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Yvette

‘Co-governance Is Not Democracy’ is a speech Winston Peters made on Sunday, 21 August 2022

Labour believes it knows best, and New Zealanders are growing more alarmed.
They know Labour has no authority to rank our citizenship based on race.
… Democracy for us has meant freedom, which so many populations around the world and down through the centuries, have never had the good fortune to experience.
New Zealand men and women have put their lives on the line to defend it.
And we are the lucky beneficiaries of the aspirations, dreams, sacrifice and hard work of others before us.
But we should remember the famous lines of John Philpott Curran all those years ago.
‘The condition of which God has given liberty to man is eternal vigilance’. [1]

Winston’s speech this Sunday just past is ratchetted a notch up on the one in 2022, but critics seem to miss the point that Winston is saying a lack of our vigilance can lead, as it did for unaware or complacent Germans, to the horrors of Hitler’s ethnic exceptionalism – the lifting of One Race above all others.

Perhaps when Luxon gives Winston a “talking to”, it may be a more constructive conversation.
Winston was not listened to that much apparently back Sunday, 21 August 2022.
In that context it is not surprising he has raised his rhetoric a notch and has been a little more direct

[1] https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2208/S00183/co-governance-is-not-democracy.htm
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March 19, 2024 8:00am
- Souvlaki
  
  Oh the irony ….screeching about Peters comparing TPM to Nazi thought….when essentially he is ABSOLUTELY correct….this is the ‘elephant in the room’…which his critics all choose to ignore. TPM do believe their genetic makeup to be ‘ better’ than others…it inconveniently WAS on their website remember.
  
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  March 19, 2024 8:41am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    Yes Winston is correct. These journalists are part of a generation that has not been educated about the centrality of freedom to our way of life. The Nazis did not start out by putting Jews into gas chambers. The measures were modest. For example Jewish business owners were prohibited from employing non Jewish workers. Then it ramped up.
    
    How is that different to what we have seen in New Zealand? No you cannot work as a realtor unless you are indoctrinated in Maori philosophy. If you are a public servant you will be shunned if you refuse to participate in Maori prayers. If you wish to speak about how trans ideology is a threat to women you will be attacked by a mob.
    
    This is the point being made by Winston.
    
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    March 19, 2024 9:04am
    - My-Gumboot
      
      Yes it starts with ‘modest measures’. But did Winston make the same comments when he was propping up Labour for three years and those ‘modest measures’ started?
      Perhaps he did but the media didn’t report it…
      Or perhaps Jacinda told him off and he backed down…yeah.
      
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      March 19, 2024 10:05am
      - Jack5
        
        At least Winston speaks up. National has been quiet on this issue. Where does National stand on this?
        
        Peters was, as he says, a brake on Labour until Ardern got sufficient Labour votes to govern alone. That’s when she ran amok.
        
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        March 19, 2024 12:22pm
    - Sacha
      
      ‘The thin edge of the sword -“
      
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      March 19, 2024 10:23am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      The point being made by Winston has been bent all out of shape by the media and some on Kiwiblog.
      If they read your comment they may understand Benedict.
      
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      March 19, 2024 10:55am
  - Bobba Fret
    
    Didn’t Hipkins compare the coalition government to communist Russia?
    
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    March 19, 2024 10:39am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Yes and after saying they are a dictatorship, but you know the way, it’s different when the vulgar left do it
      
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      March 19, 2024 12:14pm
- Nigel Kearney
  
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  Comparing people to Nazis is wrong. Doesn’t matter if maybe there is some similarity with a small part of what the Nazis did or believed. That is not a justification. There are other ways to make an argument.
  
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  March 19, 2024 9:11am
  - bjools
    
    The Nazi’s and their behaviour of 1930-34.
    Bore absolutely no resemblance to the Nazi’s and their actions of 1942-45.
    It all started with theories and a book and some forceful acts of violence and intimidation in the street, by small groups and individuals and grew to be what we now know as the Holocaust.
    The reference of one race over another (commented by TPM), the “co governance ” where Maori get 50% of the say (from 15% of the population) and right of denial to actions of others, on race.
    This is the Theory that mirrors the start of Nazism.
    Do you really want to see where it goes?
    
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    March 19, 2024 9:41am
    - Jethrod
      
      Race is a funny thing.
      There was a country in the 50s, 60’s and 70’s that was ruled by the 15%, but the rest of the world took exception to it. The country was quite rich but the 85% were “down trodden”
      Come the 80’s, with a carasmatic leader, the 85% became the predominant race, which has seen a major change in fortunes. The 15% has fled and things can only get worse.
      Making a change in NZ to the 15% having 50% of the say so can only go the same way.
      SA vs NZ
      
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      March 19, 2024 1:15pm
    - Bloody Dago
      
      The gangs are the “Brown Shirts” of 1933. Can we see who Ms Ardernista would call to cause mayhem in the suburbs of NZ if the NZ public hadn’t taken action last year? The parallel is definitely in broad daylight right now out West Auckland.
      
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      March 19, 2024 5:15pm
  - slightlyrighty
    
    Actually Nigel, Winston is not the first to make that comparison.
    
    No Less an organisation that The World Socialist Web Site did the same in 2023.
    
    https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/09/13/kbwu-s13.html
    
    I quote from the article.
    
    “In an interview with TVNZ on Sunday, Rawiri Waititi, co-leader of Te Pāti Māori (TPM, the Māori Party) defended the blatantly racist statement: “It is a known fact that Māori genetic makeup is stronger than others.”
    
    “The belief in the superiority of an ethnic group’s genes is a cornerstone of racist ideology, including that of white supremacists and the Nazi regime in Germany. The fact that Māori were dispossessed by the British Empire during the 19th century, and that many Māori continue to suffer from racial discrimination, does not change the racist character TPM’s and Waititi’s statements.”
    
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    March 19, 2024 9:47am
    - Warren Murray
      
      I know you’re not supporting the claim, but it’s hard to reconcile the claim that Māori are genetically superior with the fact the died so young before 1840 and now have worse health than any other ethnic group.
      
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      March 19, 2024 3:08pm
  - Benedict Yu
    
    You might want to read about Nazi Germany in the period from 1933. There is nothing wrong with the comparison if it is valid. See my separate comment in the thread.
    
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    March 19, 2024 9:53am
    - thirteenstars
      
      Of course it’s valid. Perhaps the people that claim it’s never valid don’t quite have a grasp of the history of Nazi ideology and its implementation.
      
      And perhaps they can’t quite perform an abstraction of the essentials of what the Nazis believed and did. Just because the enemy doesn’t speak German, wear uniforms or build concentration camps it doesn’t mean their philosophical imperatives are not closely aligned.
      
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      March 19, 2024 10:37am
    - Che Guava
      
      What books have you read about Nazi Germany, Benedict, whether regarding the period from 1933 or otherwise?
      
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      March 19, 2024 11:07am
      - Che Guava
        
        So I take it your silence means you’ve read none. Imagine getting 12 downticks (so far) just for asking someone what books he’d read on a topic he gave his opinion on.
        
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        March 19, 2024 4:54pm
    - Philview
      
      In a more up-to-date position a recent speech by Putin attacking western influence in Russia seemed like something the NZ Media print most days attacking western influence in ‘Aotearoa’. There is no question in my mind that that the political leanings of people in NZ pushing ideology like He Puapua are not much different to those running totalitarian regimes.
      
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      March 19, 2024 11:17am
      - Paulus
        
        I don’t remember voting to change the name of New Zealand – when ?
        Likewise, the Waitangi Tribunal expects to be Paramount to Parliament, when was that agreed ?
        
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        March 19, 2024 1:29pm
  - Yvette
    
    “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
    
    Nigel, if that were more the case in Germany prior to Hitler and the Holocaust maybe neither would have reached the enormity of evil that you would now shy away from even mentioning it must have had minority start, like do most issues, and as Peters alludes to
    
    Winston perhaps did not tread as carefully as he could – where Angels and Christopher Luxon would fear to rush in – but Winston has to be admired for using the verboten issue of Hitler, Nazis, and the Holocaust to warn of the verboten issue of the Treaty “principles and privileges” running amok.
    
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    March 19, 2024 10:08am
    - Che Guava
      
      “…the verboten issue of Hitler, Nazis, and the Holocaust…”
      
      Verboten? We never hear the end about these things, and this is no surprise, given that they constitute the basis and the justification and of our system for the last 80 years.
      
      As we’ve seen, the only thing that is “verboten” is to give Jews insufficient fealty and deference based on these things, and to never cite them in reference to anyone but Jews.
      
      You’d think that WW2 effected nobody else besides the Jews if you believed the propaganda. By rights, Russians should have special status given their far superior suffering and greater privations during WW2.
      
      By rights, there should be Russian-themed “Great Patriotic War Museums” all around the world reminding us “never again.” However, we only see Holocaust museums, even though many times fewer Jews were victims of the Nazis.
      
      But it’s the opposite in fact: we so no Russian war memorials, and the Russians are now supposedly our enemies, while Israel is characterised as our indispensable ally. Who’s writing he script here?
      
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      March 19, 2024 11:17am
      - Jack5
        
        Che Guava, you likely haven’t heard of the Sword of Stalingrad, presented by Churchill to the Soviet Union.
        
        It may be too expensive to risk display in present-day Volgograd, formerly named Stalingrad.
        
        But it was acknowledgement.
        
        The Russian people suffered terribly, but American industrial power crushed Nazi Germany.
        
        The US supplied the Soviet Union with more than 14,000 aircraft, 44,000 jeeps, 375,883 trucks, 8,071 tractors, 12,700 tanks, 15,417,000 pairs of army boots, 106,893 tons of cotton, 2,670,000 tons of petroleum products, 4,478,000 tons of food supplies, 1,541,590 blankets, and 331,066 litres of alcohol.
        
        Britain, under severe pressure from Germany, also supplied materiel to Russia, including aircraft and tanks. The little Valentine infantry tank found a role with the Red Army, and production of it continued until the end of the war at the request of the Soviet Union.
        
        (Lend-lease supplies to NZ included 7,000 American tractors for farmers. By the end of the war the value of NZ food supplied to US Forces in the Pacific under reverse lend-lease outweighed the value of lend-lease goods from America to NZ.)
        
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        March 19, 2024 12:48pm
      - Paulus
        
        Think Germany Kristallnacht 9th November 1938 when gangs of Hitler yobbos smashed everything the could that was owed by the Jews, along with violence against Jewish people.
        They did not do a Haka first though !
        
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        March 19, 2024 1:34pm
    - imalwaysright
      
      “using the verboten issue of Hitler, Nazis, and the Holocaust..”
      
      Verboten by groups purporting to represent Jewish people.
      
      I’m getting fed up with them telling the rest of us what we can and cannot discuss.
      They seem to think they are the arbiters of the words Genocide, Holocaust, and, increasingly, Nazi.
      
      The Germans and their allies were beaten by the Allied forces, and, in doing so, the threat to the Jews was destroyed.
      Yet we are being lectured on how we discuss our history by groups who don’t seem to realise that.
      The war is over. We won.
      Bad things happened to hundreds of millions of people.
      But it is time to move on.
      Everyone has death and suffering in their history.
      It is part of us, but it should never define us.
      
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      March 19, 2024 11:33am
      - Che Guava
        
        We can’t give it up, or be allowed to give it up, because if we moved on, then a whole lot of people would stop being the scapegoat and the supposed cause of all the world’s ills, while a very small minority would lose their victim status and have to get on with life purely on their present merits.
        
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        March 19, 2024 12:48pm
  - kowtow
    
    Who gets to decide what can and can’t be the measuring stick .
    
    For example , the book burning quote ( Heinrich Heine) is often cited in modern times whenever someone wants to ban /cancel some author or other.
    
    Is that disallowed .
    
    or how about the also often used Neimoller “First they came for”
    
    The ’30’s /’40’s struggles in western Europe are important events that cannot be put on some pedestal of revered ,sacred shiboleths .
    
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    March 19, 2024 12:00pm
    - Paulus
      
      Only Maori History can be taught at New Zealand Schools.
      Pity they will never learn !
      
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      March 19, 2024 1:36pm
- R
  
  Winston’s comments, and the inferences to be learned from them, seem to be a little beyond the comprehension of our NZ Media; and the Opposition.
  Not really surprising though!
  
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  March 19, 2024 9:49am
Cassandra

What is it with Luxon that nothing any of his team says is “helpful”? Peters is making a valid point which is agreed by the majority – Maoris are not special, they are not entitled, we are all in this together. Ffs Mr Luxon, get a spine!
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March 19, 2024 8:04am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  If you believe he will speak too Peter’s then perhaps you should think about it, Peter’s and Seymour are throwing barns, the big east party keep out, that’s a win to me
  
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  March 19, 2024 8:41am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    “throwing barns”? 🤔
    
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    March 19, 2024 9:05am
    - Yvette
      
      Benedict, think : to throw a barn party – like Hipkins “drunk wedding uncle”, it is another reference to Winston’s purported preferences in refreshments
      
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      March 19, 2024 10:25am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Barbs
      
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      March 19, 2024 12:16pm
  - leoj
    
    Winnie is showing us he has a spine.
    
    Luxon? Meh, not so much.
    
    Luxon’s wokeness is NOT HEPLFUL.
    
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    March 19, 2024 12:21pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Luxon is leader of the National Party, not NZF. Even though he is PM he is one of three leaders who are all entitled to free speech.
  It may be better if Peters give Luxon a talking to about hardening up.
  Chris Luxon’s behaviour is becoming very tiring, he is a woose. Best he hand in his man card.
  
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  March 19, 2024 8:43am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    What would you like the pm of this country too do? Tell the world yes we are natzi Germany, FFS he won’t get anywhere with that carryon, you are falling for the media trap, they are trying to drive a wedge, you can tell Tgeg by media saying yesterday they Peters was off side with his finance minister over the economy being 5 billion in the shit, Willis said it’s more like 3.9 billion because we gained revenue from higher returns else where, hardly being off side
    
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    March 19, 2024 8:52am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      NZ is not Nazi Germany. People and media are missing Peter’s point.
      He is saying that what is happening with co-governance is like 1930s Germany. He is not talking about what happened during WW2.
      
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      March 19, 2024 10:05am
      - Don Beckett
        
        Did Peters even mention the Holocaust in his speech ? I don’t think he did – it is the media and the bleeding heart luvvies who mentioned it & accused Peters of ‘being mean’.
        
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        March 19, 2024 11:54am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        We are not missing his point at all, the media and Rotten left are, we know full well he was talking about seperatist bullshittery
        
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        March 19, 2024 12:19pm
  - Benedict Yu
    
    I agree. For the next three years he is going to be repeatedly asked by the media when he is going to pull Winston and David Seymour into line. Of course the journalists are loving it. 😒
    
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    March 19, 2024 8:54am
    - Flossie
      
      BY – I’ve missed your wisdom recently!
      
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      March 19, 2024 9:53am
    - Paulus
      
      The so called media are doing everything they can to divide the Coalition – stupidly and non stop (for now).
      
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      March 19, 2024 1:39pm
- RoboRob
  
  Why the F_@k couldn’t Luxon have just said something like ‘Winston was at a NZF event speaking about NZF party policy and the NZF role in government. I wouldn’t have compared labour / Greens / Maori to Nazis but I do agree that there is some similarity in beliefs and some statements’.
  
  Instead it appears we have the usual, ‘he shouldn’t have said that and I am talking to coalition partners about being more careful with the words’ type statement. NO Luxon, many are quite happy that the rightish are back in power and we want to get the message out about terrible lefty policy.
  
  I am increasingly glad that ACT and NZF are in with National. Which is hard to say as an opponent of Winston for many years. Without them I am not sure if this government would have any spine whatsoever. I hate National being called Labour lite But Luxon is trying very hard to persuade me they are.
  
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  March 19, 2024 8:59am
  - Ghost
    
    A good mp can make those comments without giving the media ammunition to carry out attacks. The government mp’s need to be aware of what they are saying, how it will be reported because that takes away from what they are trying to do and show the public. If Winston makes a comment that is picked up and used to attack the government for a few days that isn’t a win for the right, that is a loss.
    
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    March 19, 2024 9:12am
    - RoboRob
      
      I understand you point and would normally agree but whilst I cant stand Winston he is probably the smartest / best politician we have ever had. He chose his words because he knew the media would be all over it and it would generate a couple of days media coverage. Thats smart politics.
      
      I think his point was a win for the right. I bet more people know about the Maori partys racist beliefs now then did before. I bet most people (in Maori) agree that treating people different based on race is a bad policy.
      
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      March 19, 2024 9:55am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Winston is actually playing the media, to get them to point out that National is ‘Labour Lite.’ As the most experienced I say he knows what he is doing. Nothing will change until Luxon changes or hands in his man card. Always said he is a very good manager, but not a leader.
        Still don’t forgive him for 2017 though.
        
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        March 19, 2024 10:14am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        No, all it did was hide the great news of booting bums out of KO houses who smash them up
        
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        March 19, 2024 12:25pm
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Exactly, took the news of booting bums out of KO houses for damaging houses owned by the tax payer
      
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      March 19, 2024 12:24pm
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Steve Otto.
      
      Don’t ever mention NZF and calling other parties Labour lite ffs, he wrongly put them into government in 17. Peters whole point was about Labour dividing the country on race, no where has that hot anything too do with Nats, but can be put at the feet of of Peters for ushering that shit in in 17
      
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      March 19, 2024 12:29pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        7 years ago G.
        NZ is a different place now, and National is Labour Lite at the moment. I stand by that statement. I don’t give a shit what you think about what I say.
        
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        March 19, 2024 4:39pm
  - sungsamning
    
    Yes, I agree. The sight, or sound of NZF, or Winston Peters used to make my blood boil. I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt until King’s Birthday. His recent comments hit the nail on the head. NZF is the nearest thing we have to a nationalist populist party. ACT are doing alright too.
    
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    March 19, 2024 9:25am
    - RoboRob
      
      I have railed against Winston and NZF for years. Strangely this iteration of Winston seems more ‘mild’ then normal. Even many of the NZF policy platforms seem, dare I say it, sensible. I dont agree with all NZF but at least Winston backs his policy.
      
      This morning I even wondered if in future I could bring myself to vote NZF!!! Something I have never thought or done.
      
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      March 19, 2024 9:58am
      - Warren Murray
        
        In the history of NZF, he has rarely backed his policies after an election
        
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        March 19, 2024 4:05pm
  - Flossie
    
    Winston had been stressing the point it was a public meeting and not a gathering of his party’s faithful.
    
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    March 19, 2024 9:56am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Explaining is losing
      
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      March 19, 2024 12:30pm
  - Gussy Fink-Nottle
    
    Chrsitopher Luxon is heavily influenced by John Key.
    Key believes the voting public are only concerned with the economy, education, and crime.
    He’s probably only 75% correct.
    
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    March 19, 2024 10:17am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Luxon stated he had only spoken to Key once from the time he became leader on November 30 22 till the election in 23, I doubt very much that Key has influenced Luxon at all
      
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      March 19, 2024 12:32pm
      - Cassandra
        
        That’s not what the evidence shows. In many ways (97%) Luxon is a Key clone, minus the latter’s extraordinary presence.
        
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        March 19, 2024 1:54pm
      - leoj
        
        Words vs actions:
        
        Luxon never stated how woke and wet he would be yet his actions are proving that he is both.
        
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        March 19, 2024 4:27pm
    - Warren Murray
      
      Health, not Education. Despite how much funding it gets and how badly it is performing, for some strange reason, Education doesn’t make the top five issues that influence how ppl vote.
      
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      March 19, 2024 4:08pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    He did mention that Peters was speaking as NZF leader, then said they are not words I would choose, and said I will have a word with Winston which he will not
    
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    March 19, 2024 12:22pm
- R
  
  Peters is making a valid point…true!
  The point Prime Minister Chris Luxon is making with his ‘not helpful’ comment, refers to the fact that a significant % of the population, including some here on KB, only understand the ‘crayon and comic talk’ that they have become accustomed to during the past six years; and in order to communicate with them at their level one has to reduce words to one syllable.
  For all his other faults, Winston is a very eloquent speaker; qualities that are not very obvious when listening to Radio/TV media interviews of other people; particularly during the reign of the last govt.
  
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  March 19, 2024 10:03am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Isn’t it funny we did not like being told the week before that this government is Soviet Russian style, but it’s fine now
    
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    March 19, 2024 12:33pm
Warren

Green Party slams Government cruel Kainga Ora crackdown.

You have to wonder how stupid Green housing spokesperson and the Green’s are when it comes to what the rules should be when it comes to evicting tenants from Kainga Ora housing.

To call these policies cruel and ignorant to the consequences of Poverty is ridiculous and out and out bullshit and you would have to wonder if her Parents were living in Kainga Ora dwellings how loud the protest noise would be if they had been abused and threatened the same way other elderly people living in Kainga Ora have been. The noise would be deafening and the protest would be long and loud, that’s why you need rulesand if you want the State’s help you need to obey those rules the same as most people do .

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/03/green-party-slams-government-s-cruel-k-inga-ora-crackdown.html

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March 19, 2024 8:05am
- Simon
  
  If tax payer cant look after them then its time for iwi to step up. They can live in iwi housing on iwi land.
  
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  March 19, 2024 8:45am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Lunatic Greens, it’s okay to smash tax payers gifted housing, but cruel to force responsibility on the utter bums that smash them up
  
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  March 19, 2024 8:47am
- RoboRob
  
  I just cant believe hour purposefully thick the media are being over this. They keep saying it will increase homelessness.
  
  Here’s a hint.
  If your have 100 people needing housing and 10 of them are currently housed, if you move one of the 10 out for bat behaviour number 11 on the list will come in. I.e. absolutely no change in the number of people needing housing.
  
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  March 19, 2024 9:03am
  - bjools
    
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/minister-demands-action-from-kainga-ora-over-thousands-of-empty-state-homes/YWZ6RMPMGFC2TH7OQDGPYPIK3U/
    https://kaingaora.govt.nz/assets/Publications/OIAs-Official-Information-Requests/March-2023/3-March-2023-Cost-of-repairs-to-Kainga-Ora-properties.pdf
    Key takeaways
    “Unoccupied repairs”
    Total repairs $333mil
    divided by 60000 houses, ie AVERAGE of $50000 per house.
    Considering many actually look after their house, that is a lot of money.
    Time for tenants to be forced to look after the property they have been GIVEN.
    Maybe a co payment for repairs deemed to have been caused by the tenant?
    
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    March 19, 2024 10:06am
    - Local Miller
      
      The problem with getting a “co payment” from the tenant is that many (almost all) of these tenants are an a benefit, so anything they contribute comes out of the tax payers purse any way, and they would just plead that they are now short by that amount and get a top up.
      In the end the tax payer coughs up again.
      
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      March 19, 2024 10:47am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Luxon stated this morning that there are 3000 families waiting for state housing, and he makes no apology for booting bums who smash up tax payers assets
    
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    March 19, 2024 12:35pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  Indeed. Just brain dead rubbish. For every criminal maniac evicted from a State house, there is a homeless person on the street who can take that place.
  
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  March 19, 2024 9:09am
- nathie
  
  The solution for the Green Party dilemma is simple (they won’t like it anyway but tough)!!
  
  When violent scumbag tenant parents are evicted, their children are put into the care of the Ministry of Children/Oranga Tamariki.
  
  That way, vulnerable children will be safe from violence from their own parents (do the Greens seriously think that the children are not subjected to violence, if the scumbags parents happily dish it out to their well behaved neighbours and their visitors)?
  
  Plus it breaks the cycle – that of vulnerable children learning to be violent against others, because of the learned behavior from their feral parents.
  
  That way the children are brought up by wrap around services to become well adjusted citizens.
  
  Ditto too the feral parents, except the Greens don’t seem to accept the fact that feral parents need to want to change. Change can’t be forced upon them. So in some cases they won’t stop being violent feral scumbags. So it’s best their children are away from that environment.
  
  For those feral parents that do want to change? Great! Plus they then get their kids back.
  
  Simple eh stupid Greens (I say that because I heard the interview with the Greens on Morning Report this morning. The Greens are totally deluded and dangerous with their ideology).
  
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  March 19, 2024 9:29am
- imalwaysright
  
  Surprised to hear from Salvation Army rep that only 54% of state tenancies are families .
  Shouldn’t the single tenants be moved to the motels to make way for families ?
  
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  March 19, 2024 9:54am
  - artemisia
    
    Half of the social housing waiting list is people with no children. Mostly single, working age men, some couples. One bedroom places. Traditionally state housing was almost all for families, so a lot of one beddies are having to be build or bought for these men.
    
    Where did they live before 2017?
    
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    March 19, 2024 10:34am
    - imalwaysright
      
      One bedroom flats are the most inefficient use of funding. Very high cost per bed.
      Housing corp should offer a flatmate model for sharing 3br houses.
      
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      March 19, 2024 10:57am
      - artemisia
        
        How about a ‘live with your family’ model. Like most of the rest of the world.
        
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        March 19, 2024 12:28pm
    - Flossie
      
      According to John Campbell they lived in cars.
      
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      March 19, 2024 12:09pm
    - imalwaysright
      
      Exactly. Stay at home until you can support yourself.
      
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      March 19, 2024 12:39pm
      - lifesgood
        
        And don’t shack up with a rotating list of partners and don’t breed til you can afford to.
        
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        March 19, 2024 5:12pm
    - Cassandra
      
      Boarding houses. Very good option, cheap and efficient. And if they are not suitable then asylums and prisons are.
      
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      March 19, 2024 1:58pm
      - artemisia
        
        Boarding houses used to be an important accommodation option. Times have changed though. Boarding houses are heavily regulated, much of it recent. Including (expensive) compliance with the healthy homes regulations and a host of hefty fees and fines. I know two now closed and of others where disruptive or risky occupiers have had to leave. Because – costs, fines, paperwork etc etc.
        
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        March 19, 2024 3:19pm
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Loafers Lodge
        
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        March 19, 2024 10:32pm
- Local Miller
  
  Hi Mods, can you fix the link please, it needs an “l” on the end. As in “html”
  
  [Mod – thanks for that, fixed now]
  
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  March 19, 2024 10:41am
artemisia

Haven’t seen mentioned that social housing rents are almost all income related and mostly well under market rent. Yet total amount of rent arrears is up 2000% since 2017 $1mill to $21mill.

Sustaining Tenancies is to be canned – I don’t think it is funded beyond this fiscal year anyway. Not completely sure about that though. Basically it provides ‘support’ for households about to be evicted – probably mostly money.

Started out as just for social housing tenants, later extended to all tenants. The Vote for current year a bit over $6 mill and is intended to cover about 2300 household places. 2022/2023 970 households supported. Maybe there was money left over? Though that Vote also covers a smaller number of households in the Rapid Rehousing initiative. I’m sure there is awesome and detailed data out there on how effective Sustaining Tenancies $$ inputs have been, based on regular reporting from the various community providers. Including how many, if any, have come back for another bite of the $6mill cherry.
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March 19, 2024 8:06am
- Warren Murray
  
  Tamantha Paul and others have failed to acknowledge is the process. The unruly tenants will be given warnings and only after several warnings in three months can KO apply to the TT to end the tenancy. The important consideration is an objective test is applied by someone who isn’t the LL
  
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  March 19, 2024 4:15pm
G152

Winston was right.
There is not ‘superior’ DNA as was claimed and he refuted.
Its DNA and is symbolic only of how we are all ‘Out of Africa’
And once again he was correct that such like claims were made by the nazis to demean and victimise the Jewish people.
And again the media proves their ignorance and bias
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March 19, 2024 8:06am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Notice the Maori Cowboy has not been interviewed by the media over his superior DNA.
  Also Peters Nazi claim has been distorted by the media and others. He was making a point about the lead up to WW2, not what happened during WW2. People were slowly programmed by Hitler. He controlled the 1930s people.
  
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  March 19, 2024 8:51am
  - greybeard
    
    Yesterday HDPA was criticising Winston Peters for what he said, so I sent her this email:
    ” Germany under Hitler was convinced that Aryan Germans were superior to any other race on earth.
    This has been demonstrated countless times.
    At the same time Germans were convinced that at the other end of the spectrum were blacks and Jews, who were “sub-human”.
    In NZ right now there is a group of people ( maori ) who openly state that they are genetically superior to anyone else here.
    ( Nothing scientific of course, just assertions based on hatred, jealousy, ignorance ). You know who they include, their names are mentioned daily in regard to local government, Parliament, general news.
    
    Winston was absolutely correct. So why make him the bad guy ? “
    
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    March 19, 2024 9:03am
    - Chuck Bird
      
      “In NZ right now there is a group of people ( maori ) who openly state that they are genetically superior to anyone else here.”
      
      There is a very small group of Maori who openly state that they are genetically superior to anyone else here. The group could be as small as 1 or 2.
      
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      March 19, 2024 9:08am
      - RoboRob
        
        Unfortunately that small group of Maori are present in the Maori / Labour and Green parties. They have a loud and vocal voice and are pushing seperatist policies. New Zealanders need to know that many people on the policial left are pushing seperatist policies based on racist beliefs.
        
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        March 19, 2024 10:03am
      - R
        
        could be as small as 1 or 2…
        you forgot the tens count, should read as small as 100 -200 or thereabouts.
        Fixed it for you Chuck B
        
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        March 19, 2024 10:09am
    - Bobba Fret
      
      I bet she wont read that out on air.
      
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      March 19, 2024 10:47am
    - Paulus
      
      Gotta follow the Media Party line of hate the Coalition Government in everything they do !
      
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      March 19, 2024 1:45pm
    - gravedodger
      
      Not just Blacks and Jews, there were Slavs, Roma (gypsies), Homosexuals, the mentally and physically damaged, and of course anyone deemed an enemy of the state ie communists and some religious sects.
      Then that bloody Jesse Owens came to their Berlin Olympics and pissed on Schicklgruber’s Parade.
      
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      March 19, 2024 1:53pm
    - lifesgood
      
      HDPA has turned into a right air head.
      
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      March 19, 2024 5:16pm
  - R
    
    People were slowly programmed ………
    sounds like a process that the media have been following in NZ for about 40 years.
    
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    March 19, 2024 10:07am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Rawiri Waititi has been interviewed about his comment that Maori genetic makeup is stronger than others.
    
    Full discussion here, and in the comments:
    
    https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2023/09/15/leader-of-n-z-s-maori-party-claims-that-maori-are-a-genetically-superior-group/
    
    He seems to believe it, but then, I suspect his knowledge of genetics (let alone, human genetics) and history is very limited.
    
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    March 19, 2024 10:40am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      The cowboy has been interviewed as your link says, but they are not main stream media.
      
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      March 19, 2024 4:43pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  Biologically, the difference between races is trivial. We all came out of Africa. We are one species.
  
  Ironically, they differences between men and women are profound. Yet we are being told that sex is a spectrum. (It is not.) and that race is important.
  
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  March 19, 2024 9:15am
  - Paulus
    
    Latterly Maori DNA is fully established from a tribe in South East Taiwan – no disagreement either,
    
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    March 19, 2024 1:47pm
    - lifesgood
      
      If Maori are so bloody superior how come they never invented the wheel and lived a primitive, backward lifestyle before the arrival of Europeans. If we hadn’t come they’d probably still be living that way.
      
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      March 19, 2024 5:19pm
greybeard

Apparently Te Papa management cannot decide what to do with the Treaty exhibit which was vandalised last year.

I have the solution : they have it repaired, keep it in situ, and charge the feral who damaged it with the repair bill.

Had it not been attacked, the exhibit would presumably still be there for people to judge for themselves. Why should it be removed ?
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March 19, 2024 8:14am
- Yvette
  
  Why should it be removed ?
  It shouldn’t
  It says more about society and the Treaty in its current condition
  Leave it, as is, where it is
  
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  March 19, 2024 8:29am
  - Muttonbird
    
    Agree with this. It’s now an important piece of activist art and a searing commentary on the politics of Aotearoa New Zealand.
    
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    March 19, 2024 1:29pm
    - Ghost
      
      Activist art, what a stupid term
      
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      March 19, 2024 1:54pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Hey, what is this Aotearoa thing you speak of Kemosabe?
      
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      March 19, 2024 4:45pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  No. It needs to come down. It is not the1840 version in Maori or the Littlewood Draft.
  It is nothing more than the James Freeman version that the rogue post 1975 Waitangi Tribunal uses today. It is rubbish.
  
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  March 19, 2024 8:55am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    It should read ‘the rogue James Freeman version that the post 1975 Waitangi Tribunal uses today.’
    
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    March 19, 2024 9:20am
  - Unity
    
    I absolutely agree Steve. It differs from the real Treaty and wasn’t even the final draft. The Littlewood Treaty was the final draft that was translated into Maori. File it away or throw it out.
    
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    March 19, 2024 10:26am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      The English final draft was written by Busby from note between himself and Governor Hobson. It was translated into Maori by Williams and his son..
      The English version was given to Henry Littlewood for safe keeping. Today it is referred to as the Littlewood Draft.
      
      Start about 6 minutes in. Actually the whole 53 minutes is worth understanding.
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVgY03s6Tqc
      
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      March 19, 2024 11:39am
- nathie
  
  Awww poor woke Te Papa management!! Seems like they want to keep the defaced Treaty exhibit in solidarity with the activists and their radical views … but are in a dilemma because the defaced Treaty exhibit will only embolden activists to carry out further attacks on other exhibits.
  
  So here’s the solution – have the Govt sack the Board (same with Auckland Museum’s Board) and appoint, say for example NZ First supporters as Board members.
  
  That will send a message to woke, radical supporting management to shape up or ship out!
  
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  March 19, 2024 9:17am
Southern Raider

Looks like another typical school year in the socialist haven of Aoteroa

Despite still low attendance records and dismal student performance and pay rises under the last Govt, yes you guessed it

Teachers are closing primary and intermediate schools early next week so they can attend paid union meetings

They can’t even complete one term of teach Jb before fucking up kids learning again
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March 19, 2024 8:17am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  What is this Aoteroa you speak of Kemosabe?
  
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  March 19, 2024 8:58am
  - Southern Raider
    
    That mythical place where on official records shared with the common folk we have 100% school attendance and all school leavers have UE
    
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    March 19, 2024 8:59am
Scooter

I think I’ve found the root of Golriz’s shoplifting issue, she’s never gotten over the shame of this outfit. Maybe the lawyer can use it in the pre-sentencing report, childhood trauma etc.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/15/golriz-ghahraman-i-think-of-rage-when-i-imagine-my-parents-fate
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March 19, 2024 8:21am
Yvette

Hipkins said yesterday: “Same old Winston Peters. Using racism and anti-media rhetoric to divide our country. He should be focusing on the real work of leading New Zealand forward, but that would require a plan and a vision. Sadly, this government is lacking in both.”

In this case the vision Winston has is called vigilance
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March 19, 2024 8:22am
- Lance
  
  Hipkins is correct again //
  Peters is RACIST (wacist I say!) for having the wicked gaul to say some Māori shouldn’t make racist statements.
  //
  In all seriousness, what a bloody plonker Hipkins et al is. Up is down, black is white and someone not wanting racism… is racist.
  
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  March 19, 2024 8:57am
  - Paulus
    
    A Taniwha is not racist either !
    Just mythical like so much more with no evidence or proof.
    
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    March 19, 2024 1:49pm
Tomtoddy

Is it possible that mindless carping about Luxon, Peters and co by narrow minded writers (I nearly put ‘journalist’ but that is too laudatory) like Tova O’Brien will eventually be seen by more readers for what it is? Blatant bias and socialist indoctrination??

I am no fan of either leader and haven’t voted for them but they deserve a longer period to make the necessary changes that had to follow the disastrous six years under Labour. That leaking oil tanker was always going to take many months to come right.

O’Brien’s criticisms are mostly puerile and catty – not worth the space – but they keep undermining and deflecting the public who don’t stop to analyse. Or are they overdoing it? Is there a point when even Stuff readers might say ‘enough’?
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March 19, 2024 8:24am
- kiwikidsnz
  
  After 20 years Stuff banned my account yesterday – it must have been something I said.
  
  I’d made a brief comment on a councils refusal to consider an option for a dog park on a council owned reserve because of “cultural sensitivity” while proposing alternatives adjacent to residential properties that the residents objected to.
  
  In recent years I had previously been suspended twice for a week for eg. comments on the PIJF.
  
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  March 19, 2024 8:34am
  - Inandout
    
    kiwi, some may say you are a ‘tiger for punishment’.
    
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    March 19, 2024 9:39am
  - pdm
    
    kiwi – join the club.
    
    I have never been totally banned (as far as I know) but copped a couple of suspensions of varying terms over the years.
    
    Put up a comment on the Wellington Mayoralty that didn’t make it and comments facility vanished when I went in for a look.
    
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    March 19, 2024 11:48am
  - Paulus
    
    Poo be on you !
    
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    March 19, 2024 1:50pm
- Simon
  
  Narrative narrative narrative. Drip drip drip. Luxon is out of touch and out of his depth. Its for the cattle.
  
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  March 19, 2024 8:54am
Maggie Pie

Haven’t heard from Trev for a while.

Wonder how he gets on with Ireland’s Prime Minister Leo Varadkar…. mind you,
he’s probably well used to dealing with weirdo’s after all those years as a Labor MP 😀

https://twitter.com/CilComLFC/status/1769113971909415199
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March 19, 2024 8:35am
- Cassandra
  
  And long may not hearing from Trev continue. The next thing I want to hear about Trev is his resignation.
  
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  March 19, 2024 8:49am
- pdm
  
  Sounds like Trevs natural habitat Maggie.
  
  Isn’t he from Wainuiomata originally?
  
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  March 19, 2024 8:59am
  - Paulus
    
    Has he not got family in Ireland which is why he decided for Ardern to go live there on New Zealand Taxpayers ?
    Doubt if he will return – hopefully
    
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    March 19, 2024 1:52pm
Yvette

• In an interview with TVNZ on Sunday, Rawiri Waititi, co-leader of Te Pāti Māori (TPM, the Māori Party) defended the blatantly racist statement: “It is a known fact that Māori genetic makeup is stronger than others.”

• Te Pati Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi says “National and ACT want to see Māori die 7-10 years early“

Cognitive dissonance
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March 19, 2024 8:38am
- wisteria
  
  Perhaps the question that Maori have superior DNA is for all the Maori Party MMPs go and have a DNA test and publish it, then we could all see that they were little different from most New Zealanders.
  
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  March 19, 2024 9:23am
- Terry Dalee
  
  Then why do they need their own health authority if their genetic make up is so superior?
  
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  March 19, 2024 10:08am
  - leoj
    
    Exactly.
    
    Such superior DNA yet they live fewer years than whitey.
    
    How is this possible?
    
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    March 19, 2024 8:16pm
- surfing
  
  I don’t think it is a racist statement per se, although there could be racist motivation behind it.
  
  Certainly various human sub-populations have differing genetics in response to their environment. It’s incredibly complex. eg, the gene that protects against malaria also increases the risk of sickle cell disease. So is the anti-malarial gene strong?
  
  Rawiri needs to tell us which maori genes are ‘stronger’. Certainly Maori had weaker genes when it comes to resistance against many western diseases.
  
  But Maori are a physically strong race as an evolutionary response to living in stone age conditions and being in a constant state of war. But, is this good genetics?
  
  Does Rawiri believe Maori are more intelligent? His statement seems it might say that. Certainly genetics is a determinant of intelligence.
  
  If Rawiri answered an NCEA science question like this, he’d fail because he provides no evidence or detail. If nothing else, Rawiri is an example of the state failing to educate Maori.
  
  Neil deGrasse Tyson has an interesting video on human genetics…
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVF-coeV_xE
  
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  March 19, 2024 10:38am
  - Flossie
    
    The state failing to educate??? Where’s the onus on the pupil failing to learn.
    
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    March 19, 2024 12:15pm
Paulus

I am getting senile in my dottage ?
Why is it everything I see and hear is derogatory by direct implication or by innuendo of anything about the Coalition Government and what they are doing or have said they will do before being well elected.
Cartoonists are beyond belief – no further comment.
Some school children are of the belief that there is no consequences to there deliberate actions principled apparently by the Maori Haka, which in itself is pure violence.
There are no consequences, which like their adults, they are fully of the belief that they are invincible.
How sad and disappointing that the media have felt no need to resile from their bitterness, and feel that have have a reasoned responsibility to our Country.
No wonder many, but not all, of the children revel in what we can call Anarchy of the childish sort.
Well done the media, whilst you still have jobs !
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March 19, 2024 8:48am
oldpark

Could not but wonder this morning when I heard our Prime Minister Christopher Luxon being interviewed by some “Holier Than Thou Guy”. Known as a Legend in his own mind .
My impression was the PM was being deliberately question in a perceived bullying type of interview by the self appointed Legend.
Maybe he was out to get a Headline for his NZME employer alias NZ Herald .
He also interviewed NZs Politician of the present time . Winston Peters yesterday.
Yes he was like lets say “normal” with him.
Maybe he forgot some time ago when he declared Winston Peters would not get back on his programme .He knew that Peters would not let “Holier Than Thou Bully” him any which way in his interview, like he attempted with our PM .
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March 19, 2024 8:52am
- nathie
  
  Well said Oldpark. The PM will give details on tax cuts at Budget time in May (not in March for the benefit of the ZB Breakfast or Drive show hosts – their arrogance and egos are getting way ahead of them).
  
  Also Luxon is consulting with Seymour and Peters before any announcements are made. I see that as a commitment to the Coalition agreement between the 3 parties by Luxon and demonstrates his respect for Seymour and Peters.
  
  For some reason Hosking and HDPA seem to have an issue with this type of approach. What do they want? A Helen Clark type dictating what will happen on their own terms? BS spin? No thanks!
  
  Luxon isn’t a seasoned politician using spin for answers eg Clark, Key, Ardern, Hipkins etc (thank goodness). He is being straight up and like any good CEO he has confidence in his “senior management” i.e. Peters and Seymour (and Cabinet) by conferring with them (before the MSM who are demanding to know “now”) and is leaving them to get on with things in their own style and in their own way.
  
  And that’s what their supporters like (despite the negative headlines from the rest of the MSM & Labour etc).
  
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  March 19, 2024 9:47am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    It’s bullshit the media suggesting he refused to rul out no tax cuts, or cutting the value, he may have refused to rule it out, but that does not mean no tax cut
    
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    March 19, 2024 12:42pm
    - Paulus
      
      The bullshit media will interpret whatever they want as long as it is anti the Coalition Voted for Government.
      The rest to them does not matter in their tripe.
      
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      March 19, 2024 1:56pm
- Ghost
  
  Here is the Interview
  
  There is nothing wrong with it. It’s a good interview with a pm who can take the questions and not get pissy and refuse to come back. Stop being so precious. The conversation about asking if KO are capable of doing what the government is asking of them was a good conversation. Asking about new taxes in the budget is topical, as people are spreading that. And asking when the tax’s cuts will happen is a good question. There is nothing wrong with this interview. Mike is doing his job, if you want softball interviews you need to listen to radio nz interviewing labour mp’s.
  
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  March 19, 2024 9:57am
  - Grunter
    
    I agree – I heard it live. Nothing significantly wrong with the interview from Hosking or Luxon IMO.
    
    Luxon, I think could have answered some of the questions better (couldn’t we all….?) and Hosking seemed to get unnecessarily wound up at some of the answers.
    
    My sense is the Govt (all coalition partners) are setting up for a major Budget announcement come May whereby all the dirty sheets are hung out and we get some big changes mapped out for the next 3 years.
    
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    March 19, 2024 10:38am
- kowtow
  
  Don’t bother with Hosking.
  
  The Platform is way better. Plunkett does need to learn to listen to his guests more and put less of himself in though.
  
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  March 19, 2024 12:48pm
Chuck Bird

Cognitive testing for senior drivers: Katikati resident questions fairness

Do these tests make sense or would a written test not be more fair and a better judge of a person’s ability to drive safely?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/cognitive-testing-for-senior-drivers-katikati-resident-questions-fairness/TWUUSCBD5RBWZOSFFWQGFM6YIY/
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March 19, 2024 8:55am
- pdm
  
  Chuck – this reminds me of one of the tests my 95 year old Uncle had a few years ago when being assessed for a rest home. He was asked to repeat (may not be verbatim)the following:
  
  Mr Smith lives at 76 Jones Street, Woodville, Hawkes Bay.
  
  Uncle did so perfectly but stopped after Woodville so was asked to repeat it which he again did perfectly stopping after Woodville.
  
  When asked why he stopped after Woodville each time – he said:
  
  Woodville is not in Hawkes Bay.
  
  He passed the test and moved to a rest home a few months after where he died a few weeks after his 97th birthday.
  
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  March 19, 2024 9:08am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Yep – used to be Southern Hawkes Bay, until that district was renamed Tararua.
    
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    March 19, 2024 10:40pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Had a quick look at this. What a load of bollocks.
  A road test by someone trained to do this is the way to go. Not a Driving Instructor – they can’t drive for shit. They go by the manual, not common sense. Small things like how much attention is being paid, and the driver turning to look at you when they are speaking to you – there is no need.
  I sense an argument in 3 years time.
  
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  March 19, 2024 9:28am
- Ghost
  
  It’s part of the testing, my father’s gp does it every time he gets a renewal.
  
  https://www.drivingtests.co.nz/resources/medical-requirements-for-driving/
  
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  March 19, 2024 10:15am
- Jules99
  
  It doesn’t actually mention if there is an extra cost for him since he having to do it every year, not two years. It’ s a reasonable sum for someone living off super.
  
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  March 19, 2024 2:12pm
sirknz

Apparently we’re not drinking as much as we used to, and are now drinking below the global average.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wastewater-testing-reveals-new-zealands-biggest-drinking-regions/A2GDMGE625BKZIK34ZDEPAF33M/

Also, the astounding study has concluded that we drink more during special events (concerts, sporting events, public holidays) than we do on any ordinary day.

Also, the alcohol wowsers still say that we need to control alcohol even more because some people are alcoholics.
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March 19, 2024 9:03am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Well I’m doing my share. Come on guys, up your game!
  
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  March 19, 2024 9:35am
- Grunter
  
  The study claims that “on average” we drink 1 std drink per day. That means “on average” we don’t have a drinking problem.
  
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  March 19, 2024 10:07am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    The people doing the study are the non-drinking lot.
    NO DRINKING ALCOHOL!
    Then they use hand cleanser as they walk out the door.
    
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    March 19, 2024 4:51pm
- Sacha
  
  From 80 you have to have a medical every 2 years to renew your licence. I have had 4 so far.
  The ‘test’ that really pisses me off is one conducted by a nurse (extra charge) when she does your blood pressure, and checks that you still know your way around the supermarket. It consists of a printed list of random words that has to be repeated back in order. If you can’t get at least half of them right, you are at risk of not getting your licence renewed.
  Who repeats lists of randomly chosen words ? Most of my life has been spent speaking clearly so that others can understand what I have to say.
  
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  March 19, 2024 11:07am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    You can drive cars in the supermarket? Who knew?//
    
    Ah, those randomly chosen words are like ‘them/they?’
    Sorry, could not resist – baaaa
    
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    March 19, 2024 4:55pm
- leoj
  
  How in hell is this NEWS.
  
  The study is completely and utterly useless.
  
  I hope it wasn’t done at taxpayers expense.
  
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  March 19, 2024 8:20pm
rouppe

My son is in his first year at Canterbury studying engineering.

Yesterday he sent me a picture of a module he had to do about his “privilege” and asking if he’d ever thought about his gender.

I am apoplectic. Not sure of an effective next step
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March 19, 2024 9:09am
- surfing
  
  Next step is to be taught Maori engineering. Generally that involves restricting engineering solutions because Maori don’t like them.
  
  At least, if Canterbury engineering is similar to Auckland Uni.
  
  It’s quite the joke.
  
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  March 19, 2024 9:33am
  - 70andstilllearning
    
    Only a matter of time before employers won’t “recognise” NZ uni technical type degrees – reminds me of the middle 1900’s ….
    
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    March 19, 2024 11:12am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Email the Uni and say it is classified information, and if you told them you would have to kill them.
  The reaction would be classic.
  
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  March 19, 2024 9:39am
  - rouppe
    
    The reaction to that would be a visit from the Police.
    
    Which is not what I need right now.
    
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    March 19, 2024 9:45am
- Grunter
  
  My advice – decide now if you want to fight it or not. Then it is the old FIFO rule “Fit In Or F… Off”.
  
  I’d suggest you’re not going to change these nutters – it’s too far gone. They never listen and you’ll be accused of being anti-gay, racist, a bigot, etc, etc. They will spew out a whole lot of virile nonsense.
  
  If it was me, I’d be out of there and find somewhere else (not in NZ) to study.
  
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  March 19, 2024 10:00am
- NothingLeft
  
  Transfer to an Australian Uni is only way out of this.
  
  I know a couple of past and present Canty uni engineering professors. They fucking hate this bullshit, but the woke regime makes it a career ending move to resist.
  
  The fix has to come from the govt. Defenestrate the University leadership (country wide) and appoint administrators who don’t come from the regressive authoritarian/marxist left and won’t tolerate their repressive Orwellian bullshit.
  
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  March 19, 2024 10:38am
  - Close Hen Counters
    
    A lot of our bright white kids are filling Australian medical schools then their hospitals at our peril – 40% intake for Maori/pacifica at Auckland medical school begs belief
    
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    March 19, 2024 1:10pm
- Tom Hunter
  
  Heh. My son did an engineering degree a few years ago and in one course they looked at engineering failures, including the loss of the Challenger space shuttle in 1986.
  
  One of the aspects covered was the lack of diversity in the engineering teams of the day – meaning too many white men like my son.
  
  Luckily he was more amused than offended as the lecturer looked to be close to rolling her eyes and was clearly following a script. Not to mention the many Asian students who audibly scoffed.
  
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  March 19, 2024 11:33am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Send a copy of the module to David Seymour (B.Eng) and pose the question as to why your tax-payer funds are propping up this nonsense>
  
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  March 19, 2024 12:31pm
Maggie Pie

You almost have to feel sorry for the Green Pardy 🙁
Chloe and the rest of those misfits haven’t been able to take a trick lately…

https://twitter.com/Thexmuslim/status/1769446370803400879

It must be like living in some sort of ‘Monty Python’ sketch?
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March 19, 2024 9:10am
- In Vino Veritas
  
  Hilarious!! Best Green takedown for a good while!! Loving your work Mags…
  
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  March 19, 2024 10:05am
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hIORt3_bgQ
Bad News For Big Mike.
Big Mike won’t save the Dems. They’re not going to win. Lies and spin from the MSM won’t do the trick. The MSM ‘bloodbath’ hoax hasn’t worked. [Maybe its time for another ‘sexual harrasment lawsuit? //]
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March 19, 2024 9:19am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I like the comment about Chinese cars. Trump will bang on a 100% tariff.
  
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  March 19, 2024 9:45am
- Grunter
  
  I can’t see any winning strategy for the Dems other than cheating. They are getting desperate as they go down in a ball of flames. Will they be so desperate that they somehow take Trump down with them? That would be total chaos for the US.
  
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  March 19, 2024 9:51am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    You can guarantee the Dems have thought of assassinating Trump.
    A desperate Dem is a nasty Dem.
    
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    March 19, 2024 12:00pm
  - sungsamning
    
    They could try refusing to certify the election on Jan 6th 2025.
    
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    March 19, 2024 5:08pm
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueamu6iFQQs
Marine Le Pen set to win French Elections!
Well, that’s a poll most of us hope is accurate.
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March 19, 2024 9:20am
Grunter

A decent article by Geoffrey Millar regards NZ-China relations.

https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/03/geoffrey-millar-wang-yis-perfectly.html

I would go even further and say NZ is uniquely positioned in this mad world to be a sensible moderator between the USA & China. A trusted ‘backdoor’ line of communication to keep the peace in the Asia-Pacific region.

To do that, however, we would have to be trusted as being completely neutral.
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March 19, 2024 9:34am
- Cassandra
  
  Completely neutral between an imperialistic Chinese dictatorship and an old democratic friend? Nonsense. And anyway, neither would pay much attention to NZ. We are small beer in the way of things.
  
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  March 19, 2024 9:53am
  - Grunter
    
    Democratic??? Which country are you talking about now?
    
    Friend??? – is that the one that we don’t have a Free Trade Agreement with?
    
    Imperialistic???? – is that China and/or the US??
    
    Yep, we are “small beer”. So when the big boys act stupid and get lippy about their guns, you do what?
    
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    March 19, 2024 3:49pm
- Master Mariner
  
  Could not agree more.
  
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  March 19, 2024 2:58pm
Suze Wainwright

I saw a couple of public servants laughing during their karakia at team meeting this morning.

I think I might report them.
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March 19, 2024 9:48am
Maggie Pie

Friends of ours have lived in St Stephens Ave for over 20 years.
For the first time ever, their beautiful new Aston was vandalised last month
when they went to dinner at their fave restaurant on Parnell Rd.
Ever since the ‘Cracroft & Beresford Apartments’ became part of KO’s stable,
the hood has gone to the pack.

We never go up there at night anymore. Businesses are losing millions of dollars and the poor owners don’t know where to turn.
Every approach to Kaianga Ora to sort the shit out is always met with the same response…”It’s a police matter. Call them”

https://twitter.com/NewshubPolitics/status/1769783606472556984
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March 19, 2024 9:48am
- Cassandra
  
  Putting KO clients into St Stephens Ave was a stroke of genius. Not. What moron could have thought this up? Some of the most expensive land in NZ ruined.
  
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  March 19, 2024 9:56am
  - Cassandra
    
    Correction, the apartments are nowhere near St Stephens Ave.
    
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    March 19, 2024 10:02am
- imalwaysright
  
  Premier House is on 1.5 hectares. Ripe for a KO development.
  I’m sure the locals would love the influx of diversity !
  
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  March 19, 2024 10:12am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Hectic! 😀
    
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    March 19, 2024 10:40am
    - imalwaysright
      
      You can almost smell that delicious indigenous kai simmering gently, and hear the soft lilt of songs of aroha accompanied by the muted strains of the nose flute.
      
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      March 19, 2024 12:44pm
  - mandk
    
    You could get a lot of houses on that site.
    
    A 0.1 Ha section near where I live is going to be developed with 13 houses on it.
    
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    March 19, 2024 12:49pm
- surfing
  
  Saying it’s a police matter, or it’s a council matter, is equivalent to telling the complaint to bugger off.
  
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  March 19, 2024 10:43am
- Keith White
  
  They really need one of these installed
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLhWzMOccTg
  
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  March 19, 2024 11:27am
- Close Hen Counters
  
  I think there was a lady interviewed on the Hosking show this morning about this – sorry can’t remember her name … president of Parnell business owners something or rather – was driving on motorway with laser focus
  
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  March 19, 2024 1:15pm
  - Jethrod
    
    Obviously driving a….
    F…..ix
    O….r
    R…..repair
    D…..aily
    
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    March 19, 2024 1:46pm
surfing

The case of the 2 brothers who tussled with the Thai police officer is interesting.

Thailand is a nation of corrupt cops. Bribery is expected to escape fabricated breaches of law.

Could one’s legal defence be that Thailand is a corrupt nation with dodgy cops and these brothers were fearing for their safety?

Presumably these brothers have lived pretty respectable lives to this point and there is no obvious explanation as to why they’d suddenly act out of character (unless I am wrong about that). Whatever the case, their world has changed for the worse.
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March 19, 2024 9:55am
- sirknz
  
  Surely if you were going to bribe an official, you would wait till they weren’t recording on their phone?
  
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  March 19, 2024 10:02am
- MCōs
  
  Those guys first mistake was thinking they were superior to the local bobby and not stopping when told to.
  
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  March 19, 2024 10:18am
  - surfing
    
    I don’t think the local Thai bobby is reputationally equivalent to the traditional view of the UK bobby.
    
    But, yes, they should have just stopped, paid the bribe, and enjoyed the rest of their holiday.
    
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    March 19, 2024 10:47am
    - kowtow
      
      I suspect given the number of Met Plods going up on the most serious of charges that ole Robert Peel would be turning in his grave.
      
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      March 19, 2024 12:28pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  They better hope when the police do a forensic search of their hotel rooms they don’t turn up any mysterious white powder 🙁
  
  We went to Thailand 10 years ago. Would never go back there now either. My partner got accused of damaging a JetSki (he didn’t) and got threatened unless he forked out 7000 baht for repairs they’d call the police.
  
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  March 19, 2024 10:18am
  - MCōs
    
    That’s a common scam
    
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    March 19, 2024 1:24pm
    - Maggie Pie
      
      My partner showed them anyway!
      Gave the guy 7000 baht and a 500 tip 😀 😀 😀
      
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      March 19, 2024 2:04pm
- NothingLeft
  
  Naive Kiwis need to have a short course in how to bribe people before visiting the more colorful parts of the world.
  
  In most cases you will be given an opportunity early on to buy your way out of trouble before it comes to too much official attention. But once it does get sufficient notice the system has to make an example out of you to maintain illusion of legitimacy.
  
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  March 19, 2024 10:31am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Their parents were backers of Colin Craig some years back
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/millionaires-give-craig-675000/IBKHWOFAHUUZYKHVHNLXIHPVOU/
  
  https://thai.news/news/thailand/new-zealand-brothers-oscar-and-hamish-day-face-lifetime-ban-from-thailand-after-phuket-high-speed-chase-drama
  
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  March 19, 2024 10:54am
  - Bobba Fret
    
    What has happened to Colin Craig these days?
    
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    March 19, 2024 11:10am
    - Maggie Pie
      
      Hasn’t even been on FB for over 8 years 😀
      
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      March 19, 2024 11:30am
BananaLlama

Someone get Luxon on the line and tell him he is in charge of National and not New Zealand First. He seems to be confused over what he is about.
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March 19, 2024 10:01am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Listen to what he said yesterday, and not media bulkshit, he said Peters spoke as leader of NZF, and they are not words I would have chosen, he said I will have a word, but he won’t, hardly poking his nose into NZF agenda
  
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  March 19, 2024 12:46pm
  - Paulus
    
    Well it was advertised as a NZ First meeting by Winston Peters – so !
    
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    March 19, 2024 2:03pm
- MCōs
  
  Winston Peters is deputy PM and Minister of Foreign Affairs and should be in sync with the actual PM, but the latter needs his seats
  
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  March 19, 2024 1:56pm
Lee C

Wonderous! Hipkins, who acted so dictatorially during covid – and was part of a gang which sent the police in to burn, beat and arrest protesters can accuse others of being dictatorial, and this is reported uncritically by the media, as if it’s the judgement of a nobel-laureate?

Meanwhile someone like Peters will get a media pile-on for warning people about dictatorial behaviour?

And isn’t it fantastic how politicians on the left can accuses their opponents of being ‘Hitler’ with hardly a murmur of dissent from the press,?

Yet when a politician on the right makes similar remarks the levels of faux-outrage go off the scale.

Ah well, it makes a change from being outraged about Trump, I suppose.
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March 19, 2024 10:15am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

I seem to have forgotten this yesterday.
Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

TOW Comic for High School Students Part 20.
Link to the James Freeman rogue Treaty is there.

https://stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/analysis-treaty-of-waitangi-comic-for-high-school-students-has-been-quietly-brainwashing-away-since-2018-part-20/
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March 19, 2024 10:39am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

TOW Comic analogy Part 21.

https://stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/analysis-treaty-of-waitangi-comic-for-high-school-students-has-been-quietly-brainwashing-away-since-2018-part-21/
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March 19, 2024 10:47am
Maggie Pie

You do have to wonder sometimes how poor old Superannuitants get by.
Something I’d never even thort about till my partner’s mum mentioned it.

She just got back from the Supermarket. Phoned to ask if I realised….. that a bag of ‘Lemon Sparkle FINISH Dishwasher Powerballs’ now costs the equivalent of 10% of a weeks super!

How can some people even afford to eat?
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March 19, 2024 11:15am
- pdm
  
  Maggie tell her to try Crackerjacks and then cut the tablets in half.
  
  Crackerjacks are far cheaper than the supermarket for dishwasher tablets.
  
  We were advised to cut the tablets in half by an appliance serviceman after our dishwasher flooded – works a treat..
  
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  March 19, 2024 11:58am
- Benedict Yu
  
  I budget $6 per month.
  
  https://www.countdown.co.nz/shop/productdetails?stockcode=183866&name=shine-10-in-1-dishwasher-tablets-lemon
  
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  March 19, 2024 12:06pm
- mandk
  
  Mrs Mandk doesn’t have any dishwasher problems.
  
  She has someone who does all the dishes by hand.
  
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  March 19, 2024 12:45pm
BeaB

Just talk to tradies about the shocking deliberate damage and filth they have to fix some new state houses, often within weeks of the tenant moving in.
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March 19, 2024 12:31pm
sirknz

Not sure how to feel about this one.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crime/preventative-detention-ordered-for-frequent-prisoner-rene-thomas-who-tortured-raped-auckland-cellmate/ABXGTBVJNJDMZABOIFXFOGX5RM/

Guy beat and raped his cellmate over several months. Gave him PTSD and all sorts of trauma related issues.

The cellmate is in prison for child sex offences. Cellmate states that he now has ongoing trauma.

So do any kids you may have interacted with.

I still think we should be putting kiddy fiddlers through the woodchipper at a slow speed.
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March 19, 2024 12:31pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  I know how to think about it. The state cannot sanction what happened to that prisoner based on the nature of his crimes. In New Zealand the most severe punishment that can be imposed is imprisonment. We should not be celebrating prisoners torturing and raping other prisoners. I would be happy to see this guy locked up in solitary for life.
  
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  March 19, 2024 1:09pm
  - Libertarians are right
    
    You are correct of course.
    
    It is concerning however that the punishment for raping a paedo seems greater than the punishment for child sex offences.
    
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    March 19, 2024 1:56pm
    - Jack5
      
      The State shouldn’t surrender to convicts the State’s right to punish criminals.
      
      Otherwise it will be like two horrible precedents:
      
      – Stalinists’ use of common criminals to rule over and punish other inmates of the Gulag – inmates who were overwhelmingly imprisoned for political crimes.
      
      – The use of kapo’s, selected concentration camp inmates, to control, torture, and kill other inmates.
      
      Judith Collins, when Corrections Minister in 2009, welcomed a decision allowing “double bunking” – confining prisoners two to a cell.
      
      The prisoner officers’ union opposed the move, and in November 2021 it was reported there had been more than 150 allegations of sexual assault in New Zealand prisons in the previous five years.
      
      Number 12 of the “Mandela Rules,” the United Nations standard on imprisonment, says:
      
      “Where sleeping accommodation is in individual cells or rooms, each prisoner shall occupy by night a cell or room by himself or herself. If for special reasons, such as temporary overcrowding, it becomes necessary for the central prison administration to make an exception to this rule, it is not desirable to have two prisoners in a cell or room.”
      
      A 2021 report on sexual assault in NZ prisons:
      
      https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/retraumatised-calls-for-prison-double-bunking-to-be-axed-as-new-data-shows-level-of-sex-assault/TB4OLA6YQKQVI74EA5PCDBC7VI/
      
      Then-Minister of Corrections Collins welcomes double-bunking judgment:
      
      https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/minister-welcomes-double-bunking-judgment
      
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      March 19, 2024 3:48pm
Maggie Pie

People with knowledge of the matter who have spoken on the condition of anonymity….. are saying GST will rise to 17.5% in September.
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March 19, 2024 12:43pm
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, from Luxon’s lips this morning..’there will be no new taxes’. A bit of GST history.
  
  ‘GST was introduced on 1 October 1986 by the Minister of Finance, Roger Douglas at a rate of 10% on goods and services. It replaced existing sales taxes for goods and services. In 1989 GST was increased, again an action initiated by the Labour Party with Deputy Prime Minister, Helen Clark and Prime Minister, Geoffrey Palmer taking GST to 12.5%.[4] 21 years on in 2010, GST was raised again by the National Party’s Prime Minister, John Key, taking GST to 15%.
  
  GST was introduced in conjunction with compensating changes to personal income tax rates and removal of many excise taxes on imported goods’.
  
  I recall Key said he didn’t campaign on an increase but then he looked at the books. Our books now are immensely worse than 2010.
  
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  March 19, 2024 1:44pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Chistopher has always said JK was his mentor.
    
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    March 19, 2024 2:01pm
    - Jethrod
      
      Michael Joseph Savage is the seer and mentor of every Labour politician since forever, and look where that has got them and us. He would be spinning in his grave.
      
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      March 19, 2024 4:54pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Did Michael Savage ever think that a Labour PM could ever do what has been done to NZ in the past 6 years?
        Two different animals.
        
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        March 19, 2024 5:47pm
- Paulus
  
  Been said by financial people for some years to go to 17.5%.
  Many other countries are much higher and personal taxes can be reduced correspondingly.
  
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  March 19, 2024 2:06pm
  - Ra Henare
    
    and of course a lot of countries lower than 17.5%
    
    There is a quote. One swallow doesnt make a summer.
    
    How about
    one metic(GST) doesnt provide a solution(economic)
    
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    March 19, 2024 3:13pm
    - MCōs
      
      Apparently the rate in Hungary is 27%. Highest in the world
      UK is 20%, although there are cheaper rates for different categories such as kids clothes and food
      Makes sense for a country that changed to the metric system of weights and measures except for miles for distance and feet and inches for people’s height
      
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      March 19, 2024 4:39pm
- Tom Hunter
  
  I’ve been saying for years that this would happen after English did it for “revenue neutrality”. Considering that a lot of Euro VAT’s (basically a GST) are at 20% I figure that’s where we’ll end up.
  
  Oh, and BTW, Labour will reverse any other tax cuts next time but not GST, so once again this is just helping the State to grow larger.
  
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  March 19, 2024 3:02pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Tax is theft by stealth. You pay or do not have the life of your choice,
  
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  March 19, 2024 5:51pm
mandk

Isn’t Islam wonderful?

Seems that FGM is one of the virtues of the faith: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2024/03/gambian-parliament-debates-bill-to-lift-ban-on-female-genital-mutilation.html
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March 19, 2024 1:30pm
- Inandout
  
  man, rather akin to gender mutilation of boys.
  
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  March 19, 2024 3:35pm
  - mandk
    
    Only superficially so.
    
    Circumcision in boys involves only the removal of the foreskin and it has little, if any, impact on sexual enjoyment and the other functioning of the penis.
    
    So-called female circumcision generally involves removal of the clitoris and, hence, greatly diminished capacity for sexual enjoyment. It often also involves infibulation, which can cause a range of problems, including difficulty urinating, menstrual problems, and difficult labour.
    
    I was snipped as an infant, for therapeutic reasons, and I am sure that virtually all women who have been mutilated wouldn’t regard it as comparable to FGM.
    
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    March 19, 2024 4:41pm
    - Inandout
      
      I was referring to chopping to make a boy a girl, not circumcision.
      
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      March 19, 2024 8:55pm
Maggie Pie

Here’s the vid they didn’t want you to see…

The Dems are doing everything they can to destroy Trumpy 🙁

https://tiktok.com/@punisher_23_shadow/video/7347385262978157866
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March 19, 2024 1:56pm
- MCōs
  
  Former President Trump is in the shit looking for ready cash and it’s everyone else’s fault
  Do they have Fair Go in America?
  He’s unable to get $464m bond in New York fraud case, his lawyers say https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68600093
  
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  March 19, 2024 4:24pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    My partner said months ago when it was live on telly…..
    “You only have to look at the head on that Judge Engoron to see Trumpy’s f**ked”
    
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    March 19, 2024 4:51pm
    - Jethrod
      
      Oh , looks like that wicked uncle we all had!!
      
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      March 19, 2024 4:58pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Watch.
    Would you play poker with this man?
    Think before you answer MCos.
    
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    March 19, 2024 6:08pm
Ra Henare

Thank You New Zealand.
For putting on a sunny day.

I arrived back in the the land of “”clean and cold”” yesterday lunch time.

I allowed extra time to clear immigration/customs due to an item I read about a week or so about how long it took to get processed.

Either that was a oncer, mis information or cause of change.

When I cam back to Auckland in 2022 the plane was about 25% full. Everyone had to wear a mask and be surrounded by empty seats.

Processing on arrival was slow and bureaucratic and very slow to get to the doors to the outside (nearly 2 hours)

This time flight 99% full, of which only a handful of non brown faces.. The guy I sat next to was an ARAB from Dubai, travelling on a NZ passport and fluent in Kiwi!!!!

Yesterday arrival was fantastic. Lots of electronic immigration gates. No waiting.
Then to a set of screen people to see if I had anything to declare. again no waiting quick processing.

Got an express sticker, then to go get my bag and to the new Express clearance lane. No bag xray, just a wee doggie sniffing me and my bag.

Then streetside all in less than 20 minutes(from immigration to streetside)

Well done Auckland airport.

Now to rediscover what real kiwis(guys at the pub and family) think about whats happening in the land of the long white shroud and xl women.

Guessing it might be different to the view of many commenters on KB.
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March 19, 2024 2:02pm
- Swifty
  
  What an egg.
  
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  March 19, 2024 2:48pm
  - Ra Henare
    
    Fried is best! Along with Bacon 🙂
    
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    March 19, 2024 11:27pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  WELCOME HOME RA!
  
  Assume you must be over South Auckland way?
  Come for a browse around Remmers if your thang is XS women 😛
  
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  March 19, 2024 3:00pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Immigration to streetside was to the shuttle/taxi rank right?
  
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  March 19, 2024 6:11pm
  - Ra Henare
    
    Interterminal bus actually
    
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    March 19, 2024 11:27pm
Maggie Pie

Just been reminded that tomorrow will be 150 days since
the murder of baby Ru in a Kaianga Ora tenement.
Police know who the suspects are but it’s all gone very quiet. What a disgrace.
Didn’t they send a team all the way to Seoul to arrest a woman there
for killing her children. Taita is only round the corner from PHQ.
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March 19, 2024 4:37pm
Ghost

Another ~~fine upstanding citizen~~ coming back to New Zealand

A judge described the footage of a Kiwi man kicking and punching his Australian partner as “chilling”.

That Kiwi man, Tahu Ford Brooke, will now be deported back to Aotearoa after failing to appeal his visa cancellation at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal of Australia.

Article
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March 19, 2024 4:46pm
- greybeard
  
  Another example of superior DNA returns to improve the NZ gene pool.
  
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  March 19, 2024 4:51pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Baaaahhhh!!!!!
    
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    March 19, 2024 6:14pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  When you read the deportation Judgement, at least he has a brother here.
  
  Only probem is….. he’s in prison.
  
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  March 19, 2024 4:59pm
  - Ghost
    
    Wonder how long before they have a family reunion, probably not too long.
    
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    March 19, 2024 5:16pm
- lifesgood
  
  Thank goodness he’s not coming back to New Zealand.
  
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  March 19, 2024 7:02pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/350218680/joe-biden-wears-wide-sole-trainers-after-series-falls
Clown shoes would probably be more appropriate.
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March 19, 2024 5:54pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Where can I get these?
  New carpet in the house and it’s very bouncy. Just wearing light socks to stop banging into the walks. Partner says I am drunk – really Ms Partner?
  
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  March 19, 2024 6:20pm
than

1Ewes doing a big hit job on Winston tonight.
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March 19, 2024 6:05pm
- Inandout
  
  than, we record the Chase every night and tonight I let the video roll onto One news for about 4 minutes. From the te reo opening it was as you say a hit on Winston, how Luxon will tell him off for his ‘nazi references. Then FGS they started on Winston’s theme music at the venue and how the musicians involved wrote it ‘to be positive, not negative like NZFirst’. I have the feeling this will increase NZF’s polling.
  
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  March 19, 2024 9:04pm
Maggie Pie

2 things while i’m waiting to get the desert out of the oven….

1. An EV has just exploded into flames on the Northern Motoeway.

2. And as taxpayers, why are we expected to put up with all this continued time-wasting shit from Chloe and the rest of those green retarded retards in parliament?
They are totaly irravlent to normal peoplez lifes!
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