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artemisia

Oh dear, Wellington mayor Tory Whanau on the front page again, and (again) not in a good way.

Wellington Mayor Tory Whanau has missed half of Wellington International Airport’s board meetings in the past year, due to clashes with other meetings. Who would have thought that not turning up when there is potentially $278mill on the table under her watch is in the slightest bit sensible.

I guess ratepayers will look at the meetings Ms Whanau did attend instead and make their own assessment. Like the audit and risk committee meeting. Seriously?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wellington-mayor-tory-whanau-missed-half-of-airport-board-meetings-in-past-year/XCAPTI3SUFFH5MT24H3ZBIJZ3Y/
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May 16, 2024 8:06am
- Dudley Quaffquaff
  
  What value do you think would have been created from her attending more of the board meetings?
  
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  May 16, 2024 8:09am
- Cassandra
  
  I doubt very much that she was missed. Just what contribution would she have made?
  
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  May 16, 2024 8:09am
- G152
  
  But but but the peasants should be on their knees happy at the infrequent presence of her highness
  
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  May 16, 2024 8:20am
- Kiwiguy
  
  I can’t for the life of me understand how she ever became Mayor. She’s such a juvenile, unprofessional, unqualified, incompetent fool.
  Why are people so blind??
  
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  May 16, 2024 8:22am
  - sirknz
    
    Wellington voters.
    
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    May 16, 2024 10:18am
    - AitchW
      
      Green voters.
      
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      May 16, 2024 8:51pm
  - Random T Person
    
    Maori chick bro, diveersity dividend ideal for Wellingtonians. Just walk the streets, you’ll understand.
    
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    May 16, 2024 10:29am
  - RoboRob
    
    Green
    
    So long as you are associated with that word you have a gauranteed voter base. In Wellington thats a bigger base then anywhere else in the country.
    
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    May 16, 2024 10:29am
  - Matt Long
    
    DEI Trumps all else in the public service.
    
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    May 16, 2024 10:35am
  - PurplePen
    
    Word is current two green Party leaders went round tertiary sites and signed up a whole lot of students and told or councilled them to vote for Tory. Soc Media campaigns used also. Because so few vote normally she easily won.
    
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    May 16, 2024 10:40am
  - ChrisB
    
    I believe she got in because of STV voting and she only got in after the bottom half of candidates were eliminated. Preferential voting, the problem is, voters think they need to rank all candidates, but ONLY NEED TO RANK THE ONES YOU WANT, not all them
    
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    May 16, 2024 11:03am
    - septic skeptic
      
      If you rank all of them, last is last. What’s your point?
      
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      May 16, 2024 12:55pm
  - Maggie's partner
    
    I suspect it’s a simple case of dyslexia being more widespread than many people realise. Folks were planning to vote Tory….
    
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    May 16, 2024 11:23am
  - Stellaboxer
    
    “ Why are people so blind” Because she is everything that the handwringing progressive lefty needs to make themselves feel good, soothe their guilt complex and convince themselves they’re not racists really.
    
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    May 16, 2024 11:38am
  - Kiwiguy
    
    Thanks all, I suspect all your answers are correct.
    I’ve employed a lot of people over the years, and she wouldn’t even reach interview stage for me.
    And yet she’s a Mayor! It just beggars belief.
    
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    May 16, 2024 2:51pm
- Scott
  
  Is she just not up to the job?
  
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  May 16, 2024 8:25am
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    Maybe she just didn’t think the job would be so, you know, boring…?
    
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    May 16, 2024 9:49am
- Gravelroad
  
  I suspect that one meeting is very much like another for Ms Whanau.
  Pick and mix.
  
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  May 16, 2024 8:40am
  - Chris Nisbet
    
    Maybe some have better biscuits than others?
    
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    May 16, 2024 8:56am
    - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
      
      Or better drinkies after?
      
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      May 16, 2024 9:20am
  - Stellaboxer
    
    Maybe she just goes to the meetings with drinks afterwards.
    
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    May 16, 2024 11:40am
- Ehlana
  
  The audit and risk committee may sound silly to you but yes, the mayor should be aware of issues arising from independent review of Council (audit) and of risks the city is facing. Thinking about potential issues before hand and making plans to manage them is much better than not having a clue.
  
  But I doubt those Committee meet much more than monthly, so my question would be, why isn’t the scheduling better? I know there will be many people to co-ordinate, but the Mayor being able to attend is important.
  
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  May 16, 2024 8:42am
  - artemisia
    
    Maybe there are minutes and before / after briefings.
    
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    May 16, 2024 8:49am
  - wsk12345
    
    Maybe she is so crap they try to schedule them so she can’t attend! Some peoples attendance take away rather than adds to the usefulness of the meeting.
    
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    May 16, 2024 8:51am
  - jkt
    
    And one cannot seriously expect her to schedule anything.
    Tori and awareness in one sentence. Ha, ha
    
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    May 16, 2024 9:03am
  - pdm
    
    The burning question is:
    
    Would she (Mayor Tori) have a clue even if she attended?
    
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    May 16, 2024 9:06am
    - imalwaysright
      
      Should have had the meetings in the Koru lounge.
      
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      May 16, 2024 9:29am
    - Gravelroad
      
      As mayor of a capital city, Ms Whanau will have staff organising her official diary and alerting her to meeting and event scheduling daily.
      They will probably be informing her (in a gentle and respectful manner) which meetings and events should take priority for her attendance.
      This happens even in small town Councils.
      Ms Whanau will be picking and choosing which meetings she wants to attend, ignoring the others and blaming “scheduling”.
      
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      May 16, 2024 10:13am
      - Ra Henare
        
        The main question I have.
        She is just one vote on the board. Would she be able to change anything even if she was smart & qualified???
        
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        May 16, 2024 6:25pm
- peterwn
  
  She is probably only there to collect the Directors fees which are generally not dependent on meeting attendance. If she cannot discharge her duties as a director properly she should not be on the Board.
  By the way, wonder if the lease of the new Council accommodation allows dogs in the Mayoral suite.
  
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  May 16, 2024 8:51am
  - ChrisB
    
    Why can a person like this collect the fee when she is being paid by Welly voters to be mayor? This should be part of her job. A bit like Jamie Arbuckle in Marlborough being paid as an MP and a Marlborough District Councillor. Double dipping.
    
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    May 16, 2024 11:05am
- Right of way is Way of Right
  
  Well, someone might ask questions, or ask for accountability….
  
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  May 16, 2024 9:02am
- Clyde
  
  She is basically representative of Wellington. Either Wellington deserve her, or she got there by nefarious means. I don’t believe the latter.
  
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  May 16, 2024 9:07am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  artemisia – Whanau is the typical representative of the brainless mob who elected her. Wellington deserves every bit of her. The local body elections are a huge joke. They need to be changed so that it is also fought along party lines to stop nutters becoming mayors.
  
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  May 16, 2024 9:13am
  - septic skeptic
    
    U broke character!
    
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    May 16, 2024 1:15pm
- Simon
  
  Wellington has an international airport!?! What the fuck.
  
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  May 16, 2024 9:17am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Comment of the day, surely.
    
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    May 16, 2024 9:32am
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    Yes Simon – Voted the best airport in the world by Wellingtonians who vote for Greens.
    
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    May 16, 2024 11:22am
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  The Company constitution will be interesting. Most say if you miss 3 meetings in a year without written permission from the Chair, you will be retired.
  
  Its important. Boards are governance teams, they have to work together, and to decide together to ensure that the company is successful.
  
  Being “too important” to bother turning up simply, once again demonstrates that Whanau is lazy and simply not up to the job.
  
  Bloody embarassing, but fortunately it confirms that the Airport is simply not important to Council. Sell the shares, let people who want to run a successful airport own it.
  
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  May 16, 2024 9:20am
  - peterwn
    
    Fortunately that is the attitude of Infratil who owns two-thirds of the shares and who effectively appoints most of the Board.
    
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    May 16, 2024 11:07am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Nice gig… getting paid for doing stuff all.
  
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/516931/hamilton-councillor-melaina-huaki-quit-after-being-queried-about-regular-absences
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/suspended-green-mp-has-now-missed-half-of-this-years-sitting-of-parliament-on-full-pay/SVCTAKDPFRFHDGG3ZDLZLR5V7U/
  
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  May 16, 2024 9:49am
- virtualmark
  
  The problem is that they don’t serve wine at the board meetings.
  
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  May 16, 2024 10:38am
- all true
  
  Whoever vote for the Wellington Council, all what they are deserving in form of unfit and useless council, nothing less or more.
  
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  May 16, 2024 11:29am
- Stellaboxer
  
  I believe that unfortunately the rad hipster voters of Wellington will see it as a personal failure on her part rather than a failure due to the type of person that subscribes to her politics so if she were to go they would just vote in another out of their depth clown to take her place. They deserve everything they get.
  
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  May 16, 2024 11:31am
Chuck Bird

This is the reason I started my petition to Parliament regarding discharge without conviction. Please sign if you have not already.

I also think law regarding infanticide needs a look at.

“Unlike murder, which carries a life sentence, infanticide carries a maximum sentence of three years’ imprisonment.

The law, which has been in place for more than seven decades, is applicable when a mother causes the death of her child under 10 years old “and where at the time of the offence the balance of her mind was disturbed, by reason of her not having fully recovered from the effect of giving birth to that or any other child, or by reason of the effect of lactation”.

Auckland nurse who drowned her 15-week-old baby daughter wants to practise again

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-nurse-who-drowned-her-15-week-old-baby-daughter-wants-to-practise-again/4QEEBVXHD5DHLIZLRMVENUDDO4/?lid=dvfvtzr56ljq
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May 16, 2024 8:09am
- Matt Long
  
  Not every person who experiences exhaustion, hormonal upheaval, depression or even psychosis decides the solution is to kill their child.
  So yes I believe a conviction was appropriate in this case.
  I note a recent case of animal neglect by a sharefarmer in Northland, where all parties concerned decided to leave farming, and all directions by authorities were followed, resulted in convictions being entered for the farm owners for failing to monitor their experienced sharefarmer closely enough.
  
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  May 16, 2024 8:30am
- Debsta
  
  Agreed Chuck. It seems bizarre to me that we have a specific law reducing a mother’s duty of care to her child. Like Lauren Dickason, this woman could have spoken to her family, sought help, or indeed just walked away. She didn’t. She had choices, her child did not.
  
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  May 16, 2024 8:51am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    Should a woman be banned from being an MP for 3 years after having a child?
    
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    May 16, 2024 10:05am
    - Gravelroad
      
      Should a man be banned from being an MP for 3 years after becoming a father?
      
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      May 16, 2024 10:16am
      - softail 1450
        
        Gravelroad,should MPs be banned for 3 years for being untalented fools ? if yes the cleaners will be running the country for 36 months.
        
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        May 16, 2024 2:00pm
Matt Long

Ahh the magical bison, a gross of them saves us from two million cars, and their methane doesn’t sink stink or cause the climate crisis, why don’t people farm them instead of sheep and cattle?
The climate narrative, it’s all total bison excrement.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/15/bison-romania-tarcu-2m-cars-carbon-dioxide-emissions-aoe
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May 16, 2024 8:09am
- Matt Long
  
  Meanwhile in NZ the Aussies are smiling again from Labour giving them 140 million of taxpayer money to convert to electric arc steel making. (Remember Toll’s gift from Cullen?)
  How extremely fortunate there no shortage of electricity generation in NZ, and power is getting ever cheaper.
  Government is having to decide whether to reduce carbon units available as a result or let the price of units fall, which would unfortunately lower prices for consumers.
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/516908/carbon-credit-supply-might-need-to-be-cut-as-efficient-furnace-comes-online
  
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  May 16, 2024 8:18am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    It is a bit of a rock and hard place situation. 🙁
    
    Consumers are going to pay through energy prices or via the government paying Belarus and Pakistan billions of dollars. If consumers get a break on lower prices, the government just needs to pay Belarus and Pakistan a couple of billion more. 😒
    
    Of course, the average punter has no clue that any of this is happening.
    
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    May 16, 2024 9:03am
    - Ra Henare
      
      It seems to me BY that you are inferring that the Governments of places like Belarus and Pakistan are racking in the big bucks from places like NZ.
      
      My understanding is that its “”projects”” that get the money. Not the Governments directly.
      
      I found this UN sponsored list.
      https://offset.climateneutralnow.org/AllProjects
      
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      May 16, 2024 6:31pm
  - Dudley Quaffquaff
    
    This is a bit like the problem known to many an office manager. If the staff know that the result of their being efficient and finding ways to save costs, will be that next year their budget is cut – they will be disincentivised to look for savings and instead make sure that they spend every last penny or even a bit more.
    
    In the case of the carbon units, the Government should stick to previously scheduled levels, and environmental groups should take advantage of any price reductions to buy and promptly shred as many units as they can. No other use of money will get more emissions reduction per dollar.
    
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    May 16, 2024 9:16am
    - lifesgood
      
      You are so right. I worked in a high school where teachers all went on a spending frenzy at the end of the year, often buying things they didn’t need, just to make sure they spent every last cent of their budget.
      
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      May 16, 2024 11:00am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Can you put a bison in a truck, take it to the freezing works to be processed, then eat it?
  Where does all the CO2 go then?
  That is what NZ farming is all about, creating food.
  A bison is a bovine, so how come beef steers (food) don’t store CO2?
  
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  May 16, 2024 9:00am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    If you read the article, it is apparantly about what the bisen do to the ecosystem. It is not about methane from the bisen. The article does say that the study has not been peer reviewed, so who knows?
    
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    May 16, 2024 9:06am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      I must admit I skimmed through it
      
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      May 16, 2024 1:18pm
- cmm
  
  This is no different to experiences with cattle in Africa.
  
  Running cattle helps improve the land, improving the soil, improving the plant life etc etc. This is supposed to be a good thing for CO2 because the soil improvement means the soil is picking up, and trapping, carbon.
  
  But there’s the whole methane angle that is being ignored here.
  
  Cattle and bison do not make methane. Is is the bacteria in their gut that does that. Essentially, mammals (as well as many other animals) are just a compost heaps surrounded by a tube of meat. That includes you.
  
  The number of bacteria cells in your body vastly outnumbers the number of human cells. Same for any mammal.
  
  When you eat, the bacteria are really doing the food processing and your stomach lining (ie. the meat tube) just absorbs some of the resulting nutrients.
  
  The biological processes of those bacteria are much the same whether they are in a cow, a bison, you, your back yard compost heap or the leaf litter on the forest floor.
  
  There really is nothing magic about bison.
  
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  May 16, 2024 9:20am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    IIRC Bisen produce much less methane than dairy cows.
    
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    May 16, 2024 9:35am
    - cmm
      
      “Bison produce less methane than dairy cows”
      No they produce exactly the same: zero.
      
      It is the bacteria in the animals that make the methane.
      
      If they are fed differently this results in different bacterial activity. On the same feed the biological processes are close to identical.
      
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      May 16, 2024 9:50am
    - Matt Long
      
      BY, methane production depends on diet, the make up of gut microbes, and feed consumption.
      A very high producing dairy cow will eat more than a beef animal on the same diet and conceivably produce more methane, on the other hand it’s producing food.
      
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      May 16, 2024 10:42am
    - jkt
      
      What does it take to convince Yu?
      
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      May 16, 2024 3:03pm
  - wsk12345
    
    Here’s something g interesting (I asked ChatGPT)
    
    Cattle fed grain typically produce more methane than those fed grass. This is because grain-based diets can lead to more fermentation in the rumen, which increases methane production. Grass-based diets, on the other hand, can result in less methane emissions from cattle.
    
    So our cattle who get zero or very minimal tip up grain are again better than those on feedlots in much of the world…
    
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      Chat gpt is preprogrammed to be woke just like facebook ai and the new micosoft version.
      
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      May 16, 2024 1:24pm
cmm

Over the last year we have lost 70,000 – mostly our finest – and gained 20,000 – mostly potential Uber drivers.

Productive people are a small % of the work force and for each of them another 5 to 10 people depend on them to make low skilled jobs, pay the benefit, prop up ACC etc.

So, effectively we’ve lost something like the productivity of the whole of a city the size of Christchurch.

There was some hope amongst the talking heads that people would wait to see what the new government would change to slow down this flight. I think that is not much of a hope:
* The salary differentials with Australia are huge. For government jobs, there is no way the government is going to come anywhere near matching the differential. The haggling over the police pay is in the 5% region – not the 30 to 50% region.
* The government has had 6 months and has not been making the right noises. We’re not looking for tiny tweaks, we need radical changes.

One of the biggest factors in the private sector is the continuing encroachment of Aotearoa.

We need foreign investment and local investors prepared to make long term investments in businesses, factories etc. What are we doing to make NZ attractive to them? Nothing.

Instead we’ve seen increasing hostility against business. With a sinking education system and rising crime the productive workforce is leaving and the potential investors realise there skill base is shrinking. Therefore we end up in a death spiral.

The most basic thing that the government can do is nip the Aotearoa nonsense in the bud. It is fine for a bit of cultural flavour in the tourist industry but not for everything else.

We cannot use Maori science and such to drive businesses and run factories. We’re competing in the 2020s, not the stone age.

This insanity must stop or we’ll soon be in PNG territory.

It is easy to dismiss white voices as “racist’. 90%+ of Maori also know what side our bread is buttered on. They need to speak up.

Let’s acknowledge Maoridom/Maori values as a cultural value. Like Morris dancing etc. But let’s not use if for something it is entirely unsuited to.
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May 16, 2024 8:21am
- softail 1450
  
  CMM ,people who don’t think there’s an inbuilt bias towards all Māori outcomes should ask themselves if it would be acceptable for the coalition government to insist on a 20% cut in the Waitangi Tribunal staff numbers ,of course it would be acceptable but everyone with a pulse knows it’s not going to happen, ever, sounds fair aye ?
  
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  May 16, 2024 8:51am
  - Paulus
    
    But the Waitangi Tribunal is an advisory Board for Treaty Settlements only and not a Government Department, so sweet fa to do with Government except who pays them all, particularly their many Consultants and Lawyers.
    Needs to be paired down to its real role, and stop trying to be an Over Government Role – which it is not and never will be.
    
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    May 16, 2024 11:31am
  - cmm
    
    I would be happy with a 100% cut.
    
    The Treaty stuff keeps us stuck in a time warp. If anything, things have gone backwards in the 32 years I have lived here.
    
    There’s the ongoing threat of nationalisation and loss of property rights. Why would anyone want to invest in NZ?
    
    Building factories or businesses is a long term deal. You don’t worry about National or Labour. You look at the whole long term picture, including:
    * Is this place attractive to high value staff I need for my business? Will they want to live here? Will issues like crime scare them away? What about education for their children?
    * Is the infrastructure (roads, harbours, freight services,…) improving/getting worse? Will it support or be detrimental to my business in 10 years? 20 years?
    
    NZ is already on the back foot due to being a long way from large markets. Let’s not make it worse with crappy government decisions, red tape and such.
    
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    May 16, 2024 12:07pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  A Haka is a Morris Dance. Go to the google machine and watch Morris Dancing – then watch a Haka.
  
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  May 16, 2024 9:21am
  - imalwaysright
    
    I wonder when haka began. By the sounds of it, the thought of standing in a group and displaying your limbs would be more akin to taking part in a living menu!
    
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    May 16, 2024 10:11am
  - lifesgood
    
    Yeah, OK, but Morris Dancers are at least polite and don’t stick their tongues out or show their bums. The haka is an embarrassing disgrace that the bulk of NZ’s population has to put up with and be ashamed of.
    
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    May 16, 2024 11:03am
    - julesnzuk
      
      Done well for ceremonial purposes (I’m thinking military funerals) hakas work and can be quite moving. Unfortunately they’re vastly overdone and are now an encroachment on what should be a far more sophisticated NZ culture.
      
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      May 16, 2024 11:47pm
  - cmm
    
    Morris dancing is normally accompanied with musical instruments – something never really developed by Maori culture.
    
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    May 16, 2024 11:33am
    - waikatosinger
      
      Bells on the ankles? No thanks.
      
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      May 16, 2024 12:10pm
  - softail 1450
    
    Steve Otto , lmfao 😂😂😂😂.
    
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    May 16, 2024 2:03pm
- Skippytony
  
  That 70,000 is the tip of the iceberg, sorry to say.
  
  Our extended family held council on this last year. Several of us have lived and worked overseas in the past.
  We concluded:
  There are early mover advantages – if the trickle becomes a flood eventually the Government will take steps to stem capital flight.
  There are six “triggers” we agreed would put us into go mode. 1. Any move to tax unrealised capital gains. 2. Any further erosion of the principles of property ownership. It is terrifying to us that a)some unelected group can suddenly decide they get to have a say over what we may or may not do with our property and b) the government of the day backs them 3. Any suggestion of additional capital controls 4. Introduction of death duties 5. Either making a grab for our super or making it harder to access and control our own money. 6. The kiwi slips under 80c Aus or 50c USD.
  
  There are business owners, employers and senior managers in the family. Individually we were all watching the economy and making our own assessments. The eldest just want to be left alone and not cultivated like an ATM. The folk with younger children look at the opportunities and, frankly, I think its down to a question of timing, not if.
  We sold a nice house in Melbourne and moved to Christchurch to be closer to the family 18 years ago. So far, that single decision has cost us A$1,500,000 in tax free capital gains. Thats right. Ive torn up $100,000 cash Aussie every year for the privilege of living in NZ. Im not bitching about that, it was our decision to make that move, no one forced us. But, as a family, if that trend looks to continue for another twenty years you are being almost irresponsible by ignoring it. Thats the real cost of the appalling productivity in this country.
  
  So, there you have it.
  
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  May 16, 2024 9:42am
  - cmm
    
    I agree.
    
    That 70,000 is just a small slice in time. What is far more alarming is the long term trend.
    
    We only have around 200 to 300k net taxpayers in NZ (a reasonable proxy for the productive people). If we lose 20k of these overseas every year and 20k are retiring then in 5 years time we have a crater.
    
    Well over 70% of new graduates in useful fields (engineering, nursing, …) are leaving NZ for better opportunities elsewhere. That number is likely to grow.
    
    The government has limited levers to pull, but it needs to pull them. The most important one is to stop this Maori/Aotearoa bullshit from eroding NZ faster than is needed.
    
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    May 16, 2024 9:58am
    - Don Beckett
      
      -My oldest grand-daughter & her partner are moving to Melbourne next month. Both Uni graduates.
      – my next oldest grand-daughter & her partner are moving to Queensland next month – both uni grads – she medical science, he B.com.
      -my next oldest grand-daughter has lived in Brisbane for the past 2 years – now living in Canada with her partner.
      That leaves 3 grand-daughters & 1 grandson still here in NZ, all currently at university.
      My 2nd son – a high end building contractor – is making plans to move to Queensland within the next 2 – 3 years.
      I hope there are enough of them around in the next few years to bury me – I’m probably past my use-by date now. 🙂
      
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      May 16, 2024 10:47am
      - lifesgood
        
        I know how you feel. I have 3 sons and now only one lives here. I feel like I’ll be a burden he can’t share when I get old. And if he and his family moved, I’d move too.
        
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        May 16, 2024 11:15am
      - Paulus
        
        My only Granddaughter is staying in Wellington. She comes from both parents with senior jobs in the Public Service.
        She has a very good job which moves her around in a team role quite a lot as I understand.
        She was Privately Educated and has three good Auckland Uni Degrees. Like her mother has the gift of languages, and has skills in English, French, German, Mandarin and of course Maori.
        She works hard, and is staying, and acts like a traditional Public Servant, ie with discretion.
        There are some more around too, but do not seek any limelight.
        
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        May 16, 2024 11:40am
      - cmm
        
        Don, you need to look at this in terms of their needs – not yours – ie. make sure you’re not holding them back for your needs/wants.
        
        Those in Australia are close enough to come visit at a drop of a hat.
        
        I look at my family. My brother and I both left South Africa. My sister did too. But then my sister went back to SA because of our aging parents (and her husband’s). They ended up living the next 25 years in South Africa – raising both there kids there – just to be close to the oldies.
        
        They are now both in their late 50s and are now stuck there. Their kids have had a crappy South African education.
        
        I think it is very unfair to put any expectations on children to compromise their futures for their parents.
        
        We have been very clear to our kids – do what you need for your life. Don’t feel obligated to look after us.
        
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        May 16, 2024 11:44am
      - Don Beckett
        
        @cmm. Don’t misunderstand me – I wish my Grandies the best & would never hold them back from their own aspirations. Shit – I did it myself back in 1979 – moved to Oz with my 3 infant children for 10 years. I have Aussie relatives, so it was easy to do, & had a very enjoyable – and profitable time. But the tug-on-heart strings pulled us back home in 1988, and no regrets.
        
        I’ve told my son that if he moves, I’ll come with him & be his gardener, and my wife can be their housemaid. 😆
        
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        May 16, 2024 12:00pm
      - Ian Boag
        
        And all you folk whose offspring have shot throught will have your pension paid by the other people’s children who stayed here ….
        
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        May 16, 2024 2:00pm
  - Grunter
    
    Skippytony – Interesting perspectives.
    
    What was the consensus on where to flee to? The obvious answer is Aust, although they aren’t perfect either, a lot of the same issues, but comparatively better than NZ.
    
    IMO:
    UK & Europe – Nah, looking likely to be in a bigger mess than NZ
    Canada – Trudeau has stuffed them up
    USA – About to turn chaotic with illegal immigrants flowing in, and politically a mess
    Africa – Nah
    
    That just leaves parts of SEA or Sth Am….????
    
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    May 16, 2024 11:02am
    - Skippytony
      
      We are sort of looking at it as a four part problem.
      
      First is domicile – where is the least awful place to live? Votes for the States and Aus.
      Opportunities for the munchkins? Once uni educated Aus is an easy choice – the sheer scale makes it compelling. Even for the less academically gifted a 22 YO can make $125k in Y1 truck driving in WA. Performance and retention bonuses take that to ~$175k (Skippy) by year three. If you dont piss it all away, 5 years moderately hard and boring graft sets you up pretty well. You just cant do that here.
      Capital protection? The accountant in the family is a fan of risk weighted portfolios. Interestingly, the safest places to park your wealth seem to be the places where its hardest for governments to get their hands on it +1 for Aus and US and some other hidey holes.
      Lifestyle. There are places in SE Asia, the Caribbean, the pacific where you may have problems owning property as a non citizen but where you can live for a year for the cost of living in NZ for 3-6 months as a semi retired person. So long as you set yourself up such that you can get to a hospital quickly and have things to do, there are plenty of choices.
      Personally, I like southern Portugal. Its westernised, very close to Europe, politically stable, great climate 10 months of the year. Others feel too old to learn a new language.
      
      As you say, Aus is the easiest choice. Wifey and I are both Aussie citizens. Yes, its not perfect. We can just about make it work as self-funded retirees with a unit in Melbourne and a house say in Hervey Bay for the winters.
      
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      May 16, 2024 11:52am
  - NothingLeft
    
    I’m with you. I’m top 0.1-1% taxpayer, only remaining in NZ because of family handcuffs, but I’ll go to Oz as soon as those handcuffs come off, and would never support my kids going to NZ’s now-garbage Unis.
    
    Deference to destructive left wing/neoMarxist agendas within public institutions and NGOs is killing NZ – eroding property rights, destroying productivity and manufacturing a rapidly bloating parasitical and wasteful rentier civil servant and aristocracy via “Maori wonderfulness” power grabs. The decline will only steepen as NZ follows path of myriad failed states that delusional left wing voters and civil servants are ignorantly seeking to emulate. The next left Labour govt of NZ installed by dumb vote-yourself-rich voters will be the end.
    
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    May 16, 2024 12:24pm
peterwn

So Chris Hipkins is too chicken to say that a future Labour Government would abolish Charter Schools. Perhaps he thinks such a policy would be a vote loser. Alternatively now he is on the other side of the fence perhaps he has had a gutsful of the teachers unions.
Either way it seems an admission of Labour’s education policies failure.
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May 16, 2024 8:25am
- cmm
  
  There is no benefit in making noise about this now.
  
  The charter schools will have some strong points and some weak points. Not all of them will perform exceptionally well. At least one or two will have some teething issues.
  
  In 2 years time Labour can cherry pick the data and focus on the one or two charter schools with the worst performance and use those to slur the whole charter school system.
  
  So no point in sounding off now.
  
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  May 16, 2024 10:01am
  - peterwn
    
    Hopefully Charter Schools would be able to appoint principals for five year terms (like government and council CEO’s) and be on performance based pay.
    
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    May 16, 2024 11:14am
- Paulus
  
  They are to be legalised for ten years by introduction, to stop pricks like Hipkins from getting near them.
  He will not be around then any how.
  
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  May 16, 2024 11:42am
Maggie Pie

Good MORNING Internet 😀

Meet the fab and soon to be ‘Secretary-of-State’ for Missouri….. (R) candidate Valintina Gomez. A staunch advocate of free-speech, law & order, and the Second Amendment.
In fact the complete antithesis of our own Jacinda Ardern.

In her campaign rallies she tells voters……

“In America, you can be anything you want!
So don’t be weak and ghey. Stay f**king hard”

https://mol.im/a/13419649
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- Benedict Yu
  
  She seems like a bit of a looney tune. 😐 Runs in a bullet proof vest and doesn’t like gay people?
  
  Many gay folk are as appalled at the trans ideology as anyone else. They don’t deserve to be demonised. I thought we were done with that 40 years ago.
  
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  May 16, 2024 9:09am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    She’s entitled to her views Bene. Actually a very God fearing woman.
    There’s no reason to call her a ‘looney tune’. You’re not a Psychiatrist are you?
    
    Well worth following on ‘X’
    
    https://x.com/ValentinaForSOS/status/1754964444776443937
    
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    May 16, 2024 9:22am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      “Actually a very God fearing woman.”
      
      You say that like it is a good thing.
      
      Yes of course she is entitled to demonise gay people. I am just surprised that you are celebrating that.
      
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      May 16, 2024 9:31am
      - Notsofast
        
        I would rather listen to Douglas Murray and Andrew Doyle and other gay atheists than any God fearing crazy.
        
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        May 16, 2024 9:38am
      - jkt
        
        It is hard to make Yu laugh.🤭
        
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        May 16, 2024 3:07pm
      - Muttonbird
        
        Are you new here? Maggie Pie makes Brian Tamaki blush.
        
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        May 16, 2024 10:16pm
    - PurplePen
      
      Don’t need to be a chef to know whether food tastes good or not, similarly with being a human we all have some ability to know if someone is one square short of a chessboard or not.
      
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      May 16, 2024 10:45am
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    Well, as they say “you have to Trans the gay away”
    
    Even Iran has jumped on that band wagon. Its one way of solving for gayness…. compulsory surgery.
    
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    May 16, 2024 9:24am
  - Notsofast
    
    Absolutely.
    Trans has nothing to do with gay.
    I thought everyone understood by now.
    If they don’t, go to the Inflexion conference.
    
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    May 16, 2024 9:31am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      “Trans has nothing to do with gay.”
      
      It is not so simple. Trans activists have infiltrated what was once the “gay and lesbian community”. For example, in the UK and Australia, you see meeting groups for lesbians being forced to admit men who identify as women, in some cases with the courts forcing them to do so.
      
      Secondly, it is clear that many (or most) of the teenagers who want to change gender, would if left alone, have emerged happily as gay adults.
      
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      May 16, 2024 10:25am
      - Notsofast
        
        Yes all true.
        The conversion bill should be repealed, it leads to sterilizing gay youth. It is happening, and Parliament owns it.
        They are stupid or wicked.
        
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        May 16, 2024 10:33am
      - jkt
        
        Bene:
        You say it like Tranz people have no agency.
        
        The only problem that I have with Tranz people is when they impose their will on others through means other than free speech. I dislike Putin and HAMAS for the same.
        
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        May 16, 2024 3:12pm
  - cmm
    
    BY Your bigotry is showing.
    
    Why can’t a person run in a bulletproof vest if that makes her more comfortable? Why the need to call them a loonie?
    
    Running in a bulletproof vest is no more pointless than shoving your cock in another man’s arse.
    
    But, hey, let people do whatever the hell they want to.
    
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    May 16, 2024 9:34am
    - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
      
      Bet the PM of Slovakia wishes he had a vest on about now!
      
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      May 16, 2024 10:17am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      It is not bigotry. I just have an aversion to gun slinging politicians who, prima facie, hate gay people. To repeat, I thought we were done with that 40 years ago.
      
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      May 16, 2024 10:29am
      - cmm
        
        If you were completely rational about risk you wouldn’t wear a seatbelt. I mean, how often do you crash where you needed a seatbelt?
        
        It is a fact that politicians get gunned down in USA, especially vocal conservative ones. If it makes her feel safer while she’s running then it makes perfect sense for her to wear a bullet proof jacket.
        Ditto carrying a gun.
        
        But then I have lived in a society where I would occasionally wear/carry a gun so it doesn’t seem as foreign to me.
        
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        May 16, 2024 11:13am
      - jkt
        
        CMM
        I thought it was compulsory to wear a seatbelt if you want to avoid police harassment.
        
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        May 16, 2024 8:22pm
- softail 1450
  
  MP.Actual animals are walking around amongst us ,unbelievable, we can sleep safely in our beds knowing he won’t be killing anyone for 17 years, after that who knows ?
  
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  May 16, 2024 9:11am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Good on her. She knows the “American Dream” is still there for those who want it.
  Bullet proof vest? Well the area she was running in may have undesirables who don’t like her.
  MAGA. TRUMP 2024.
  
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  May 16, 2024 9:32am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Mentioning the “American Dream,” why are the millions crossing the open border?
    I don’t see or hear of Americans escaping to Cuba or Venezuela.
    
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    May 16, 2024 9:44am
MCōs

Interview of the morning was with the twin sisters attacked by a crocodile in Mexico on morning report
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May 16, 2024 8:46am
- imalwaysright
  
  Why was the crocodile on morning report?
  
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  May 16, 2024 10:17am
  - Paulus
    
    FA to put into the paper otherwise ?
    
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    May 16, 2024 1:54pm
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  did they get the crocodile’s perspective?
  
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  May 16, 2024 10:18am
  - imalwaysright
    
    He thought he was seeing double, and, in that instance, perspective is just another complication that the average croc hasn’t time to deal with. Especially in the middle of an interview with morning report.
    
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    May 16, 2024 11:08am
- I remember when
  
  Another chance for the media to rehash an old story.
  
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  May 16, 2024 10:49am
artemisia

Employers say worker productivity is surging as more bosses insist that staff return to the office.

A survey by recruiters Robert Half found 70 percent of employers reported increased productivity over the past year, compared to only 36 percent of staff who felt the same.

Struggling to get a handle on those numbers. Assuming bosses are looking across their organisations (70%), but staff are looking at themselves and their teams (36%) there is a big difference. Why?

Increasing productivity is key to growing the New Zealand pie. So are we more productive, or are we not?

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/516867/productivity-is-surging-as-staff-return-to-office-employers-say
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May 16, 2024 8:46am
- Colville
  
  Possibly because a fair few employees are worried that they might not have a job soon if they dont actually (a) turn up and (b) work!
  
  no more having a zoom “meeting” from a cafe and calling it a day…
  
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  May 16, 2024 9:13am
- Benedict Yu
  
  An employer thinking that productivity is increasing might be real or imaginary. Whether someone can get productive “working from home” depends on many things.
  
  The person.
  
  The nature of the job.
  
  The home set up.
  
  …
  
  As I have repeatedly reported, a government agency office in Wellington is the exact opposite of being productive. Well not the office but the hundreds of public servants yelling, laughing, singing waiata and generally playing the fool. ☹️😳 It is appalling.
  
  Anyway back to productivity.. I look forward the media running a serious story on why New Zealand is last in the OECD.
  
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  May 16, 2024 9:28am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    North Shore Hospital was like that yesterday. I went to a clinic there for my rotor cuff.
    That racket in the waiting romm was crazy. People coming and going, all sorts of injuries, surgeries. But the employees pushing the wheelchairs/beds were giggling like schoolgirl – making a hell of a lot of noise. I was trying to read my book but gave up.
    
    So anyway, this productivity increase is simple for the employer, just look at the bank account. It is all there.
    
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    May 16, 2024 9:49am
  - cmm
    
    It is easy to measure productivity.
    
    Count the number of people who sing the morning waiata.
    
    Is NZ really lowest in the OECD in productivity? I wouldn’t be surprised. I expect that number will go down as we continue to lose skilled people.
    
    I know it is second lowest in terms of retaining skilled people (only Ireland is lower).
    
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    May 16, 2024 10:05am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      Correction. We are in the lower quartile.
      
      https://croakingcassandra.com/category/productivity/
      
      But over the last decade we have had the lowest productivity growth so we are slipping downwards in that pack.
      
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      May 16, 2024 10:34am
      - cmm
        
        As we lose our most productive people we can only expect that productivity to fall more rapidly.
        
        The policies we have in NZ are insane. They favour the unskilled and push away the skilled.
        
        At no time in history has it been easier for skilled people to pull up sticks and move elsewhere. Even those that don’t physically move can still effectively move.
        
        For example, I have been living and working in NZ since 1992 – so 32 years. Only about a year of that has been for NZ companies. The rest has been for overseas interests. I might live here, spend here and pay tax here, but my skill is not being delivered into the NZ economy.
        
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        May 16, 2024 11:07am
      - jkt
        
        CMM
        We have always “lost” our most productive.
        
        On aggregate we create laws to make it difficult for the productive and the less productive alike. Just maybe 🤔 we see a slight correction under this government.
        
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        May 16, 2024 3:19pm
  - Libertarians are right
    
    You actually have two groups of people in your example.
    
    You have a small minority who are trying to work but are interrupted by all that other stuff – these people are more productive working from home.
    
    Then you have the rest who are just actively finding excuses not to work – they are going to be worse at home as 1) there are more distractions/things to do and 2) there aren’t other people watching them.
    
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    May 16, 2024 11:40am
Maggie Pie

“Look at this Booboo. The court has lifted the name suppression of the father who killed his 8 month old daughter”

“Was it one of them again, Yogi?”

https://stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350279354/father-who-killed-8-month-old-daughter-can-now-be-named
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May 16, 2024 8:53am
- cmm
  
  Clearly we have a lot to learn from some of these culturally diverse childcare practices.
  
  I never knew that the way to bond with a baby was to hold it still while you punch it repeatedly in the face.
  
  Live and learn eh.
  
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  May 16, 2024 9:38am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    I was just going to leave you 3 of these 😀 …. but it may be inapropriate.
    
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    May 16, 2024 9:43am
  - Gravelroad
    
    But the guy was angry.
    What else was he supposed to do to?
    His excuse was that punching his baby would soothe his anger, so that is what he did – because it was all about him.
    If his Mrs had been there, he would probably have hit her – or the dog.
    Violence is an easy way out.
    The man is retarded – must be.
    
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    May 16, 2024 11:10am
    - jkt
      
      Like … victim shaming!
      The man was a victim of anger.😡
      
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      May 16, 2024 3:27pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  So the anger was caused by drugs? Or not having drugs?
  17 years without parole. How long will he really be in the hinaki?
  A good sentence by the Judge, but can it be appeaaled?
  
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  May 16, 2024 9:56am
- I remember when
  
  Maggie Pie:
  Yes clearly there is a problem.
  Why can’t we talk openly about it instead of pretending it doesn’t happen?
  Would it be wrong to think that the great majority of Maori think the same way?
  
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  May 16, 2024 10:36am
  - julesnzuk
    
    This animal (correction – unfair to animals) is not Maori. He’s some sort of Pasific Islander – on of the sterling immigrants NZ attracts.
    
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    May 17, 2024 12:05am
Right of way is Way of Right

Can anyone please explain to me how it has come to pass that our ‘mates’ in Australia have managed to finagle themselves in to this position?

1. Send to NZ any criminal with even the most tenuous link to NZ. (even though they grew up in Australia, and are clearly a product of Australian society!)

2. While we are doing this, steal their police.

This isn’t how mates treat each other, surely!
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- cmm
  
  What has “being mates” got to do with it?
  
  1. These are crims. They don’t want them. We could do the same by sending crims back to where they came from to. But we seldom do.
  2. We could offer cops (and nurses) more and steal them from Oz, but no we don’t. Instead we spend up on bullshit that doesn’t matter.
  
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  May 16, 2024 9:41am
  - imalwaysright
    
    “We could offer cops (and nurses) more and steal them from Oz, but no we don’t”
    
    That’s exactly what we should be doing.
    Mitchell seems to think that being exasperated and accepting the loss of the force is acceptable ministerial behaviour.
    How about he poaches Aussie or American cops. Even better, the Fijians. Get some big mean bastards on board to fuck the gangs , our cops aren’t up to it.
    When the police and the nurses numbers fall below the critical level the resignations will begin to increase exponentially and we will be lawless and our health system will collapse.
    Is this government saying that we can’t have cops and nurses because they are too expensive ?
    
    But we are sweet with our nett zero obligations!
    
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    May 16, 2024 10:33am
    - septic skeptic
      
      We don’t have the productive economy to support that level of wages for police, nurses, doctors etc. We spent too much on needy people over many years. And then Winston installed Ardern.
      
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      May 16, 2024 1:42pm
- MCōs
  
  #1 They changed their laws to make it possible
  
  #2 Better pay and conditions, I expect
  
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  May 16, 2024 10:17am
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  Simple, send our PM across to lecture them sanctimoniously about migration, refugee camps and climate crap, while their PM has to grin and be polite in front of the cameras.
  
  Then voila, planeloads of 501s come the other way.
  
  Thanks Cindy, those captains calls really paid off didn’t they?
  
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  May 16, 2024 10:21am
- Paulus
  
  Australia are not our Mates – remember Mates F… and that is what they do to New Zealand as often as they can.
  
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  May 16, 2024 1:57pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Who knew we had been living in the White Ages?

https://waateanews.com/2024/05/15/no-return-to-white-ages-says-kapa-kingi/
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May 16, 2024 9:09am
- cmm
  
  As opposed to the Dark Ages?
  
  It would be interesting to ask Kapa Kingi whether she would prefer to live in the White Ages with cell phones, food, running water and an MP’s salary or prefer to go back to the Dark Ages of starvation and a life expectancy of 25.
  
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  May 16, 2024 9:27am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    And the fighting, murdering, infanticide, and canabalism.
    
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    May 16, 2024 10:08am
    - Libertarians are right
      
      And slavery, they always forget slavery.
      
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  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    Yes nothing like a bit of endemic warfare, starvation and cannibalism to provide a bit of mataurangi maori cultural competence to one’s day…
    
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    May 16, 2024 10:23am
- Blog-aholic
  
  I am getting the distinct feeling that Mariameno Kapa-Kingi really does not like people who aren’t brown of skin…..
  
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  May 16, 2024 9:30am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Activist. She fits right into the now happening Coup.
  
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  May 16, 2024 10:10am
- I remember when
  
  Many of the early British settlers were to all intents and purposes refugees.
  Surely it is only right that we treat their behaviour with the same consideration that present refugees receive.
  
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  May 16, 2024 10:26am
  - PurplePen
    
    They were also pioneers which is overlooked in favour of the taboo colonisation thing.
    
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    May 16, 2024 10:48am
Close Hen Counters

The junior doctors are striking again today and tomorrow 48 hours – this adversely impacts every public hospital in NZ so please stay safe and don’t pitch up to the emergency department unnecessarily
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May 16, 2024 9:13am
- Tauhei Notts
  
  What is the upper quartisle annual taxable income of a doctor with less than three years experience.
  I am a retired accountant. People have argued that accountants know the cost of everything and the value of nothing.
  I know the value of a doctor with little experience. Now I want to know the cost of a doctor with little experience.
  Apparently disclosing that sort of information is contrary to labour law as it can affect salary negotiations.
  
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  May 16, 2024 10:11am
  - cmm
    
    There is always some subsidizing of inexperienced people by experienced people.
    
    It probably takes a junior doctor a good two or three years before they are highly productive. In the first 6 months or so they are likely more hassle than they are worth, but that that’s part of the investment we make as a society.
    
    The same happens in my field – dealing mainly with programmers. The highest performers might have 5x the performance of the average programmers, but they only get 1.5x the pay. The rest is going into subsidising the lower performers.
    
    Junior programmers are generally not productive until they’ve been around for 6 to 12 months.
    
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    May 16, 2024 10:41am
  - mawm
    
    Tauhei – it’s all here to wade through.
    
    https://nzrda.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/NZRDA-MECA-2021-min.pdf
    
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    May 16, 2024 3:09pm
- mawm
  
  Hen – From a good source I hear that the ED runs far better when the SMO’s run the hospital – in-patients get discharged from the hospital quicker so beds get freed up, they get to surgery sooner, decisions are made quicker, etc. so there is no back up in the ED.
  
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  May 16, 2024 3:15pm
Rusty

Something’s not right here the Aussies send over 501’s to NZ and we send over to Aust our best police officers.
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May 16, 2024 9:31am
- cmm
  
  Why should our police stay in a situation where:
  * Their hands are tied so they can’t do their jobs.
  * Their pay is way below what their job is worth and the pay increases don’t match inflation.
  
  Cops, like everyone else with useful services to offer, have options. They have families. They have mortgages. Why stay in a place where they are looked down on and treated poorly?
  
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  May 16, 2024 9:44am
- MCōs
  
  We don’t send our best police anywhere. They choose to go.
  
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  May 16, 2024 10:04am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  You know who to thank for that, but she ran away.
  
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  May 16, 2024 10:15am
Maggie Pie

No doubt there will be a few here who find this ‘controversial’.
It’s being reported that Peru’s Public-Health-Service has just classified Trans and Intersex people as ‘mentally ill’….

https://thepinknews.com/2024/05/15/peru-trans-people-mentally-ill-supreme-decree/
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May 16, 2024 9:37am
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, if you consider a skin surgeon to be somewhat expert in this field then I was told by such a person that he considered most trans people as ‘quite mad’.
  
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  May 16, 2024 10:10am
  - Don Beckett
    
    Agreed. People & children with gender dysphoria need a good psychologist rather than drugs & a surgeon’s scalpel.
    
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    May 16, 2024 11:04am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      The problem is that the Conversion Practices Prohibition Legislation Act 2022 treats gender identity as the same as sexual orientation. It is an offence to:
      
      “encouraging an individual to believe that their sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression needs changing because it is a defect or disorder”
      
      https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2022/0001/latest/LMS487215.html
      
      There is an “out” in the Act for medical professionals. However parents are required to affirm and support. A parent telling their child who wants to change gender that “there is something wrong with you” would seemingly be open to prosecution in New Zealand.
      
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      May 16, 2024 11:26am
      - Don Beckett
        
        Yes, it’s a sad society that we live in. No wonder the exodus is happening.
        
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        May 16, 2024 12:58pm
      - Notsofast
        
        Here is Stella O’Malley being wilfully misinterpreted by Louissa Wall, but being heroically defended by Simon Bridges. He was one of 8 to vote against the treacherous conversion therapy bill.
        
        https://genspect.org/stella-omalley-testifies-about-new-zealand-conversion-therapy-bill/
        
        Video is 15 minutes
        
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        May 16, 2024 1:01pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Well Dina Boluarte is correct but can she stay in power, or will the cranks recinder her decree?
  NZ needs a Dina Boluarte to put the social misfits in place.
  
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  May 16, 2024 10:22am
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  Well aren’t they?
  
  It’s quite sad. If I think I am a Deity (ahem), or a firetruck I am quickly diagnosed as needing mental health support (whether I get it or not in New Zimbabwe is another matter).
  
  But if I decide I am a chick. “Well come this way, ma’am, how can we help, what pronouns do you prefer? What sport would you like to represent us in?”
  
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  May 16, 2024 10:26am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Yep. Can you beat real girls?
    
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    May 16, 2024 4:51pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  How are “intersex” people mentally ill? They are born that way.
  
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  May 16, 2024 10:42am
  - Notsofast
    
    My guess is they mean non binary, which is a mental problem and doesn’t exist anyway.
    
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    May 16, 2024 10:49am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      Not the same thing.
      
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      May 16, 2024 11:27am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    There are exceptions Benedict. Born with genital parts missing or deformed.
    Guys wearing dresses and telling everyone they identify as female is a plain mental illness – unless they are just taking the piss and want attention!
    
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    May 16, 2024 4:54pm
- julesnzuk
  
  So called “trans people” are, by definition, mentally ill. Intersex (a completely different thing) are not (necessarily).
  
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  May 17, 2024 12:11am
Flossie

This exodus of our workers to Australia is yet another thing we can thank Ardern for. She agitated with the Australian government for a better deal for New Zealanders who chose to live there.
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May 16, 2024 9:52am
- MCōs
  
  There’s always been an exodus of workers out of NZ
  Right now more than usual
  
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  May 16, 2024 10:13am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    For young people the citizenship carrot will make a huge difference. If you are in your 20s you can move to Australia and plan for a long term future knowing that you and your children will have all the benefits of Australian citizenship.
    
    Why did Jacinda think it was wonderful that she achieved a massive incentive for skilled workers to leave for Australia?
    
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    May 16, 2024 10:37am
    - cmm
      
      “Why did Jacinda think it was wonderful that she achieved a massive incentive for skilled workers to leave for Australia?”
      
      No, they were mostly going anyway but this makes it a bit more appealing to do so. If they were not going to Australia then they’d have gone elsewhere.
      
      Those NZers can still vote in NZ elections and that is what she was really after.
      
      Losing people to Australia is not the problem. It is losing them to anywhere. Australia is just a bit more easy to move to because it is closer for visiting the old folk and has a very similar culture – so less adaptation.
      
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      May 16, 2024 10:59am
      - Flossie
        
        New Zealanders do not need a visa to go and live and work in Australia whereas most other countries do have such a requirement. I would not be surprised if that situation changes in the not too distant future as they grapple with high numbers of immigrants and the associated problems of unemployment and housing shortage etc.
        
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        May 16, 2024 11:33am
    - MCōs
      
      There are approximately 650,000 New Zealanders already in Australia
      I wonder how many went there knowing exactly what they were entitled to.
      I’d have thought the right to vote wouldn’t be a high priority
      
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      May 16, 2024 11:45am
      - Benedict Yu
        
        It is not just voting. There is no social security safety net. Of New Zealanders have a high employment rate. But if they have an accident or are made redundant there is no help available.
        
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        May 16, 2024 12:28pm
    - Paulus
      
      I would be happy to pay for Jacinda and family to go and live in Australia.
      Need to confirm that they have no criminal records as that is a no no.
      
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      May 16, 2024 2:01pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      About 3 years ago my brother in Oz rang me about getting NZ Citizenship. He is not an Australian Citizen and has been there way over 40 years. He is 68 now. Just kept renewing his NZ Passport. I dunno how he ever got away with it. Never voted and he is a sniveling socialist! As cmm said above, my brother would have still been able to have a NZ vote but he never did since leaving NZ. All the political crap he spoke, and he never voted! Fuck, what a leftie!
      Never heard the end result
      
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      May 16, 2024 4:59pm
      - Flossie
        
        I think if you’re a NZ citizen living overseas you can only vote in a NZ election if you have been in the country within a certain period before the election.
        And if you hold a NZ passport you are a citizen.
        
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        May 16, 2024 5:12pm
      - julesnzuk
        
        Flossie – I’ve lived in the UK for over 21 years. Have dual citizenship. You can be on the electoral role but the rule was you were only supposedly allowed to vote in NZ elections if you had set foot in NZ within the previous 3 years (I say “supposedly” because you weren’t required to prove it and I doubt they could enforce it). I believe it was recently extended to 5 or 6.
        
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        May 17, 2024 12:18am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  She agitated much more than the Australian Govt.
  
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  May 16, 2024 10:24am
- GJM
  
  The Ozzie’s were clever and realised the value of a clear, easy citizenship path for skilled taxpaying workers and changed the rules to suit. The morons in government at the time said this is great, despite anyone with a braincell pointing out this was to the detriment of NZ. Fast forward a couple of years, and lo and behold, that is exactly what happend.
  I expect my kids to go overseas and I will sadly encourage them to do so as economic migrants
  
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  May 16, 2024 1:15pm
Yvette

Hui
East coast iwi Ngāti Kahungunu will host the next national hui to mobilise iwi Māori and continue the kotahitanga (unity) kaupapa in protest at the coalition Government’s actions.
The kotahitanga movement started on January 20 when an estimated 10,000 Māori and non-Māori from around Aotearoa descended on Tūrangawaewae Marae in Ngāruawāhia, heeding the call of the Māori King, Tūheitia Pōtatau Te Wherowhero VII.
The kaupapa continued at Rātana just four days later, attracting about 7000 people, followed up by a massive turnout of around 60,000 to 80,000 at Waitangi for Waitangi Day commemorations in February.
…The hui will be held on May 31.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350208252/ngati-kahungunu-host-next-hui-maori-unity

Unity against what exactly?
That the Government has the right to govern, the Government will protect every person’s property rights, and all voters will have exactly the same rights and responsibilities?

And, hopefully, that Government will respect individual and group rights to hold legal religious and ‘world’ views, but itself be secular, which would shaft a lot of dopey stuff

That 60,000 to 80,000 may have been at Waitangi, and perhaps even more might mill around on May 30, could itself indicate IT IS TIME the Government re-assert its constitutional position
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May 16, 2024 10:11am
- artemisia
  
  Money hose has sprung a big leak?
  
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  May 16, 2024 11:04am
- Paulus
  
  I assume they are on the some sort of dole for them to be there, or skive of any work ?
  
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  May 16, 2024 2:03pm
I remember when

Public Service cuts are not so simple: Kapi-Mana News.
Victoria University professor of public policy Arthur Grimes said the sector had grown “hugely” during the past six years and the cuts being proposed – even 1000 a day as happened on Wednesday – were smallish relative to how much it had grown.
However, …requiring all departments to cut spending by about 7% could create situations where the cuts were not appropriate.
He said…a lot of growth in jobs “at the top end” and many in those roles were paid a lot of money.
Most…would not get roles elsewhere at remotely those rates.
There needs to be huge emphasis on cutting back those ‘tier two’ and ‘tier three’ jobs.
Grimes said…also problems created because people were hired in specialised departments who did not have specialised knowledge.

An article that should have been published when the cuts were first discussed.
But then the public would have had a better understanding of the situation and we wouldn’t want that.
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May 16, 2024 10:18am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Told you so 🙁
  
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  May 16, 2024 10:43am
- cmm
  
  “Grimes said…also problems created because people were hired in specialised departments who did not have specialised knowledge.”
  
  But they had the right pronouns and Tirity credentials and that’s what matters.
  
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  May 16, 2024 10:54am
- JimBobJoe
  
  Grimes is ex Treasury or ex RBNZ?
  
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  May 16, 2024 4:26pm
Benedict Yu

There is a gang member being interviewed on The Platform. He thinks that the gangs should have the same status as Iwi. 😳
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May 16, 2024 10:56am
- jkt
  
  He is right, isn’t he? They act like that.
  Rights but no obligations!
  
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  May 16, 2024 8:31pm
Maggie Pie

Here’s something to brighten things up on what’s a bleak ol’ morning.
Check out the comments.
My fave…. “Retard Starter Pack” 😀 😀 😀

https://x.com/LukePollard/status/1790832506058510625

What’s yours?
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May 16, 2024 11:02am
cmm

Maybe stuff has got the bull by the tits again, but on the face of this it makes no sense.

A woman’s car was stolen. The cops then towed it to to do their forensic analysis and she ends up having to pay $200 for the forensic tow.

Should she also have to pay for the other forensic costs like the fingerprint powder and DNA swabs?

Surely all the expenses associated with the police work should be covered by the taxpayer – including towing?

If the public are responsible for the towing then they should be able to shop around or get a buddy to tow it. Of course, from a policing perspective that would destroy evidence and would not work.

[Sidenote: stupid woman leaving the car running etc, but that is beside the point.]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350279941/distraught-mother-facing-200-bill-get-her-stolen-car-back
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May 16, 2024 11:27am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Reading it carefully, the situation seems clear:
  
  ““Police paid for this [the tow to the depot], as is usual where forensic tow is required. Once the examination was complete, the victim was advised that her vehicle was ready to be collected.”
  
  The car cannot be driven. The woman is being sked to pay $200 to have her car towed AWAY from the storage facility.
  
  Normally insurance would pick up all such costs. If the car was insured, now that the police work is done, it is normal for the insurance company to tow the car to their own facility. They will then do their own assessment as to whether to repair or write the vehicle off.
  
  Reading between the lines the car is not insured. In that case, if the car is so damaged that it cannot be driven, the $200 towing fee is the least of her problems. On the other hand if it is insured she has no problems. Why is she going to the media?
  
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  May 16, 2024 11:34am
  - MCōs
    
    Reading between the lines the car is probably not worth the cost of insuring, particularly if you’re on the bones of your bum as this woman appears to be.
    Never mind, let’s put the boot into the victim anyway
    My previous car was a 2009 Corolla that I sold three years ago for $4k. Insurance was $500+
    
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    May 16, 2024 12:42pm
    - Don Beckett
      
      Even if the car was insured, the insurance company would have an out. Didn’t she leave the car running and walked away to somewhere ?
      Same as if you left your car unlocked.
      
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      May 16, 2024 1:02pm
- Gravelroad
  
  Perhaps the person who allegedly stole the car (should they be charged, tried in the court and found guilty) could be ordered to pay $200 worth of reparations to this woman.
  No?
  No. Cultural report will end up recommending her having to pay him for trauma experienced when he realised there was a child in the car. Her fault for leaving child there etc.
  The law courts are generally on the side of the accused these days, not the victim.
  
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  May 16, 2024 11:41am
all true

All what you need to be, voted in as a MP with Greens and a barcode on the chin, then everything is forgiven and of top of it you are receiving the full salary from Government (Taxpayer funded).
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May 16, 2024 11:41am
Maggie Pie

AUCKLAND LIVE.

AT’s Dean Kimpton was saying the Wynyard-Crossing-Bridge down at the Viaduct
may not be working again until late this year.

Here’s an idea Deano….

https://x.com/Xx17965797N/status/1790796391129788708

😀 😀 😀
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May 16, 2024 11:52am
- Jethrod
  
  Here is a alternative idea….. why not clear the viaduct basin of all the boats, which probably belong to the “privileged “, and offer them free berthing just outside the basin? Then lower the bridge!!
  Oh the outrage and harranging of the Council, it’s just easier to do nothing and let all those cafes and restaurants go broke and belly up.
  
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  May 16, 2024 1:24pm
  - mandk
    
    Good idea.
    
    The problem with Auckland’s waterfront is that it is difficult to see the harbour because there are so many boats moored there.
    
    It’s like trying to go for a country walk and finding you can’t enjoy the view because there are thousands of trucks parked everywhere.
    
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    May 16, 2024 3:03pm
- Paulus
  
  Thought I heard late next year for the bridge to be fixed, awaiting parts from overseas!
  
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  May 16, 2024 2:06pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Trump to receive Congressional Gold Medal?
“It is time we recognize a president who put our country first and secured global peace through bold diplomacy,”

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/house-republicans-push-for-trump-to-receive-congressional-gold-medal-over-exceptional-leadership/ar-BB1mqCtU?
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May 16, 2024 11:55am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Just whose side is Biden on? He will lose many votes over this.
Joe Biden suspended arms shipments to Israel.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/how-never-trump-donors-consider-abandoning-biden/ss-BB1mrpns?
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May 16, 2024 12:02pm
- sungsamning
  
  There’s a civil war going on in the Democrat party. Woke v centrists. The Woke support Hamas. The centrists, not so much. Some of the centrist voters are drifting to the GOP. As are some of the Blacks and Hispanics. Muslims were ticked off at US support for Israel. So, IL, which ahs a lot of Muslim voters could be a swing state. Hence the ‘pause’. Plus, it may be Brandon’s policy, not the ‘administrations’ policy.
  
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  May 16, 2024 5:18pm
- virtualmark
  
  Biden suspended shipments of one class of bombs (2,000lb bombs) to Israel. Other types of weapons continued to be sent.
  
  In doing that Biden was no different to Presidents LBJ, Reagan and Bush (II) who also at times suspended weapons shipments to Israel.
  
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  May 16, 2024 8:06pm
Handyman

Whanau was Green Party chief of staff who morphed into “independent” for the election and has now morphed back to being a staunch Green member — possibly running for Green MP next election.
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May 16, 2024 12:04pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

The Trump/Biden debates are on.
Get your popcorn!
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May 16, 2024 12:05pm
- Its only I
  
  I see Biden made the challenge so does that mean Biden knows Trump will be locked up before that ever happens?
  The safety of inside knowledge?
  
  You have to wonder with MTG and MAGA mike claiming the powerful Biden controls the entire world…and the Jewish space lasers and shit.
  
  Trump announced the “late” great hannibal lecter at his latest gathering of the bewildered, Hannibal never died in the…MOVIES!!
  
  Other than that is the a great display of Trump as he is today.
  
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  May 16, 2024 12:23pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Trump challenged Biden in March
    Do try to keep up
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68497838
    
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    May 16, 2024 2:46pm
    - Its only I
      
      Biden challenged now…any Wednesday trump is free
      
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      May 16, 2024 5:00pm
Ghost

Imagine being so poor you have to go to a school to get a free lunch…..

Labour Leader Chris Hipkins is visiting the Year 0-6 Te Kura O Matarangi, Northcote school in Christchurch on Thursday.

Along with local MPs Duncan Webb and Tracey McLellan, he will be having a school lunch with students.

He is due to talk to reporters about 11.30am.

Article
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May 16, 2024 12:13pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

Tikanga Part 8.
Maori Lore.

https://stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/tikanga-what-it-is-and-why-it-must-be-stopped-from-becoming-law-in-new-zealand-part-8/

Part 7 is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTCqQKTfgR0
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May 16, 2024 12:16pm
MCōs

Finding a car park https://aseannow.com/topic/1327361-bangkok-chaos-pickup-plummets-from-4fl-hospital-car-park/
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May 16, 2024 12:22pm
- Ghost
  
  Mabe the car was having identity issues and thought it was a Boeing…..
  
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  May 16, 2024 1:15pm
Maggie Pie

Interesting to hear from one of our RE contacts in Christchurch that the ‘Pegasus Golf Resort’ is on the market.
Apperantly it’s on 82 hectares and ‘will provide multiple-titles offering flexible options
for development’.
Goodness only knows how many houses/apartments could be built there?
They’re saying existing residents will be praying the rumors that KO have shown interest come to nothing.

OMG – imagine that 🙁
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May 16, 2024 12:46pm
- Blog-aholic
  
  Good site for a new prison?
  
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  May 16, 2024 12:49pm
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, Housing NZ is a government entity and as such must sight any major purchase beforehand. I know it didn’t happen when they were a Maori dept.
  
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  May 16, 2024 1:02pm
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqakXqrRsrE
Trump Reveals ‘Agenda 47’ Plan.
Impoundment makes the President more accountable to the people because any time he uses that power he is risking the approval of the people.
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May 16, 2024 1:26pm
sungsamning

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2024/05/14/mississippi-trans-bathrooms-n2639037
Another State Just Banned Biological Men From Women’s Spaces.
“It’s mind blowing that this is what Joe Biden’s America has come to. Having to pass common sense policies that protect women’s spaces was unimaginable just a few years ago. But here we are… we have to pass a law to protect women in bathrooms, sororities, locker rooms, dressing rooms, shower rooms, and more,” he explained. “You have my word that as long as I’m governor, our state will do everything in its power to keep Mississippi’s daughters safe.”
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May 16, 2024 1:26pm
Tauhei Notts

It’s General Debate so I can put it here.
Once upon a time West Coast whitebait was considered to be New Zealand’s silver.
I just got an email from a supermarket which advertised 250 grammes of frozen West Coast whitebait for $59.99.
So I looked further and found that a troy ounce (31.1024768 grammes) of silver can be bought for $5.74.
So 250 grammes of silver would cost only $46.14.
Next time somebody offers you whitebait fritters go for it!!!
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May 16, 2024 1:46pm
- Swifty
  
  My grandfather used to put sacks of them on his vege garden back in the ‘30s and ‘40s in Daniel St, Newtown.
  
  We just shake our head at the thought of it now.
  
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  May 16, 2024 2:19pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  I mix ours in egg-white and nothing else. Fry in butter, serve with salted lemon juive, white pepper and fresh white TipTop Sandwhich lightly spread with Lurpak.
  
  You got a recipe Toe?
  
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  May 16, 2024 2:26pm
- cmm
  
  Even without looking it up, there is no way silver is only $5.74.
  
  Looking it up: spot price of silver is around US$30 per oz or USD 95c per gram. That is $NZ1.55 per gram.250g of silver would be around $387.50
  
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  May 16, 2024 3:32pm
I remember when

Argentina Central Bank cuts interest rate to 40% as inflation slows.

Makes you wonder what the bad news is.
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May 16, 2024 2:22pm
Maggie Pie

Here’s something most Employers have known for a long time anyway 🙁

Report finds….

‘Fat staff are twice as likely to take time off sick
and are seriously hampering economic growth’

https://mol.im/a/13410109
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May 16, 2024 2:39pm
- Don Beckett
  
  Oooo Maggie – you are fat shaming !!!! You’ll get into trouble.
  
  (good on you ) 😆 😆
  
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  May 16, 2024 2:46pm
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, as for our elected/list MPs well their pictures indicate their size.
  https://www.parliament.nz/en/mps-and-electorates/members-of-parliament/
  They take sickies and few voters would notice.
  
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  May 16, 2024 2:49pm
Ghost

My condolences to the family and friends

Brody Cameron, the son of ACT MP Mark Cameron, has died. Cameron, a list MP based in the Northland electorate who entered Parliament after the 2020 election, wrote a heartbreaking tribute to his son on Facebook.

[Mod – fixed]
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May 16, 2024 3:09pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Usually folks send condolences…
  
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  May 16, 2024 5:37pm
  - Ghost
    
    Argh, damn phone
    
    Mod, please,
    
    Thanks
    
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    May 16, 2024 5:38pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Suspended Green MP misses half of this year’s Parliament sitting days, still on full pay.

“After the investigation began further information came to light, which has led to the investigation taking longer.” Independent spokesperson.
Um, no! Chop the income now! The Net Taxpayer is paying for this ok?
The longer the investigation takes, the longer Darleen Tana is on the tit. This would never ever happen in the Private Sector. This shit needs to stop like yesterday.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/suspended-green-mp-misses-half-of-this-year-s-parliament-sitting-days-still-on-full-pay/ar-BB1msr7g?
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May 16, 2024 3:18pm
Maggie Pie

This is an absolute eye-opener!

Wonderful free-lance investigative journalist Simon Anderson delves into the goings-on
of Rainbow charity… ‘InsideOUT’

https://x.com/SimonRAnderson/status/1790934288025993715

And probably no surprise to anyone to read that Labours new ‘executive assistant’
Shaneel Lal is part of it. Hmmm….
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May 16, 2024 3:43pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Let’s put a mask on. Oh maybe not. Yes, use a mask.
We got taken for a ride, even in NZ. Use a crisis for CONTROL! (right Jaspinda?)
This was always going to expose the mask mandate.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/health/other/wearing-face-masks-did-not-reduce-risk-of-covid-infection-post-omicron/ar-BB1mrQcE?
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