About
Contact
Advertise

Facebook
Twitter

January 13, 2025 8:00am by Kokila Patel

General Debate 13 January 2025

Like this:

Like Loading…

Email
Facebook
Twitter
Comment248

Uncategorized
General Debate

Comments (248)

Login to comment or vote

artemisia

Datacom’s latest Business Outlook Survey of 200 business leaders – climate change priority has dropped from #3 to #6 January to January.

Beginning to be not quite such a ‘hot’ topic?

Voluntary Net Zero climate alliances are losing members at a rate of knots, the latest is Blackrock exiting the NZAM.

NZ NZ?

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/538787/economic-uncertainty-primary-concern-for-businesses
54 1
Log in to Reply
Report
January 13, 2025 8:05am
- Debsta
  
  Good. Is it too much to hope that there is a realisation of the rort occurring?
  
  38 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 8:36am
  - GazzaW
    
    The reluctant realisation finally by many that it’s all just a rinse and repeat on a giant scale of the Y2K rort. How many trillions has this scam of scams generated and who were the main benefactors?
    
    21 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 10:33am
    - Swifty
      
      Y2K wasn’t a rort.
      
      Prove me wrong.
      
      4 13
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 11:38am
      - John Loveridge
        
        At the time I was working for a large technology multi-national that wound the fear factor right up as far as it would go and screwed its customers as hard as it could, all in the name of Y2K upgrades. There was some fact at the heart of it all, but it was quickly turned into a gigantic rort.
        
        15 0
        Report
        January 13, 2025 12:39pm
      - artemisia
        
        Correct, Swifty. Though TBF there was for sure some work done that was not needed in hindsight. Huge complex legacy systems, not always well understood, and the Y2K impact also not well understood from the outset of the project. The enterprise I worked in did have a few overnight failures picked up in the extensive regression testing.
        
        7 0
        Report
        January 13, 2025 1:00pm
      - Swifty
        
        Understood artemisia.
        
        But to call the whole thing a ‘giant rort’, a deliberate fraud and deception, is a claim I still see from time but one I never see substantiated in any detail whatsoever, and generally by people who were not at all involved in it.
        
        I was involved. Majorly and for Clear Communications and I saw it all first hand.
        
        There was no rort. It was real and huge amounts of work went in to straighten it all out.
        
        Gazza needs to out up or shut up.
        
        6 0
        Report
        January 13, 2025 2:51pm
      - Jake Dee
        
        Which way is the bias likely to have played out? Is it likely that consultants tell everyone that there will be no problem and they don’t get the business or that they say that there is a real problem so they do get the business?
        It isn’t really a question of lying or deliberate fraud it is constructing and believing in a story that is most conducive to your interests.
        Selling a solution to a hypothetical problem that has never happened before, can never happen again and finally didn’t happen at all is always going to be at least a bit dubious.
        Really, how can you prove that your medicine worked if the patient was healthy before and is still healthy now?
        
        2 0
        Report
        January 13, 2025 9:35pm
      - alloytoo
        
        While it certainly wasn’t at it’s core a rort, some people certainly parleyed it into substantive status building “make work.”
        
        In our company at the time we took prudent steps well in advance to ensure our single little Unix server was up to date. We also had manual invoices books to hand.
        
        I also remember wasting time writing reports to customers advising that none of our products (general wholesale goods, knives spades, etc) would fail and that as long as our local fuel retailer could pump diesel we would deliver.
        
        0 0
        Report
        January 14, 2025 9:10am
- Suze Wainwright
  
  It’s all those Atlas agents having undue influence
  
  17 3
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 8:38am
- Benedict Yu
  
  In the case of New Zealand, Chris Luxon is simply refusing to explain to the people how “net zero” can be achieved and at what cost. Just keeping quiet is not leadership.
  
  55 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 8:49am
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    Yes, might be worth totting up all the “initiatives” that NZ has signed us up to…
    
    Looking forward to seeing how we will pay for all of this virtue signaling.
    
    Chickens coming home to roost.
    
    Fortunately sticking our fingers in our ears and shouting “lalala” can’t hear you seems like an effective strategy.
    
    26 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 9:18am
  - Yvette
    
    To steal from Benedict, “In the case of” the Treaty Principles Bill “Chris Luxon is simply refusing to explain to the people” why, before he ever read it, he has been emphatic that he and National will not support it.
    refusing to explain once, it happens
    twice, a coincidence?
    but three times will be a policy or an agenda
    “Just keeping quiet is not leadership”
    
    38 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 9:19am
  - JackRabbit
    
    In the case of New Zealand, Chris Luxon is simply refusing to explain to the people how “net zero” can be achieved and at what cost.
    
    “Net Zero” for humans cannot be achieved without reducing the population and going back to an agrarian way of life.
    
    [1] Net Zero is neither achievable nor desirable. The more CO2 humans produce, the more plants, grasses, moss and trees convert to O2.
    
    [2] With anti-farming, anti-livestock moves world wide and in NZ, promulgated by fake Climate Change, going back to an agrarian way of life will have mass starvation.
    
    [3] With a lot of land being bought up by the likes of Blackrock, Gates, and many others, we will be going back to being serfs and slaves.
    
    [4] I suspect that the public are not yet ready to hear that “Net Zero” is neither attainable nor desirable.
    
    [5] I suspect that Peters, NZF, and parts of National and ACT know this.
    
    Given what the Ardern govt did to the media and deep state, telling everyone the truth will be like playing “pass the live grenade”. He is right to not address it at this point. NZ has more important things to deal with right now.
    
    26 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 10:14am
    - Steve Otto N Shore
      
      Try explaining [1] to a greenie and watch for the deadpan face.
      It is far too advanced for them.
      
      20 3
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 10:34am
      - igm
        
        It is like telling some people that Covid vaccinations are bullshit and dangerous. As one who had a clot after 1st booster, requiring aortic valve replacement, I would never touch the shit again. At the time I was prescribed warfarin, which stops clots, and is supposedly foolproof . . . but is not Pfizer proof.
        
        20 4
        Report
        January 13, 2025 10:47am
      - JackRabbit
        
        Sorry to hear that IGM.
        
        13 2
        Report
        January 13, 2025 11:45am
      - John Loveridge
        
        Igm, I generally stay clear of the Covid vax debate, but I have one close friend whose arms started itching the evening after his first shot, and ended up with a debilitating, chronic eczema issue that dermatologists have thrown their hands up in the air at.
        
        14 0
        Report
        January 13, 2025 12:43pm
      - Jack5
        
        Benedict Yu’s ” …Just keeping quiet is not leadership….”
        
        Perhaps at times it is required in leadership of a coalition government.
        
        Coalitions are a notable outcome of governments elected under proportional voting systems like MMP.
        
        5 0
        Report
        January 13, 2025 12:56pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Steve Otto N Shore: “Try explaining [1] to a greenie and watch for the deadpan face. It is far too advanced for them.”
        
        Trouble is their fave loony-left media sources keep pumping out bare faced lies on climate. They only listen to those loony-left narrative pushing echo chambers.
        
        9 1
        Report
        January 13, 2025 2:19pm
      - Steve Otto N Shore
        
        NZ in Ex,
        They really do think that someone “special” can see CO2!!!
        
        5 1
        Report
        January 13, 2025 4:21pm
    - kowtow
      
      ‘NZ has more important things to deal with right now.’
      
      We do , and so why are we literally wasting hundreds of millions ( which we can’t afford as we have more important things to deal with) on the climate scam.
      
      10 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 12:32pm
    - Quail
      
      NZ land managers were once the best in the world, getting production and a living off lands that few other countries would even imagine were possibly productive.
      Productivity in NZ was strong! NZ was wealthy.
      Then the corporates and the woke governments with the shiny pants managed to regulate and tax these individuals out of production.
      Rural land is largely now in the hands of forestry , viticulture and yes .include the iwi , large corporates. (Any government land has to be offered to iwi prior to going on the open market.)
      NZ productivity has fallen along with the currency.
      So JR, 2 and 3 are correct.
      And productivity in NZ is a disaster.
      
      9 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 1:17pm
    - imalwaysright
      
      If New Zealand’s emissions were calculated scientifically rather than distorted to enable virtue signalling, we would have to INCREASE our emissions to achieve Nett Zero!
      
      We should be receiving an income from carbon credits rather than paying for them.
      
      8 3
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 1:29pm
      - MCōs
        
        Huge if true
        Send your figures to Nicola Willis
        
        3 2
        Report
        January 13, 2025 4:46pm
      - alloytoo
        
        Ignoring everything else, I believe the cold Southern Ocean absorbs anything the plants can’t grab.
        
        0 0
        Report
        January 14, 2025 9:19am
  - Chris Nisbet
    
    If he’s got any brains, he’d know that Net Zero is not possible without driving us back the pre-colonial times.
    These were not good times, as some of us think. I suspect there are quite a few voters who would have something to say if he started explaining that to us.
    
    16 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 11:44am
  - Paulus
    
    Luxon is off to United Arab Emirates today to sign a Trade Agreement, being in the offing for some time, thanks to the work of MFAT.
    
    4 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 3:52pm
    - Steve Otto N Shore
      
      He must not know that you can get an email attachment, print it, sign it, scan it and email back. Some PDFs you can enter a scanned signature.
      Our boy Luxon is just like the COP conferences. Fly in a jet and tell others to stop wasting fossil fuels.
      There is a name for it but it escapes me right now.
      
      4 4
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 4:27pm
  - rouppe
    
    I’m in Europe at the moment, visited a relative who has extensive board experience. Got onto the topic of energy.
    
    They’re suffering some similar problems. They have gas reserves that they’re not allowed to exploit. They’re realising that the wind turbines aren’t the answer, and that the installation of them is negatively affecting bird life, and for the offshore installations sea life. They barely make their money back before they need replacing.
    
    One interesting thing he said was that even the Greens there are realising that nuclear is the obvious route.
    
    2 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 7:40pm
  - alloytoo
    
    Bjorn Lomborg from the Copenhagen Consensus evaluated New Zealand in respect of Net Zero. Despite boasting +/- 80% non emission power generation, Net Zero is simply unaffordable and will cost exponentially more than the potential climate change will.
    
    0 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 14, 2025 9:16am
- G152
  
  Its now the global whitening
  
  18 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 9:21am
- sungsamning
  
  Trump pulling out of the Paris Accord won’t do the ‘man made global warming industry’ much good either. Greta will be cross. So will Al Gore. Grifters gotta find a new grift.
  
  29 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 10:08am
  - Steve Otto N Shore
    
    If only Greta understood how much trouble she has caused for the World.
    
    13 4
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 10:37am
    - Debsta
      
      To be fair she was just a teenage tragic; the damage was done by all the idiot adults listening and following her ridiculous rant and all that came after that.
      
      17 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 1:44pm
  - JackRabbit
    
    So will Al Gore.
    
    He will not want his sham carbon trading cash-flow to dry up.
    
    Greta will be cross.
    
    hopefully she will stamp her feet, opening up a rift in space and time and disappear forever, just like that other cretin, Rumpelstiltskin.
    
    13 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 11:48am
  - PurplePen
    
    Greta has moved on to a new issue, for her. Palestine. I’ve seen her screaming screwed up face at a rally about the evil that has beset Palestine.
    
    7 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 7:06pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  The corporate hookers are sensing new pimps taking over the block so are changing allegiances accordingly.
  
  6 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 3:15pm
Bridgenag

sunday memepool: embrace the clownworld
(then kick it down the stairs)

https://open.substack.com/pub/boriquagato/p/sunday-memepool-8cd?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
6 2
Log in to Reply
Report
January 13, 2025 8:05am
Bridgenag

Nero Newsom Fiddles…
While LA incinerates

https://open.substack.com/pub/rwmalonemd/p/nero-newsom-fiddles?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
17 1
Log in to Reply
Report
January 13, 2025 8:06am
- greybeard
  
  “Evil men will burn their nation to rule over its ashes”:
  SunTzu.
  
  Ardern must have read this at some time.
  
  43 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 8:41am
  - cmm
    
    “Ardern must have read this at some time.”
    
    Well maybe the version with pop up pictures and heaps of glitter.
    
    39 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 9:24am
  - Allan
    
    An excellent piece on the evilness of Ardern and her sociopathic make up.
    https://goodoil.news/the-unmasking-of-a-political-sociopath/
    
    15 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 10:16am
    - John Loveridge
      
      “When Jacinda was little, she wanted to be a clown. But when she saw schoolmates who didn’t have lunch, or even shoes, she knew she had to do something. Some kids laughed at her for wanting to help people so much, or said she couldn’t do it. But that didn’t stop Jacinda.”
      
      Entirely made up. Betcha.
      
      Except the clown bit, which she achieved effortlessly.
      
      15 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 12:48pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Wow!
      
      I was unaware that Jacinda Ardern spent two and a half years working in the Cabinet Office of UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.
      
      The NZ media used to write of her time there as if it was a brief stint and how she really wasn’t working for Blair.
      
      She didn’t realise till she got to London what a tiny cog she would be – “we were in a unit of 80, and we were one of many units” – and that the connection to Blair was zilch.
      https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/96123508/jacinda-ardern-i-didnt-want-to-work-for-tony-blair
      
      11 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 1:09pm
      - Paulus
        
        Helen Clark arranged it for her.
        The office is some 2,000 people around Westminster, and she never met Blair, she said.
        
        9 0
        Report
        January 13, 2025 1:30pm
      - imalwaysright
        
        She said in the article that she wanted three terms as PM before “handing the baton over to Kelvin”
        Jesus, talk about unthinkable…
        
        14 0
        Report
        January 13, 2025 1:48pm
  - Steve Otto N Shore
    
    Ardern would burn the village to the ground to get rid of a disease.
    Safe and effective.
    
    16 3
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 10:41am
    - JackRabbit
      
      Spelling mistake Steve.
      
      Ardern ~~would~~ did burn the ~~village~~ economy to the ground to get rid of a disease.
      
      18 2
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 11:50am
      - pdm
        
        Jack a slight tidy up.
        Replace economy with country.
        
        10 1
        Report
        January 13, 2025 1:36pm
Morgan H

Luxon’s National needs to change. John Key’s National won elections for numerous reasons. John Key was popular. Luxon is not popular. New Zealand’s economy was doing great under Key. Key’s National had numerous other parties to help keep it in power. Luxon needs both Act and NZ First to stay in power, if one falls then they all fall.
19 2
Log in to Reply
Report
January 13, 2025 8:11am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Key was hss as need s as n economy in recession with high interest rates and inflation, certain agencies like ACC were an utter financial mess as well. key was popular, but can you tell me why only 50% give a name for who they want as pm? To me when so many do not answer, then the numbers are irrelevant
  
  3 7
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 9:52am
- Philview
  
  Luxon’s lack of popularity stems from the fact that the media have been attacking him relentlessly from the day he became leader of the National Party. Mud sticks. Whereas probably no negative articles about Jacinda Ardern in 6 years.
  
  23 5
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 11:18am
  - Morgan H
    
    There are several reasons for Luxon’s lack of popularity. Luxon is seen out of touch by both sides. Luxon’s team try to push this is because he “talks like a business leader”. In reality, he talks like just a manager rather than an actual leader. He is not bold in his actions. Also, the sitting prime minister has a popularity boost just by being the prime minister.
    
    Look at his stance on Act’s treaty bill. He is destroying the reputation of other members of the National party by forcing them to oppose the bill in the second reading.
    
    He could come out saying he will get rid of the Maori seats and that’ll be enough to save National. But no, he wants National to contest them instead.
    
    16 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 12:13pm
    - MCōs
      
      Christopher Luxon is not a good politician.
      He’s made some poor choices such as claiming a subsidy for his house. It may have been perfectly legit, but it was poor form when public servants are being sacked left & right
      I know it’s unseemly to give Ardern credit for anything on this forum, but she ran rings around Luxon at QT. Not something anyone did with Key.
      
      7 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 5:19pm
  - goNZ1
    
    plus he is a Christian, unlike Key and Adern, so the media automatically attack that. Whereas they don’t dare to criticise the Religion of Peace even though many in the media would not survive long living in gayness in those peace loving countries..
    
    0 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 11:19pm
Cassandra

British writer (and former Labour candidate) Matthew Syed, arguing that the derision of Trump in particular and America in general will encourage it to isolationism: “Future historians will come to regard the American-led post-war age – this 80 year sweep of peace and prosperity – as the most magical in history. And the thought that worries me most? That the people of the world will come to realise this only when it’s too late.” And he argues that the West should increase its defence expenditure to 3.5% of GDP. Note that NZ’s is 1.2% and by some estimates a pathetic 0.9%. Whatever the real figure NZ is bludging off Australia and that must stop.
41 2
Log in to Reply
Report
January 13, 2025 8:17am
- Dougal10
  
  One could argue that our defence spending is actually much higher. By funding thousands of solo mums and gangs we have made NZ an undesirable place to invade.
  
  34 3
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 8:27am
  - Keith White
    
    Gang members will be the Schutzstaffel of any new regime.
    
    18 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 9:55am
    - fightingtemeraire
      
      Gangs are TPM’s Praetorian Guard.
      
      23 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 10:49am
      - AitchW
        
        It’d be funny if it wasn’t true!
        
        4 0
        Report
        January 13, 2025 4:53pm
    - Jake Dee
      
      Oh please, the SS were an elite unit our gangs are bums. You would get better military work out of the Rotary club than the Mongrel Mob. As for the rank and file recruit them from dairy farmers and forestry crews not meth heads and drunks.
      
      0 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 10:00pm
  - Steve Otto N Shore
    
    You just explained Labour’s behaviour. Single parent homes, welfare dependent and they will vote for free shit that never eventuates.
    
    20 3
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 10:45am
    - Ian Boag
      
      But your pension is OK Steve? And you aen’t doing too badly out of the health system? And the Prado, boat and debt-free house are all good?
      
      2 2
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 7:56pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        What’s your point?
        Are you jealous of his financial position or just being a nasty troll?
        
        4 0
        Report
        January 13, 2025 9:14pm
      - Steve Otto N Shore
        
        AoR, Boag is best ignored. He is always rabbiting on about pensions, sees it as welfare. I see it as a return for a life of Taxes.
        I worked hard for my assets, they were not just given to me.
        
        0 1
        Report
        January 14, 2025 8:25am
      - Ian Boag
        
        @Otto
        
        vote for free shit
        
        Like the pension being funded by your children’s generation …
        
        0 0
        Report
        January 14, 2025 8:36am
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Dougal I would argue NZ was actually quite a lovely place relatively speaking. Certain sub-cultures have, over the last 50 or so years made it a shit hole for the median wage person with 1000s fleeing or seriously looking at fleeing. That’s a perfect recipe for some uninvited (probably horrible) regime to simply walk in and take over to “restore order”.
    
    5 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 3:24pm
- cmm
  
  This “magical” period has been built on massive debt.
  
  You can try the same thing for yourself: remortgage the house, get a few deep credit cards and have a “magical” first-class round the world trip.
  
  Eventually the credit card runs out and that magical period runs out and you will need to return to a huge credit card that needs to be paid off.
  
  USA is currently running up $3bn of extra debt a year. That is $30 per person per day. Add trickle down effects and that is more like $50 per person per day. Of course everyone can have a magical time with an extra $50 per person per day.
  
  The question is what happens when that $50 goes away. Americans are extremely entitled – living high on the hog. Readjusting to a more modest life is going to feel like hell for them.
  
  20 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 8:45am
  - Cassandra
    
    There was more to it than massive debt. The period of my life was relatively peaceful, notwithstanding Korea, Malaya, Kenya, civil war in Africa, Cuba, Vietnam, Hungary, Pol Pot, Yugoslavia, Iraq, multi Arabs v Israel. The author is making the point that driving the US to isolation is not in the West’s interests as we face the threat of a wider war.
    
    21 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 9:27am
    - cmm
      
      Hmm… Are we really closer to war?
      How much of that war has been provoked, or made worse, by USA meddling?
      
      As you say, sure that period was peaceful within Anglophone countries and continues to be so, but elsewhere there were many wars.
      
      One that I am familiar with (having being personally dragged into it in the 1980s) was the Angolan civil war. That was started as a USA/USSR proxy war with the USA requesting South Africa to get involved to assist them. While the USA never put boots on the ground they did put the CIA in and enabled UNITA which escalated the Angolan civil war from what would have been maybe a 5 year conflict into a conflict that lasted 27 years. Once South Africa was deeply involved, the CIA left the scene – except for drip-feeding UNITA with supplies to keep the conflict going. In many ways it continues today with civilians still being blown up by mines on almost a daily basis.
      
      The Pax Americana isn’t always what it is cracked up to be.
      
      The debt is important because that is part of what is enabling this.
      
      15 3
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 9:49am
  - cmm
    
    Of course that $3bn is 3 trillion – just off by a factor of 1000. Sorry.
    
    $30 or $50 a day is an astounding amount. It is enough to pay every American’s car payment and likely also their junk food payment too.
    
    Americans are currently bleating about the cost of living. Imagine how much more they would bleat if they were deprived of their cars and junk food too.
    
    16 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 9:35am
    - Steve Otto N Shore
      
      The difference is three zeros, and as zeros have no value there is no extra cost.//
      AOC.
      
      11 3
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 10:53am
Maggy Wassilieff

David Lillis queries whether our Public Service needs a thorough review

Regarding the Electoral Commission, Mr. Halse claims that the first day on which voting took place at Manurewa Marae, various complaints went to the Electoral Commission but apparently no action was taken.

https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2025/01/david-lillis-more-on-census-data-issue.html

I think it needs some thorough deep cleaning.
55 0
Log in to Reply
Report
January 13, 2025 8:19am
- cmm
  
  Some of them don’t need cleaning. They need complete removal. No need to clean something before it goes in the tip.
  
  29 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 9:51am
- Steve Otto N Shore
  
  The Public Sector needs Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk.
  
  12 4
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 10:55am
- Paulus
  
  How can you take action against the Maori.
  They are above all that remember.
  
  9 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 1:33pm
  - Cantabrian
    
    Is it not more a case of taking action against part Maori who have more foreign blood than native? They, and the recent North American and European migrants who believe they are doing God’s work by supoprt ‘the cause’ are the real problem.
    
    8 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 2:41pm
Swifty

Jane Kelsey personifies everything wrong with the NZ left.

From her lofty well-padded offices she makes pronouncements which destroy futures and severely limit the prospects of those who she claims to be concerned about.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/alarm-bells-need-to-ring-concerns-over-regulatory-standards-bill/XVEYKMMEYRD2VP63XKBIPIHNOQ/

Her economic proscriptions have led us to our current state – moribund, zero growth, hundreds of thousands of us fleeing to greener pastures and an increasingly limited ability to pay for the things we want as a society.

And her panacea? More of the same! More state, more state control, more regulation, more taxes – and all thought-led by her and people like her who suffer absolutely no consequences sequence when they’re wrong – and who have not created a job for anyone else in their lives.

I might add, she’s a stinking hypocrite too.

I’m sure she’s a supporter of MMP, and would regard lefty coalitions of Labour, Green and TPM as the best thing since sliced bread – but labels the current coalition as ‘a travesty of democracy’ and excoriates the ACT party for having been democratically elected and having the temerity to have policy positions different to hers!

Jane Kelsey is a menace – there I’ve said it. She offers us nothing but a bankrupt future and third world status.
42 2
Log in to Reply
Report
January 13, 2025 8:19am
- David Garrett
  
  Swifty: I had the dubious pleasure of meeting Ms Kelsey when I was in parliament…she appeared before the law and order Select Committee to tell us what a dreadful thing the three strikes law was, and how manifold injustices would occur.
  
  I might have paid more attention if she hadn’t drawn all her examples from California, whose law was very very different from what we were proposing. And of course all of her dire predictions failed to come true.
  
  45 3
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 9:45am
- Debsta
  
  I agree Swifty. Jane Kelsey and her ilk are the greatest menace we face in NZ, indeed all western democracies. As opposed to climate change, Trump, China/Russia, viruses, meteors and myriad other fears that are regularly pumped to the masses. We really do need people to wake up very soon.
  
  13 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 2:08pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  A bankrupt future is the “price that (others) must pay”. Funnily enough, not so much for the pushers of the new loony woke order.
  
  9 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 2:28pm
- NoFax
  
  I had Jane Kelsey as a lecturer back at my law school days and she was actually pretty decent and was open to different views. I’m not sure if that’s changed but one thing I do know is that she is usually always wrong on the issues of the day. The answer to her and her ilk for government failure is always more government control. This time it will be different!
  
  8 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 6:27pm
John Loveridge

Mrs Loveridge and I typically stock the freezer with butter when it’s on special. The freezer ran out this weekend so I was sent on a butter mission. To my horror, I couldn’t find a single 500g block in Christchurch for less than $6.90.

In the literal land of milk and honey, what’s driving this at the moment?
29 2
Log in to Reply
Report
January 13, 2025 8:21am
- Swifty
  
  What’s driving our dairy product prices is the price overseas customers of our dairy companies are prepared to pay for their products.
  
  19 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 9:59am
  - G152
    
    Now if only the cow cockies could get a share of that
    
    6 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 12:17pm
- Matt Long
  
  Several things are driving the current high price of butter.
  Generally high inflation.
  Low productivity in New Zealand resulting in a low exchange rate.
  Regulation, lowering supply of milk in New Zealand, which reduces the international pool, and increases prices.
  A lack of competition in the distribution chain.
  Climate virtue taxes on transport and manufacturing.
  Still if you compare the price with carbonated sugar water or a pack of tic-tacs, butter looks like reasonable value.
  
  21 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 10:11am
  - Quail
    
    Correct ML
    Inflation has not gone away , only the Reserve Bank now keeps its head deep in the sand!
    
    13 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 10:43am
  - John Loveridge
    
    The $10 block of butter can’t be far away.
    
    8 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 12:19pm
  - Skippytony
    
    You left out that the sector is dominated by cartel behaviour…
    
    6 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 4:27pm
    - John Loveridge
      
      The fact that, gram for gram, butter is costing me nearly as much as my cheese, suggests a strange dynamic at work.
      
      6 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 7:11pm
      - marcw
        
        Remember Fonterra is now paying farmers around $10 /kg milk solids, so how much butter can be made for 1kg of milk solids? And what other products can be made from what ever is left over after the 500g butter is produced.
        
        5 0
        Report
        January 13, 2025 7:18pm
- thirteenstars
  
  NZ has become an expensive place to live, it’s that simple, with all the usual suspects to blame, mainly government meddling in the market, taxes and expensive regulatory compliance. It all adds up until one day you find butter is about three times the cost of a litre of petrol which itself is very expensive.
  
  You might as well say the same for fish, beef, lamb and cheese, commodities we produce in abundance and were once cheap enough for a single-income family to eat on a daily basis, but not anymore.
  
  On the topic of butter, does anyone know if it can be purchased in commercial-sized packs like 2kg or larger. I’d happily buy it to save money. I do that with whole rumps or briskets and grind my own mince adding in some beef heart and liver. Highly nutritious, better quality and cheaper by far.
  
  14 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 11:11am
- Bridgenag
  
  Hey Easy to make butter. Just buy a litre of milk and whisk it until it separates … look it up …… trouble is you need to freeze most of it. Add other stuff and NO water splashing everywhere when you a BBQing your favourite steak
  
  4 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 12:47pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    How about a machine powered by electrickery to do the butter churning work for you?
    
    8 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 1:10pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Just buy a litre of milk and whisk it until it separates …
    
    Grief…. Don’t you know the difference between Butter and cheese?
    
    Butter is made from CREAM
    
    Cheese is made from MILK (and a souring/acid agent)
    
    14 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 1:16pm
    - Bridgenag
      
      Yes absolutely right Sorry
      
      4 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 7:29pm
  - pdm
    
    7We used to make our own butter when I was a kid.
    
    First milk through a Seperator and then on to a churn. Then we had two wooden paddles to shape it into a rectangle
    about the size of a conventional pound of butter.
    
    Sorry cannot recall the exact process or the time it took.
    
    We also used to skim cream off the top of the milk.
    
    10 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 1:47pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      It was full cream that went into the churn, after it had been separated from the milk.
      
      11 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 2:13pm
      - Don Beckett
        
        That’s why the product was called butterfat.
        
        7 0
        Report
        January 13, 2025 2:42pm
- Paulus
  
  Supermarket today – No Apples !
  
  8 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 1:34pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Definitely not apple picking season in NZ yet….
    
    The first ones might be picked in a couple of weeks… but I wouldn’t expect the best to arrive until March- April.
    
    and from October- February, you’ll either get NZ ones that have been in cold storage, or imports.
    
    12 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 1:44pm
- PurplePen
  
  John … bought PAMs butter today for 6.99 at PaknSlave
  
  https://www.paknsave.co.nz/shop/search?q=butter
  
  4 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 7:13pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Sir Ian Taylor out of step with The Maori Party

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360545272/agreeing-disagree-shane-jones-and-what-we-agreed-dame-tariana-turias-tangi

It seems the folks at Whangaehu Marae forgot that Tariana Turia was NOT a Te Reo speaker.
34 0
Log in to Reply
Report
January 13, 2025 8:24am
- greybeard
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360545272/agreeing-disagree-shane-jones-and-what-we-agreed-dame-tariana-turias-tangi
  
  Sir Ian Taylor says “Because I don’t speak Te Reo Māori, our discussions are always in English.”
  
  That doesn’t stop him using token maori words all through this article !
  
  – “a willingness to kōrero about our differences.”
  – “or show respect and aroha, as should have been the case at the tangi of this wonderful wahine toa.”
  – “The irony, seemingly missed by those who made the call on the paepae…”
  – “Dame Tariana was a staunch advocate for the rights enshrined in Te Tiriti. “
  – “Confusion over Te Tiriti stretches back to 1840 when 500 rangatira signed up to a document…”
  – “…brought to politics in Aotearoa.”
  – “In making the decision to ban non Te Reo speaking guest on the paepae at Dame Tariana’s tangi it would seem this beautiful Māori whakatauki was put to one side.”
  
  41 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 8:35am
  - David Garrett
    
    greybeard: I got as far as “matua Shane Jones”…it seems I missed nothing in not reading further. Here is Lindsay Mitchell’s take on the “wonderful wahine toa”
    
    https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/lindsay-mitchell-remembering-tariana-turia
    
    I doubt my former leader Rodney Hide would agree with her; Rodney seemed somewhat besotted with the woman, and is able to overlook her many…errors.
    
    17 3
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 9:51am
- Yabster
  
  Taylor is also backing that peace of propaganda that was the school Brochure “all you need to know about the Treaty”- apparently Article ones meaning was the massive British empire was only interesting in “governing British subjects” in some place called Aotearoa (not a term used widely back in 1840). Taylor is just another Maori elite pushing the bullshit barrow.
  
  34 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 8:41am
  - David Garrett
    
    Yabster: A gentle correction sir/madam…Aotearoa was not just “a term not widely used at the time” the treaty was signed, it wasn’t used at all.
    
    At the Kohimarama conference in 1860 – at which Maori chiefs who signed the treaty or their descendants reaffirmed their commitment to it – the term for the country was “Niu Tireni”.
    
    Aotearoa appears to have been a late 19th century adoption by pakeha historians of the time.
    
    35 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 9:55am
  - Sparrow
    
    I am sure Taylors father was English. I admire our Governor General who proudly says her father was English. Why the difference ? Its the same with artists. A few with Māori blood acknowledge their European heritage Nga Pākehā amongst their Iwi affiliations but most just give a long list of Iwi affiliations ignoring that in most cases they are more European. Fascinating
    
    13 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 12:13pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Sparrow the phenomena is known as pretentiousness. And very silly pretentiousness at that when you “unpack” who these people really are and how they really live.
      
      12 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 2:48pm
- pdm
  
  Taylor said ACT and the Maori Party shouted/yelled at each other.
  
  I don’t agree with that- ACT are usually
  calm and rational while the Maori Party are hysterical and abusive.
  
  48 4
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 8:51am
Pope Punctilious II

Oh dear, the good Professor Jane Kelsey is VERY unhappy about Seymour’s Regulatory Standards bill. And she doesn’t seem to be a fan of MMP:

‘ACT, with 8.64 percent of the vote in 2023, was using coalition negotiations to get this passed “through the back door”, she said.’

Jane, don’t you remember how The Maori Party (with 3 % of the vote in the 2008 election) were able to advance their agenda by negotiating with the Nats during the Key years?
41 0
Log in to Reply
Report
January 13, 2025 8:42am
- Swifty
  
  Kelsey’s got no principles.
  
  Her arguments and positions are a great hot mess – with her inconsistent positions on MMP a classic example.
  
  22 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 10:03am
- pdm
  
  If my memory is correct Jane Kelsy was a Green MP, or was it her sister?
  
  Whatever she is a rabid Green who would be all for MMP. Her hypocrisy often distorts this.
  
  12 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 10:13am
  - alwyn.a
    
    I think you may be confusing her with Sue Kedgley who was a Green MP from 1999 until 2011.
    Her full name was Susan Jane Kedgley.
    
    11 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 10:32am
    - Steve Otto N Shore
      
      Sue Kedgley is the one who had a hissy fit about dihydrogen monoxide.
      
      13 2
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 11:11am
      - alwyn.a
        
        She wasn’t the only one. National MP Jacqui Dean was caught by the same hoax.
        I remember when studying German for the then required foreign language requirement for a BSc (Hons) degree the German studies Lecturer told us he now understood a chemical formula in a text and that H2SO4 was water.
        
        8 1
        Report
        January 13, 2025 12:06pm
      - JJ56
        
        And not without good reason. Definitely the worst GHG by a wide margin.
        
        6 0
        Report
        January 13, 2025 12:09pm
    - pdm
      
      Right – thanks Alwyn.
      
      5 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 1:51pm
Tom Barker

Right-wing hero Steve Bannon calls white South Africans “the most racist people on earth.” There must be many Kiwiblog commentators with a well informed view of that assessment. Tell me – is Bannon right (in both senses)?
8 11
Log in to Reply
Report
January 13, 2025 8:51am
- Yabster
  
  be hard to say probably not as racist as those Pakistani/Muslim Imans and rape gangs though huh Barker…
  
  13 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 10:09am
- cmm
  
  Clearly anyone commenting on Kiwiblog is a self-selecting group of people and so are even South Africans that came to New Zealand.
  
  I do have a huge problem with the massive generalization of “white South Africans” as a single group.
  
  White South Africans could be broken into two main sub-groups based on their language:
  * Afrikaans speakers: more conservative, more racist.
  * English speakers: more liberal, less racist.
  
  Afrikaners are the majority (approx 2:1) so they controlled politics during the apartheid era.
  
  Apartheid was not a system to benefit whites. It was primarily a mechanism to benefit Afrikaners.
  
  One might also split the country North West/South East with more racist whites in the North and North West and less racist whites in the South and East. Much of that comes down to interaction with different tribal groups. Cape Town historically has very few black people (mainly Cape Coloured) and the racial antagonism between whites and coloured people was always much lower than between black people and other races. Pre-apartheid I believe Cape Town even elected a coloured mayor. All through the apartheid era, coloured people held high administrative positions in many local governments in the Cape and racial segregation was implemented in much less draconian ways (limited of course by the law of the land).
  
  During the apartheid years Coloured and white people freely went to church together in Cape Town and surrounds. The church we went to conducted illegal inter-race marriages (recognised by the church and not the state – though later ratified).
  
  All that said, white South Africans, of all languages, still managed to hold two constitutional referendums where they voluntarily relinquished power to other races: 1983 and, of course, 1992.
  
  So I would say it is a rather complex answer. Not just Yes or No.
  
  PS: I am in no way condoning apartheid or making light of it.
  
  18 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 10:15am
  - Don Beckett
    
    Yes cmm, these types of racial interactions are way more complex than can be categorised by two divisions.
    
    6 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 11:17am
    - Skippytony
      
      If African tribes were discrete races most would leave the most virulent Afrikaner for dead in the racist stakes. Man some of those tribes really hate each other.
      
      4 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 4:39pm
  - slijmbal
    
    Married to a Saffer and visited SA every couple of years since the late 80s for reasonably long stays (month+). Gave me a sort of stop motion view of the changes there. My in-laws are also Afrikaans speaking in Pretoria. I also understand Afrikaans.
    
    I came away with the impression that even the majority of Afrikaners weren’t racist though there were some absolute bigots who weren’t scared to share their views. The majority thought apartheid was wrong but were scared of going the way of Rhodesia and couldn’t see a way out of apartheid. While Mandela wasn’t a particularly good or strong leader when in power I believe his influence was one of the key reasons apartheid could be abolished.
    
    Of course, SA is now a corrupt mess but without apartheid. A typical African country.
    
    10 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 1:02pm
- Steve Otto N Shore
  
  I guess Steve Bannon has not been to New Zealand.
  The most racist are on out back doorstep.
  
  7 4
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 11:14am
  - Steve Otto N Shore
    
    our****
    
    6 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 11:54am
- BananaLlama
  
  So what did he actually say? or do we not even have a link to share.
  
  5 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 1:41pm
Yvette

Hopes for a fast launch of a Māori deliberative body and unified voice with representatives from iwi, hapū and urban Māori have been dashed, with few iwi leaders showing up to a hui in Hawkes Bay on Friday.
The hui, dubbed a Wānanga-ā-Motu by hosts Ngāti Kahungunu, was the latest in a series of gatherings kicked off by the Kiingitanga with the Hui-ā-Motu at Turangawaewae at the start of last year. It was meant to follow up on work launched at a hui in May, to create a new “Whare o te Rangatiratanga” as the Māori answer to Parliament.

“That through unity, sharing and working together we will honour our past and create a better future”
The vision kotahitanga of the “Whare o te Rangatiratanga”?
No – it is the vision statement of the National Iwi Chairs Forum.
What would become of the Iwi Chairs Forum in the face of the “Whare o te Rangatiratanga”

It is known Maori down through their hītōria have had trouble with inventing the wheel.
So with “Whare o te Rangatiratanga”, why are they trying to do it again?
24 1
Log in to Reply
Report
January 13, 2025 8:58am
- pdm
  
  Sorry fat fingers got you a downtick.
  
  6 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 10:18am
  - Don Beckett
    
    My personal view is that Maori will never coalesce into a nation – tribalism is ingrained in their respective psyches, which will make it impossible for them to agree in totality.
    You only need to look at Ngapuhi, whose various iwi & hapu cannot agree on how to settle a ToW claim – & and they profess to be of the same Waka.
    
    18 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 11:22am
Morgan H

“Jacinda Ardern, the former Prime Minister of New Zealand, was known for her grace and compassion, but few knew of the delicate nature of her feet. After a long day of speeches and meetings, she would often slip off her shoes, revealing feet that were slender and elegant, with soft arches that seemed to carry the weight of her leadership effortlessly. The smoothness of her soles, unmarred by the usual callouses of a life in public service, reflected the gentleness of her spirit. As she walked across the grass of the Beehive’s garden, her bare feet seemed to whisper against the earth, grounding her in the very soil she worked to protect. It was said that with every step, Jacinda’s feet left behind a trace of peace, as though the land itself recognized the kindness in her heart.”

What is wrong with people??
44 0
Log in to Reply
Report
January 13, 2025 9:10am
- k1w1
  
  Christ that should have come with a warning. I’m feeling quite sick.
  
  49 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 9:33am
  - pdm
    
    Me too.
    
    17 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 10:19am
- Clyde
  
  Who wrote that shit?
  
  36 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 9:34am
  - imalwaysright
    
    Christopher Luxon
    
    15 6
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 9:58am
    - Don Beckett
      
      No – really ?
      
      10 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 11:23am
- mandk
  
  It’s the same sort of adulation that some Roman Catholics hold for the Blessed Virgin Mary.
  
  7 11
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 9:47am
  - Don Beckett
    
    Why make a comment like that when you obviously have no understanding at all about Roman Catholic beliefs.
    To put it simply, Roman Catholics, & other Christians, hold the Blessed Virgin Mary in extremely high esteem – just as her son, Our Lord Jesus Christ does.
    
    8 6
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 11:26am
    - mandk
      
      “Roman Catholics, & other Christians, hold the Blessed Virgin Mary in extremely high esteem ”
      
      Well, that was my point: Jacinda Ardern is often – most undeservedly – treated with the same adulation as Mary. I meant no disrespect.
      
      12 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 12:54pm
      - Don Beckett
        
        Apologies mandk. Misunderstood your comment. 🙁
        
        9 0
        Report
        January 13, 2025 2:02pm
- Blog-aholic
  
  That made me want to spew.
  
  13 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 9:48am
- Flossie
  
  Thanks Clyde.
  I was about to write – to whom do we attribute that remarkable piece of writing?
  
  19 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 9:49am
- John Loveridge
  
  Is that from the Daily Mash or something?
  
  9 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 9:51am
- David Garrett
  
  Morgan: Oh FFS…please tell me that is lifted from the Womens Weekly or some other “womens magazine” and not some “news” site.
  
  21 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 10:01am
  - Ghost
    
    You want to have a bit more morning sickness
    
    https://festival.sundance.org/program/film/67531d7268b8b75adffe2fcd
    
    4 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 10:15am
    - David Garrett
      
      she was relentlessly challenged to prove her competence as a leader, which is why stepping down earlier than expected was an act of confidence, not a sign of defeat.
      
      Jesus H…the writer of that garbage is clearly no logician. I am struggling to come up with some comparison without resorting to Godwin’s law. The silly woman stepped down because she had enough clues to see that her popularity – and thus her value on the speaking circuit post politics – was rapidly waning.
      
      25 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 10:40am
    - John Loveridge
      
      The dictionary entry for “hagiography” should just be a link to that.
      
      10 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 12:27pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Uck. The only people who will watch that are posers (the same types who go to seriously boring and unfunny woke comedy festivals) and those on similar gravy trains to the ones her royal highness was/is on.
      
      2 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 3:47pm
- wairarapapaul
  
  Just coughed up a little bit of sick in my throat.
  
  13 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 10:10am
  - Don Beckett
    
    Only a little bit ??
    
    6 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 11:28am
  - david
    
    Well, you would need a much stronger constitution to withstand the whole move at Sundance, it runs for 101 minutes.
    
    5 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 2:11pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  OMG!!!! Podophilia on Kiwiblog.
  
  Where are the moderators when you need them?
  
  [Mod – after reading replies i really don’t want to read the main post, thanks]
  
  20 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 10:16am
- Bobba Fret
  
  Pass me a bucket.
  
  11 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 10:24am
- Scooter
  
  From the images in the news of her hideous footwear maybe she did a good thing by going bare foot. She had no dress sense either, except when being styled by some women’s mag.
  
  13 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 10:33am
- Scooter
  
  Whoever wrote that has some serious foot fetish issues.
  
  14 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 10:37am
- Swifty
  
  Li Yicheng wrote that – he’s always had a way with words.
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crime/auckland-shoe-fetish-attacks-li-yicheng-who-stalked-three-women-and-stole-their-footwear-loses-appeal/TDDIP2IWKVEFDH37UBPDVP2ERI/
  
  //
  
  7 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 10:52am
  - greybeard
    
    He should be given the boot.
    
    10 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 12:08pm
- kevn
  
  Morgan… Penned by a stoner?
  
  9 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 11:03am
  - kowtow
    
    More like someone with a boner .
    
    4 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 12:44pm
- artemisia
  
  Reckon that’s a draft for a stand up comedian. It would do well on the stand up circuit.
  
  7 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 11:16am
- Pope Punctilious II
  
  Please don’t do that again.
  
  4 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 12:43pm
- crikey
  
  🤮 🤮 🤮
  
  3 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 1:07pm
imalwaysright

Suspended British Labour party MP arrested in paedophile sting.
Last week he was on tv arguing against investigating the rape gangs.
Hopefully this will lead to further arrests.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/ex-labour-mp-arrested-days-after-attacking-unacceptable-elon/
22 0
Log in to Reply
Report
January 13, 2025 9:11am
- All_on_Red
  
  For those who dont subscribe to The Spectator here is a link which works.
  https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/01/11/ex-labour-mp-complains-about-musk-then-gets-arrested-for-child-sexual-exploitation-n3798717
  There is video of him being confronted when he was caught and arrested. Talk about squirm.
  No word yet from Tom Barker on this ‘Hero of the Left’
  
  18 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 10:01am
  - David Garrett
    
    All on: Oh dear…clearly this guy is governed by the perverted urgings of his little head…He didn’t have the brains to just shut it, but rather kept make what are clearly totally spurious denials. I hope they throw the book at the prick. God I hate paedos…however you spell it.
    
    20 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 10:14am
  - Matt Long
    
    Here’s a list of 50 Labour politicians and their offenses.
    Some people say Labour is protecting the pedophiles for votes, but the idea that it’s to protect themselves is gaining traction.
    https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1878469173635932257
    https://x.com/ColeFusionHQ/status/1878469528092327970
    
    13 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 10:24am
    - kowtow
      
      Yet all UK tv “drama” presents the sickos as Tory MP’s.
      
      9 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 12:46pm
- JimBobJoe
  
  His X timeline is full of retweets of naked young men some with full erections on display or shiwing off thwir fundamental orifice
  
  An openly gay guy.. And who cares… But he seems to like them young based on this sting operation catching trying to get with a 15 year old boy
  
  Labour UK has quite a few NAMBLA types lurking in their party….
  
  9 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 12:21pm
- Ghost
  
  He is not a suspended labour mp, his membership with labour was suspended last year, he hasn’t been an mp since 2005
  
  7 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 12:46pm
Clyde

For those of you that wish to choke on your morning latte or whatever, please access the Environmental Protection Agency Framework for matauranga and weep. This is a Govt agency that is publishing this gibberish

https://www.epa.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/Documents/Te-Hautu/Matauranga-Maori-Report_Companion-Guide.pdf
19 0
Log in to Reply
Report
January 13, 2025 9:36am
- Ghost
  
  Don’t miss the bit right at the end. Published in June 2020
  
  8 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 9:41am
  - Yabster
    
    It may as well be published 2025 Ghost- you think any of the Public service has changed its ways?
    
    11 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 10:14am
  - cmm
    
    Still on their website, so that is what stands as current thinking.
    
    13 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 10:29am
artemisia

Trudeau, Biden and Ardern are done. What’s eating the global left? A long article in Stuff originally in the Sydney Morning Herald.

This sounds remarkably like New Zealand’s urban centres.

Former Victorian Labor strategist Kos Samaras, who now runs polling firm Redbridge …. warns that progressive parties are increasingly dominated by university-educated activists from the inner city, which leaves them culturally disconnected from much of the electorate.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360545500/trudeau-biden-and-ardern-are-done-whats-eating-global-left
19 0
Log in to Reply
Report
January 13, 2025 9:45am
- GazzaW
  
  And they will be joined by Albo in March.
  
  12 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 10:53am
  - Steve Otto N Shore
    
    And Starmer.
    
    11 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 11:40am
  - NZer In Exile
    
    GazzaW: “And they will be joined by Albo in March.”
    
    I bloody hope so, or Australia is screwed.
    
    I fear Australia has had it so good for so long that people just expect the good times to roll on regardless of so called “progressive” clowns being in control of the cockpit.
    
    4 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 3:34pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Is the Waipareira Trust a big scam ?

https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/01/13/charities-no-place-for-politics/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Until a restructuring this year, the average salary for its 13 or so executive staff in 2023 was over $510,000 – the highest-paid charity executives in the country if not Australasia. This is surprising given that its revenue and assets are smaller than much larger charities such as the University of Auckland or Ngāi Tahu.
39 0
Log in to Reply
Report
January 13, 2025 9:45am
- Blog-aholic
  
  Is the Waipareira Trust a big scam?
  
  A very fat, very large YES.
  
  32 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 9:49am
- Flossie
  
  That’s a rhetorical question isn’t it Maggy?
  
  27 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 9:50am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Not at all… This Charitable Trust receives $$Millions from the NZ Taxpayer each year, but seems to have a problem distributing OUR charity to
    deserving beneficiaries.
    
    Its annual report for 2023-2024 says it has net assets of over $100 million (including $75 million in cash and cash equivalents) and over $20 million net annual surplus.
    
    I think it is a scam, but clearly Government Departments think otherwise…..
    
    23 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 10:29am
    - imalwaysright
      
      Assuming that the Waipereira funding is from the Ministry of Social Development on our behalf, then the person responsible is Debbie Power.
      If she is aware of this situation she should be sacked.
      If she is unaware, she should be sacked.
      In a normal country the WT bank accounts would be emptied and staff suspended pending audit.
      
      18 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 10:46am
    - All_on_Red
      
      To make that much surplus they are either;
      1. Not delivering the service or;
      2. Grossly overcharging for delivering the service or;
      3. Both
      
      Which ever way, they should have their Contracts reviewed and probably cancelled.
      
      21 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 11:15am
      - artemisia
        
        Or not being managed by the customer as a supplier with contracted outcomes. There were contracted outcomes, right?.
        
        8 0
        Report
        January 13, 2025 3:13pm
- Scooter
  
  I can’t remember where I heard or read it, but isn’t there a rule about charity bosses/managers cannot be paid more than what a similar position maybe in other companies/roles. If 13 people (cough JT’s rellies?) are being paid half a mill then something corrupt is going on.
  
  17 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 10:19am
lifesgood

Come back Mike Hosking, all is forgiven! I can’t bear listening to the insufferable Tim-what’s-his-name on Breakfast. He’s a Trump hater and downs anyone who dares to suggest the lefty state of California had done anything wrong to contribute to these terrible fires, even though the wrongs are well documented and many. Going to a “fact checker” when anyone said anything he didn’t agree with. How can he be sure the “fact checker” is right? And he justifies everything he says by saying “anyway”. What the heck does that mean? I enjoyed my coffee in peace once I turned him off.
39 1
Log in to Reply
Report
January 13, 2025 9:48am
- GazzaW
  
  Tim Beveridge is by far and away the best of a very mediocre bunch pulled together by ZB as replacements for their A Team who seem to have negotiated contracts that allow for them to have six week breaks over Christmas plus numerous weeks off during the year. A random survey would indicate that we are currently suffering Tim Beveridge as a sub for Hosking, a random ZB Christchurch host for Woodham, the sports jock doing the afternoon talkback and one of the political reporters filling in for Heather DPA. They are universally unsuited and ill equipped to handle their temporary roles and if I were an advertiser I would be cancelling my contract over this period.
  
  23 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 11:06am
  - greybeard
    
    That political reporter in HDPA’s timeslot is Jason Walls: he has the most execrable faux-American accent.
    Apparently he lived there for a while.
    
    18 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 12:00pm
    - John Loveridge
      
      Oh! Just like Verity Johnson’s little faux-Aussie and faux-Brit vowels. I know the type.
      
      7 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 12:31pm
    - lifesgood
      
      That accent really grates. I’ve never heard anything like it. He could easily get rid of it.
      
      9 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 12:51pm
  - Graeme Hall
    
    Oddly enough Jason Pine the sports guy seems to be the best of a bad bunch. He is both polite & self effacing.
    
    TimmieB needs to do a little more research on American politics beyond listening to CNN & accepting Scientific American as a fact checker. Scientific American is a mere shadow of its former self & now has the political credibility of MSNBC i.e. none.
    
    7 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 4:14pm
  - greybeard
    
    I have always rated Tim Dower as a sensible broadcaster: haven’t heard him for ages.
    Anyone know what he is doing ?
    
    3 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 5:35pm
    - marcw
      
      Yes, he made a good job of running the morning show over the holidays last year. I also have not heard him on air lately. He does not appear on the list of contacts on the NewstalkZB web page any more, so maybe he retired.
      
      3 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 5:54pm
- imalwaysright
  
  The Platform, by taking a month off, have missed out on growing their market share.
  Don’t know of many startups that can afford to suspend business for such a long period.
  
  9 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 1:00pm
- Paulus
  
  No, he is dreadful again and to boot a real vicious anti Trump, and Luxon in everthing.
  He is a nasty little man !
  Whoever employed him should go too
  I am trying to stop listening to his discraceful diatribe.
  
  7 3
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 2:05pm
  - lifesgood
    
    Yet he really rates himself. Uggh!
    
    5 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 2:12pm
sungsamning

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/infamous-delta-smelt-has-not-been-seen-nearly/
No Smelt Fish Sightings.
The tiny Delta Smelt fish have not been seen in the wild in California in over a decade.

And yet, California Democrats flushed annual water flow into the ocean to save this little fish that they can’t even find in its natural habitat.
Now several cities are burnt to the ground.

They sacrificed entire communities for a fish that doesn’t exist. [Newsoms presidential ambitions have gone up in smoke.]
22 1
Log in to Reply
Report
January 13, 2025 10:05am
- MCōs
  
  According to this article the quantity of water is not the problem, it’s getting it to where it’s needed when there are an unprecedented number of concurrent massive fires because the pipelines are inadequate
  https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/los-angeles-water-runs-short-wildfires-burn-out-control-2025-01-09/
  
  5 4
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 11:25am
  - Jethrod
    
    Transferred from LA fires 10/1/2025
    The Colorado River, one of the mighty rivers in the West, used to flow into the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of California.
    Because of large requirements of water in Southern California it no longer runs into that Gulf. Large dams like the Hoover dam(built in the 30’s) never fill up now because of the water demands of LA. The Hoover dam has never been full since it maiden filling in the 30’s, you can see the old water mark some 18 to 20 meters above present water mark . I am sure that the Pacific Palisades has had the greenest lawns in the whole of Southern California.
    The water crisis has been known about for at least 20 years and is really only hitting the news now.
    Newsom hasn’t been in power that long, he will say he only inherited the problem, but what happens in the next year will surely direct what happens to this Hipkins/type person.
    
    14 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 11:51am
    - Steve Todd
      
      Newsom hasn’t been in power that long, he will say he only inherited the problem, […].
      
      That won’t wash, Jethrod. Newsom has in fact been the governor for six years, and was the Lieutenant Governor (under Jerry Brown) for the preceding eight years.
      
      He will very likely pay a political price for this.
      
      10 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 5:54pm
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWMf8CeN5fU
Labour’s Grooming Gangs Smokescreen.
The government thinks if they scream racist and far right at everything that moves it will shutdown the issue. What would Islamists do to Jess Phillips if she spoke about them in the same way she speaks about the “Far Right”? She’d be long gone. And she knows it.
9 1
Log in to Reply
Report
January 13, 2025 10:06am
Kaiser Wilhelm

Just read in last weekend’s “Otago Daily Times” that a Dr Matiu Ratima of the University of Otago has been awarded $1.16m to ‘research’ “the realms of personal and collective moemoea (dreams) for culturally safe authentic Tiriti-based education for all New Zealanders.”

This funding was provided by the Royal Society of New Zealand. I despair. I mean, WTF!?
36 1
Log in to Reply
Report
January 13, 2025 10:48am
- Blog-aholic
  
  So, $160,000 for the research (as in his salary) and $1,000,000 for the secret swiss account.
  
  15 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 12:27pm
- John Loveridge
  
  WTF indeed. Where in the name of God does $1.16m go on complete fucking garbage like that? How many hip operations would that fund?
  
  20 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 12:34pm
wairarapapaul

We should rename Waitangi Day, New Zealand Day. A national day to celebrate the country and how far we have come since the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.
18 1
Log in to Reply
Report
January 13, 2025 10:54am
- David Garrett
  
  wairarapa: Norman Kirk renamed it New Zealand day back in 1972 – it was one of his better decisions. Muldoon reversed it – along with the Roger Douglas super scheme that would have made us formidably wealthy long ago – when the Nats returned to power in 1975.
  
  23 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 11:29am
  - Prince
    
    Labour’s Super scheme would have been raided many years ago to throw money at one of the many ‘crises’ that have beset us since the 1970’s.
    Don’t believe those who say NZ would now have $xxx Trillion to fund super – the urge to raid the fund would have been too much for Muldoon, Lange, Palmer, Bolger, Clarke, Key, Ardern, Robertson. Egged on by the tens of thousands of far-Left bureaucrats.
    
    15 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 12:27pm
    - marcw
      
      It is happening right now in the UK as Starmer / Reeves are raiding National Insurance accounts with new taxes, even as the owners are at the point of retirement.
      
      10 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 1:50pm
    - Don Beckett
      
      Prince.
      My understanding of the scheme was that it was set up as a separate organisation run by a board, and protected from govt. skimming. I can’t rememebr the deatils – I was in mid management in an AHI company at the time & thought it was good, for that reason. Maybe I had it wrong – but Muldoon certainly made hay with his dancing cossacks advert.
      Thinking about it, if Muldoon had kept it, but set it up like the Australian one which was operating then, maybe we would all be much better off.
      
      5 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 2:10pm
    - Paulus
      
      And if any Investments went bust who would have to sort it out and pay its debt, as it was intended to be New Zealand only investments.
      
      5 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 4:11pm
    - Ian Boag
      
      Dunno. Noone (other than Douglas) has suggested ratting the Cullen fund …
      
      2 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 8:09pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Citation needed
        
        1 0
        Report
        January 13, 2025 9:15pm
  - Inandout
    
    DG, the superannuation funds were to handled by the NZ Superannuation Board:
    
    ‘Four members to be appointed by the Governor-
    General on the advice of the Minister, of which
    members one shall be so appointed as Chairman
    of the Board’:
    
    ‘One member to be appointed by the Governor-
    General on the advice of the Minister given after
    consultation with the President of the New Zealand
    Federation of Labour’:
    
    ‘One member to be appointed by the Governor-
    General on the advice of the Minister given after
    consultation with the President of the New Zealand
    Employers’ Federation’.
    
    It is not now much talked about but at the time it was estimated within 10 years the fund would have control of every NZ company. Enormous power which to a politician is nirvana. I just don’t trust the bastards, sorry.
    
    9 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 1:54pm
    - Don Beckett
      
      Should have read your comment B4 replying to Prince.
      So I was right as far as it went – but how could the govt. of the day raid without the approval of the GG ?
      Muldoon could have introduced legislation to prevent that happening, surely.
      
      3 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2025 2:14pm
      - Inandout
        
        Don, remind me again who appoints the GG?
        
        3 0
        Report
        January 13, 2025 3:29pm
kevn

sung… Seems another labour in house issue.
https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1878152379075530957
https://x.com/wolsned/status/1878449933671420223
5 1
Log in to Reply
Report
January 13, 2025 10:58am
- sungsamning
  
  Yes, that could be part of the reason for their excuse making.
  
  2 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 8:00pm
Scooter

Good to see some in Hollyweird still have some sense of reality, an interview on Fox with Justine Bateman (Family Ties) on the LA Fires. And the comments.

https://youtu.be/j_KkJZWp6rw?si=2tvcCStk5WWY4lOB
6 0
Log in to Reply
Report
January 13, 2025 11:14am
Chris Nisbet

I gather that LA bureaucracy is riddled with DEI appointments, which suggests to me that the ongoing fires over there would present a wonderful opportunity for them to prove their worth, and shut the petty, far-right etc. people down.

It looks like they’ve missed their opportunity.
17 2
Log in to Reply
Report
January 13, 2025 12:03pm
Chris Nisbet

I can’t be the only person wondering if the arsonists responsible for the LA fires were paid to set the place alight, can I?
13 4
Log in to Reply
Report
January 13, 2025 12:06pm
- MCōs
  
  That very thing happens in Bangkok
  Someone might own a piece of land that they rent out to slum dwellers who they want to evict.
  Easiest way is to set one shack alight. By morning a hundred houses are destroyed
  Oh the humanity, says the owner
  Next minute there’s a new high rise on the site and nobody gives a shit.
  
  12 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 12:26pm
- Chris Nisbet
  
  Actually, I might owe arsonists in LA a wee apology. There is some reasonable evidence that at least one fire might have been started by a downed power line…
  https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2025/01/where-and-how-did-palisades-fire-start.html?m=1
  
  7 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 12:51pm
- imalwaysright
  
  I wonder if Oprah and Gates will repeat their Hawaiian land grab in California.
  
  7 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 1:07pm
MCōs

Unsurprisingly with the huge number of people now on the market in the LA area for rental accommodation some landlords are making a killing.
Pretty tough if you’re not one of the fabulously rich movie stars we hear about
America has plenty of money, says my wife, why doesn’t the government help?
Cue the Dancing Cossacks
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/538819/los-angeles-fire-evacuees-face-price
6 3
Log in to Reply
Report
January 13, 2025 12:17pm
- kevn
  
  mcos… The glitterati will have multiple houses globally, they just relocate.
  
  7 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 2:39pm
Unity

Here’s a chance to get rid of the Maori Seats which are both totally unnecessary in today’s World and are skewing elections.

Please send this link to all your contacts as this is too good a chance to pass up.

The link is –

https://petitions.parliament.nz/d61fab3d-3766-4343-c409-08dd17f0dfb0

Let’s hope we get to the stage where we are all treated the same with no special treatment based on race. It should be based only on need.
11 2
Log in to Reply
Report
January 13, 2025 12:25pm
- MCōs
  
  As I understand it was on the National Party agenda until the Māori Party entered into a confidence and supply agreement with the Key Government
  Subsequently their continued existence is assured.
  
  6 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 2:14pm
Chuck Bird

This is behind a paywall. However, a good reason not to vote National of another liberal party.

Behind the scenes of the battle over transgender inclusion in community sports

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/behind-the-scenes-of-the-battle-over-transgender-inclusion-in-community-sports/KVP55DD3XJBH5BGTCMPL2VLYTA/
4 3
Log in to Reply
Report
January 13, 2025 1:03pm
- MCōs
  
  Should a recipient of funding then be expected to toe the governing party line?
  Back in 2015 the Taxpayers Union was critical of Eleanor Catton for criticizing the government and called for her to return a grant she had received.
  
  4 3
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 2:00pm
  - Chuck Bird
    
    Yes, if the government line is fair. It is not fair that a man competes against a woman in sport. Surely, that is common sense.
    
    9 4
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 2:09pm
trout

A few days ago the Hapai Te Hauora, a Maori Public Health organization, submitted over 20,000 submissions to Parliament in response to the Treaty Principles Bill. The organizers appear to believe that this is some kind of petition where numbers count (as with the hikoi), rather than an examination of the validity of the Bill. I do not believe that 20,000 people presented a personal point of view; they may have signed an online template, or more likely they do not even know they had made a submission. It is more likely that names put on the templates have been taken from the Waipareira data base (which was harvested from the census and Covid returns.)
20 1
Log in to Reply
Report
January 13, 2025 1:21pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Hapai Te Hauora is part of John Tamihere’s fiefdom
  
  https://hapai.co.nz/about/governance/
  
  16 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 2:10pm
  - Don Beckett
    
    But surely, Hapai is Kapai. 😆
    
    7 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 2:18pm
  - artemisia
    
    Fortunately they had a huge database of contacts to call on to make submissions.
    
    9 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 3:09pm
NZer In Exile

From Sir Bob Jones:
https://nopunchespulled.com/2025/01/06/more-crime-and-punishment-madness/

Wellington man beaten so badly he needs 140 nuts and bolts to hold face together.

Perp gets 9 months home detention.

FFS Nats, ACT & NZF, NZ has gone completely insane re crime. What, pray tell are you doing to sort this out?
20 0
Log in to Reply
Report
January 13, 2025 2:34pm
- surfing
  
  Luxon is doing nothing. He talks a big game, but tinkers.
  
  Look at Hosking grilling Luxon on sorting out the solicitor general. . . Luxon was a woke wimp trying his best to duck responsibility. Luxon is they guy you give jobs with no expectation of them being done!
  
  Disappointed with Luxon, a weak man.
  
  20 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 2:47pm
Steve Otto N Shore

Trump having a rave about Jack Smith.
He is gloating, rubbing salt into the wound. Smith is a coward.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/politics/government/trump-attacks-fired-jack-smith-in-late-night-rant-after-special-counsel-resigns/ar-BB1rjO1f?
5 5
Log in to Reply
Report
January 13, 2025 3:43pm
Steve Otto N Shore

Newsom having a go at Trump. He is not explaining why there is no water coming out of the hydrants.
Sue him Newsom – good luck with that.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/politics/government/california-governor-gavin-newsom-hits-out-at-delusional-donald-trump-over-wildfire-criticism/ar-BB1rjB0G?
8 4
Log in to Reply
Report
January 13, 2025 3:48pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  Many similarities to Trudeau, Ardern, Obama, Starmer etc. Says little of substance but oh the style and the vibe!
  
  12 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 5:23pm
Steve Otto N Shore

The Treaty Principles Submissions. How We’ve All Been Stitched Up.
Julian Batchelor from Stop Co-Governance.

Video 19 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRZsn8wPJ2A
9 4
Log in to Reply
Report
January 13, 2025 4:34pm
- DimChappie
  
  Julian says the Bill submission process has been made intentionally easy to cheat using bots, false names or multiple email accounts. He successfully lodged multiple submissions with different email addresses. Captcha would have made it far more secure but was not used. He says Luxon wants a big majority of negative submissions to justify not supporting the Bill past first reading. Maybe, but this is not a referendum with secret voting and proof of identity. Fascinating that the radicals have made a big effort to boost negative submissions about a bill destined to fail.
  
  5 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 9:52pm
  - Ghost
    
    The current government has not changed the way submissions are made
    
    All that is happening is a stupid idiot has tried to game the system to make it look like something it isn’t for the gullible people who believe his crap. If he has made multiple submissions they will all be counted as one submission. Perhaps the idiot should do his homework before he does videos.
    
    0 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2025 10:06pm
igm

What a ridiculous article.
Who/what are they looking for, or are we once again to form our own assumptions?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360546898/man-charged-after-alleged-kidnapping-attempt-christchurch
Maybe we are expected to have formed our own opinions of what they need. Ethnicity is a great help.
6 1
Log in to Reply
Report
January 13, 2025 5:53pm
Chuck Bird

I see the ICC has issued an arrest warrant for Natanyahu and Luxon said he would be arrested in NZ. I wonder what country would arrest Trump if the ICC issued an arrest warrant for him.
3 4
Log in to Reply
Report
January 13, 2025 8:16pm
InsaneBorg

Hopefully I’ll hear back soon from the Waitemata/North Shore/Rodney Arms Office on the outcome of my Firearms Licence Application as the related person interview,my interview and the security arrangements inspection was done on the 9th of December 2024 and the non-related referee interview was done on the 4th of December 2024.
5 0
Log in to Reply
Report
January 13, 2025 8:55pm
- Don Beckett
  
  You should be okay provided you don’t tell them your pseudonym. 😆
  
  5 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2025 10:07pm
  - InsaneBorg
    
    I don’t know whether to wait until the end of the month and send a polite email regarding the status of my Application or wait until mid February. Given the normal processing time is 4-6 working weeks from what I’ve read.
    
    0 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 14, 2025 7:22pm

Add a Comment Cancel reply

Login to comment or vote

« What types of leaders steal elections the most?

Change in Hamilton »

Donations

You can now donate to Kiwiblog

Exclusive content from DPF on Patreon

Become a Patron!

Never miss a post

Email Address

Join 13K other subscribers

Highlights

Target achieved II
Good progress on attendance
Health Target 5 – elective treatments
Health Target 4 – Specialist appointments

Links

How Te Pati M?ori win the 2026 Election
The Daily Blog
The Modern Degrowth Movement — Neo?Malthusianism Rebranded
No Minister
Quotes of the week
Hompaddock
Open Mike 08/06/2026
The Standard
U.S. colonies on the Moon and Mars are a waste of money: a guest post
Utopia
Small, modular?
Stats Chat
"For 40 years, NZers have been told that fewer councils mean better government. For 40 years, the evidence has refused to oblige."
Not PC
The beat up about so called NZ freeloading
Point of Order
Parliament fails to defend transparency
No Right Turn
Playing with numbers.
Kiwipolitico
Another non-tariff barrier
Offsetting Behaviour
Budget 2026
NZCPR
UK Conversion Therapy Ban, Digital ID, Rallies, Elections
Bob McCoskrie's McBlog
A central banker’s fiction
Croaking Cassandra
THE WORKING FROM HOME RACKET BY PUBLIC SERVANTS
No Punches Pulled (Bob Jones)
Tory Whanau may have to sell Wellington mayoralty to make ends meet
The Civilian
The Accidental Engagement
Imperator Fish
Legal Beagle: Election '23: The Special Votes
Public Address
Get Vaccinated Tomorrow Or Shut Your Pie Hole
Cactus Kate
Making this movie might have been a mistake
Liam Hehir
Why I am retiring from political blogging
Kiwi FireWalker

[email protected]

PO Box 12270, Thorndon, Wellington 6144

Facebook
Twitter
FourSquare
Instagram
LinkedIn
Google+

Archives
Disclosure Statement
Editorial Policy
Privacy Policy
Complaints Policy
Comments Policy

Design by cre8d

%d

Share this:

Like this: