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Pepe Lopez

I am looking at my rates assessment notice and my insurance (full replacement) and realise I am paying rent on my own house plus the maintenance costs. And perhaps that is what they mean by you will own nothing and be happy, maybe worth considering!
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August 29, 2025 8:09am
- RoboRob
  
  Yup my rates are now more than I used to pay in rent. Admittedly that was 25 years ago.
  
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  August 29, 2025 9:04am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Where is Tipene’s whanau in all of this? Where’s the wrap around care from her iwi ?
  
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  August 29, 2025 9:28am
- Grizz
  
  Someone in QV decided to reclassify my house as 2 units – a house and a flat and hence allowed the council to double my rates.
  
  I have had to battle with them and the council as to why a laundry and a lounge does not make a separate dwelling. I advise anyone looking at house modifications to consider how councils will view them as they are always looking for more ways to levy another rates bill.
  
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  August 29, 2025 11:51am
  - R
    
    This occurrence is no doubt as a result of hiring an employee using DEI principals, rather than the traditional qualities of aptitude, ability, comprehension skills and plain old commonsense. Another incompetently managed Council.!
    
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    August 29, 2025 2:27pm
- judith8409121
  
  yes – my rates are such that i am effectively enforced rental from the council – and they can throw me out and sell my house if i don’t pay – so basically there is no way to complain. I sometime wonder how much they can screw ratepayers over without justification – ECAN is now run by Nga tahu – so that portion is just funding maori separatism
  
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  August 29, 2025 1:05pm
  - peterwn
    
    If you are mortgaged they will not throw you out. Council simply asks the lender to pay the outstanding rates which the lender does without question and the lender adds it to the mortgage together with an admin fee. So for this reason rates strikes are generally ineffective.
    
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    August 29, 2025 2:17pm
Anthony Melchett

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/crime/recidivist-shoplifter-silvia-tipene-back-thieving-after-release-from-jail-for-stealing/

Justifying stealing because the benefit doesn’t pay enough. You could always get a job I guess? Suprised she didn’t also blame colonization.
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August 29, 2025 8:11am
- artemisia
  
  She did have a lucrative side hustle though. Pity it was in the $50B a year unlawful economy.
  
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  August 29, 2025 8:50am
- wsk12345
  
  One item alone that she stole was over $1100 (and they listed many other places she stole from) and reparation is under $700. God I’m sick of this bs.
  
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  August 29, 2025 8:51am
  - Ghost
    
    Doesn’t matter what you set it at, she isn’t going to pay. It also says to pay her share. Although the article makes it sound like she acted alone that sentence makes me wonder if she was alone.
    
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    August 29, 2025 9:02am
    - peterwn
      
      There could be much more theft in future. Chlöe mistakenly refers to it as a wealth tax.
      
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      August 29, 2025 2:19pm
- David Garrett
  
  Anthony: Quite so…she could go and pick fruit which would also do her health a world of good. I’m prepared to bet she’s an overweight slob.
  
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  August 29, 2025 8:53am
  - Nikola Donatello
    
    I live in an area with many orchards. The folk picking fruit these days are either backpackers or Melanesian. PNG, Solomon Islands, etc. Maybe some from Tonga and Samoa.
    
    If we went back 40, 50 years, presumably most of this work was done by New Zealanders. What happened?
    
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    August 29, 2025 10:21am
    - Nigel Kearney
      
      The Kirk government’s massive expansion of the welfare state happened.
      
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      August 29, 2025 10:35am
      - David Garrett
        
        Nigel: No, it was much later than Kirk. His government’s major contribution to the welfare state was the DPB – estimated at the time to only be needed by “a few hundred at most”. Of course now there are thousands of baby factories on it – certainly not what Kirk and Co intended.
        
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        August 29, 2025 10:45am
      - Jack5
        
        There was also export-based expansion of the horticulture industry.
        
        Advanced mechanisation is just beginning in the horticulture industry, with robot picking and handling on the way.
        
        This will boost the magic “productivity” that the talking heads are on about – on, and on, and on about. It will also slash, and perhaps nearly end, the use of seasonal temporary migrant labour.
        
        It’s surprising that some of the most advanced work is being applied in NZ orchards owned by a German agricultural co-operative — orchards that were once owned by what began as an NZ co-operative.
        
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        August 29, 2025 11:40am
      - Nigel Kearney
        
        The cause was not later than Kirk. The consequences were later than Kirk. When you pay people to have babies, the resulting large drop in parenting quality will obviously take an entire generation to produce dysfunctional adults.
        
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        August 29, 2025 3:12pm
  - Anthony Melchett
    
    DG that’s racist….
    
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    August 29, 2025 11:57am
  - Paulus
    
    And stuff up the picking. which is a skill.
    I have seen this when as a grower and did a stint in the packhouse also to see how it all came together.
    p.s. $7.00 an hour too.
    
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    August 29, 2025 3:06pm
- pdm
  
  `She was jailed for 11 months for thefts at numerous stores, including Sportsworld, Briscoes, Rebel Sport, Bed Bath and Beyond, Farmers and New World Te Rapa.’
  
  Apart from New World she was hardly stealing to feed herself.
  
  She must have had a good `fence’ or market for her ill gotten goods.
  
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  August 29, 2025 9:02am
  - Local Miller
    
    TradeMe or Facebook Marketplace!
    
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    August 29, 2025 12:49pm
- AitchW
  
  6 months home detention. That’ll stop her.//
  
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  August 29, 2025 9:22am
- cmm
  
  If she stole a pumpkin and a sack of spuds to feed her family then that would be a different matter.
  
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  August 29, 2025 2:46pm
artemisia

Auckland Law School Associate Professor Andrew Erueti: “While human rights are widely seen as tools for justice and fairness, the research reveals a paradox – the same principles designed to protect against discrimination are now being used to actually block Maori-led initiatives.”

If it’s logical can it be a paradox?

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/571377/human-rights-law-blocking-maori-authority-researcher-andrew-erueti-says
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August 29, 2025 8:18am
- CJames
  
  Academics nowadays don’t think logically. That is just a ridiculously old-fashioned concept.
  
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  August 29, 2025 8:28am
  - Paulus
    
    We are being bobmbarded in the media, and continually, now with large half pages of advice from University Professors.
    How much do the media pay them to bitch and complain against New Zealand.
    
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    August 29, 2025 9:38am
    - AitchW
      
      I suspect they’d pay to be published. Academics are becoming increasingly irrelevant in an age where anyone can be an instant expert on almost any subject just by setting up a blog.
      
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      August 29, 2025 10:49am
  - Blog-aholic
    
    Logic is probably based on white supremacy ……..
    
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    August 29, 2025 10:19am
- sirknz
  
  Wow. It is almost like rights should be the same for everyone.
  
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  August 29, 2025 8:57am
- Swifty
  
  He’s finally clicked on something that many of us have been saying for a decade or more.
  
  We are either all equal under the law or we can choose a different direction. My view is that different direction will open a can of worms too great for us to deal with.
  
  A can of worms that separatism advocates and the nation haven’t even begun to think through.
  
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  August 29, 2025 9:29am
  - kiwimike
    
    Swifty, creeping Maori Apartheid is already here
    
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    August 29, 2025 3:58pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

Shell Lane (The Terrace) bike rack report:

At 8.22am, null bikes today.

A cool, calm-ish, dry morning in the Capital, not bad for cycling.

But, it’s a Friday.
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August 29, 2025 8:22am
- G152
  
  And none at the Frankton railway station bike rack
  
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  August 29, 2025 8:59am
- pdm
  
  Mount Victoria Tunnel is apparently closed so all of the cyclists might be coming the long way round.
  
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  August 29, 2025 9:14am
  - Jethrod
    
    So they arrive at work just in time for:-
    1 smoko
    2 lunch
    3 going home time.
    
    “Oh bugger it I’ll take the day off”
    
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    August 29, 2025 9:56am
    - pdm
      
      Funny you should say that Jethro.
      
      Actual event at BNZS Hastings early 1970’s.
      
      Female staff member arrived very late to work (usual 8.30am start) at 11.30am.
      
      12 to 1 was her usual lunch hour so off to lunch she went at 12noon – no shame or embarrassment at all.
      
      We could not believe it.
      
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      August 29, 2025 12:45pm
      - Colville
        
        pdm.
        She probably had a regular Friday lunch wine session booked with mates and didn’t want to miss it…
        
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        August 29, 2025 1:57pm
  - imalwaysright
    
    Odd that they close the tunnel because of a fire alarm malfunction.
    Couldn’t they station a fireman half way along the tunnel as a fire spotter ?
    
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    August 29, 2025 11:10am
Gravelroad

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360806554/what-we-know-about-shoptom-philips-has-targeted-twice
If this is indeed Mr Philips and one of his children burgling and stealing from a shop at 2am, what are the police going to do about it?
Where does this father get off using his kids this way?
How much longer?
Surely there is a duty of care for these young children?
They might want to go home, see the rest of their family, school, sports, the library etc.
They should be independently consulted as to their wishes to continue this current “lifestyle.”
One is a teenage girl now.
What’s so special about this selfish prick that what he wants should prevail over several years now?
The response from the authorities so far seems to have been strangely passive.
Why?
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August 29, 2025 8:36am
- wsk12345
  
  Or perhaps it wasn’t him?
  
  [Mod – this case doesn’t need people spreading rumours] Perhaps they love their lifestyle? I would be 100% sure that they live in a house at least over winters – and learn a hell of a lot more skills and less indoctrination than they would at school.
  
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  August 29, 2025 8:57am
  - David Garrett
    
    Wsk: I’m prepared to bet there are no books wherever Mr Phillips is housing his kids. And no cellphones either, both because there is no service and because phones can be tracked.
    
    So while the kids are undoubtedly learning some valuable skills, they won’t be getting an education
    
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    August 29, 2025 9:42am
    - Colville
      
      Pretty easy to have offline devices and there are things called books!
      
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      August 29, 2025 10:40am
      - David Garrett
        
        Colville: You didn’t read my comment properly…I don’t think Mr Philipps is the book learnin type
        
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        August 29, 2025 12:13pm
    - Phronesis
      
      Champion hide and seek players for sure.
      
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      August 29, 2025 10:48am
    - Ghost
      
      The damage to these kids is going to take a long time and a lot of care to reverse
      
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      August 29, 2025 12:37pm
- David Garrett
  
  Gravel: My understanding is the mother is allegedly a druggie… whether that is weed or meth I dont know.
  But ur right – while the kids may be well fed and looked after physically they are undoubtedly suffering deprivation in other ways.
  
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  August 29, 2025 9:01am
- Southern Raider
  
  I’m not convinced he is selfish. He had custody of the kids (due to I suspect the mother’s issues) and then something was about to happen in the family court that flipped him. Unfortunately anything before the family court can’t be reported so we don’t know the details.
  
  However one hypothesis is that some do gooder or OT was trying to get the mother to have some custody of the kids.
  
  Reality is that father isn’t coming out of the bush until the Police and Govt Agencies actually negotiate the best outcome for him and the kids.
  
  At the moment he’s facing up to 14 years in jail for robbery with a weapon and spectre of his kids ending up in OT. If you were him would you come out?
  
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  August 29, 2025 9:23am
- imalwaysright
  
  The only feasible solution in the best interests of the children is to offer an amnesty and a guarantee that they won’t be separated.
  
  The actions of the State mustn’t be influenced by the collective ego of its functionaries, no matter how battered it is.
  
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  August 29, 2025 9:39am
- 70andstilllearning
  
  ” The response from the authorities so far seems to have been strangely passive.
  Why? ”
  Grav – same story, different outlet …
  
  https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/fresh-sighting-of-marokopa-fugitive-tom-phillips-in-suspected-waikato-burglary
  …..
  ” The store allegedly targeted said they had not been broken into this week when approached by the Herald this morning.
  
  A nearby cafe said they had no knowledge of the new Phillips sighting and had not been spoken to by police this week. ”
  ….
  This is a tight very isolated rural area where word travels quickly. Just maybe their perceived isolation is not what some MSM would like to ‘report’ for outsiders consumption. Not condoning it as it shouldn’t have happened but the second disappearance happened after the system? did him for wasting police time, seemingly based on the mother’s ( who IIRC was previously reported as having lost custody to one of Philips family) intervention on the first occasion. I suspect the Why? is quite complex
  
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  August 29, 2025 10:10am
  - AitchW
    
    Is it possible that the cops have some sympathy for him and believe that the kids are better off in the bush than with the mother or OT?
    
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    August 29, 2025 11:23am
    - Gravelroad
      
      Where does that stop?
      I thought the police were there to enforce the laws of the land and prosecute offenders.
      I didn’t think feeling sorry for burglars and shoplifters because of their choice of lifestyle came into it.
      I learn something new everyday on here…..
      
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      August 29, 2025 1:33pm
      - cmm
        
        “I thought the police were there to enforce the laws of the land and prosecute offenders.”
        
        That went out the window at least 25 years ago.
        
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        August 29, 2025 2:48pm
    - Colville
      
      AitchW
      Obvious that some locals who know him are giving him support… So there must be sympathy there.
      
      Quite different to the on the run Oz cop shooter where it’s been put out there that he is a pedo/ has kid porn so even the hard bastards turn against him!
      
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      August 29, 2025 2:00pm
  - Ghost
    
    No, the store have released details of what was stolen
    
    Article
    
    The manager of the store allegedly hit by fugitive Tom Philips has revealed more detail of what happened on the night.
    
    The Piopio Superette store manager, who did not want to be named, told Stuff that the pair came in around the back of his building through a small section of wooden fence between buildings.
    
    They got the padlock off his chiller and opened the door, only for the alarm to go off, he said. He said they grabbed some milk out the front and shut the door once the siren sounded.
    
    “Whatever was in the front they were able to take.”
    
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    August 29, 2025 1:28pm
    - Gravelroad
      
      The photo of the alleged burglars included a child.
      If this was a gang member and their child, instead of allegedly being Mr Philips and his, I imagine there would be some criticism on here about how awful to take your kid out shoplifting and breaking and entering at two o’clock in the morning.
      Instead it seems to be acceptable to some.
      Double standards.
      
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      August 29, 2025 1:59pm
    - 70andstilllearning
      
      No, perfectly valid @10:10 when posted – and this bit you obviously overlooked in your ‘article’ …
      
      The man said he wasn’t frustrated by the situation, because they didn’t take much.
      He also said he wasn’t sure it was definitely Tom Phillips so couldn’t comment on that aspect.
      A woman who lives nearby said the theft was “sad for the dairy owners but hopefully they got what they needed.”
      … may put some context to why two different media organisations were given different stories initially.
      
      It’s also worth reading the local mayors comments in your ‘article’ which probably reflects a significant level of thinking on the matter in the area.
      
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      August 29, 2025 3:59pm
      - Ghost
        
        Nothing overlooked, theft is theft. But gravelroad is right about the fanboys of this criminal
        
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        August 29, 2025 4:05pm
      - 70andstilllearning
        
        meh -” Not condoning …. ” is a pretty straight forward concept I would have thought but if it makes you happy what ever pulls your strings I guess
        
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        August 29, 2025 4:45pm
- kiwimike
  
  send in the SAS.
  they find him and vector NZPolice onto him..
  
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  August 29, 2025 4:00pm
  - Ghost
    
    defence force have been involved
    
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    August 29, 2025 4:10pm
Simon

Luxon wants house prices to increase. He is insane and hates you. He is core National.
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August 29, 2025 8:39am
- Colville
  
  If house prices go up a bit tens of thousands of people in the construction industry will have jobs again… Of course he wants prices to go up.
  
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  August 29, 2025 8:44am
  - Colville
    
    Further to this.
    New Zealand has a shortage of something like 250,000 houses.
    These houses will never be built unless completed value is higher than cost to build.
    Currently it’s a negitve value so even social housing being built by Community Housing Providers is all on hold because the funding just dosent work as the gap is too large.
    
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    August 29, 2025 10:46am
    - Phronesis
      
      This is the reality. Houses are actually undervalued compared with replacement cost. This wouldn’t matter except we actually need more houses.
      
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      August 29, 2025 12:59pm
- RoboRob
  
  Lol. 10 years of ‘housing afforability crisis’ and now we have some price drops people are demanding house price rises.
  
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  August 29, 2025 9:06am
- alex Masterley
  
  Is that so? Good.
  
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  August 29, 2025 9:23am
- imalwaysright
  
  I’m surprised we aren’t seeing more foreclosures of borrowers in negative equity.
  Isn’t it a condition of a mortgage that the security is greater than the balance owing ?
  
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  August 29, 2025 10:03am
  - rangitoto
    
    Why would a bank foreclose? That would be a guaranteed loss, whereas there is no problem for them if the payments are being made.
    
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    August 29, 2025 1:34pm
    - imalwaysright
      
      Well, why have a contract?
      
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      August 29, 2025 3:50pm
      - Sponge
        
        Well why enforce a clause of a contract when it is going to adversely affect you if you do? If they are getting paid there is no problem for the banks.
        
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        August 29, 2025 7:22pm
graham

RNZ commission an independent review to tell them where they’re going wrong, then choose not to follow the recommendations. Sure, that’ll work.

RNZ boss Paul Thompson has rejected advice that both presenters of the public broadcaster’s flagship Morning Report show should be based in Auckland – one of several recommendations to help rebuild radio listenership.

Independent reviewer Richard Sutherland wrote that moving the Morning Report team, including presenters and producers, to Auckland from Wellington was essential.

He acknowledged relocating the show would “ruffle feathers in Wellington”, but having it in the country’s biggest city would bring it closer to a “broader range of voices, stories, and perspectives”.

However, in a wide-ranging interview with Media Insider this week, Thompson rejected the idea of both hosts being in Auckland.

“That’s his advice – that’s not my intention,” he said.

Morning Report’s two hosts are split between the cities, Corin Dann is in Wellington and Ingrid Hipkiss is in Auckland. The core of the production team is in Wellington.

“We’ve got two good presenters there,” said Thompson. “We’re refreshing the show at the moment. We’re pleased with where that’s going and that’s the focus.

“Richard absolutely is entitled to his views, but what we decide to do is our plan.”

What’s the point of seeking a review, if all you’re going to is dismiss all the findings and say “it’s wrong”?
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August 29, 2025 8:45am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  Their business model is not based on delivering content to listeners. It is based on extracting money from government. RNZ management understands that and the independent reviewer does not.
  
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  August 29, 2025 9:04am
  - cmm
    
    Their “business model” is actually a “hand out model”.
    
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    August 29, 2025 2:50pm
- pdm
  
  graham – any mention of the lefty bias?
  
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  August 29, 2025 9:05am
- RoboRob
  
  What does RNZ care, they will get government money regardless of performance.
  
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  August 29, 2025 9:07am
  - Swifty
    
    Our money.
    
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    August 29, 2025 11:09am
- I remember when
  
  “having it in the country’s biggest city would bring it closer to a “broader range of voices, stories, and perspectives.”
  
  And not just because it is our biggest city.
  
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  August 29, 2025 12:01pm
vand

Pravda radio(aka Morning Report) seemed impressed by repeating that police had “captured” footage of Phillips. No doubt the footage wasn’t escaping on a quad bike .They are inept at failing to actually capture Philips.
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August 29, 2025 8:45am
- Skippytony
  
  Simple reality tells us that any number of people are aiding and abetting here. How many families with young teenage kids go a year without a trip to a doctor or dentist? C’mon.
  They are not growing their own food in the wild. They need heat sources in winter. They need fuel for vehicles, light and heating. The kids are probably going to school online somewhere.
  The kids have all grown out of the clothes they had 3 years ago – how are they getting replaced?
  
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  August 29, 2025 9:02am
- RoboRob
  
  ‘They are inept at failing to actually capture Philips’.
  
  No they are 100% successful at failing to actually capture Philips 🙂
  
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  August 29, 2025 9:09am
- AitchW
  
  To be fair he’s probably being aided by the local underbelly. That part of the coast has a strong feral element.
  
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  August 29, 2025 9:24am
- MCōs
  
  The RNZ report doesn’t say the police had captured footage of Phillips. They released cctv footage, obviously from a private camera in the vicinity.
  The headline says Tom Phillips believed to be captured on CCTV footage, which is common terminology for what happened
  Be interesting to see how long the Victorian police take to hunt down Dezi Freeman and his family
  
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  August 29, 2025 9:48am
- I remember when
  
  Surely, the police said “we have captured Phillips” – on CCTV footage.
  
  No doubt they will have put the CCTV footage in a cell to prevent any future offending and wastage of police time and resources .
  
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  August 29, 2025 11:53am
Tauhei Notts

I have been reading Matua Kahurangi’s web site and am unsure what it is all about. He seems to write in a clear logical manner, but it is so logical that I have some doubts.
Hopefully more knowledgeable commenters will put me right.
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August 29, 2025 8:52am
- Jethrod
  
  Mmmm…. help from AI?
  
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  August 29, 2025 10:00am
- Philview
  
  I am not sure what you mean by doubts. I read some discussion in the media a few months ago that journalists couldn’t trace him which must have been very frustrating for them. They think he is a middle aged white bloke. Once again they are more interested in shooting the messenger then discussing the arguments raised.
  
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  August 29, 2025 11:32am
  - Tauhei Notts
    
    Thanks Philview. I also think he is a middle aged white bloke. That is because his views are almost the same as an elderly white bloke, like me.
    As such, his Maori name seems a bit weird.
    
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    August 29, 2025 3:09pm
    - wsk12345
      
      His views are also hrs same as mine – a young woman. And quite possibly the same as some middle aged Maori……they are much like the views of Corinna Shields (aka aunty heihei).
      
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      August 29, 2025 3:45pm
RoboRob

Air NZ profit dips, Foran signals 5% increase in airfares
https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/08/28/air-nz-profit-dips-foran-signals-5-increase-in-airfares/
Fuel costs fell 12% ($208 million) reflecting a decline in average jet fuel prices and lower volumes of fuel consumption in line with constrained capacity. However, non-fuel operating costs rose approximately $235 million driven by higher landing charges, labour costs and engineering materials.
This represented a year-on-year increase of around 6%, as system-wide aviation costs continue to rise faster than the New Zealand Consumer Price Index.

Qantas Group reports strong FY25 performance, expands fleet with 20 new A321XLR orders
https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/qantas/qantas-group-reports-strong-fy25-performance-expands-fleet-with-20-new-a321xlr-orders/

Qantas Group CEO Vanessa Hudson said FY25 was “all about delivery,” highlighting stronger earnings across Qantas, Jetstar, and the Loyalty program. She emphasised that fleet investment, service improvements, and new customer initiatives are boosting reliability and satisfaction, while also acknowledging rising cost pressures from wages, infrastructure charges, and regulatory changes.

So both airlines recognise increased expenses but Qantas records record results with earnings up 12%. International travel is massively up worldwide with most countries above pre covid levels years ago. In NZ we are still well under pre covid levels and visitor numbers are down. Why?

I had though that NZ had become too expensive as a holiday destination. Our prices of food, entertainment and accommodation are very high. For example, Singapore is one of the more expensive places for accommodation for obvious reasons, I have recently booked accommodation in a 4 star hotel in a good location for less per night then I could star in a motel in most parts of NZ ($165 NZD per night!). Similar pricing in Japan.

However now I wonder if part of the issue is actually Air NZ. As a monopoly airline there is no reason they should be trailing Qantas so badly. Air NZ passenger numbers are down however actual revenue is up. Which indicates that NZ has increased prices (but not enough to cover increased costs). Qantas however is working on lower prices and higher rewards. I booked flights to Melbourne on Qantas (first time ever) and was surprised that my fare was full service for less then Air NZs minimum service flight (no luggage). The Qantas flight even came with 30kg luggage as opposed to Air NZs 24kg on the more fully featured Air NZ flight.

Is Air NZ mis managed? Is it time to stop lionising Air NZ CEOs?
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August 29, 2025 9:01am
- Paulus
  
  Economy of scale perhaps !
  
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  August 29, 2025 9:41am
  - Tarquin North
    
    Spending ludicrous amounts of money on hideously woke safety videos and producing uniforms that look like they came out of a charity bin probably doesn’t help the cause. Jet Star are half the price and twice as good if you’re flying around the country.
    
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    August 29, 2025 9:55am
- Clyde
  
  After travelling with both airlines lately, I have to say the annoyance of having to watch ideologically based safety videos is a big turn-off on Air NZ. Also can’t help but notice cabin crews are very different – not sure that all of the Air NZ crew could fit through an emergency exit – probably a hirage policy that is slanted to meet the Corporate ideology.
  
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  August 29, 2025 10:09am
  - lifesgood
    
    Cabin crew on AirNZ are a disgrace. I’ve just flown back from OZ. Grumpy, untidy, fat female crew member. Looked as though she hated her job. Others were equally disengaged. The best one was a gay male who was charming and helpful. I much prefer Singapore Air, their cabin crew are everything they should be, and easy on the eye.
    
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    August 29, 2025 12:30pm
    - RoboRob
      
      Singapore air are awesome. Fly them as often as possible / affordable. Flying Air NZ to singapore in January, it will be interesting to compare, normally fly direct from CHCH via Singapore air.
      
      I did fly Air Asia (budget carrier) out of Singapore once. It was like a fashion show with very very short skirts. $6 per person, Singapore to KL Malaysia. of course actually about 65 once they added in all the various taxes.
      
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      August 29, 2025 1:41pm
- imalwaysright
  
  They offered Foran an extra $900,000 per annum to stay on but he is leaving anyway.
  He strikes me as a middle manager from the Gliding On era with very little in the way of lateral thinking or energy.
  
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  August 29, 2025 10:43am
  - SWIM
    
    Foran has been lined with the new (iwi) supermarket chain so that might be the reason.
    He did about 8 years at Walmart in various senior management roles.
    
    I just know he is the most deadly boring public speaker I have ever heard.
    
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    August 29, 2025 1:22pm
- I remember when
  
  Not enough people flying so profit down.
  What should we do?
  I know, let’s increase fares, that’ll make more people want to fly, to cover the loss!
  
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  August 29, 2025 11:44am
  - RoboRob
    
    Same strategy the movie theatres have been running for about a decade. How did that work out for them.
    
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    August 29, 2025 1:42pm
  - sirknz
    
    That is basically the the NZ Post strategy.
    
    “We missed innovations in our sector that impact our bottom line so lets increase the price of our service and reduce the number of outlets where we can offer our services.”
    
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    August 29, 2025 9:12pm
Scott

Interesting post on Instagram from Donald Trump Jnr –

https://www.instagram.com/p/DN5eNyyDs0h/?igsh=MTdnNmVxbXBpemVwNg==

Denver shooter trans
Aberdeen shooter – trans
Nashville shooter – trans
Georgia shooter – trans
Philadelphia shooter – trans
Iowa shooter – gender fluid
Uvalde shooter – trans
Colorado shooter – trans
Minnesota shooter – trans

What is going on?
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August 29, 2025 9:02am
- Southern Raider
  
  Was about to post on the same topic. No one in the US, global or NZ media is braze enough to raise this topic.
  
  The person was completely deranged and hated Trump, Jews, conservatives etc. Yet his devout catholic parents allowed him to change his name to his trans identify.
  
  I did laugh when the Police chief referred to the murderer as a “he” and “him”. I expecting the radical left to now call for the Police chief to be fired for dead naming the murderer and misgendering the murderer.
  
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  August 29, 2025 9:29am
  - lifesgood
    
    Allowed him to change his name or had no choice in the matter?
    
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    August 29, 2025 12:32pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Trans people, whose nutty ideas have been pandered to by family, teachers and others, reach the age of going out into the world and discover that society in general thinks them peculiar? Or, they realise that mutilating themselves was not actually what they wanted after all?
  
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  August 29, 2025 9:37am
- Burtland
  
  all well hidden by NZ media
  
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  August 29, 2025 9:45am
- Ghost
  
  What is going on? This year there have been 146 incidents at schools involving guns, yesterday was the first trans shooter confirmed this year out of the school shootings. Your list starts at 2018, since then there has been over 800 gun incidents at schools. Out of your list only 6 are school shootings. Now your list includes 3 shootings that were in the community.
  
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  August 29, 2025 9:46am
  - Notsofast
    
    Nothing to see?
    The children in Minnesota would unquestionably be alive if the medicine and surgery was treated like class A drugs.
    They are more dangerous than any recreational drug, in the sense they can’t be consumed safely.
    Study the side effects.
    
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    August 29, 2025 9:51am
  - Jethrod
    
    So what are you saying?
    Is it wrong to underline any Trans actions or is it just a society that is completely stuffed?
    
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    August 29, 2025 10:05am
    - Ghost
      
      If you stop focusing on a handful of shootings that are Trans and actually look at why, then you will find bullying, mental heath issues, chemical imbalances, medications, etc. Mass shootings, school shootings are a complicated issue that really doesn’t benefit from people going on about trans. 1 out of 146, people should be asking about why they are happening, not oh look 1 was committed by a Trans
      
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      August 29, 2025 10:28am
      - Notsofast
        
        Or consider this one solved, great, and go work on the other 145.
        
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        August 29, 2025 10:58am
      - MCōs
        
        To my mind America has a problem with guns and the nonchalant attitude a lot of the population has towards their use when it comes to resolving prejudices.
        Consequently a lot of people feel threatened and neither group wants anyone to restrict their ability to keep a few guns around the house
        So if someone goes berserk and shoots some kids it’s a relief when it transpires they are transgender regardless of the actual motive for their action
        Expect gun controls to be further relaxed
        
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        August 29, 2025 11:20am
      - Jake Dee
        
        No doubt “bullying, mental heath issues, chemical imbalances, medications” are all factors as are access to weapons, education, the economy, social media and many other things.
        But in what direction to all these arrows of causality point? Can’t each one be both a cause and an effect?
        And why should Trans be the only factor out of all of these that must remain unexamined?
        Psychiatrists look at many elements when considering a diagnosis of a mental disorder, speech patterns, sleep patterns, work, diet, personal appearance and grooming. Why must people regard a man deciding that he is woman of no consequence?
        THAT would be crazy.
        
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        August 29, 2025 2:22pm
      - Ghost
        
        So where is the examination? None, just a moronic post listing 9 names saying what’s going on. There is little care of what is behind this on this blog.
        
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        August 29, 2025 2:36pm
  - Philview
    
    I think the point is that the NZ media mostly hide the Trans link. I compare to the shooting of 2 police officers in Australia this week and one NZ media company managed to frame the story about concerns of white supremacist copycat killings in New Zealand.
    
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    August 29, 2025 1:35pm
    - Ghost
      
      No they don’t, and you can see the reporting of yesterdays case in stuff where they pointed out it was a trans. The issue is people making far more of this because it was a Trans while ignoring what is going on and just focusing on it being a trans
      
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      August 29, 2025 1:37pm
  - Tom Hunter
    
    Mass shooting stats are often twisted to feed a narrative.
    
    So for example the endless mass shootings in a place like Chicago, almost all of which are just gang turf wars, are not treated as mass shootings even though they involved multiple gunshot victims in a single attack. For the most part the victims are Black and the shooter/s are Black, so the Narrative doesn’t care.
    
    By the same token, were this a Straight White Male shooter, those “146 incidents at schools involving guns” would also be dumped in order to focus on the dangers of Straight White Males as the source of such shooters – which would also mean ignoring the vastly lower percentage of the demographic committing such crimes.
    
    That question regarding Trans is buried by such approaches. If you look at WaPo’s school shooting database and remove:
    – accidental discharges
    – gang violence
    – police shootings, etc., etc
    
    … there have been four mass school shootings since 2023. Two of the perpetrators were transgender.
    
    That’s a rate of 50% – and that’s a hell of a high percentage of the Trans community even before looking behind the similar stats of non-school shootings.
    
    So yeah, there’s a problem of violence in the Trans community which has been evident for years with online threats of violence – J K Rowling has had many such from Trans – so it’s not surprise that it’s turning physical as the movement loses momentum.
    
    Being squishy about for fear that you’re being prejudiced and “transphobic” is exactly what they and their supporters want: Let’s not talk about the violence in the Trans community, let’s talk about guns, or schools, or anything else
    
    That’s wearing thin, fast.
    
    And when you combine it with the Trans community being out and proud about it, as Andy Ngo has tracked them…
    
    Today’s killing of Christian children at a church in Minneapolis occurred in the context of a surge in far-left trans propaganda encouraging Trantifa and other leftists to take up arms to kill transphobes and “fascists.”
    
    Their targets: Christians and conservatives.
    
    …. then it’s clear that the US has got a hell of a problem on its hands with Trans violence – and “gun control” won’t fix it. In fact nothing will fix it until such the movement is confronted about their violent bullshit. Hiding behind masses of shooting stats is not that.
    
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    August 29, 2025 6:04pm
- I remember when
  
  Perhaps we should have a list of shooters who attended or still attend the school where the shootings occurred.
  
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  August 29, 2025 11:40am
- waikatosinger
  
  Take someone already mentally unstable and shoot them full of hormones like testosterone. What did they expect.
  
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  August 29, 2025 12:17pm
- In Vino Veritas
  
  Scott, sometime ago, I read somewhere that Trans people are close to 50% more likely to attempt suicide. And if I recall correctly, this is one of the reasons why Trump, in his first term, was advised not to allow them to serve. A senior Army officer when queried, pointed this out to the questioner and asked if the questioner, or any mother out there, (given the suicide stats) would be comfortable to have their son or daughter in a foxhole, relying on a Trans person. Anyway, in answer to your question “what is going on?”, maybe the suicide stats are just being proven?
  
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  August 29, 2025 2:03pm
- NothingLeft
  
  US has laws against being able to possess a gun if you have a disqualifying mental illness, perhaps that should apply to transexuals coming to grips with what they have done to themselves.
  
  “81% of transgender adults in the U.S. have thought about suicide, 42% of transgender adults have attempted it, and 56% have engaged in non-suicidal self-injury over their lifetimes.”
  
  Seems high enough that it should be disqualifying from piloting aircraft or gun ownership.
  
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  August 29, 2025 3:10pm
  - NeonTeepee
    
    Guns don’t kill people.
    
    Trannies with guns kill people.
    
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    August 29, 2025 5:19pm
- Northshoredoc
  
  What’s going on?
  
  A moron has posted on Instagram and other morons have reposted.
  
  Another standard day in the world of social media.
  
  Solution is to not have an account on any of these platforms.
  
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  August 29, 2025 4:52pm
- Tom Hunter
  
  Two views.
  
  First the Democrat Mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, who already proved his Lefty bonafides during the George I stick this gun in your pregnant belly” Floyd event, with this comment:
  
  “Anybody that is going to use to villainize the trans community has lost touch with common humanity.”
  
  And this from a woman who worked for five years in a medical centre performing Trans “healthcare”:
  
  “What I saw was that we were harming these kids. They were not getting better. Often, their mental health was getting worse. We were tearing apart families.
  …
  And we also have to recognize that gender ideology tears apart other facets of our social, of our society. It tears at sports, and families, and safety for women, and safety for families and kids.”
  
  Frey is now behind a Culture War curve but thinks he’s ahead.
  
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  August 29, 2025 6:17pm
imalwaysright

I wonder how many New Zealand babies and toddlers got beaten and abused this morning ?

The saying is “If you see something, say something”.

Maybe it should be “If you even SUSPECT something, say something”.

The cops would rather deal with a few false alarms if it meant catching an actual murderer.
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August 29, 2025 9:15am
Notsofast

So it becomes clear.
The Minnesota male shooter was suffering medically and psychologically from being affirmed into transitioning by his mother in a state which is a so called trans sanctuary state. Governed by TimWalz, who nearly became vice president and actively encourages transitioning children. Blood on his hands is a way to consider this.
This is now documented and completely unequivocal.

Andy Ngo on X is a reliable source.

This practice is legally mandated in New Zealand for pity’s sake.
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August 29, 2025 9:17am
- imalwaysright
  
  “This practice is legally mandated in New Zealand for pity’s sake”
  
  Minister for Mental Health is Matt Doocey, he used to work on Gender Identity at Tavistock Clinic, London.
  
  Clearly the practice is government policy.
  
  https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/citizen-science-matt-doocey-doubles-down-on-trans-healthcare
  
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  August 29, 2025 9:57am
  - Notsofast
    
    Here is a quote from the Andy Ngo article.
    There is more on his medical pain elsewhere.
    
    “I am sick of my hair, I want to chop it off! I only keep it because it is pretty much my last charade of being trans. I am tired of being trans, I wish I never brain washed myself. I can’t cut my hair off now as it would be an embarrassing defeat, and it might be a concerning change of character that could get me reported.”
    
    I wish I never brainwashed myself is the product of the Matt Dooceys.
    
    This is a political scandal endorsed by all parliament but NZ First.
    A special place in hell is reserved for the enablers of the trans the gays conversion law.
    
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    August 29, 2025 12:11pm
    - imalwaysright
      
      Its all about the money. Like everything in this bent world.
      Apparently the drugs bill for converting a child into a suicidal maniac is about $1 M.
      
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      August 29, 2025 1:34pm
- MCōs
  
  My whole life I have been aware of the occasional mass killings in NZ, but none has ever been perpetrated by a transgender person
  
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  August 29, 2025 10:08am
  - Notsofast
    
    This guy wrote that he was suffering from terrible health and mental conditions due to his transition, and was tired of living. He had major grievances against authorities that are absent in the general population.
    It is obvious he reached a tipping point.
    I don’t need to be any expert, just a dose of common sense is needed.
    Murder suicide is common enough, whether trans or not, but in this case trans was the trigger.
    There was no transing until recently and it should be stopped forthwith.
    
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    August 29, 2025 10:32am
    - Jake Dee
      
      “There was no transing until recently’
      Kind of but not really. Synthetic sex hormones are clearly a relatively new thing but there is a very odd history of castration and genial mutilation that goes way back into human history.
      the Asian Imperial eunuchs has it’s own very long story and not all of them were slaves.
      “Eunuchs for the Kingdom of heaven” is mentioned in Matthew 19:12.
      The Skoptsy Russian скопец, lit. ’eunuch’) were a cult within the larger Spiritual Christianity movement in the Russian Empire. They were best known for practising emasculation of men, the mastectomy and female genital mutilation of women in accordance with their teachings against sexual lust. The sect emerged in the late 18th century. It reached the peak of its popularity in the early 20th century but was essentially wiped out by the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin.
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skoptsy
      Of the 39 members of the American cult “Heavens Gate” who killed themselves in 1997, 8 including their leader were eunuchs.
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_(religious_group)
      None of this very real history is allowed to be linked to the current transgender non-binary movement, although the link is clearly there.
      
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      August 29, 2025 2:51pm
  - Ghost
    
    I can’t think of any murders in nz that have been commited by a Trans? Closet we get is Mark Lundy, who was a big drama Queen….
    
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    August 29, 2025 10:58am
    - imalwaysright
      
      Very good.
      
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      August 29, 2025 11:04am
    - I remember when
      
      Of course, we were hardly aware of what a transgender person was (probably thought it was a male who liked to dress as a woman – transvestite) for most of our lives.
      
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      August 29, 2025 11:33am
    - MCōs
      
      Do you think the chap is in the closet?
      Or do you mean closest?
      
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      August 29, 2025 11:55am
      - Ghost
        
        Wouldn’t surprise me…. but yes, damn autocorrect
        
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        August 29, 2025 12:11pm
    - Notsofast
      
      Great joke but the 100m sprint in drag was from trial one.
      Abandoned for the hoax trial two.
      
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      August 29, 2025 12:06pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

One of the country’s quirkier buildings, and one of few worldwide. Having earthquake proofed the Carillion twice, it makes no sense to have it played only on ANZAC Day.

We do need to fund a few people (part time) to be able to play it – I understand it’s tricky to learn. It wouldn’t be a vast amount of money, and by no means the lowest hanging fruit in the arts and culture portfolio.

http://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/571418/govt-spends-10m-to-fix-national-war-memorial-bells-fires-only-person-who-can-play
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August 29, 2025 9:34am
- Swifty
  
  I don’t know how you’d agree to fund the upgrade capex without also agreeing to fund the consequential opex, that of someone to play it.
  
  Beats me.
  
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  August 29, 2025 12:37pm
Swifty

“There are no such things as solutions, only trade offs.”

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/571398/mt-eden-residents-say-auckland-council-s-housing-intensification-plan-is-a-very-blunt-instrument

This is one of the reasons we have some of the most unaffordable housing in the developed world.
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August 29, 2025 9:34am
rjay

The Government has written a draft code of conduct that all elected members will have to abide by.
There is a new “principle” of Te Tiriti, that of “Options”.
Elected members will also have to operate “within the context of iwi and maori expectations “.
What projects will be canned with this veto power?
Is a code of conduct relevant to political views?
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August 29, 2025 9:36am
- kiwimike
  
  link ??
  
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  August 29, 2025 4:13pm
mogg

Right now in the UK, their Labour Government is arguing in the High Court, that the rights of Asylum Seekers are more important than the rights of British Citizens. The people of Epping have been protesting against Asylum Seekers who are being housed in the Bell Hotel, there have been several arrests for sex assaults already with one asylum seeker facing five charges of touching young girls indecently. Another has told a young white girl “he wants her to have his baby”. The locals are not happy, I wonder why?
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August 29, 2025 9:38am
Swifty

Willie Jackson, a senior Labour MP, a Labour front bencher, wants the New Zealand state to control supermarket prices:

https://x.com/suitandtie9999/status/1961177698182852999?s=46

My god. I’m lost for words.
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August 29, 2025 10:07am
- James Stephenson
  
  Is he really that dumb, or does he just know that his potential voters are?
  
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  August 29, 2025 12:36pm
- pdm
  
  Swifty – I give you (potentially) the 2026 Leader of the New Zealand Labour Party and therefore (potentially) Prime Minister with Winston Peters as his Deputy PM..
  
  May God PLEASE Defend New Zealand!!!
  
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  August 29, 2025 12:55pm
  - PeterTrentham
    
    So many people dont think WP will go with Labour. I think he will of it means he gets a bauble.
    
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    August 29, 2025 3:52pm
- peterwn
  
  Norm Kirk wanted to try that with his ‘MRP’ shield which was supposed to contain the maximum allowed retail price. However the bureaucrats could not decide on the prices so the shields remained blank.
  
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  August 29, 2025 2:24pm
- RoboRob
  
  Rob Muldoon (National) tried that. How did it work out again?
  
  Seems people, especially the left, are incapable of learning from history.
  
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  August 29, 2025 3:25pm
  - MCōs
    
    Back in those days the governments, both National and Labour attempted to control wage and price inflation by waving the big stick.
    Didn’t work and the Lange government stopped all that.
    Nixon did something similar in the US in the seventies.
    So apart from the MRP scheme and whatever else the Kirk/Rowling administration attempted it was National, although they were awfully socialist in those days with their control of everything
    
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    August 29, 2025 4:54pm
I remember when

Now that drinking rates, apparently in most countries are dropping, the ‘Zero Alcohol’ brigade are having to find new ways to denounce any alcohol use.
Even the companies that produce alcohol drinks are having the change their approach.
“Alcohol giants are quickly trying to adapt to changing tastes as only 54% of Gen-Z drinks: yahoo/finance.”
But you would barely be aware of the fact if you only used established media outlets.
Good news – nothing to see here!!
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August 29, 2025 11:27am
- cmm
  
  Alcohol must go. It offends our Muslim overlords.
  
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  August 29, 2025 2:52pm
  - AitchW
    
    And bacon.
    And dogs.
    And women not covered from head to toe.
    And homosexuals.
    And Christians.
    And Jews.
    And music.
    God life must be boring if you’re a Muslim. No wonder they’re genocidal!
    
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    August 29, 2025 5:53pm
    - sirknz
      
      Church bells ringing being haram is a new one I learned about recently.
      
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      August 29, 2025 9:17pm
Jack5

No pictures …

People who have taken pictures of spots on Uluru — Ayers Rock — sacred to Aboriginals are being asked to take the pictures down from the internet.

Images upset a wide range of religions. Taliban destroying the 124ft Buddhist statues at Bamiyan, Calvinists rejecting Catholic paintings and statues are examples, but those who own the symbols usually want everyone to admire them.

https://www.skynews.com.au/lifestyle/travel/uluru-tourists-ordered-to-delete-photos-of-sacred-sites-and-they-could-have-faced-a-hefty-fine-we-werent-aware-about-that/news-story/846a696269f0e2b6a2cb26b2d53097f1
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August 29, 2025 11:48am
lifesgood

Ye Gods, mid term break now, strike day last week, school holidays only a few weeks ago. No wonder our kids are failing at school. What a cushy life teachers have! Then we get that half wit Maiki Sherman breathlessly reporting that 89 School Principals signed a letter to Government opposing any changes to NCEA as if that was important news. 89 is less than a quarter of high school Principals in NZ which means the rest are OK with changes and refused to sign the letter. Maiki needs to get a life. she is a left wing appologist. A quick google of the schools those 89 principals head shows they are very poorly performing schools. Says something, doesn’t it?
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August 29, 2025 12:43pm
Swifty

Labour and the unions want New Zealand families taxed even more to directly fund union capabilities and union staff and delegate development.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/571401/labour-port-of-auckland-back-plan-for-a-new-taxpayer-funded-agency-to-provide-delegate-training

That’s just outright robbery and theft from New Zealanders and for partisan and political purposes.

If ACT or National promised squillions of dollars of taxpayer funds for the New Zealand Initiative or similar organisations the left would be marching in the streets! There’d be hikoi the length and breadth of the country.

The left really are losing it now. They have become deranged. They regard the taxpayer purse as their own piggy bank – and to be drawn from for their own ends.

We are just their ATM.
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August 29, 2025 12:49pm
Maggy Wassilieff

About 22 hours ago, I had double cataract eye surgery… courtesy of the NZ Health System.

Thanks folks.
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August 29, 2025 1:46pm
- Jethrod
  
  How long did you wait for on the list?
  
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  August 29, 2025 1:57pm
  - Don Beckett
    
    I’ve had to pay for both my cataract ops; first one in 2016, 2nd one in 2023 – pensioner, no investments – son paid for the first one, just had to save out of the pension for the next one – didn’t want to burden my son again.
    Applied for funding in both cases, but didn’t qualify for some reason – probably being too honest with my answers to the questionaire.
    
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    August 29, 2025 2:56pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Just under 1 year.
      
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      August 29, 2025 4:00pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Seems my left and right eye were so refractivelly different that opthamologist reckoned my brain wouldn’t interpret images well if they weren’t corrected close together.
      
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      August 29, 2025 4:09pm
- Swifty
  
  Hope it all went well Maggy.
  
  My very best wishes to you.
  
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  August 29, 2025 2:02pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Cheers….
    
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    August 29, 2025 4:10pm
- Ian Boag
  
  Management had the same a couple of months ago, although we saved the taxpayer. She has been making all sorts of pleased noises about how the world looks so different 🙂
  
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  August 29, 2025 2:48pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Hubby had knee replacement last year.
    We paid for that.
    He hadn’t even got on a waiting list after 3 years of increasing pain.
    
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    August 29, 2025 4:03pm
    - MCōs
      
      I was born with a dislocated hip, which these days would be picked up and rectified at birth. Not back then and incredibly everything looked normal for a couple of years before it was sorted out.
      By then the bones weren’t perfect, but I coped for the next fifty years and then had a replacement. I was working in Bangkok at the time and had to pay myself.
      Most of the money I’d saved, and I pulled out my NZ credit card for the rest. Except it had just expired!
      My cousin had one done in Timaru at the time and not wishing to rub shoulders with the plebs at Public had it done privately. Interestingly his cost about the same.
      
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      August 29, 2025 4:33pm
    - greybeard
      
      $6m woman married to $6m man !
      
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      August 29, 2025 6:34pm
    - Ian Boag
      
      Yeah. We gave up on SC a couple of years ago at $1200/month. SInce then we have had $12k (eyes for er) and $10k (hernia for me). Squareish …. 🙂
      
      Have a mate (80) who needs a hip – sick of waiting and opted to pay – alas because he has a pacemaker he needs to have it done in a hospital with an ICU. So no dice – apparently Wakefield now have one but that doesn’t work for whatever reason …
      
      Tricky stuff this navigation of the health system for oldies ….
      
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      August 29, 2025 7:23pm
- mandk
  
  You’re welcome, Maggy.
  
  My eyesight deteriorated quite quickly because of cataracts, but I didn’t realise how bad it had become until the bandages were taken off.
  
  Post-op, the clarity and colours were almost mind-blowing.
  
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  August 29, 2025 3:39pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Yeah….
    It’s all a bit bright for me. at the moment.. so I’m wearing gangsta shades outside.
    
    I will need to wear specs for close-up stuff.. reading and computer use. Am just using some el-cheapo magnifying specs to type this….. I’ve been told to wait 1 month before getting prescription ones.
    
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    August 29, 2025 5:39pm
  - grumpy
    
    Yep, my wife asked me what I was looking at, I said “just looking”. Unreal
    
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    August 29, 2025 5:50pm
- kiwimike
  
  Maggy
  I did mine private in 1 week in Cuba street.
  $6,000. 1 yr ago.
  
  best thing I ever did, prof Tony is great.
  
  DHB was so slow and disinterested.
  Not prof Tony and his team.
  
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  August 29, 2025 4:17pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  You’re welcome, Maggy
  
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  August 29, 2025 7:58pm
Swifty

Send the bill to Iwi!

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/571509/nature-takes-no-prisoners-the-billion-dollar-cost-of-river-erosion

After all, they own the rivers they reckon.
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August 29, 2025 7:31pm
goNZ1

just in from smh news alert-

Former Labor premiers Daniel Andrews and Bob Carr have been invited as guests alongside dictators Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un to attend a major Chinese military parade at Tiananmen Square to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.
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August 29, 2025 9:04pm
sirknz

Quigley has announced his resignation from the Reserve Bank, active immediately.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360807685/reserve-bank-chairperson-nigel-quigley-resigns-immediate-effect

Bit hard to stay on with his comments around the shock that a government department might actually take minutes in a meeting with another government department.
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