator of the operating company, Ruapehu Alpine Lifts Ltd.
    
    Minister, Kiritapu Allan, says this will ensure the ski season goes ahead.
    
    It lengthens the liquidation process, and is not so much a subsidy as a throwaway of taxpayer cash to delay the inevitable.
    
    https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/ruapehu-ski-season-go-ahead-winter
    
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    June 27, 2023 9:14am
    - RoboRob
      
      I dont get this. Yes by keeping the field open this season local businesses are protected and may not fail. BUT, this is a commercial world, businesses go bust, does the tax payer need to bail every failed business out? If the Warehouse goes bust does the govt need to take it over?
      
      Also, this whole issue has been in the works all summer (and longer?). Surely it could have been resolved by now, the locals had an option if I recall. The govt is useless.
      
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      June 27, 2023 9:30am
      - RoboRob
        
        Forgot to say. I am disgusted that my taxes are being used to prop up a fucking ski field.
        
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        June 27, 2023 10:28am
      - Matt Long
        
        I’m somewhat sympathetic to the operates as they were bankrupted by the government shutdowns, and wage subsidies were designed to teach people to expect money without working while businesses sank under debt servicing and other costs.
        
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        June 27, 2023 11:08am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I expect Tuwharetoa already have someone organised to run the Ski-field business.
      
      But they don’t want to take over a business that has been placed in cold-storage for 1 or 2 seasons…
      
      So they will try and squeeze as much public money out of the taxpayer to prop up the ski-fields until they walk in and take over the place.
      
      I think this has been on the cards for quite some time.
      
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      June 27, 2023 9:53am
  - Clyde
    
    It was more word salad with Hosking this morning from Sepuloni. Clearly no-one was going to make the Uni announcements ahead of that equally useless and forgetful Tinetti. The announcement is simply to make Tinetti recover from her stupidity. Also timed to protect useless Uni managers who put paying for decorated telephone poles and becoming Treaty led organisations ahead of actual learning.
    
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    June 27, 2023 9:20am
  - Clyde
    
    It will end up as an exclusively owned East Polynesian company supplied with the assets and operating money by the Liemore Pardy and staffed by people who know how to run a ski field – sort of like all the fisheries companies. Of course accompanied by some teekunga bullshit about how the first East Polynesians actually invented skiing – it helped them when they first explored Antarctica in the 11th century. All supported by DoC and MBIE.
    
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    June 27, 2023 9:28am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Not sure but the commercial skifield is just that – commercial, but is it on Tuwharetoa Land? Most of the forestry land around there is owned by Tuwharetoa. They lease it to whoever plants and harvests the trees.
    Or so I was told by a Maori bloke in the Turangi Cosy Club. Hatrick was his surname. He could speak English but not write it, so he signed the Visitor’s Book by drawing a hat. Bloody nice guy. My Parents lived down there. Smoked trout, give me some.
    
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    June 27, 2023 9:38am
    - JimBobJoe
      
      The fields are in a national park. The mountains were gifted to the government a long time ago by Tuwharetoa ariki TeHeuHeu.
      
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      June 27, 2023 12:26pm
    - gravedodger
      
      I believe Tuwharetoa gifted the Mountain to New Zealand so the DoC concession is normal business activity but clearly one from the Tuku business center of economics can see gold in that there mountain so an Indian giver reverts to Maori, no surprises?
      My understanding of the economics of Ski Field operations has profits and investment needs rarely leaving distributable profits.
      Any creaming by Tuwharetoa will be a drain on excess income over costs never being available for reinvestment.
      Ruapehu is the harshest environment of any of the NZ fields with icing , winds and closed days ever recurring problems.
      My experiences include in excess of a dozen of them from Remarkables to Whakapapa
      Quick list Amuri, Coronet Peak, Remarkables, Cardrona, Round Hill Tekapo, Porters, Hutt, Broken River, Cheeseman, Craigieburn, Lyford, Turoa, Whakapapa, Treblecone, Ohau, —
      
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      June 27, 2023 3:42pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        “harshest environment” Yes.
        I knew a young guy that escaped from near the top in an Army thing. Many perished.
        I did ask this young guy to write a book before the fresh memories disappeared. I don’t know if he did.
        
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        June 27, 2023 3:58pm
  - burt
    
    I heard that they are putting in a new chairlift next to each existing chairlift as a backup. It’s the new normal comrade.
    
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    June 27, 2023 10:35am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Has the backup one got guns?
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      June 27, 2023 3:59pm
- cmm
  
  Universities are hardly places of education any more. Instead they are safe spaces for activists.
  
  The only real education is to “learn how to learn”. Once you’ve done that then there’s a fire hose of information and real education available.
  
  More and more people are finding that out. As they do, universities have less and less relevance.
  
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  June 27, 2023 8:28am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Marxist Indoctrination centers, to refresh what you learnt or didn’t learn at school.
    
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    June 27, 2023 9:39am
- KiWombat
  
  Yes, yesterday I heard her make an announcement that she would announce thismorning that there would be an announcement later thisafternoon.
  
  If they were half as good at doing as they are at announcing, then we would be be swimming along !
  
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  June 27, 2023 9:33am
Bridgenag

Interesting discussion here
Prigozhin’s Siege Ends – Postmortem Analysis

https://open.substack.com/pub/simplicius76/p/prigozhins-siege-ends-postmortem?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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June 27, 2023 8:13am
Souvlaki

Hosking should grill Hipkins on his return about the issues raised in this article.
It would make great listening🤣

http://karldufresne.blogspot.com/2023/06/guest-post-why-i-have-left-labour-party.html?m=1
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June 27, 2023 8:14am
- kowtow
  
  A very good article .However he makes the same mistake that so many make , talking of the treaty as some sort of foundational , legally useful document .
  
  It’s a recipe for the disater we’re now in.
  
  Focus must go back on historical context and the fact that the real foundational documents for the proper and stable governing of NZ are Queen Victoria’s Royal Charter and Letters Patent .
  
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  June 27, 2023 9:06am
  - Taieri
    
    the real foundational documents for the proper and stable governing of NZ are Queen Victoria’s Royal Charter and Letters Patent .
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    Legitimized by a free, universal and EQUAL suffrage…
    
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    June 27, 2023 9:52am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    Reason #273 to vote ACT this election. Seymour has promised to push hard for a referendum on such trifling matters as the name of the country and the role of the Treaty of Waitangi.
    
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    June 27, 2023 12:28pm
Stellaboxer

Yesterday I was referred to hospital by my GP. Due to the nature of the ailment he insisted I have an ambulance. After waiting for over an hour the ambulance service rang and said they wouldn’t be attending for several hours and it might be better to “self transport “. On arrival I was directed to the A&E this was at 2 pm approximately at around 5pm I was seen by the triage nurse to whom I gave all the referral paperwork supplied by my GP she gave me a painkiller and an anti inflammatory and sent me back to the standing room only waiting room . By around 7pm I was informed there were no beds available. The lady next to me whose son was coughing blood had been waiting for an X-ray since 11am there was an older lady with a suspected broken arm who at about this time approached the receptionist and said she had been waiting since 11.30am and was diabetic and didn’t have her meds with her and needed them. I could go on but I’m sure you get my drift. Turns out the ambulances were all ramped up and there were no beds so the whole situation was a complete break down of the system. At 7 pm I left and went home as I couldn’t see any point in being there and could literally have sat there all night or conceivably until a bed became available. Just before I left a nurse came out with an arm full of files and basically did a roll call I counted 10 names that didn’t respond obviously gone home too.
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June 27, 2023 8:18am
- cmm
  
  Where was this?
  
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  June 27, 2023 8:49am
- Ian Boag
  
  Sad. Many similar stories to be found. We had an 11- hour wait in A&E for my very ill wife a while back.
  
  Do you have any thoughts on how it could be fixed? Would your solution involve no more money?
  
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  June 27, 2023 8:56am
  - cmm
    
    It doesn’t need more money. It needs the money spent better.
    
    There are numerous issues leading to staffing crisis in nursing and straight money is just one of those. Nurses are leaving the country and leaving the profession. A year ago I met a senior nurse who was looking at giving up and getting a factory job.
    
    There is no shortage of money. For example, there’s massive money to piss away on “free fees” at universities which are really hand outs to humanities lecturers etc, as well as $200/hr consultants on useless vanity projects and billions for various NGOs that achieve very little.
    
    Which would you rather have:
    * One more lecturer in women’s studies in Otago university or two nurses in Duneeden hospital?
    * One more consultant doing reports on potential cycle bridges across Auckland harbour or five more nurses at Middlemore?
    * An extra plane flying to China or 4 more nurses, for a whole year, at hospitals of your choosing?
    
    Labour is not choosing the option that leads to more nurses.
    
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    June 27, 2023 9:18am
    - Simon
      
      Its more the patient side of things. There is more elderly and Vit D deficient obese around. System cant cope very well.
      
      ED is full of people who should be visiting GPs.
      
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      June 27, 2023 9:38am
      - Ghost
        
        Must be a badly run ED then. Ours sends all non emergency patients to their GP or duty GP
        
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        June 27, 2023 9:49am
    - Simon
      
      Luxon is giving 180 million to Iwi mafia to run some bullshit system. Within 3 years it will be 500 million pa.
      
      This money will be pissed away and Maori BMIs will not reduce one bit. However some of the money will be spent on private medical. Think some chosen of iwi getting operations at private. So the private medical sector will see a boost over next little while. Good option for some.
      
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      June 27, 2023 10:40am
      - Ghost
        
        If you are talking about iwi run health programs they are free for anyone to use, don’t have to be maori.
        
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        June 27, 2023 10:44am
    - gravedodger
      
      Agree it is not money, it is staffing with a combination of Mandate Effect and now due to those on sinking ship who do not have lifeboats of Australia available who are forced to watch the burning edifice crumbling.
      
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      June 27, 2023 11:03am
  - pdm
    
    Step 1 would be to return to the old Hospital system and then set targets.
    
    Step 2 would be no racial division in Health NZ.
    
    Step 3 employ Doctors like my Phillipino neighbour – a qualified Doctor who tells me he has no track to practice in New Zealand – what a waste. Strangely his wife, a theatre nurse was taken on straight away.
    
    PBR = plain bloody ridiculous.
    
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    June 27, 2023 9:19am
    - Ehlana
      
      I really don’t get that. Surely most medical (or other professional or trade) knowledge doesn’t change from nation to nation.
      So our new arrival would need to be up to speed on technical language in English, relevant local technical knowledge (e.g., a plumber moving to Queenstown from Tonga might need to learn about plumbing in a snow zone) and local legislative requirements.
      Or is the problem that we trust the education provided by the nursing school overseas, but not their medical school?
      
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      June 27, 2023 3:55pm
      - GJM
        
        The NZ medical profession makes it as hard as possible to come to NZ and practise. While I accept it is important to have quality control and people who know what they are doing, it has always been a protection racket, looking after the locals.
        I flatted with a Turkish doctor many years ago. With the hoops to jump through, it was to hard, so moved to Australia and last time I saw her, she had a medical practice in Sydney. Furthermore, by being registered in Oz, she could work in NZ but the reverse wasn’t true.
        I doubt this situation has improved. In fact with the Māori requirements, it will have got worse.
        
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        June 27, 2023 6:03pm
      - Ghost
        
        My gp’s practise has an African doctor, German doctor, American doctor a Chinese doctor that they hired two months ago. Hospital is full of foreign doctors and nurse, we have two very good South African orthopaedic surgeons and one from Dubai. Last blood test I did was a Fijian technician. I had an X-ray 3 months ago done by a New Yorker who had just moved here.
        
        Although I do have a friend who’s daughter was a a senior X-ray technician that moved here and has been told to apply in a year when her English is better. Nothing wrong with her English.
        
        I met a South African gp who was working the weekend clinic, owns his own practise, been here a few decades. His wife has told him if labour get back in they are moving because it’s starting to resemble everything they left to come here.
        
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        June 27, 2023 6:20pm
  - mawm
    
    Yes. Get rid of separate racially based health care – and I’m not talking about the newly established Maori Health, fire at least 50% of the non-medical staff in hospitals, fire at least 50% of MoH staff, name and shame those who thought that fewer beds were needed in our newer hospitals despite an increasing population, and get out of the UN migration compact as we do not have the resources or infrastructure to accept the current numbers of migrants. Suddenly the frontline staff would be under less pressure and would once again feel that they are appreciated and fewer would resign.
    
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    June 27, 2023 9:27am
  - Stellaboxer
    
    Ian I’m afraid I don’t have a short term solution, I’m not sure that there is one. Equally I’m not sure that the solution will be found in any amount of deck chair rearranging within the health system. It’s taken a fair amount of ideological vandalism to wreck the country’s economy and institutions and the solution I feel will have to be a broad fronted reflection of that. It appears to me that so many things are interconnected, as one blogger points out the beds are there but not available because there are no staff. There are no staff because they are leaving the country and we can’t replace them because of the same reason and that is the country is not attractive anymore. The nurse from the Phillipines has the same choice as the nurse from Palmerston North. Why as a health professional would I come here? Failing education system, failing infrastructure, run away crime, health system collapsing, inflation, comparatively low wages, juvenile media and a society being ripped apart on racial lines. At least if I went to Australia as a Bangladeshi Dr I would have equal rights as a citizen to everyone else where as here I would not? Its all on the net and potential immigrants of high calibre and sought after skills generally do a great deal of research before committing to a new homeland. The country has to become attractive again and that is going to be a monumental task for any new government. If it doesn’t happen the country will collapse into an economic and social downward spiral that will be virtually impossible to pull out of. The fault can be firmly laid at this governments feet but the consequences will be ours to live with. Another thing to bare in mind is that the whole world watched Arderns repressive regime during lockdown and the way citizens couldn’t practicably get in or out of the country and the draconian measures that were put in place. Who would risk going to a country where there are no constitutional safe guards , no media, no political opposition to that sort of thing happening again. A collapsed health system is but a symptom. INMHO. The
    
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    June 27, 2023 10:04am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Removing the mandates on health care workers along with an appropriate apology would certainly help.
    
    As would spending a quarter of the billions spent on lunatic covid policies like vax passes, traffic light systems and managed isolation among other insane actions.
    
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    June 27, 2023 10:50am
- cmm
  
  When they say “no more beds” they don’t necessarily mean there are no more beds. What they often mean is that they have run out of staff and have no more staffed beds.
  
  When I was last in Chch A&E they said they had only part of A&E open because they were understaffed. Essentially a ghost ward.
  
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  June 27, 2023 9:06am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    cmm – partly due to mandates, partly due to vaccinated staff getting sent home every time they have a sniffle. I won’t even go into the fact that the more covid shots you have, the more prone you are to catching covid.
    
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    June 27, 2023 10:52am
- WaynelSexton
  
  Didn’t we bring in 400,000 immigrants in a 7 year period fix our infrastructure problems?
  Maybe another 400,000 will do the trick?
  
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  June 27, 2023 9:15am
  - Colville
    
    Where would they live??
    
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    June 27, 2023 9:46am
    - Simon
      
      Ask those National party clowns. 50,000 net immigration pa. So Costco and the banks can sell more shit and credit. A boost for GDP.
      
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      June 27, 2023 10:34am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        Your labour clowns have just let more immigrants into this country in one year than ever before.
        
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        June 27, 2023 3:04pm
      - Fuzzysnuggleduck
        
        While you are not wrong, perhaps the housing crisis could be mitigated if they lived rent-free inside your head; just like the National party.
        
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        June 27, 2023 3:25pm
  - kiwikidsnz
    
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018895961/immigration-drive-hasn-t-recruited-a-single-gp-in-nearly-8-months
    
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    June 27, 2023 10:42am
    - Piniwi
      
      But kiwikidsnz they have been able to bring in 200 fish process worker for the Maori fisheries in Nelson. Now Marlborough need garbage operators so they stop sending the recycle rubbish to landfill. Meanwhile the Deputy PM is bragging about lifting benefits by 50% since 2017 and migrants are rushing to NZ for menial jobs so that those on Jobseeker benefits ( about 3500) can languish in the longer sunshine hours. Looking back before the 2017 election we all laughed at the Green’s screaming for a 50% plus increase in benefits. Pity Labour did not increase Super at the same level but they prefer to borrow to “invest” in the Super Fund. The cynic in me thinks the ultimate intention is for this fund to be a Labour slush fund to nationalise everything and a replacement for the Labour Superannuation Fund they started back in the day.
      
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      June 27, 2023 2:44pm
- Vercingetorix
  
  Hell. Can you tell us the hospital?
  
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  June 27, 2023 9:15am
  - Stellaboxer
    
    I would rather not tell you what hospital simply because it’s not the staff at that hospitals fault it’s the governments fault. However I will say it was a provincial Hospital in the North Island.
    
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    June 27, 2023 10:08am
    - Simon
      
      South Korea has a world class medical system. Have to pay for it but it isnt too much. Compared to the corrupt greedy mess in NZ its a good option.
      
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      June 27, 2023 10:36am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  We’ve been in limbo-land for the last two weeks as Hubby awaits major by-pass surgery.
  
  Admittedly some of that time is taken up running different tests to determine the extent of damage to his arteries and the condition of the rest of him.
  
  However there’s no word as to when or where surgery will take place. It appears Waikato sometimes sends patients off to Wellington or Auckland if a spot becomes available.
  
  Perhaps that’s the way it has always been…
  
  In the meantime….. If your dearly beloved tells you to get with the 21st Century and use a smart-phone/ tablet, OBEY her.
  
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  June 27, 2023 9:27am
  - backster
    
    He might have to make way for maori patients in the interests of equity Maggie.
    
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    June 27, 2023 9:40am
  - Jack5
    
    I hope things go well For Dr Wassilieff, Mrs Dr Wassilieff.
    
    Give the man a break.
    
    My spouse nags me about a smart phone, while I like my little cheap “burner” that I turn only on once every week or two when I need to contact someone.
    
    Perhaps a burner phone would be a compromise for Mr Dr Wassilieff. Log on when he wants, without being a 24-hour node of the network of billions. Economic, too.
    
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    June 27, 2023 9:50am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      That’s one possible solution…
      but I think our daughters will be insisting on something with a bit of oomph.
      
      Perhaps it would be understandable if he was technophobic, but he’s been a techno-nerd for 70 years!
      
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      June 27, 2023 10:05am
      - Observant Octagenarian
        
        But 70 years ago (1953) modern technology didn’t exist!
        Electronics was based on tubes (valves); the transistor had only just been invented and wasn’t in production.
        Telephones still had exchanges manned by woman ‘switchboard operators”.
        Electronic ‘switching’ was done with relays (mechanical) rather than electronic.
        etcetera etcetara etcetera
        
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        June 27, 2023 11:17am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @Octagenerian
        
        It’s true enough Hubby is still as conversant with dots and dashes and radio valves as he was in his childhood. However after a lifetime working as an acoustical engineer, he knows perfectly well how to operate in the digital world.
        
        It’s just that he chooses not to be connected to a smartphone.
        
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        June 27, 2023 2:55pm
      - Jack5
        
        Observant Octagenarian’s … 70 years ago (1953) … telephones still had exchanges manned by woman ‘switchboard operators …
        
        Automatic exchanges, which provided dial service, were invented by Almon Strowger in 1888. – Wikipedia.
        
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        June 27, 2023 5:19pm
Maggie Pie

“Criminal justice experts admit there could be better checks on who is producing and profiting off of preparing Cultural Reports”

– Newsroom

(So why have they been so quite about it for the last 6 years then?)

Asking for a friend.
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June 27, 2023 8:19am
- Vercingetorix
  
  I wonder if any non Maori have been subject to these cultural reports?
  
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  June 27, 2023 8:23am
  - Blog-aholic
    
    Are you doing some stand up soon?
    
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    June 27, 2023 8:30am
    - Vercingetorix
      
      Maybe. A Chinese criminal could say he was traumatised as a child.
      
      Forced to go to school and do homework.
      
      Forced to see a maths and science tutor after school.
      
      Forced to go to violin lessons.
      
      Forced to eat with family every day.
      
      😂
      
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      June 27, 2023 9:19am
  - Opie
    
    No, but non maori are subjected to the result of the cultural reports – being that criminals get reduced sentences or no jail time at all and are available sooner to create more victims.
    
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    June 27, 2023 8:54am
- cmm
  
  I’ll bet most cultural reports are just cut and paste jobs generated by filling in a few blanks: name, place and birth date. ChatGPT could spit one out in a second.
  
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  June 27, 2023 8:31am
- Swifty
  
  Years ago there was a popular refrain heard from the NZ left in objection to charter schools – “no-one should be profiting from the education of our kids….money taken as profit could be better spent on paying teachers more” etc etc (BTW, conveniently overlooking that legions of teachers and civil servants ‘profit’ from the status quo.)
  
  Funny that you don’t hear this refrain coming from the left regarding these ‘cultural reports’.
  
  “No-one should be profiting from the incarceration and punishment of our tane and wahine….”
  
  Nope. Crickets.
  
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  June 27, 2023 9:22am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Trump. They never stop. Now the left are bitching about a Courtroom sketcher making Trump look too handsome. The left are scrapping the bottom of the barrel now.

https://therightwingclub.com/thepoliticalmovement/msm-complains-courtroom-sketch-artist-making-trump-look-too-handsome/
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June 27, 2023 8:31am
- Inandout
  
  SO, I truly believe TDS is a mental condition.
  
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  June 27, 2023 8:41am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Liberalism is.
    Oh, I see Mike has downticked you.
    
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    June 27, 2023 10:17am
  - kowtow
    
    It’s a marxist condition.
    
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    June 27, 2023 10:17am
KH

These kids often become criminals. But it’s stupid to blame the special school. And the reasons they got to that school is ignored.
Perhaps it was the crap family who ruined them before.
Similarly am sick of seeing stories on Stuff News about how someone was ruined in the state care system. But written so that nothing existed for them before that. (the secret is that it was crap parents)
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/education/132419102/most-vulnerable-learners-are-being-failed-by-alternative-education-ero-finds
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June 27, 2023 8:42am
Maggie Pie

Partners mum came over for dinner last night. Was saying she’s sick of this government using taxpayers like their personal ATM.
Reckins we’ve now got people running the country who under any normal circumstances, wouldn’t have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of.
Yet they’re in charge of spending billions of OUR dollars like it means nothing and remain completely unaccountable for what they’re doing.

Case in point…..

https://twitter.com/TheConsultant18/status/1672801397539237888
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June 27, 2023 8:45am
Opie

Taken from the ACT weekly mail:

As David Seymour put to Grant Robertson in Select Committee last week, the amount of money spent by the Government is up 25 per cent. That’s per person, adjusted for inflation (which has been considerable). What measurable improvements has Grant demanded from the public service for this 25 per cent increase in spending?

Astonishingly he could not give a single example. “Well,” he could have said, “the streets are safer.” Or maybe something about reduced hospital waiting lists or better roads or more kids learning more stuff at school, or greater access to medicines and mental health.

That the Government is spending 25 per cent more and can’t say what it’s delivering should have been the biggest media story of the week. For familiar reasons it wasn’t…
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June 27, 2023 8:52am
- krazykiwi
  
  Analysis of government spending.
  
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  June 27, 2023 9:16am
Blog-aholic

This a great educational short clip of the spectrum of politics called left or right.
https://9gag.com/gag/aVbVKRK

The left don’t like this sort of thing purely because it is truth.
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June 27, 2023 8:56am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

A good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a gun. The first good guy was shot by a bad guy. He lived.
https://libertyresolve.com/iraq-vet-shot-while-saving-woman-and-baby-being-attacked-by-blm-thugs-media-silent-for-this-reason/
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June 27, 2023 8:57am
colina

Kings Fund report in the UK pays bare how both the UK & NZ centralized health systems are failing

https://www.downtoearth.kiwi/post/kings-fund-report-in-the-uk-pays-bare-how-both-the-uk-nz-centralized-health-systems-are-failing?postId=3291e1a3-0728-460f-a534-81ed20504431&utm_campaign=d85781e2-2852-4e96-8cee-19b5f12b61d7&utm_source=so&utm_medium=mail&utm_content=457e7e4c-e8de-4e46-b987-1ff1c2d88063&cid=95454756-4744-48a6-9276-d0a8a7c9e702
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June 27, 2023 9:01am
- sirknz
  
  It’s almost like flooding your system with people who have never paid into it, and are not ever going to pay into it, is enough to make it fall over.
  
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  June 27, 2023 10:54am
krazykiwi

Like most western countries, our ruling elites have waged an inflation-powered war on the middle and lower classes. The printing of trillions of dollars to be showered on the favoured or the fraudulent is making the majority of us poorer as buying power dissolves, and earning power is held back. To wit:

Rishi Sunak has hinted he will ignore recommendations for public sector pay rises, saying workers “need to recognise the economic context we are in”.

The explanation of “stopping inflation” rings hollow because governments themselves are directly and knowingly responsible for the rampant inflation we are suffering under.

Most of New Zealand’s leaders are at best asleep at the wheel, or at worst complicit in this as was signalled when Ardern made a call on Blackrock to no doubt receive her ESG instructions.
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June 27, 2023 9:14am
Maggy Wassilieff

Our NZ MSM has been very coy about what Nanaia Mahuta said in Beijing to warrant a 1 hour dressing-down from the Chinese Foreign Minister.

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/pm-not-expecting-repeat-of-mahuta-haranguing

Whether Ms Mahuta was right or wrong is beside the point….. she has left NZ without face… or mana.

At least we now know PM Hipkins can say Sorry...and knows how to back-pedal his Ministers’ mess-ups.
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June 27, 2023 9:14am
- Jack5
  
  Henare, as Minister of Tourism is in China as well.
  
  He met China’s Minister of Culture and Tourism, Hu Heping.
  
  The NZ Government handout says this was “to reaffirm the 2019 Tourism Cooperation Arrangement between Aotearoa New Zealand and the People’s Republic of China.”
  
  Labour it trying hard to change the name of this country. Another term in Government and we’ll be living in Aotearoa, and the national abbreviation will be “Ao” instead of “NZ”.
  
  Ao, Ao into the Third World we go….
  
  Language manipulation is a typical dictatorship tactics. This was portrayed by Orwell in his novel “1984”.
  
  For Government departments and agencies, NZ’s Labour has substituted Maori titles in English language descriptions. No problem with Maori titles in Maori, but Labour wants them in Englilsh language versions, too.
  
  “Waka Kotahi” is the NZ Labour equivalent of mouthfuls like “Mintsvetmet” for the Soviet Ministry of Non-Ferrous Metallurgy (from Министерство цветной металлургии).
  
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  June 27, 2023 9:39am
  - RdM
    
    “Labour it trying hard to change the name of this country. Another term in Government and we’ll be living in Aotearoa, and the national abbreviation will be “Ao” instead of “NZ”. “
    
    I think it was pointed out here weeks or months ago that AO is already taken by Angola.
    
    More likely to be AA, first letter last letter – you know, like our credit rating. </sarc
    
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    June 28, 2023 6:02pm
Maggie Pie

WTF??!!

Even the CHINESE are mocking Chippie this morning 😀

https://twitter.com/SCMPNews/status/1673284161984147457
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June 27, 2023 9:18am
- Swifty
  
  So embarrassing and, as others have said, what a perfect metaphor for this Labour government.
  
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  June 27, 2023 9:24am
- kevn
  
  While hipkins waits for his 5 minutes with Xi.
  
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  June 27, 2023 10:22am
- greybeard
  
  I can’t wait for the second aircraft to be the one which breaks down !
  
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  June 27, 2023 10:50am
- ClanMcleod
  
  This whole fiasco with the two planes is a perfect metaphor for the disaster this government has been while in power. Unbelievably shit.
  
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  June 27, 2023 11:02am
Grunter

History often repeats, I believe the plight of the Romain Empire hundreds of years ago is now being replicated by the US, EU, and probably NZ.
Here’s what the Romans did:

1. Over its last one hundred years, the State steadily devalued the currency by 98%

2. The high cost of government—particularly, growing entitlements and perpetual warfare, coupled with a diminished number of taxpayers, led the government to massive debt, to the point that it could not be repaid.

3. Those citizens that were productive began to exit the country, finding new homes in countries that were not quite so sophisticated but offered better prospects for the future.

4. The decline in the value of the currency resulted in ever-increasing prices of goods, so much so that the purchase of them became a hardship to the people. By governmental edict, wage and price controls were established, forcing rises in wages whilst capping the amount that vendors could charge for goods.

5. The result was that vendors offered fewer and fewer goods for sale, as the profit had been eliminated.
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June 27, 2023 9:22am
- Jack5
  
  Interesting points, Grunter, but did “those citizens that were productive began to exit the country”?
  
  Most of the Roman settlements outside Italy were of retired soldiers, weren’t they?
  
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  June 27, 2023 9:54am
  - cmm
    
    Retired soldiers were still productive. Many became farmers and businessmen.
    
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    June 27, 2023 11:10am
- kowtow
  
  TheRoamns also allowed barbarians to settle within their borders.Romans also stopped joining the army so the state became dependant on those very barbarians as its military .What happens when citizens refuse to defend their own property and ancient rights …….
  
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  June 27, 2023 10:23am
Jack5

Kiwiblog posters from the Waikato will be lapping up the Stuff analysis of the refereeing in the Chiefs-Crusaders match (link below).

Side issue: Do people still talk of the Waikato ? Does “Waikato” as a noun still generally take the definite article?

How did “Waikato” get one in the first place?

If “Waikato” no longer takes “the”, English won’t miss it. “The” is the most used word in the language.

The ref was right:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/opinion/300914202/mark-reason-referee-ben-okeeffe-played-a-blinder-and-we-should-all-shake-his-hand
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June 27, 2023 9:23am
- Colville
  
  ALB banned for 3 games for dangerous tackle.
  
  Should have been a red card on the pitch which of course would have effectively ended the game at the 9th minute.
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/all-blacks/300914768/anton-lienertbrown-handed-threeweek-ban-for-dangerous-tackle-in-super-rugby-final
  
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  June 27, 2023 9:49am
- Blog-aholic
  
  Totally, totally agree.
  The Chiefs infringing was a constant to the point that BOK stopped Cane and basically said fix it or else….Cane being Cane ignored sage advise and the result is for everyone to see.
  
  When the ref gets in your ear and tells you that you need to up your game, you either up it or he contols it for you.
  
  Cane right up until the dying minutes just could not have cared less as he infringed and was himself given the yellow for such cowardice under fire.
  
  Well done Ben OK.
  
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  June 27, 2023 11:08am
  - Colville
    
    Cane is a huge liability going into RWC.
    
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    June 27, 2023 4:12pm
Diogenes

Seeing that we are close to entering full election mode, I hereby offer the following instructional video from the Monty Python team on how to door-knock. I’m sure that all parties could benefit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6do95qglvvw
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June 27, 2023 9:25am
Maggie Pie

“I didn’t go to Harvard, but the people who work for me did”

– Elon Musk

😀 😀 😀
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June 27, 2023 9:33am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Trump May Have Finally Found the Rat in His Staff.

https://libertyonenews.com/mark-meadows-continues-to-be-scrutinized-by-trump-supporters-as-possible-turncoat/
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June 27, 2023 9:49am
Scooter

What deserves more media interest, Hipkins 2 plane trip to China or Luxon’s wife’s new car. Hip hip hipocracy.
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June 27, 2023 9:58am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I am sure I heard a 757 come in to Whenuapai about 30 min ago.
  I think the Air Force only has two. Can’t find anything on Flight Radar 24.
  
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  June 27, 2023 10:23am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Online speech regulator?

https://www.hobsonspledge.nz/online_speech_regulator
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June 27, 2023 10:01am
Scooter

If the deputy PM can’t organise herself to have a glass of water ready before her post cabinet blah blah then she and the rest of them really are useless.
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June 27, 2023 10:03am
Maggie Pie

“Hipkins is actually looking quite nervous”

– Jason Walls. (1ZB Political Reporter in China)
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June 27, 2023 10:07am
- emmess
  
  I think we all would be too, if we were summonsed for re-education.
  
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  June 27, 2023 12:28pm
- PeeJay
  
  Well performance reviews with the boss can be quite stressful!!!
  
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  June 27, 2023 1:21pm
Taieri

It has been reported recently that our former PM Dame Dr Ardern has signed a book deal with Penguin about her leadership style.

Not all that uncommon for the former politicians. An example from the past is Lee Kuan Yew, the former PM of Singapore with his “From Third World to First: The Singapore Story 1965-2000” opus magnum. Perhaps Dame Jacinda should call her book “From First World to Third: The Aotearoa Story 2017-2023”?
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June 27, 2023 10:07am
- mawm
  
  Probably “From New Zealand to Aotearoa” would be self-explanatory.
  
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  June 27, 2023 3:01pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Biden as VP used secret global cellphone paid for by Hunter’s Company.
Records subpoenaed?

https://billingsreport.com/bombshell-joe-biden-used-secret-global-cell-phone-while-he-was-vice-president-paid-for-by-hunters-firm/
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June 27, 2023 10:07am
- kowtow
  
  There’s currently a huge amount of news in the US re the Biden crime family .
  
  Our te media pardy coverage of US ‘news’ is confined to a bath tub toy and Trump .
  
  How very odd.
  
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  June 27, 2023 10:26am
  - All_on_Red
    
    Apparently Joe Biden has hired a Criminal Defense Lawyer
    
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    June 27, 2023 11:10am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Her name is Hillary Clinton – bbaaaaaah
      
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      June 27, 2023 4:10pm
Maggie Pie

Honestly, you do have to feel a wee bit sorry for convicted rapist & murderer Liam Reid’s situation…… don’t ya?

Check out Anna Leask’s latest content in The Horrid

https://nzherald.co.nz/author/anna-leask/
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June 27, 2023 10:29am
Tom Barker

Who’s in line to replace Luxon? My money’s on Westland MP Maureen Pugh. She may well be, as Simon Bridges succinctly put it, “fucking useless,’ but at least she denies climate change. That makes her an ideal captain for a doomed vessel.
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June 27, 2023 10:31am
- All_on_Red
  
  Germany now has the second largest Carbon Footprint in Europe
  https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/04/the-daily-chart-germanys-energy-folly.php
  That’s so funny.
  The Left are just so useless.
  
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  June 27, 2023 11:14am
  - kowtow
    
    While other countries power ahead with nukes , those fools have closed theirs.
    
    On Merkel say so .
    
    The krauts really do have a knack for allowing leaders to ruin their hard worked for prosperity.
    
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    June 27, 2023 11:23am
    - All_on_Red
      
      Speaking of leaders, I see Greta has now completed High School- at age 20.
      
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      June 27, 2023 11:31am
      - emmess
        
        Oh, so inspirational.
        
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        June 27, 2023 12:29pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        I had my BSc. and was halfway into my hons year at age 20.
        
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        June 27, 2023 3:52pm
- Dougal10
  
  Not sure that I would continue to bag a west coaster . Simons political career came to an end after that comment.
  
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  June 27, 2023 11:23am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Maureen is candidate for West coast this term coming, but she will retire at the next election, Luxon will still be PM, you should worry who will over through Hipkins and how much blood may well be spilt.
  
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  June 27, 2023 3:09pm
Jack5

In a few weeks, cautious older New Zealand men might be moderate when it comes to eating bread.

From mid-August, the Government will require all non-organic bread-making wheat flour produced or sold in New Zealand to be fortified with folic acid.

There are contradictory international studies of whether fortification of bread with folate increases incidence of prostate cancer. About 4,000 New Zealand men are diagnosed with this a year, and it is the most common cause of cancer among NZ men. Many of us who post on Kiwiblog have, or have had, prostate cancer.

The flour will be fortified because folic acid taken by mothers in early pregnancy reduces incidence of neural tube defects, such as spina bifida. Britain’s National Health Service advises women to take folic acid ideally three months before they try to have a baby, and then during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.

Bread has been chosen as the most likely food to be taken by young mothers (folic acid tablets).

Organic flour will be exempt from the ban. A couple of small NZ mills produce organic flour that can be used to make folate-free bread in home-kitchen bread-makers. Small organic bakers’ bread should also be free from added folate.

Whether most young women eat bread daily is an interesting question, and while a Government ban on unfortified bread is well intentioned, it will be detrimental if it makes intended mothers – and sexually active, un-protected women – careless about folic acid supplements.

For studies on the effect of folic acid consumption on prostate cancer:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23724740/
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June 27, 2023 10:46am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Another example of forced medication. Insanity and further evidence that we are descending into a totalitarian society where freedoms are severely restricted.
  Anyone wanting to take folic acid can and should. My wife did. Most women do. It isn’t difficult and it isn’t expensive. It should never be forced onto those who don’t need it or want it. The target audience is miniscule.
  
  Another expensive inconvenience caused by a Marxist government full of ideologues without a clue how the real world works. I’ll have to start sourcing ‘organic’ bread or get the flour and make my own.
  
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  June 27, 2023 11:11am
- krazykiwi
  
  From the study summary
  
  The positive association of circulating B12 with an increased risk of prostate cancer could be explained by reverse causality. However, given current controversies over mandatory B12 fortification, further research to eliminate a causal role of B12 in prostate cancer initiation and/or progression is required. Meta-analysis does not entirely rule out a positive association of circulating folate with increased prostate cancer risk. As with B12, even a weak positive association would be a significant public health issue, given the high prevalence of prostate cancer and concerns about the potential harms versus benefits of mandatory folic acid fortification.
  
  Adding folate to bread is akin to aerial spraying agent orange across Wellington to deal with the weeds in my lawn.
  
  FFS, just provide ‘free’ folate supplements to pregnant women… who amount to less than 1% of the NZ population at any one time.
  
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  June 27, 2023 11:13am
- cmm
  
  As I have said a few times before, they’d probably do better by adding folic acid to crisps and fizzy drinks.
  
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  June 27, 2023 11:15am
  - Dougal10
    
    Winecoolers 🤣😂
    
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    June 27, 2023 11:26am
  - miltonF
    
    This is probably going to sound quite strange, but if the target population is women who can get pregnant, then I feel the product being targeted should be one that only women who can get pregnant consume.
    
    I wonder if it is possible to lace menstrual products with folic acid? Or maybe just hand out a pack of folic acid tablets with every menstrual product sold? Seems to make more sense to me.
    
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    June 27, 2023 1:53pm
  - mawm
    
    Cmm – it would probably be best in alcohol. Somewhere around half of pregnancies are unplanned and frequently associated with alcohol use. Most women do not know they are pregnant and continue drinking during those important first few weeks.
    
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    June 27, 2023 3:14pm
    - krazykiwi
      
      1 in 20 live births in New Zealand sees a tiny human with fetal alcohol syndrome getting their start in the world. It is utterly tragic. I learned this while on the board of an organisation that comes face to face with these children.
      
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      June 27, 2023 5:38pm
Jack5

Immigration is a contentious issue in UK politics. In the “Telegraph”, Nick Timothy writes:

“Every manifesto of every party to win an election in the past quarter century has” promised immigration control, yet every government has failed to deliver it. We have had more immigration in this time than in the past 2,000 years combined.”

Timothy writes that a tight labour market in the UK is not leading to inflation-busting pay rises. “Over all, the country is having its real-terms pay cut.”

He blames education for a skills shortage that feeds demand for skilled migrants.

“We have created a higher education model entirely dependent on income from foreign students, whatever their quality, at the expense of British kids who are displaced from our best institutions and courses, and that fails to offer technical and vocational alternatives. Partly as a result we have skills shortages that cause demand for migrant workers to grow.”

Timothy argues that the political Right sees immigration as an economic shortcut, while the Left favours it from its obsession with radical diversity and identity politics.
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June 27, 2023 10:51am
- cmm
  
  The other factor he’s missing is that the education system – like that in NZ – now has the primary goal of providing employment for activists and educators. It no longer has the goal of making people more employable and productive.
  
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  June 27, 2023 11:29am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Jack5 – re immigration, have a look at this moronic, virtue signaling garbage that happened at the Glastonbury Festival in the UK this week.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTVf82eD3sM&t=223s
  
  They focused on welcoming migrants.
  Jeremy Corbyn chanting “Build Bridges Not Walls!” failed to see the irony that the event was surrounded by a 12ft high, 8km long security wall.
  
  😂😂😂😂😂
  
  Deliciously skewered in the above video.
  
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  June 27, 2023 12:25pm
Ghost

Heading up to Lake Pukaki to do my yearly pilgrimage to sit with my brother for a while. I forget sometimes how beautiful our country is.
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June 27, 2023 10:58am
Taieri

From mid-August, the Government will require all non-organic bread-making wheat flour produced or sold in New Zealand to be fortified with folic acid.
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The consumer should be an ultimate judge. If folic acid is indeed beneficial, perhaps it should be added to some flour. But flour without additive should still be available. And not just organic, which is considerably more expensive. We bake our own sourdough bread at home and as we are well past procreative age there’ll be no benefit from folic acid addition, yet, we will be forced to consume it. The world doesn’t consist of just the future mothers…
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June 27, 2023 11:02am
- Ehlana
  
  If bread is indeed the appropriate vehicle, surely the folic acid only needs to be added to baked bread itself. Flour sold through supermarkets wouldn’t need it, as I doubt the people they are targeting do their own baking. If they were that organised, they’d probably also organise folic acid tablets for themselves.
  
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  June 27, 2023 5:05pm
Chuck Bird

“One aim of the physical sciences has been to give an exact picture of the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable.” (Mathematician and philosopher Jacob Bronowski)

Curry, Judith. Climate Uncertainty and Risk: Rethinking Our Response (Anthem Environment and Sustainability Initiative) (p. 87). Anthem Press. Kindle Edition.
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June 27, 2023 11:09am
- cmm
  
  “One aim of the physical sciences has been to give an exact picture of the material world.”
  
  I disagree.
  
  The aim has been to improve the picture. not get an exact picture. We will never have an exact picture because there will always be more mysteries to solve.
  
  Take for example electricity:
  * We discover some of the properties of static electricity – that it makes things stick together, that there are sparks, that there are lightning.
  * Slowly we discover these are all related and that they are all part of what eventually gets called static electricity.
  * We discover and characterise charge, current, voltage etc.
  * We discover electrons and protons.
  
  All along the way we’re learning and improving the picture, but for each question that is answered, more arise.
  
  We ask ourselves what gives electrons charge and make them behave this way. We might then discover that this is because electrons have a certain arrangement of smaller particles (currently that is thought not to be the case) and spin.
  
  That has not really answered the question, just shifted it: why does having spin or these sub-electron particles cause charge?
  
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  June 27, 2023 11:27am
Maggie Pie

Rumor down the Viaduct that Shanan Halbert might be in for promotion…

https://twitter.com/shananhalbert/status/1673143362462056450

Hmmm.
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June 27, 2023 11:14am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Why not? It’s automatic for gays in Liarbore.
  
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  June 27, 2023 12:06pm
- GazzaW
  
  It’s very obvious that Halbert fancies his chances of a promotion. It’s a very rare TV shot of Hipkins that doesn’t feature Halbert hanging on to his right shoulder.
  
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  June 27, 2023 4:16pm
Warren

You have to wonder whether Gaurav Sharma might have been right in his opinion on Kieran McNulty to ex Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern with his call that McNulty is a bully.
We have a situation now that Kieran McNulty is rushing a Bill through Parliament that is very similar to the Three Waters Bill that our present Prime Minister Chris Hipkins suspended because it was losing votes in their polling and haven’t been heard about until recently until Kieran McNulty made a announcement that some say was trying to pull the wool over peoples eyes with it being the same broken and undemocratic Three Waters Bill as before.
Kieran McNulty has already announced that he intends to have it passed before Parliament rises for the upcoming 2023 General Election and because of that you will only have 9 days to make your voice heard.
If these are not a bulling tactics what the hell are they because the majority of voters have already voiced their opinion “NO” and are not being given the right to challenge this with only 9 days given for submissions.
What a corrupt bunch of arseholes with a gutless media backing everything they do.
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June 27, 2023 11:39am
All_on_Red

Ok, so perhaps it isn’t Gender Dysphoria but a Sexual Fetish…
‘Sisters at the campus’ Kappa Kappa Gamma (KKG) chapter claim the organization changed the definition of a woman to allow trans member Artemis Langford to join in September 2022.

After the sorority’s leadership allegedly bullied and intimidated the girls to accept Langford, she was then quickly met with accusations she would ‘peep at (the other girls) while visibly aroused’.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12218911/University-Wyoming-sorority-slams-sisters-suing-6ft2-260lb-trans-member.html

Bonus Pervert
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/06/23/nations-first-trans-legislator-arrested-for-child-porn-n560103
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June 27, 2023 11:55am
Maggie Pie

Just sharing bit of a larf over lunch…..

https://twitter.com/Savagehumor_/status/1673327217865027586

to be fair, she does look like a giant tennis ball 😎
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June 27, 2023 12:13pm
ClanMcleod

Eugyppius reflecting on the demise of democracy. Coming to all of us if this isn’t stopped in it’s tracks.

Democracy is when you want what the late-stage liberal system wants to give you, and the system gives it to you. If you don’t want what the system wants to give you, your preferences are undemocratic and the system gives it to you anyway. You’re free to protest the things the system hates, but if you protest the system or any of its agenda, that’s undemocratic and you’ll be water cannoned to protect democracy. You’re free to believe in the principles espoused by late-stage liberal democratic politicians, but if you dispute them, you’re a danger to the free world and should be arrested.

We witnessed this with the police attack on demonstrators at the Wellington protest.
We see it daily with the censoring and vilifying of anyone daring to question co-governance, gender issues, covid issues and others.

The full post is very much worth reading. In a recent local election in Germany, the result didn’t go as expected for the liberal establishment. What do they do? Decry it as undemocratic, and of course, call it the rise of the ‘far right’.

It would be funny if it wasn’t so serious.

German voters in Thuringia democratically elect a candidate from the populist Alternative für Deutschland party, are denounced by state media and establishment politicians for being antidemocratic

https://www.eugyppius.com/p/german-voters-in-thuringia-democratically
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June 27, 2023 12:50pm
- krazykiwi
  
  Eugyppius is a beacon of reasoned, rational thought in a sea of narrative-clinging sycophants. He one of my few mandatory daily reads.
  
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  June 27, 2023 1:48pm
Lance

I had to have a laugh at Vlad Putin.
He was blaming the Wagner revolt on the “Neo-Nazis in Ukraine”.
What… Zelensky used his Jedi mind control to cause the Wagner mercenaries to up sticks and rush head long to Moscow?
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June 27, 2023 1:19pm
- kowtow
  
  It would be all too funny if it weren’t so tragic what’s going on there for ordinary people .
  
  The founder of Wagner , a former GRU colonel , one DV Utkin, sports a Nazi SS rune tattoo.
  
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  June 27, 2023 1:48pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/132427555/128-million-bailout-for-struggling-tertiary-sector
Money down the drain.
At least, it should only benefit science, tech, engineering and medicine.
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June 27, 2023 1:53pm
- Prince
  
  So how many lectures to empty lecture theatres will that fund ?
  And what will the pay-back be from Leftie academics telling us how wonderful Labour is, and how evil National.
  
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  June 27, 2023 6:01pm
Maggie Pie

Ya gotta admire the Russians.

Here’s a vid of them performing the biggest song in Russia today.
NO uglies, fatties, trannies, neck tatts, or freaks with green & pink hair.

This is why the West should be worried……

https://twitter.com/MatreshkaRF/status/1673209794608365570

(fullscreen/sound up)
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June 27, 2023 2:00pm
- kowtow
  
  ……..interesting line up …….
  
  ……..all the young men at the front or fled to where ever they can avoid the call up to fight Vlad’s war.
  
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  June 27, 2023 6:21pm
Grunter

An easy read article from Mises. A good reminder of what history (real history not the BS taught by our academics) and common sense tell us about productivity, free-markets and rich nations.

https://mises.org/wire/rich-country-poor-country-why-differences
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June 27, 2023 2:15pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Just watched a gallery thing on North Korea. 3 generations of Leaders.
They really are quite mad.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/the-brutal-story-of-north-korea-s-kim-dynasty-will-shock-you/ss-AA1d2aqc
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June 27, 2023 2:27pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Oh noes! Kim Jong un has people in NZ that downtick? LOL LOL!
  
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  June 27, 2023 4:14pm
Maggie Pie

Caller to ZB maintains Chippie’s entourage to Chynah is just over 100 strong.
Reckins 45 of them are Kapa-Haka dancers!

Surely not?
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June 27, 2023 2:34pm
- Ghost
  
  Yeah, I put the video up the other night, let me get it. YouTube
  
  Nice isn’t it, PM flew them there and they welcomed him into the nz embassy
  
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  June 27, 2023 2:40pm
  - David Garrett
    
    I noticed what would appear to be one of the leaders of that powhiri…a blonde haired woman who is as white as me…I’m sorry, I just don’t accept that a blonde blue eyed woman can possibly be “Maori”
    
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    June 27, 2023 2:47pm
    - David Garrett
      
      Various dentists have told me that I have a “slavic jaw”. That can only come from some long extinct branch of my mother’s family (she was, or claimed to be, French). Does that mean I can claim I am a Pole or a Hungarian? I don’t think so.
      
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      June 27, 2023 3:09pm
      - Ghost
        
        You can claim to be what ever you like now days. Shit. There is an old guy in a dementia ward in the USA that claims to be the president and the media agree with him.
        
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        June 27, 2023 4:25pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      She ‘identifies a Maori,’ and that is all that is required.//
      
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      June 27, 2023 4:18pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Hey thx Ghost! But no sub-titles….
    hard to tell if the reporter was speaking Maori or Mandarin?
    
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    June 27, 2023 3:09pm
    - Ghost
      
      It’s ok, my maori is a little rusty but what it says is
      
      Hahahaha, we got a free trip to China, shit bro, we can ram raid the shops here before the stuff is sent to Aotearoa and save the cuzzies some time
      
      Fuck, bro, don’t ram raid this buggers, they actually have prisons
      
      Well shit, what da fuck did we come here for
      
      Oh, Jacinda’s son is standing up, quick let’s give him a welcome, Aunty is going to roll him in a few months and ram raid the whole country.
      
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      June 27, 2023 4:29pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    The subtitle interpreter was not available? Why not?
    
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    June 27, 2023 4:19pm
- kevn
  
  Impressive… waste of money.
  
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  June 27, 2023 3:20pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Well, they did Kapa-Haka as he got off the plane, but no, we had to take them, what cost
  
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  June 27, 2023 3:21pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    “Well, they did Kapa-Haka as he got off the plane”
    Wait, what? So the haka group was there before chippie? Wow, that is why Chippie needed to have two x 757s. One arrived early, so the great new New Zealander could make an official entrance to China?
    Amazeballs!
    
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    June 27, 2023 4:23pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Why the dickens does there have to be a Maori powhiri in China when our PM arrives?
    
    Surely it would be more appropriate for our PM to be greeted by some form of Chinese welcome (such as a bow and a hand-shake).
    
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    June 27, 2023 5:09pm
    - Ghost
      
      I’d be insulted if I was china that they have flown maori there to have a maori welcome.
      
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      June 27, 2023 5:16pm
    - Swifty
      
      I don’t recall other countries flying cultural groups to perform when foreign heads of state arrive on our shores.
      
      Maybe I’ve not been paying attention.
      
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      June 27, 2023 5:38pm
    - rouppe
      
      To be inclusive, obviously //
      
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      June 27, 2023 9:18pm
  - Prince
    
    But the second plane was held in the Philippines.
    Perhaps the plane arrived, our ‘welcome’ kapa haka group disembarked, prepared, and then Hipkins finally left the plane to be ‘greeted’ by them.
    Quite what the Chinese made of all this can only be imagined, being inscrutable types.
    No doubt ‘Jess’ will spill the beans tonight (sarc).
    
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    June 27, 2023 5:52pm
- info@cruzpro.com
  
  In addition to the cost of transporting the Kapa-Haka dancers, the costs of accommodations and food, do they also charge for their time? If so, how much is it costing us net taxpayers?
  
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  June 27, 2023 7:21pm
GazzaW

Is there another Parliamentary scandal in the offing? Question 11 today was from Brooke ven der Velden to the Minister of Health and one of her supplementary questions asked who owns the warehouse and how much was the rent to store 17 million RATs tests that are bearing expiry date. Ayesha Verrall skirted all around the question which was asked more than once and failed to provide a reply. I suspect that there is more dirty work at the crossroads about to be exposed. Who does own the warehouse and what usurious level of rent is being levied on the taxpayer? Watch this space.
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June 27, 2023 3:43pm
- Ghost
  
  Hmmmm, some articles
  
  The warehouses across New Zealand full of millions of RATs
  
  Unused Covid tests worth almost $160m could be wasted, Health Minister wants solution found
  
  It is great we are such a wealthy country and can throw out waste….
  
  Covid-19: 1.4 million doses of vaccine to be destroyed by the end of the week
  
  Not to forget
  
  Millions of dollars’ worth of measles vaccines among expired doses last year
  
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  June 27, 2023 3:57pm
  - Mike
    
    You will want to sign this:
    https://www.change.org/p/10billion-of-wage-subsidies-overpaid-or-wrongly-retained-demand-msd-get-your-money-back
    
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    June 27, 2023 4:15pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Don’t see what that has to do with RAT tests and Vaccines being beyond the use by date.
      
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      June 27, 2023 5:16pm
Maggie Pie

I follow this guy and he’s OARSUM! 😀

So every time he says “New York Shity”….just substitute “Auckland”

https://twitter.com/ScottLoBaido/status/1673316644683169792

@jamesshaw @chloeswarbrick @maramadavidson
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June 27, 2023 4:16pm
Observer of Life

Is it true the tax on wine is going up come 1st July?
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June 27, 2023 4:59pm
- Ghost
  
  The Prime Minister is defending the rise of the alcohol excise tax following an outcry from beer and winemakers.
  
  It’s set to rise by 6.5 percent, adding pressure on consumers and producers alike. That followed an increase of 6.9 percent last year.
  
  The latest increase comes despite warnings from the industry the latest hike could spell the end of boutique breweries and wineries.
  
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  June 27, 2023 5:08pm
- fightingtemeraire
  
  ALL BOOZE
  
  PETROL
  
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  June 27, 2023 5:08pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Loaded up today. Lots of boxes of Stella, and two boxes of 1L Jacks.
    Fuck them and their “no more new taxes under my watch” or something.
    
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    June 27, 2023 5:25pm
- Prince
  
  I see Glengarrys are kicking up a bit, citing large increases in Govt taxes for the second year in a row.
  Not much pity from me – they were one of the Govt’s cheerleaders a few years ago, asking us to ‘be kind’, team of 5 Mil, etc etc.
  You sow, you reap.
  
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  June 27, 2023 5:47pm
  - fightingtemeraire
    
    When my wife and I were running a business in the same “complex” as Glengarry’s and had problems with our parking spots being taken by GG customers and our premises being smoked out by their pot belly stove, we found them to be an arrogant self important bunch of ……
    
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    June 27, 2023 5:56pm
Ghost

Winter storm coming, but it’s ok, we need to get a bit more hype to this one, hmmm, let me think.

Oh, I know, let’s call it as significant global storm

The “first major winter storm” of 2023 is brewing in the Southern Ocean and will heavily impact New Zealand over the coming days.

Described by WeatherWatch as a “significant global storm”, the low-pressure system near Aotearoa is due to start deepening, bringing with it a lot of wind and rain.

Article
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June 27, 2023 5:30pm
- Swifty
  
  What, there’s going to be a storm all over the world, all at the same time?
  
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  June 27, 2023 5:34pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    Swifty, My real name is Noah. For one low, low fee I can get your family (and your cats, dogs, birds, pigs and MPs) to safety.
    
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    June 27, 2023 5:44pm
    - Swifty
      
      Haha!
      
      I never even thought about The Great Flood.
      
      This will energise the fundies!
      
      😀
      
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      June 27, 2023 6:13pm
      - krazykiwi
        
        Ha ha back at ya! I am a fundie 😉 😉
        
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        June 27, 2023 9:40pm
- Matt Long
  
  A lot of wind and rain?
  So how will we know when the storm has arrived?
  Perhaps they could add some dye so we know the difference.
  
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  June 27, 2023 5:49pm
Prince

Astonishing that this Govt is so corrupt and obsessed with selling itself, they take two cheerleader groups to China, along with two planes.
A Kapa Haka group, and a ‘media’ team.
Even North Korea wouldn’t try that.
We must be such a wealthy country.
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June 27, 2023 5:59pm
Prince

NZ Govt bails out Unis, so lecturers and tutors can deliver classes to empty lecture rooms.

NZ Post loses 750 jobs – time for Govt to step in and pay sorters and posties to deliver….well nothing actually.

The Prime Minister takes a Kapa Haka group overseas with him, to welcome him when he arrives !

Only in Aotearoa.
Govt Debt $153B and climbing.
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June 27, 2023 6:08pm
Swifty

Seeing that her erstwhile party has been captured by lunatics with a radical, demented ideology, long-time unionist, Alliance and Labour Party stalwart Jill Ovens has created a new political party to protect women’s rights:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8UxDaU6OtGg

Better late than never I suppose.
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June 27, 2023 6:11pm
kevn

Great gig for maori performers.
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June 27, 2023 6:19pm
Maggie Pie

You have to wonder at the mentality of people sometimes.
Seen all thosse pics on the Horrid site?
Mile long cues of cars at petrol stations!
Why would you want to put yourself thru all that stress?
Just do what we’re doing and wait till Saturday.

How hard can it be. SHEESH!!
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June 27, 2023 6:46pm
- Ghost
  
  They will still have to pay the new price in a week or two if they are stockpiling. Which is illegal and if you have a fire insurance can refuse your claim.
  
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  June 27, 2023 6:55pm
Ghost

I wonder if newshub are stalking National mp’s, getting their license plate then running each through the website to see if there has been a claim made

Dirty newshub, very dirty

Despite their strong opposition to the Government’s scheme to discount clean cars, it turns out it’s not just National’s leader who has benefitted from it.

Backbencher MP Tama Potaka has also got an EV discounted and says there’s nothing wrong with that.

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June 27, 2023 6:54pm
Ghost

More popcorn needed

Sen. Marco Rubio, F-Fla., tells NewsNation exclusively that “other” whistleblowers beside David Grusch, with firsthand knowledge of government operations, have also come forward with similar UFO claims.

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June 27, 2023 7:18pm
Ghost

President doesn’t look that happy to be with Hipkins

And if anyone is worried the maori group would only do one performance, they did another sign song on the Great Wall….. your tax dollars at work

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/chris-hipkins-makes-his-way-to-tiananmen-square-for-meeting-with-president-xi-jinping/3DSFO3UP2JGH3DXDCZN5AZWJ3I/
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June 27, 2023 9:21pm
Ghost

Jezz, Elon posts a picture of Starship Super Heavy, a lot of the idiots on his Twitter seem to think it is the titan submersible

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1673587083267518465/photo/1
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