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Cassandra

A new report has highlighted the problem of Māori individuals grappling with language loss and “te reo trauma”, defined as as ‘the emotional, psychological, physical and spiritual harm and distress experienced by Māori individuals due to a lack of proficiency in te reo Maori.”

This can manifest in various ways “including language anxiety and feelings of shame (whakamā) for not being able to speak te reo Māori. Language anxiety can lead to withdrawal from cultural contexts, impacting social interaction and mental health.”

It’s tempting to dismiss this as “diddums” but it’s real. And it’s going to cost taxpayers. I don’t want to plant a seed but the ACC had better get prepared. And I’m sure the Waitangi Tribunal will have a 500 page recommendation for the government with a bill for several million.

Having fostered this dying language into life via the courts declaring it to be a treasure, the Language Commission, radio and TV stations and classification as an official language the government will now have to accept the consequences. Or take a stand. Which no government will do of course.

Whāranu atua whiowhio.
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December 22, 2025 8:01am
- cmm
  
  I call bullshit on their being any general keenness to learn Maori other than that purported to exist by grifters.
  
  About a year ago I had an interesting chat with a Maori bloke in his late 20s. His father is a Maori tutor. He can understand some Maori but is far from fluent and is not bothered to learn because, he said, it is a waste of time.
  
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  December 22, 2025 8:27am
  - Ra Henare
    
    One swallow does not a summer make.
    
    ie quoting one instance of somebody not wanting to extend their maori knowledge (when talking to a white fella) is indicative of nothing 🙂
    
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    December 22, 2025 3:26pm
    - cmm
      
      Certainly one swallow does not a swallow make.
      
      No doubt you can find one or two Maori people who are fully immersed in Maori language and culture. They will be very few.
      
      I would be prepared to make my standard bet of 50 cents and a servo pie that less than 20% of people who claim Maori ancestry would be able to operate in Maori at a high school or university level.
      
      The best Maori speaker I know personally grew up in South Africa. He is the best Maori speaker they could find in a company of 200 people.
      
      Again, only a personal anecdote.
      
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      December 22, 2025 4:54pm
- artemisia
  
  Any trauma is very serious. Those suffering trauma can become dysfunctional and unable to live productive lives. So a lot of taxpayer money will need to be poured in so trauma is reduced and eventually hopefully eliminated. Many specialist culturally sensitive advisers will be required.
  
  The researchers will now be able to turn their attention to sign language trauma.
  
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  December 22, 2025 8:34am
  - imalwaysright
    
    I would like to show them some traumatising sign language …
    
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    December 22, 2025 9:01am
- Blog-aholic
  
  The ‘report’ in question is based (IIRC) on research that spoke with 3 people…………………….enough said!
  
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  December 22, 2025 9:03am
  - kowtow
    
    I’d bet the report writers spoke exclusively , among themselves ,in the colonial settler lingo other than the patronising , virtue signalling open and close, which has become so de rigeur among the Rainbow Landyard Class.
    
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    December 22, 2025 9:26am
- Phronesis
  
  The whole point of speaking maori is as a form of gatekeeping. Its sole purpose is to separate the speakers (mostly recipients of public funds) from the non-speakers. This guarantees the speakers have less competition for those public funds. It is unsurprising that those on the outside are disappointed that they aren’t getting as much of the cash.
  
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  December 22, 2025 10:28am
  - Albie
    
    Phronesis- hence the stupidity of making up new words like Weki for helicopter. 🚁 I think anyone with half a brain can see what’s going on here. Build a language barrier to keep the unenlightened out. As an aside, do you think Luxon took te Reo lessons for practical reasons when dealing with those trying to shut him out or deep down is he just a bit of a wokester at heart?
    
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    December 22, 2025 1:00pm
    - Phronesis
      
      Look up his brother Mathew Luxon.
      
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      December 22, 2025 5:59pm
- Nikola Donatello
  
  “language anxiety and feelings of shame.”
  
  Good grief. I am having English language anxiety. I am serious. I was at a meeting last week. Ten or so folk. Mix of public servants and representatives of Iwi based social services NGOs.
  
  We went around the table and introduced ourselves. ‘I am Fred Blogs. I am from.. My role is… ”
  
  Two of the folk did their introductions in te reo. The introductions were betwen 60 and 90 seconds. They may not seem long. Try it. 🙁
  
  So during the rest of the meeting I had no idea of the name of the people or where they are from.
  
  So no. There was no “language anxiety” or shame. What I now observe. Every single day. Language anxiety in English speakers with very limited te reo. That is, the vast majority.
  
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  December 22, 2025 10:50am
  - pdm
    
    Did protocol stop you from asking to clarify their names ND?
    
    If so would it have been rude or jeoprodised (Ardern speak) your job to walk out?
    
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    December 22, 2025 11:36am
    - Phronesis
      
      It would have made it very clear that he was not part of the in crowd. Quietly pretending that you understood what was said in maori is acceptable. Asking for a translation would be seen as deliberately confrontational and crystallised the “us vs them” that is the point of speaking maori in the public service
      
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      December 22, 2025 12:31pm
    - Nikola Donatello
      
      If I had asked them to repeat their names in English, I think that the Chief Executive of my department would have received a call from the relevant Iwi chair. Hell would be raised.
      
      In the state sector in these circumstances, protocol prevents folk from asking for an English translation. The assumption is that you will understand te reo or that you will learn it sufficiently to understand someone telling there mihi. These introductions are not just name and title. They extend to an account of where the person was born, where they now live and their ancestry.
      
      This is now quite common.
      
      Disclosure. I am a public servant. I was in Wellington. I have been seconded to a region for 12 months. I am not going to disclose the region.
      
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      December 22, 2025 1:09pm
- Paulus
  
  ACC have some leadership problems to solve despite their media followers.
  Watch this space.
  
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  December 22, 2025 2:12pm
Gravelroad

“Having fostered this dying language into life”
Changing “fostered” into “forced” would be more accurate.
Have no idea what last sentence means and don’t care.
I take it that you speak the Maori language?
Nice for you.
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December 22, 2025 8:11am
Yvette

Cassandra, five whānau were selected for the research overall.
The report then provides a detailed analysis of three individual participants drawn from those five whānau (all from Generation X – whatever that is.
So while the study engaged five families, the deeper qualitative focus in the report was on three participants.

Unless ‘whanau’ means in this case ‘our people’ rather than ‘family unit’, which would narrow the sample to five of which three were examined in detail – whatever that might represent.

Three – of a claimed one million population of Maori?
Tribal statistics?
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December 22, 2025 8:15am
- cmm
  
  I know very little about Maori, but as I understand it whanau means the broader family and is a fuzzy concept that can expand to include what Westerners would call a clan. I’m pretty sure it does not mean a nuclear family, but I am open to being educated.
  
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  December 22, 2025 8:24am
  - David George
    
    No one’s really sure what it means; immediate family, extended family, associates, individuals, like minded, whatever?
    Marama’s “trans whanau”
    or Bloomfield’s “200 whanau across the motu” for example.
    
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    December 22, 2025 8:35am
    - igm
      
      And who really gives a rat’s?
      
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      December 22, 2025 8:44am
      - kowtow
        
        Taxpayers?
        
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        December 22, 2025 9:27am
      - Paulus
        
        Rat’s do !
        
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        December 22, 2025 2:13pm
    - Cassandra
      
      It means gravy + train. Lighten up!
      
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      December 22, 2025 9:01am
    - Paulus
      
      Whanau means nepotism too !
      
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      December 22, 2025 2:13pm
  - Mike
    
    You won’t get educated in Māoritanga by seeking answers from Kiwibloggers.
    
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    December 22, 2025 8:45am
    - Gussy Fink-Nottle
      
      Indeed.
      To “get educated in Māoritanga” requires ongoing investment – its amorphous and indeterminate nature cannot be dispensed in a concise and liberate manner.
      
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      December 22, 2025 9:27am
    - Phronesis
      
      You won’t learn the secrets of Scientology either.
      
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      December 22, 2025 10:30am
    - leoj
      
      Voluntary learning of te reo – excellent.
      
      Force it down my throat and all you will get back is: Get stuffed.
      
      And it is being forced.
      
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      December 22, 2025 10:38am
      - Sparrow
        
        Where is Te reo being forced down our throats?
        I accept that many in the media and academia are sprinkling Te reo into their conversations and articles to be seen to be culturally sensitive but I don’t see any forcement. Please correct me if I am wrong.
        
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        December 22, 2025 11:45am
      - Jack5
        
        Sparrow’s ….Where is Te reo being forced down our throats?
        
        The Woke and State-subsidised or State-owned media are unsubtly trying to change the balance between English language use and Maori-language use in NZ.
        
        It’s doomed of course, with English the world lingua franca, but it’s happening.
        
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        December 22, 2025 2:04pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    This might clarify matters:
    
    https://teara.govt.nz/en/whanau-maori-and-family/page-1
    
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    December 22, 2025 9:06am
    - David George
      
      It does Maggy.
      Like a lot of Maori words the multitude of meanings is not just confusing but the ambiguity degrades the very purpose of language itself – communication.
      Bloomfield attempts to communicate an important specific statistic with a nebulous reference to “whanau” when he could have used “people” or “individuals” or patients or one of several other words from the greatest language ever. Why?
      
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      December 22, 2025 11:34am
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Because the medium is the message. In this case, use of the term ‘whanau’ signalled that Dr Ash was on board the right-on train.
        
        The actual meaning of ‘whanau’ was secondary.
        
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        December 22, 2025 5:28pm
  - Gary Benner
    
    A legal friend recently said the in house joke was that it meant “family of the defendant”.
    
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    December 22, 2025 9:42am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Lewis Carroll had it nailed. From Alice Through The Looking Glass:
    
    When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
    
    ’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
    
    ’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.
    
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    December 22, 2025 9:54am
    - imalwaysright
      
      Never,
      Its amazing how deep these writers are, and how they incorporate their thinking in what, on the surface, appear to be stories written for childrens’ entertainment.
      Try YouTube for the history and meaning behind nursery rhymes, some of them are horrific.
      
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      December 22, 2025 10:48am
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Lucky we didn’t have to play ‘Ring a ring of roses’ during the Jacinda plague.
        
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        December 22, 2025 5:30pm
- Grumpy Silver Top
  
  So no statistical validity at all, with a sample of three. Total BS. But because it is called research (BAH!) it gets reported and, heaven help us, paid for out of taxpayer money. What a load of codswallop! (Such a lovely, evocative word.)
  
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  December 22, 2025 9:21am
- Yvette
  
  Still –
  So while the study engaged five families, the deeper qualitative focus in the report was on three participants.
  Three individuals – of a claimed one million population of Maori?
  
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  December 22, 2025 9:50am
  - Paulus
    
    It is accepted that the last Maori was declared to be in 1964 so there are no Maori anyway.
    
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    December 22, 2025 2:16pm
- artemisia
  
  I’m sure the 3 were selected at random. Researchers are good like that.//
  
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  December 22, 2025 12:31pm
Chuck Bird

I was pleased to see a very good turnout for the speeches and march down Queen Street in support of the Jews at Bondi. There was a lot more than 200 reported.

I was also impressed with the speeches. They were positive and no talk of hate or revenge.
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December 22, 2025 8:18am
- Mark Adams
  
  Yes, a good event. Was also respectfully received by onlookers on the way down Queen St.
  Lucy and co organised things very well.
  
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  December 22, 2025 8:45am
- kowtow
  
  Well done Chuck .
  Reported on p5 of today’s Herald . Lucy gets a mention too .
  
  The paper reports “150” in attendance .I wonder where that figure comes from.
  
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  December 22, 2025 9:08am
  - pdm
    
    I heard 100 on NewstalkZB news yesterday afternoon.
    
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    December 22, 2025 9:27am
  - Paulus
    
    The media keyboard of course.
    
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    December 22, 2025 2:17pm
  - laworder
    
    Looked more like 2-300 to me, I was there too. The speeches were all excellent as Chuck says
    
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    December 22, 2025 6:39pm
    - Chuck Bird
      
      I agree. We need to stop funding UNRWA.
      
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      December 22, 2025 7:18pm
  - Ghost
    
    Lucy gets a mention? Actually it should be congratulation to Lucy for putting together the event and all the hard work she did, not congratulations to someone who just turned up for it
    
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    December 22, 2025 7:28pm
- Philview
  
  Did you notice the media frequently using the word “protestors”? In this context I wondered if it was the right choice of word. There was just a sniff of using the word “protestors” to delegitimise the occasion.
  
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  December 22, 2025 1:43pm
Yvette

Te Pāti Māori at present looks less like tikanga guiding politics (Tamihere’s claim), and more like politics sheltering under tikanga’s smoke cloak. And that is not unique to Māori movements – every tradition gets pressed into service this way eventually: scripture, constitutions, revolutions, even common sense.

But while Willie Jackson has spoken of the “tyranny of the majority”, in his previous mate John Tamihere, the aspiration of Maori is momentarily in the stewardship of one man, who may piss them down the drain of history, and we could witness the exact opposite to Willie’s “tyranny of the majority”.

Which is the greater danger? – at least to be a majority you must be more than half whatever number is being considered. The opposite can be one.
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December 22, 2025 8:18am
Gary Benner

Last night my wife was bemoaning the state of the nation, and the prospect of Labour making a comeback. With the country (admittedly via the Media) obsessed with everything Maori, Climate Change, and the whole range of WEF inspired policies, I suspect that many in the country are feeling the lack of real inspiration.

The UK has a complete moron at the helm, and they are stuck with him for some time unless Guy Fawkes makes a comeback. At least in the USA there is a transformational President (whether you like him or not) who actually does stuff, including talking to the media (whether they like what he tells them, haha!). At least he appears to work on at least each of the 7 days of every week, unlike his predecessor.

To that extent I myself would love to see a rising star, someone who could bridge the divides that are appearing in our society. In the USA Trump started as a Democrat, found no ground so moved to the Republicans and transformed it “in his own image”. Do we have the oppoertunity for that sort of thing here (in whatever was you can imagine …) to allow someone who could inspire ~50% of the population and revive the mojo that our country is severely lacking right now.

Right now our country is run by a CEO, not a leader, and the spirit and verve seems to be missing. Our political systems seem to have us stuck in mediocrity, just like that Stealers Wheel song “Stuck in the middle with you”. I sometimes long for the wild swings on FPP that actually got things done.
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December 22, 2025 8:21am
- MCōs
  
  Trump ‘started’ as a Republican in 1969 and has been affiliated to four different parties over the years including the long forgotten Reform & Independence Parties and the Democrats for a few years in the early part of this century. Whatever suits
  
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  December 22, 2025 9:01am
  - imalwaysright
    
    Then we have the manual workers voting Labour through family generations.
    
    The only connection Labour cares about with the manual worker is his blind faith and union dues.
    
    Parties change, so should voters.
    
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    December 22, 2025 9:09am
    - MCōs
      
      Muhammad Ali said that he liked the segregationist Governor George Wallace from the point of view he knew where he stood with him
      The trouble that any politician has is over promising or their supporters thinking once our party is in power they’ll do just what we think they will.
      
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      December 22, 2025 10:15am
      - imalwaysright
        
        Agreed
        
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        December 22, 2025 10:34am
      - Inandout
        
        MC, reminds me of a Hungarian guy I used to work with. He said during the Soviet occupation things were stable and everyone knew their limits. He was in sort of two minds on the matter.
        
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        December 22, 2025 10:47am
- septic skeptic
  
  Our political system is stuck in mediocrity because it is based on the German system and that is what is was designed to do. Force coalitions and prevent a single party from gaining power – thus preventing a second coming of Hitler and the Nazis.
  This, and the 3 year term, make it extremely difficult to make major changes especially those that would be unpopular in the short term. The Ardern government is really the only MMP government that I would call transformational, and they got booted before he Puapua was anywhere near complete.
  
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  December 22, 2025 10:22am
  - Philview
    
    I would call the Ardern Government “Extremist”. Introducing several years in prison for providing therapy for gender dysphoria while going easy on violent crime. Enabling the changing of sex on birth certificates based purely on an online declaration. The whole issue of He Puapua and media alignment which was essentially a constitutional coup. We all know it except the media who treat her like a national treasure.
    
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    December 22, 2025 10:57am
  - Gary Benner
    
    The only issue with He Puapua is that it was not put forward as an election plank – it was developed in secret – even from coalition partner Winston Peters.
    
    It should be a rule of Parliament that any major legislation is required to have been signaled clearly before the previous election. Even then you know the bureaucrats will find a way around that!!
    
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    December 22, 2025 11:00am
    - Scott
      
      The only issue with He Puapua is that it was a racist policy whose function was to make Maori masters of this land while assuaging white liberal guilt.
      We would have had:
      – cogovernance
      – a special health system for Maori
      – school would be an eternal marae visit
      – tribalism would re emerge as the ruling system
      In short we would have followed the example of South Africa and be well on the way to becoming a third world country.
      That’s the “only problem” with He Puapua. 😎
      
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      December 22, 2025 11:41am
  - kowtow
    
    “Transformational” in intent perhaps . Extreme radicalism more likely .Certainly undemocratic in the sense it came to power on the back of a transient falsehood , Covid , and the radicalism was literally hidden from the electorate , deliberately , as they knew a majority would have none of that race division .
    Those policies were never put to the people in any manifesto . We’re told they were even hidden , while being developed from the very man who annointed her in the first place.
    
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    December 22, 2025 11:17am
    - R
      
      Poetic justice for his vindictive behaviour; which came close to being able to destroy democracy in NZ. VOTERS should think very deeply about, and pay close attention, to candidates pronouncements between now and the 2026 election.
      
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      December 22, 2025 11:47am
    - Don Beckett
      
      Marxism very well explained.
      
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      December 22, 2025 12:06pm
Chuck Bird

Not premium. There is a video with a couple of excerpts of speeches by the organisers.

Auckland rally condemns rising anti-Semitism after Bondi Hanukkah attack

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-rally-condemns-rising-anti-semitism-after-bondi-hanukkah-attack/2G5DRSLIYJDZFHAFLQ624D3DJM/
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December 22, 2025 8:48am
- imalwaysright
  
  The problem is that the definition of antisemitism, like racism, homophobia, Islamophobia, etc is so loose that nearly anyone could qualify.
  Being labeled something that you are not breeds resentment and people stop listening.
  Applying collective blame and collective guilt is the existential bigotry, and is divisive and very damaging to everyone.
  
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  December 22, 2025 9:16am
pdm

Last night I watched the video of Paula Bennett interviewing David Seymour. The only one I have bothered to watch and only because David Seymour was the interviewee.

I will dig up more over the holiday period because Paula Bennett is a very good interviewer albeit with a compliant subject in this interview.

It was interesting that when asked what he would be doing over the Parliamentary Holiday period that Seymour said he and his Fiancee would be holidaying in Argentina.

He then stated it is his aim to try and arrange a meeting with Argentina President Javier Milei – the man who has almost single handedly turned the Argentinian economy around in a very short time while there.

No R&R for Seymour and I suspect he is probably paying his own way too.

It will be interesting early next year to learn if he did get to meet Milei and what he learned from him.

Have PM Luxon, Foreign Minister Peters or Trade Minister Todd McClay been to Argentina to meet Milei? A missed opportunity if they have not.
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December 22, 2025 8:51am
- kowtow
  
  As reported by the media , he was the only MP present at the Auckland Bondi rally.
  
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  December 22, 2025 9:12am
- RoboRob
  
  National have been very clear that they do not support the kind of major structural and financial changes the Milei has done. This morning Luxon described National as ‘the better managers’. So it would make no sense for them to waste time visiting Argentina.
  
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  December 22, 2025 11:29am
- Nikola Donatello
  
  Three things.
  
  You think that he is “probably” paying his own way. Well of course he is. No MP or Minister is paid to go on holiday.
  
  “No R and R”. He is on holiday with his fiance. Of course he is having R and R.
  
  No of course those Ministers have not been to Argentina to meet the President. They have nothing in common. The National Party Ministers simply run the status quo much more efficiently than Labour Party ministers.
  
  You are very hopeful. I will give you points for that.
  
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  December 22, 2025 3:30pm
otago-man

A frost here in the deep south this morning on the shortest night, global warming…Bah
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December 22, 2025 9:00am
- pdm
  
  The other day I saw Mosgiel had a high of 8 degrees.
  
  Bugger that in December.
  
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  December 22, 2025 9:30am
- MCōs
  
  It’s balanced by the searing 23° we had here
  
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  December 22, 2025 9:37am
  - Ghost
    
    There was snow on the hills down here the other day, but then again that’s the norm in summer for the last few years. Neighbour has had her fire going a few times, we’ve had the heat pump on. It’s ok, we will get a couple of hot days and they will claim it was our hottest summer……
    
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    December 22, 2025 9:46am
  - zulumonster
    
    Um – since when has 23 degrees been searing?
    
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    December 22, 2025 12:04pm
    - CJames
      
      In the UK, their alarmist Met Service often reports cooler summer days than this as near dangerous heat stroke territory. Paul Homewood catalogues them.
      
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      December 22, 2025 1:02pm
    - Biscuit
      
      Agreed, zulu.
      
      I was chatting my nipper over in Canada just before.
      
      ‘Cold here (-3 o C)) but I’m not moaning. It’s – 19 o C in Winnipeg!’
      
      Me, I like my temps in the 10 o C through 19 o C range…
      
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      December 22, 2025 1:30pm
      - Steve Todd
        
        17 to 26 for me.
        
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        December 22, 2025 4:03pm
- G152
  
  But but but.. global warming is cool man
  
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  December 22, 2025 10:06am
- Nikola Donatello
  
  You are incorrectly conflating “weather” and “climate”.
  
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  December 22, 2025 6:30pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Here’s a great advance in NZ Education.

A site where parents can finally understand what their children are meant to be learning each year.

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2512/S00168/parent-portal-updated-with-new-maths-practice-tool.htm

This is so much easier to follow than the incomprehensible TKI (Te Kete Ipurangi) site.
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December 22, 2025 9:14am
- Mike
  
  Who knew that wrbsites could be improved or even replaced? Even
  Te Ara might get upgraded one day so that all the articles are written by competent specialists.
  
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  December 22, 2025 6:38pm
Simon

Auckland City Council wants to clear all the mentally ill outta the CBD. Move them else where. This happens in the third world. Clear the undesirables from the flash barrios to the lower barrios.

Auckland City third world mindset. Its called dealing with NZ reality. Local police as well, for the flash barrios.
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December 22, 2025 9:17am
- imalwaysright
  
  If you have a spare bedroom, or even a carport, you could give a few of them a home by Christmas.
  They only take up a couple of square metres each.
  
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  December 22, 2025 9:31am
  - Simon
    
    You are in denial. They will be moving to someone’s barrio. Segregation of areas, moving people according to an economic formula backed by police enforcement is pure third world. The difference at the moment between those living in the third world and NZ is those living in the third world know its the third world. You are not there yet but will be.
    
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    December 22, 2025 12:22pm
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      Good luck
      
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      December 22, 2025 2:13pm
  - Jack5
    
    People are living with the down side of slashing the role of mental hospitals.
    
    This continues: our mental hospitals are jammed tight and have too few beds to cater for the seriousy ill.
    
    Meanwhile, politicians look for the easy fixes of counselling the unhappy rather than treating the mentally sick; and screwing down numbers of psychiatrists, psych nurses and clinical psychologists and flogging these folk to emigration.
    
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    December 22, 2025 3:02pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Let’s hope they return home to their family for Christmas, eh.
  
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  December 22, 2025 9:57am
  - imalwaysright
    
    That would be ideal, the value of family is underestimated, especially by families.
    
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    December 22, 2025 10:55am
MCōs

In America the justice department has been forced to release gazzillions of documents related to the late Jeffrey Epstein.
Over the last month they have been feverishly redacted names of God knows who such that some documents are just a sea of black.
Here in NZ we’re used to widespread name suppression, but not over there they want to know the name of everyone, guilty or innocent.
This has lead to wild speculation and probably outright deceit.
In view of all that how is this authentic or not?
https://x.com/sollenbergerrc/status/2002766333466091660?s=61
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December 22, 2025 9:32am
- Gravelroad
  
  In a way, why does it matter to them so much now?
  Epstein was once a hero, a rich lister living the good life with a bunch of upper class wannabes. Someone admired and envied.
  Someone with a moral compass back in the day must have known about the prostitution of young girls going on, but didn’t care. Or was paid off.
  Now it is all about “gotcha”.
  The former Prince Andrew – gone.
  President Trump – wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could get him gone!!!!!!!!
  Maybe even Clinton.yah!
  Who else famous can we “out”?
  Isn’t that what it is all about now?
  
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  December 22, 2025 9:51am
  - kowtow
    
    What it’s all about now is ‘Get Trump” , that’s all that matters.
    
    All those girls are victims of the rich , powerful Establishment types , no one really cares about them ,if they did this would have been blown open years ago .
    
    [Mod – debate the topic without that]
    
    How the hell could an ex President , Clinton, with that wife of his and the Secret Service contingent and all the security apparatus of the US have not known what was going on.
    And why was nothing said .
    
    But no mistake , this is not about Epstein and his victims.
    
    It’s just the latest front in the War on Trump.
    
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    December 22, 2025 11:28am
- Handyman
  
  The DOJ had to read 300,000 documents and redact names such as the list of staff on Epstein Island. The DOJ then released 300,000 documents. Thousands of journalists feverishly searched for keyword “Trump”. They immediately reported the absence as a coverup.
  
  Personally I suspect, without evidence obviously, that any Trump pictures are flagged for human review to enable some context to be gathered. For example, a photo of Clinton in a spa is “just a photo of a man in a spa” but one of Trump is cause for impeachment. As a courtesy the DOJ would provide the White House with a heads up.
  
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  December 22, 2025 11:41am
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCmUMG4XqSk
Why One Nation Can’t Win – It’s Structural, Not Personal.
Note : Barnaby Joyce Defected from the Nationals and joined One Nation in early December 2025. His seat in the House of Representatives gives One Nation 1 seat as of the day of publishing this video.

Can Pauline Hanson or One Nation ever realistically win a federal election and form government?

With One Nation polling higher than it has in years, many Australians are asking whether a rising national vote share could translate into real political power — or even the Prime Ministership.

In this video, I break down how the Australian Westminster system actually works, focusing on the part most people are never properly taught:
the House of Representatives, how seats are won, and why national polling numbers do not automatically equal governing power.

This is not an endorsement of any political party.
It’s not an attack on One Nation, Pauline Hanson, or their supporters.
And it’s not a defence of Labor or Liberal. [It looks like they need some ordinary seats too. Not just the Senate ones. All the best to them.]
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December 22, 2025 9:39am
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE1lmMpGt14
Why Trump’s New Energy Map is a Nightmare for Turkey.
Donald Trump’s new energy map is quietly rewriting the balance of power in the Eastern Mediterranean – and it may be the first time TURKEY finds itself strategically cut out of Europe’s energy future. As the US backed “Vertical Corridor” bypasses Russian gas and traditional Turkish transit routes, a new GREECE centered energy corridor is turning into a geopolitical nightmare for Ankara and a potential lifeline for Ukraine and the Balkans.
In this documentary, we follow the money trail behind this emerging Eastern Mediterranean energy war: from the revival of the EastMed pipeline and massive LNG terminals in Greece, to interconnectors linking the Aegean to Bulgaria, Romania, and Ukraine. We examine how Washington, Brussels, Athens and Ankara are repositioning for the next decade of gas flows, military bases, and critical infrastructure – and why this new NATO energy architecture risks deepening the GREECE vs TURKEY rivalry in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean.
You will see how: – The Vertical Corridor challenges Russia’s grip on European gas
– GREECE is promoted as a key energy gateway and transit hub
– TURKEY faces gradual isolation from Europe’s energy security plans
– New US and NATO deployments change the military map of the region
– The outcome will shape Ukraine’s survival and the future of the Balkans
If you want to understand why the old EastMed maps are now obsolete – and how this new energy strategy could decide who holds real leverage in the Aegean, Black Sea, and Eastern Mediterranean – this is the full story. [It sounds alright, except for the bit about hydrogen. Unless they’ve found an existing supply.]
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December 22, 2025 9:40am
imalwaysright

The new Government app is a major threat to our security.

If it gets hacked, likely , or more likely the Public servants stuff it up, we could face major disruptions depending on the scope of its influence.

A single app that controls access to Government services will be a major weakness and a tempting target.
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December 22, 2025 9:46am
- Ghost
  
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/535664/adopting-a-single-ai-app-for-govt-poses-hacking-threat-internal-affairs-says
  
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  December 22, 2025 10:17am
  - imalwaysright
    
    I was going to say ‘great minds think alike’ but it doesn’t take a genius to see how this will end.
    
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    December 22, 2025 11:05am
    - R
      
      The NZ governance bureaucrats are still implementing the Marxist Ardern Labour policy of Welfare dependency and UBI. This app is but another cog in the agenda
      
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      December 22, 2025 11:56am
      - imalwaysright
        
        Correct R.
        To control NZ you only need to influence three or four ministries and the media.
        The Judas goats.
        
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        December 22, 2025 1:11pm
  - Ghost
    
    This is worth adding
    
    India (Aadhaar system — a biometric digital ID used for accessing government services, subsidies, banking, and more): Multiple breaches and leaks reported since 2018, potentially exposing data of over 1.1 billion citizens, including biometric information, names, addresses, and IDs. Leaks often stemmed from poor access controls, third-party vulnerabilities, or unauthorized sales of database access.
    
    Estonia (highly digital e-government system with ID cards and online services): In 2021–2022, a hacker exploited a vulnerability to download around 286,000–300,000 government ID photos from a state database. Earlier incidents include the 2007 massive DDoS attacks disrupting government and public services.
    
    Singapore (SingPass app for accessing over 2,000 government and private services): 2014 breach compromised 1,560 accounts. Related major incidents include the 2018 SingHealth cyberattack (largest in history, affecting 1.5 million patient records accessed via public health systems).
    
    United Kingdom (GOV.UK platforms, including One Login/GOV.UK Wallet for services like driving licenses and potential future digital ID): Multiple public sector breaches, including 2023 exposure of Afghan relocation applicants’ data, police officers’ details, and disability claimants. 2025 Legal Aid Agency breach exposed applicants’ sensitive data since 2010; recent confirmed hack (October 2025) stole government data (possibly visa-related).
    
    Sweden: 2024 ransomware attack by Russian hackers on the country’s sole digital service provider for government services, disrupting access.
    
    Bangladesh (e-apostille platform for document authentication services): 2025 breach via fraudulent mimic sites exposed over 1,100 citizens’ sensitive personal documents.
    
    Somalia (eVisa system for government visa services): Recent breach exposed records of at least 35,000 applicants, including personal data of thousands of US citizens.
    
    Canada (Global Affairs secure systems): 2023–2024 breach accessed sensitive personal information of users and employees via VPN.
    
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    December 22, 2025 11:22am
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Let’s be slow followers
      
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      December 22, 2025 12:30pm
- kowtow
  
  Sun Tzu say don’t look for patterns but ;
  
  these days really do feel like the description of what happened back in the 1930’s to the western democracies .
  
  We are severely threatened by malignant powers and our leading ruling pollies have their heads in the sand ( nay they’re spending up big on the weather , sending all maunufacturing to our opponents , crashing our economic base ,buying Russian oil , flooding our societies with division , silencing the voices of freedom etc) . Bar one and all the ‘smart’ folk say he’s nuts.
  
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  December 22, 2025 11:39am
  - Steve Todd
    
    […]. Bar one and all the ‘smart’ folk say he’s nuts.
    
    I haven’t heard of anyone referring to Trump as “nuts”, but there’s no doubt his mental decline is accelerating.
    
    An update from Dr John Gartner—
    
    “Psychologist Dr. John Gartner joins Joanna Coles [at The Daily Beast] to dissect Donald Trump’s latest White House speech [Wed 17 Dec 25] and explain why its manic pace, rigid teleprompter discipline, and sheer velocity alarm mental health professionals. Drawing on decades of clinical experience, Gartner argues that Trump’s hypomania, malignant narcissism, and advancing dementia are no longer abstract theories but visible patterns—accelerating, measurable, and increasingly unmanaged. They examine why repeated cognitive tests suggest monitoring decline rather than routine screening, and how sleepless nights, impulsive decisions, and compulsive posting point to a leader edging toward a cognitive cliff.”
    
    Very revealingly, I thought, was the discussion around the 29-minute mark about hypersexuality in older dementia patients, or a lack of inhibition. Lo and behold, on Friday night in North Carolina (obviously after this chat was recorded), Trump talked about Melania’s panties! Oh, dear.
    
    Somewhere in the discussion, Gartner opines that it’s going to “end badly” for Sleepy Don, the implication being sooner rather than later.
    
    The world is truly in a bind. If it’s sooner, the ghastly Lil’ Smokey ascends to the presidency* (with a consequent leg-up for 2028); if it’s later, goodness knows what could happen over the next 3 years: it doesn’t bear thinking about.
    
    * Although, of course, he would not want that to happen until after 20 January 2027.
    
    See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kecs-yAd94I [40:04 of 41:07].
    
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    December 22, 2025 3:07pm
- Fender
  
  And all the public servants that will have access to your information, do you trust them because I don’t
  
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  December 22, 2025 3:11pm
MCōs

I asked my wife how many people have been killed in the Thai/Cambodian conflict
She said she thinks about 25 Thais and ten thousand Khmer
BBC says about forty five dead each side.
Thais claimed to have uncovered millions of dollars worth of Hun Sen’s personal gold stash (right on the fractious border)
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December 22, 2025 9:50am
- Dudley Quaffquaff
  
  So?
  
  Sorry, but I’m going to need a bit more about Mrs MCos’ credentials and sources before I accept information from her as being more valid and credible than the BBC’s.
  
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  December 22, 2025 12:59pm
  - MCōs
    
    Obviously her sources are social media gossip or outrageous propaganda dressed up as fact
    It’s a classic example of people believing what suits them regardless of logic and it happens all the time
    
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    December 22, 2025 2:53pm
PurplePen

Bjorn Lomborg writes in various papers how to help the world’s poor, at the same time damning the UN waste. Some snippets …

A decade ago the UN committed everything to everyone through Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’) that would fix poverty hunger disease etc by 2030. Only 18% of the 169 UN targets are on track, with one third stalled or going backwards.

Lomborg runs a think tank called the Copenhagen Consensus. They developed 12 policies that would cost about 35 billion a year a pittance compared to the over 10 trillion dollars needed to deliver the UN SDG’s.

Get the bureaucrats out of the way is what it says to me.

https://financialpost.com/opinion/where-spend-world-money-2026
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December 22, 2025 10:04am
mogg

Brendon McCullum for quote of the year:
“We were so driven and caught up in the will to succeed that we got in our own way”.
He should be a politician.
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December 22, 2025 10:30am
pb

Amazing how many people do not know about Rocket Lab. Perhaps its the under dog, rural new zealand success story the machine likes to ignore. Contract just won worth about 2$billion NZ. Punching with the biggest US space and military contractors. Shareprice has almost doubled in the last month. Where is Hawkes Bay again?
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December 22, 2025 10:41am
- R
  
  Perhaps Rocket lab should have built their launch site in Cornwal Park. Aucklandees want anything succesful to be in Auckland; even when it is at the expense of the rest of the countries development
  
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  December 22, 2025 12:01pm
  - Lance
    
    The NZ based rocket factory is in Auckland
    
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    December 22, 2025 4:43pm
- mogg
  
  SpaceX and all the rest has almost made Musk a trillionaire.
  
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  December 22, 2025 12:12pm
- Ian
  
  Of course the people who do know about Rocket Lab are the Greens who are constantly moaning that they are enabling spy satellites for Israel…
  
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  December 22, 2025 12:33pm
  - Ra Henare
    
    Israel doesn’t need spy satellites. It has the US intelligence agency behind it, with all their satellites and surveillance drones.
    
    I note that once again there is no MSM/Blog response to yet another Unlawful Israeli decision…
    
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqjg18xe0wwo
    
    Israel’s security cabinet has approved the recognition of 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank as the government continues its settlement expansion push.
    
    this adds to the 500,000 illegal settlers in almost 200 current settlements
    
    Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a settler who proposed the move alongside Defence Minister Israel Katz, said the decision was about blocking the establishment of a Palestinian state.
    
    Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are considered illegal under international law.
    
    So Israel continues, like Russia(re Ukraine) and the US(everywhere) in totally ignoring international law. I see Thailand has also recently joined that clique.
    
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    December 22, 2025 3:34pm
    - Ian
      
      “Israel doesn’t need spy satellites. It has the US intelligence agency behind it, with all their satellites and surveillance drones.” Yes, you are correct, but wrongly or rightly, the Greens see Rocket Lab as enabling the Israeli’s to spy via a third party, the US. As said, gives the Greens something to moan about because like a piece of string they stretch anything to the very end possibility, whether it is or not. Greens – Rocket Lab bad…
      
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      December 22, 2025 5:10pm
- artemisia
  
  Might not know about RocketLab but may well know about Tawhaki National Aerospace Centre at Kaitorete. Lots of taxpayer funding for R&D and space launches. Not much news about those launches but apparently there might be some test flights and drone activity one day.
  
  OK maybe I missed the space launch announcements. Perhaps they applied a wide definition of ‘space’.
  
  Matauranga Maori is critical there because Tawhaki was one of the first, if not the first, humans in space.
  
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  December 22, 2025 1:06pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Peter Griffin has just put out a glossy coffee-table book about Rocket Lab.
  
  https://www.paperplus.co.nz/shop/books/non-fiction/biography-memoir/ignition-the-launch-of-rocket-lab?
  
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  December 22, 2025 1:36pm
  - pb
    
    Its good. A 300 page beauty. An aesthetic photographic collection and a solid story. Its like a work of art. Hard to explain.
    
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    December 22, 2025 7:10pm
- jonno1
  
  I have no verifiable evidence for this, but from my observation Peter Beck is one of the few true geniuses of this generation. Similarly, Elon Musk, albeit with a totally different personality. I would also categorise both as deep thinkers, rather than the more common appellation of entrepreneur.
  
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  December 22, 2025 9:52pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

I see that a trade deal has apparently been agreed with India. Previous commentary has suggested that a minimum number of immigrants from India must be accepted annually by NZ.

I have no idea if this is true, or what stipulations on the nature of the immigrants has been determined (I’m open to them all being medical specialists, for example).

Is there anything in the public domain about this?
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December 22, 2025 10:57am
- imalwaysright
  
  I remember that a condition of Helen Clarks trade deal with China was to allow 1500 immigrants p.a that were selected by the Chinese government.
  Wonder if it is still in effect?
  
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  December 22, 2025 11:10am
  - R
    
    Seems to be, judging by burecratic and judicial decisions, this century in NZ
    
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    December 22, 2025 12:02pm
  - Jack5
    
    Can’t see much for NZ in a free trade agreement with India, but there will be taxpayer-financed “junket” trips for journo’s and various trade groups.
    
    India is both the world’s biggest producer and biggest consumer of milk, NZ’s key export. Not sure how an FTA would benefit our inbound tourism.
    
    Here are India’s top 10 imports for 2024 (in $US):
    
    – Mineral fuels including oil: $220.6 billion (31.4% of total imports).
    
    – Electrical machinery, equipment: $84.9 billion (12.1%).
    
    – Gems, precious metals: $83.3 billion (11.9%)
    
    – Machinery including computers: $61.6 billion (8.8%).
    
    – Organic chemicals: $26 billion (3.7%).
    
    – Plastics, plastic articles: $21.9 billion (3.1%).
    
    – Iron, steel: $17.7 billion (2.5%).
    
    – Animal/vegetable fats, oils, waxes: $17 billion (2.4%).
    
    – Optical, technical, medical apparatus: $13.7 billion (1.9%).
    
    – Aircraft, spacecraft: $12.6 billion (1.8%).
    
    https://www.worldstopexports.com/indias-top-10-imports/
    
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    December 22, 2025 1:57pm
  - Paulus
    
    I assume we still allow Refugees via the UN Refugee Agency without question, which we cannot do.
    Are any from Gaza on their way yet ?
    
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    December 22, 2025 2:32pm
    - MCōs
      
      That’s wrong information
      Immigration NZ selects refugees from a list provided by UNHCR
      We’re not obligated to take any particular refugee as you seem to infer
      
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      December 22, 2025 3:06pm
- mandk
  
  It was reported in the business section of the NZ Herald at 9.22 am today https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/economy/nz-strikes-comprehensive-free-trade-agreement-with-india/IJA57TACQZASFCX64S2EEDSSOU/
  
  The deal might still be waiting for Cabinet endorsement.
  
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  December 22, 2025 3:56pm
  - mandk
    
    NZ and India will have a Free Trade Agreement.
    
    Well done to Todd McClay, he has been working on this tirelessly.
    
    And shame on Labour. When they were in government, they just gave up.
    
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    December 22, 2025 6:50pm
    - Ghost
      
      If it passes. Winston First aren’t supporting it, so it will need labours support
      
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      December 22, 2025 7:03pm
- Sir Henry Morgan
  
  It’s going to be a complete disaster, isn’t it? Potentially the knife twist that finally finishes New Zealand off.
  
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  December 22, 2025 7:54pm
Sparrow

The loss of their language for many older Māori has been traumatic. I know of one particular case. Brought up in a rural Māori community about 70 to 80 years ago, punished at school for speaking Te reo. Moved to the city at a young age to earn a living and to support his family back home. Lost the use of his language. One of his children made themselves a fluent and proud Te reo speaker. The father is highly embarrassed and sad when they return to their Marae as his child has to translate for him. That’s a very sad reality. People all around the world such as the Cornish are reclaiming their ethnic languages voluntarily not forcibly. It should be encouraged it enriches all of us.
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- All_on_Red
  
  “traumatic”?
  Leave it out. Loss of a child is traumatic- a niche language not so much
  And why cant he learn it now?
  
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  December 22, 2025 2:26pm
- Cassandra
  
  I agree. But pay for it yourself.
  
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  December 22, 2025 2:27pm
- Fender
  
  Bollocks , punished at school for using it, did he already know a bit then? Because he must of to have been punished for it logically And hes forgotten it now?
  How did he learn it before he went to school ,then following his logic
  Also how did he learn English , he must have had a very quiet existence if he only learned to speak and understand English at age 5 at school
  What a load of tosh these people talk
  Ask him how his neighbours kids can speak samoan cause it wasnt at their school either
  
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  December 22, 2025 2:47pm
  - Ghost
    
    It’s common knowledge that Māori were punished for speaking it at school.
    
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    December 22, 2025 4:27pm
    - lifesgood
      
      Stories get embellished with time. It is also well known that Maori parents wanted their children to speak English so as to have brighter futures. It’s a shame that no longer seems to be the case
      
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      December 22, 2025 5:48pm
      - Ghost
        
        The crown admitted this took place. Hard not to when school punishment logs listed it as the reason for punishment.
        
        The Crown concedes (as it also has acknowledged in submissions on Education and Social Services (Issue 18)) that:
        
        2.1 Taihape Māori children suffered by being punished for speaking te reo Māori in Crown-established schools and that, despite there being no official policy banning the use of te reo Māori in schools, the Crown did not take adequate steps to prevent this practice.
        
        CROWN CLOSING SUBMISSIONS IN RELATION TO ISSUE 20: TE REO RANGATIRA
        
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        December 22, 2025 6:46pm
    - Fender
      
      possibly yes, does that then mean they forgot how to speak it or was no one speaking it outside of school,IE at home which makes infinitely more sense.
      did none of your family learn to speak and understand words or the english language until school. My granddaughter is 3 and you can’t stop her talking. mostly english but thats because thats what her parents speak.
      how can you not see this obvious fact and try to blame it on colonist laws, considering their language is purely verbal makes it even more silly an arguement because you do learn to read and write and count at school
      
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      December 22, 2025 9:21pm
      - Ghost
        
        I’m just pointing out it happened, since you want to claim it was bollocks, how ever you want to take that and twist is completely up to you
        
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        December 22, 2025 9:45pm
    - ISeeRed
      
      Any child not speaking English was punished.
      
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      December 23, 2025 12:30am
      - Ghost
        
        Punishment registers show punished for speaking Maori. Strange none of you can accept that
        
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        December 23, 2025 9:35am
      - Fender
        
        We do accept that, just not him using it as an excuse to sparrow
        Bollocks refers to his excuse
        Punishment is a red herring to the real cause of the problem as to why he can’t speak his language
        Thats all in his head and is trying to blame someone else rather than his family
        
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        December 23, 2025 12:01pm
- CJames
  
  “rural Maori community” That means he probably went to a native school where the great Sir Apirana Ngata decreed they had to learn English only so they could enter the modern world. Maori was to be used at home and marae. So he lost his language skill because of his parents/ lack of community support. Why is the State responsible for him gettting it back?
  I note many Indian and Chinese families (plus friends where one is German or French) ensure that their chilren learn their parents’ language at home and English at school. It can be done – just needs active parenting.
  
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  December 22, 2025 3:10pm
  - Ian Boag
    
    The “original language at home” and “English in the wider world” model often does not work all that well. My barber today was a Afghan who has been in NZ for about 8 years – they speak Persian a lot of the time at home but the kids (8 and 10) are not very good at it. I have two grandchildren (10 and 12) in Auckland whose Mum is Japanese. They spend many Saturday mornings at Japanese school and manage OK although they have not really butted up against Kanji yet. Some other grandies in Sydney have a Russian Mum and Russian is widely spoken at home. 14 and 12 – the 14 year old is an ace, the 12 year old so-so.
    
    It is not uncommon for kids to lose the non-English language by the end of their teens.
    
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    December 22, 2025 4:37pm
    - Jack5
      
      If Ian’s grandchildren when adults want to re-learn Farsi, Japanese, or Russian, they will have a very big head start on the rest of us in mastering pronunciation.
      
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      December 23, 2025 9:29am
      - Fender
        
        Except he said one is so so and one is excellent in Russian which kinda shoots his own argument
        
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        December 23, 2025 12:03pm
Inandout

Pray the ten year plan of Starmer is stalled. The King is the final barrier but he is not a well man and has shown sympathy for Islam. It may come to pass that the Monarchy will call on the people to rebel, but very unlikely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGx8lrSEOI
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December 22, 2025 1:12pm
- MCōs
  
  King Charles I was executed for that sort of carry on
  
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  December 22, 2025 3:09pm
  - Inandout
    
    MC, Henry 8 or QEOne weren’t.
    Powers of the UK monarch, a reminder.
    
    ‘The contemporary UK constitutional monarch, at present King Charles III, possesses the ultimate legal responsibility for a variety of functions that are crucial to the operation of the political system. Among them are:
    
    Appointing and removing the Prime Minister and other ministers;
    Dissolving Parliament, to bring about general elections;
    ‘Proroguing’ Parliament – that is, disbanding it for a set period of time;
    Approving the most important laws (primary legislation) – through granting what is known as ‘Royal Assent’;
    Appointing members of the House of Lords;
    The conduct of diplomacy, and agreeing treaties;
    Acting as head of the Armed Forces, being responsible for their deployment within and outside the UK, including in potential or actual hostile action;
    Being head of the Church of England, the official religion of England; and
    Granting honours.
    
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    December 22, 2025 3:53pm
  - kowtow
    
    Rubbish.
    
    He was murdered following a political show trial put on by a Protestant extremist military dictatorship.
    
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    December 22, 2025 3:59pm
    - Mike
      
      Established a new principle of the nobility and gentry holding the monarch formally and publicly accountable for gross misgovernment. This was in contrast to secretly murdering previous failed kings, and formed a precedent to scare the would-be tyrant James II away lest he meet the same end as his daddy.
      
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      December 22, 2025 7:29pm
Sparrow

Mike, You are 100% correct about the majority of kiwibloggers knowledge of Māori. The downticks you and I recieved today for our blogs clearly illustrates sadly that fact. Be seeing you.
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December 22, 2025 4:26pm
- Mike
  
  Yes, but on Kiwiblog it’s Māori who are the ‘real’ racists.
  
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  December 22, 2025 6:31pm
- Gravelroad
  
  Sparrow- if people (of any ethnicity) wish to devote their time and energy to learn to speak Te Reo and/or improve their “knowledge of Maori” – then good luck to them. Go for it.
  But I don’t wish to do that.
  Do you think I should be forced to?
  
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  December 22, 2025 6:38pm
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    No
    
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    December 22, 2025 7:49pm
Ghost

Haven’t seen her in 10 to 15 years yet posted about her on Facebook last year. Seems like a big liar

Wellington City councillor Ray Chung has been pulled up by the mayor after he voted to give a family member $3525.88 of ratepayer money in grants funding.

At the council’s grants subcommittee meeting last week, Chung supported a motion to give out $126,617 to 20 individuals and organisations under the arts and culture fund.

Among the recipients was Cadence Chung, a great-niece of Ray Chung, seeking $3525.88 towards a poetry publication and arts events.

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December 22, 2025 4:37pm
Ghost

Can someone please teach the greens how to use autotune

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1355594169915447
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