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Cassandra

The members of the People’s Select Committee on Pay Equity are:
Prof. Marilyn Waring DNZM, former National Party MP; Jackie Blue MNZM, former National Party MP; Jo Hayes, former National Party MP; Belinda Vernon, former National Party MP; Ria Bond, former New Zealand First MP; Hon Liane Dalziel CNZM, former Labour MP; Hon Steve Chadwick QSO, former Labour Party minister; Hon Nanaia Mahuta, former Labour Party minister; Lynne Pillay, former Labour Party MP; Dr Sue Bradford, former Green Party MP.

This group has just issued its recommendation that the Coalition effectively cancel its changes to the pay equity process. Their report doesn’t say where the billions of dollars this will cost are to come from.

One wonders what the first four names were doing in the National Party in the first place.
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February 26, 2026 8:01am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Anytime you see “People’s” in the title, you know they are self-appointed.
  
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  February 26, 2026 8:09am
  - R
    
    ‘self-appointed…and self interests’. Masquerading as democratic interests!
    
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    February 26, 2026 9:54am
- imalwaysright
  
  Ten well paid trough dweller females running a committee about Pay Equity…
  
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  February 26, 2026 8:44am
- keepcalmcarryon
  
  Troughers-R-us
  
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  February 26, 2026 8:49am
- artemisia
  
  Caregivers v mechanics for example. Maybe that means mechanics are being overpaid and their wages should be frozen solid until ‘pay equity’ with caregivers is achieved. Pay equity is a result devoutly to be wished so why not? Especially if it won’t cost billions.
  
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  February 26, 2026 8:55am
  - Ian
    
    I have no problem with pay equity, provided it’s apples for apples – not the other stupid decisions as above, car mechanics and caregivers are the same…
    
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    February 26, 2026 10:16am
    - Swifty
      
      And you’ve hit on one of the key issues, you just know that with the left it will never just be apples and apples – they have no ‘off’ button, no handbrake, so before you know it it’ll be a human rights issue that some union lawyer or academic is taking to the UN that ERO officers aren’t being paid the same as heavy diesel mechanics or parliamentary cleaners are paid less than deep sea divers.
      
      Pay equity will bring in a pay and conditions and apples versus grapefruit arms race which will never end. Ever. As soon as one pulls ahead the others will paint that as ‘an injustice’ in support of a new claim of their own.
      
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      February 26, 2026 11:09am
    - Philview
      
      I think I read the caregivers equity claim would have been comparable with corrections officers. It seems absurd as there are female corrections officers and also male caregivers. The jobs are also very different.
      
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      February 26, 2026 11:10am
- Quail
  
  Cassandra,
  NZ politics and MMP.
  Decision making is the purpose of the NZ bureaucracy and failed and rejected politicians are ideal to front bureaucratic led planning.This group have largely been rejected at the ballot.They were not wanted.
  The real NZ electorate will be shedding tears of frustration at having that group still in a position to have any influence at all on our lives.
  MMP enables rejected politicians to remain in these decision making roles. And they are still paid by the taxpayers.
  Bring back FPP or indeed anything that gives individual votes validity!
  
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  February 26, 2026 9:11am
  - R
    
    Individual votes validity…….
    That system of elections is called SINGLE TRANSFERABLE VOTE. We don’t have such a system because, STV would not lead to the socialists beloved Universal Basic Income.
    
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    February 26, 2026 1:12pm
- Jack5
  
  Former NZ First MP Ria Bond, one of the group on pay equity, a former hairdresser, was appointed an NZ First MP after Winston Peters won the March 2015 Northland by-election following the resignation of National MP Mike Sabin. She was in Parliament as a list MP until 2017.
  
  Ria’s now active in Invercargill local-body politics. Ria won 610 votes for the Invercargill mayoralty in 2022 (the winner, Nobby Clark got 7357). She did, however, get the seventh highest number of votes for the City Council election and was elected.
  
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  February 26, 2026 10:02am
- leoj
  
  “Equity” is code for more money.
  Want more money? Find a job that pays more.
  Like a trade, instead of gender studies.
  Scam degrees are coming back to bite wokesters in the bum.
  
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  February 26, 2026 10:13am
  - Philview
    
    Unless you are a communist which usually means killing all the higher paid workers. Pol Pot did that with doctors which was good for pay equity in the health sector but not so good for people who needed a doctor for their health issues.
    
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    February 26, 2026 1:21pm
- Beach Haven expat
  
  I have the (near) instant solution to the pay equity ‘scandal’. If you want to be paid the total someone in x industry is earning, quit your job and go work there.
  #done
  
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  February 27, 2026 2:21am
- NZer In Exile
  
  The ~~People’s~~ NZ feminist activists’ make-believe Select Committee on Pay Equity.
  
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  February 27, 2026 6:35pm
BananaLlama

Day 2 of accessing Kalshi via Starlink while downtickers and [Mod – deleted] wave their pieces of paper at me saying it can’t be done.
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February 26, 2026 8:02am
- Ghost
  
  Day 2 of you not realising that anyone in NZ can still access the websites as there is no current block on them. What will happen is what Kalshi have already done, and that is remove NZers from setting up an account, you’d have to use a different country in set up
  
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  February 26, 2026 9:09am
- imalwaysright
  
  Banana,
  I think that the restriction is on using a NZ bank account to fund your bets and collect your winnings.
  
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  February 26, 2026 9:37am
- Bullion
  
  Look, I can access their site from my one nz connection, no VPN. I’m not going to try setup an account though.
  
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  February 26, 2026 9:47am
  - Ghost
    
    Yeah, and if you use starlink, as your ip is nz based, when trying to set up an account you will get
    
    Kalshi is not available in your country.
    
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    February 26, 2026 4:11pm
KKNZ2025

No problem, other people’s money
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February 26, 2026 8:03am
Maggy Wassilieff

Spin doctors and a nation in decline

https://www.democracyproject.org.nz/p/democracy-briefing-how-comms-driven?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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February 26, 2026 8:08am
- keepcalmcarryon
  
  A good read that and who can disagree?
  Corrupt self serving political system.
  
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  February 26, 2026 8:50am
- Swifty
  
  Great stuff – an important read.
  
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  February 26, 2026 10:23am
- Philview
  
  Elon Musk tried to do something about this in the US and was absolutely panned by the NZ media. The media aren’t interested in accountability either.
  
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  February 26, 2026 1:28pm
kowtow

Rickah’Shae .
That child never had a chance .

What has New Zealand become.
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February 26, 2026 8:09am
- Scooter
  
  Not when you can apparently send an 8yr old to school with black eyes, tell them not to feed the poor kid or not even send them to school. Is anyone at the school being held to account? The school is complicit.
  
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  February 26, 2026 9:20am
- imalwaysright
  
  It seems that Nia Glassie’s prolonged torture and killing by five scumbags has set the standard that needs to be exceeded before there is public anger.
  
  I’m surprised that Nia’ s killers have survived prison.
  Where are all the hard bastard gang members with ‘hearts of gold’ who used to do charity runs to help their public image?
  
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  February 26, 2026 9:47am
Maggy Wassilieff

Retreat from X

Make no mistake: the shift of public authorities away from X is a political gesture, however much its proponents insist otherwise. Consider the partisan optics. The parties that have recently left X are Labour, the Greens, and Te Pāti Māori (the left-of-centre bloc). National, NZ First, and Act all remain. So, when Parliament’s own institutional account departs in this context, it doesn’t look neutral. It looks like the public service is choosing a side.

https://www.democracyproject.org.nz/p/democracy-briefing-the-questionable
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February 26, 2026 8:10am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  I won’t be taking a lesson in morals from a scumbag like Andrea Vance.
  
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  February 26, 2026 8:21am
- Scott
  
  Quite right Maggie. Liberals used to love Twitter when it reflected their point of view. Twitter is particularly famous for banning discussion of the Hunter Biden laptop in the period leading up to the 2020 election which helped swing the election to Joe Biden. They also famously locked out the account of the New York Post.,one of the oldest publications in the country.
  
  Now that Elon has bought the platform and it allows right wing and conservative viewpoints liberals don’t like it anymore.
  Liberals and progressives have bad ideas they don’t like to debate. They could stay on X and debate ideas but they don’t like to do that.
  
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  February 26, 2026 10:34am
- Beach Haven expat
  
  I see recently-elected Wellington mayor and sewage swimmer Andrew Little is leaving X for platforms where has a tiny following in comparison.
  Let’s hope this moral crusader sticks to that policy when it is time for re-election and he will want to spread his messaging as far as possible.
  
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  February 27, 2026 2:25am
NeverMindTheBollocks

So, Andrew Little tells us that the seawater of the South coast is clean, and puts his money where his mouth is by going for a swim. Jolly good.

AFAIK, the sewerage system operating at the moment consists of screening for solid material, followed by pumping the liquids down the long outfall to a point 1.8km out in the washing machine that is Cook Strait.

Remind me, why are Wellington ratepayers spending vast sums on repairing a plant that on the face of it adds no value?
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February 26, 2026 8:17am
- Cassandra
  
  A very good question. WCC brought in a Canadian expert 40 years ago who determined that the best solution was the long outfall – tide and sun would disperse and oxidise the output in a very short distance and time. But that was contrary to Green and Maori belief/posturing hence Moa Point at umpteen zillions.
  
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  February 26, 2026 9:11am
  - Taieri
    
    the best solution was the long outfall – tide and sun would disperse and oxidise the output in a very short distance and time
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    Out of sight, out of mind…?
    
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    February 26, 2026 9:21am
- imalwaysright
  
  “So, Andrew Little tells us that the seawater of the South coast is clean, and puts his money where his mouth is by going for a swim.”
  
  Apparently the faecal count went through the roof…
  
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  February 26, 2026 9:11am
  - Paulus
    
    “From the River to the Sea Wellington Faeces will be Free”
    – eh Andy ?
    
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    February 26, 2026 1:26pm
  - Jethrod
    
    His money is obviously filthy lucre!
    
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    February 26, 2026 2:00pm
- Gussy Fink-Nottle
  
  Why are Wellington ratepayers spending vast sums on repairing the Moa Point facility?
  
  Because it’s required for the $1/2 Billion (and climbing) sludge minimisation plant to work.
  
  Every man. women, and child in Wellington will end up incurring a capital cost of circa $3,000 each just to have their pooh pelletised.
  
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  February 26, 2026 12:46pm
artemisia

Cam Slater sends a shot across the bows of the Medical Council – The Teaching Council has been found to be not fit for purpose. Now let’s take a look at the Medical Council…

He is referencing their draft statement, titled Statement on Hauora Māori (Māori health and wellbeing), that requires doctors to ensure care results in “equitable outcomes for Maori compared to non-Maori”, with equity-related measures potentially assessed through recertification programmes.

Hmmm, ordinary folk will take a look at groups of Maori and wonder how much inputs are the main cause of current outcomes.

https://centrist.nz/medical-council-draft-tells-doctors-to-advance-maori-equity-dismantle-power-imbalances/
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February 26, 2026 8:20am
- cmm
  
  But that’s what this is all about isn’t it?
  
  People, Maori in particular, should be sheltered from the consequences of their choices.
  
  Wag school? No worries. Head to the front of the queue for med school and various other jobs and opportunities.
  
  Smoking, obesity,…? No worries. Prioritized access to medical services.
  
  Get knocked up? Don’t worry the taxpayer’s wallet is on its way.
  
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  February 26, 2026 8:31am
  - Paulus
    
    And now join the now revealed Aoteara Army to be a part of the Maori existance as you must know everything that Tikanga tells you.
    If you do not know and obey may your Maori Gods help you.
    
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    February 26, 2026 8:50am
    - Yvette
      
      And, Paulus, an obvious question:
      In any considerable demonstration or civil disobedience where the Army is required to act how neutral does indoctrination leave them?
      
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      February 26, 2026 9:53am
      - Ian Boag
        
        Back in 1981 I was the speaker at a Linton mess evening just before the Manawatu-Boks game – the week after the Waikato game had been stopped. Here in PN they got the army out at short notice to put barbed wire around the ground. Some of the people — while deferring to the civil power and all that —- were a bit unhappy because their training was about killing people rather than crowd control. As it happened on the day, the Red Squad turned out for the first time and did the heavy lifting ….
        
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        February 26, 2026 1:17pm
    - cmm
      
      I am not at all opposed to a bit of cultural stuff during basic training, officers courses, etc. The emphasis is on “a bit”. It can help build a bit of eprit de corps and such.
      
      The problem is when it becomes a primary selection/training factor and get in the way of actual factual stuff. The Maori Gods of War are no substitute for Kevlar and ballistics.
      
      How long before this infects all of society?
      * Need to sing a waiata before you can enter the supermarket and do your shopping.
      * Have to pass a Maori mumbo-jumbo section to get your driver’s license.
      
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      February 26, 2026 9:55am
      - Yvette
        
        When exactly, in an engagement that the Army may have, would knowledge of Maori custom, specifically local Maori custom, apply unless something further may be needed other than, “Step into this rescue inflatable or you and your children may drown in the rising water”
        
        What is being referred to –
        A copy of the Army Cultural Skills Framework shared with Newstalk ZB. Photo/ Supplied
        https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/army-pauses-cultural-skills-framework-after-concern-raised-with-minister/D4PAB5JWSJCQRGKCJEXE6FJXUQ/
        Enlarge image icon top right.
        (This appears to be from a document which is not publicly available – correction is welcomed on that, and a link if it is available)
        
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        February 26, 2026 10:13am
      - pdm
        
        `“Step into this rescue inflatable or you and your children may drown in the rising water”’
        
        Reminds me of at least one rescue from a house roof in the Esk Valley during Cyclone Gabrielle Yvette.
        
        Probably not 100% verbatim but it went something like this as boat approaches people on roof:
        
        “are you the Navy”
        
        “Nah, we are just three Maori Boys in a boat – jump in”.
        
        No Te Reo needed.
        
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        February 26, 2026 12:20pm
    - imalwaysright
      
      The maorification of NZ seems to be mimicking the military model where the recruits are instructed to ‘repeat after me’ and ‘do this, do that, and backchat will be punished’.
      
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      February 26, 2026 11:31am
  - mandk
    
    “Smoking, obesity, …”
    
    Don’t forget hazardous drinking and use of methamphetamines.
    
    I am pretty sure that, if Māori vs other groups’ life expectancy numbers were controlled to take account of much higher indulgence of Māori in behaviours known to be harmful to health, it would become obvious that Māori only have themselves to blame.
    
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    February 26, 2026 11:20am
- Cassandra
  
  Inputs = outcomes sums it nicely. The draft instructions to doctors are a load of tosh. Blaming the racism of doctors for what is plainly a massive lifestyle problem – booze, drugs, fatty rubbish food, sloth – is flabbergasting. But not surprising. Note that Europeans with the same inputs get the same outcomes.
  
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  February 26, 2026 8:33am
  - imalwaysright
    
    In the current climate of maorification it would be a brave person in any job who showed the slightest sign of any behaviour that could be construed as racism.
    
    I would guess that in fact the OPPOSITE is true.
    Staff will bend over backwards to avoid complaints from those whose only aim is to find fault and label themselves as a victim of racism.
    
    Note, when they can’t find staff to complain about they label the entire ‘system’ as racist.
    
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    February 26, 2026 8:52am
    - cmm
      
      And that is how they win.
      
      If you show any resistance you get the full Karen treatment and told that you are no longer a fit employee.
      
      Soon it becomes like one of those Kim Jong Un applause fests where nobody wants to be seen to be the first to stop clapping.
      
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      February 26, 2026 9:58am
    - leoj
      
      The maorification is unstoppable as long as National is the majority party on the so called right. Nats are far from right leaning these days.
      Get used to it. Maori have their feet firmly in the door and they are not about to turn back. National are on board with them.
      
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      February 26, 2026 10:17am
      - pdm
        
        leoj – NZFirst are not much better.
        
        They talk a big game but don’t initiate or support much.
        
        Their removal of Maori Seats and making English an Official Language are more targeted at their voting base for Election day November 7 2026 than doing what they promised all New Zealanders three years ago..
        
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        February 26, 2026 12:27pm
- Northshoredoc
  
  The majority of the medical profession will do as I have done with draft from the Medical Council.
  
  Delete …
  
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  February 26, 2026 9:40am
  - Souvlaki
    
    HEAR YE… HEAR YE !!!!!!
    Put the thing ‘where the sun don’t shine ‘ !!!
    
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    February 26, 2026 10:15am
  - imalwaysright
    
    “Delete …”
    
    That will achieve precisely nothing.
    
    How about you reply telling them why you reject their proposal?
    
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    February 26, 2026 10:22am
  - cmm
    
    Quite possibly, but to the Great Unwashed these sound like an official mouthpiece.
    
    I will wager that the average man on the street think that they represent the consensus view of GPs etc.
    
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    February 26, 2026 10:39am
- rouppe
  
  How about having an optional “Hauora Māori” certification. Then people who care enough can go to the doctor that is certified.
  
  The rest of us can go to the doctor that is medically certified, but not Hauora Māori certified.
  
  Win win.
  
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  February 26, 2026 1:44pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

There’s an Epstein-related picture of Stephen Hawking in today’s Stuff, with a lithe, bikini-clad young woman on either side of him.

Surely, they’re not implying that a wheelchair-bound elderly man could have forcibly had his way with the pair of them?
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February 26, 2026 8:25am
- imalwaysright
  
  Apparently his voice computer had AutoTune and he would select Barry White when the ladies were around…
  
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  February 26, 2026 9:14am
- Philview
  
  I saw a headline this morning that his family have said they were his caregivers.
  
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  February 26, 2026 11:14am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    That headline begs more questions than it answers
    
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    February 26, 2026 3:38pm
- rouppe
  
  With every name that is in the Epstein files, the report is at pains to say “no evidence of wrongdoing”.
  
  Except for Trump.
  
  Even Bill “hot tub” Clinton gets a pass.
  
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  February 26, 2026 1:47pm
Scooter

Evil lives amongst us. It doesn’t say she is the one that actually killed him but she certainly helped along the way. My question is why the school didn’t take action over the obvious injuries or him being out of school. WTF is happening in our schools that this can go on for 3 years, my cynical view is they are all too scared because you will be called racist. Too many Maori children are kept within their family (and they all close ranks) when a safer option is to put them far away.

“In the three years she had legal custody of him, he was regularly observed with black eyes. She would shave off his hair as a punishment, keep him home from school for “weeks at a time” without justification, and send him to school without food.
Then she would tell the school not to provide him with the free school lunches.”

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/587974/pauline-timu-pleads-guilty-to-rickah-shae-keefe-haerewa-s-manslaughter
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February 26, 2026 8:27am
- Gravelroad
  
  I suppose this sub-normal person was paid quite a lot of coin by the taxpayers to “care” for these children?
  Any supervision or oversight?
  Next I assume the taxpayers will be paying for her to have a holiday in prison.
  What is wrong with these people?
  
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  February 26, 2026 9:26am
  - sirknz
    
    Colonialism, probably.
    
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    February 26, 2026 10:16am
  - Paulus
    
    Historical Genetics !
    
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    February 26, 2026 1:31pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Another woman was originally charged with Rickah’ Shae’s murder:
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/murder-and-manslaughter-accused-deny-charges-related-to-whakatane-death-of-rickahshae-keefe-haerewa/5WZTSGXM3JF4ZIOGOVD5FSI7PA/
  
  You’ve got to wonder if a deal has been done somewhere along the line.
  
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  February 26, 2026 10:01am
  - Gravelroad
    
    From the article:
    “Family members have posted tributes to the young boy, who also went by the nickname Joppy, online.
    
    “Mummy and Daddy love you. Forever 8 my son”
    So why weren’t Mummy and Daddy looking after their boy themselves?
    If they loved him that much?.
    Nobody ever asks those questions.
    Nah much better to keep ripping off the taxpayer and enjoying life on booze and drugs.
    Let some violent old hag look after the kid.
    
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    February 26, 2026 10:15am
    - Swifty
      
      I’ve forgotten the number of times I’ve gone to the social media profiles of people such as these and seen a wall of pronouncements like “family before anything”, “I love my kids more than life itself”, “my kids are my world”, “whanau forever” etc etc and then 80-90% of the pics are booze parties in the garage or kitchen with rubbish everywhere, lawns all overgrown and kids throwing gang signs etc.
      
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      February 26, 2026 11:00am
- imalwaysright
  
  “My question is why the school didn’t take action over the obvious injuries .”
  
  In a normal society that is exactly what would happen.
  
  Believe it or not, there is no legislation that obliges teachers etc to report suspected abuse of a child.
  
  Shouldn’t need to be legislated, but that’s another discussion.
  
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  February 26, 2026 10:05am
  - Ghost
    
    Schools are required by law to have a child protection policy. Teachers are required to follow that policy.
    
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    February 26, 2026 10:38am
    - imalwaysright
      
      “Believe it or not, there is no legislation that obliges teachers etc to report suspected abuse of a child.”
      
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      February 26, 2026 11:15am
      - Ghost
        
        the schools are required through the 2014 legislation to have a child protection policy that the school’s staff are required to follow
        
        The Child Protection Policy must include provisions for identifying and reporting abuse
        
        The purpose of this Part is to require child protection policies (that must contain provisions on the identification and reporting of child abuse and neglect) to be— Child protection policies
        
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        February 26, 2026 11:37am
      - imalwaysright
        
        Fraid you are wrong again.
        The act requires policies, it doesn’t obligate reporting.
        No one in NZ has been arrested and found guilty of not reporting suspected abuse of a child, even though it happens many times every day.
        
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        February 26, 2026 12:21pm
      - Ghost
        
        the act requires the schools to have a child protection policy, the school staff are required under their schools policy to report abuse. If a teacher fails to report the abuse they are breaching the Code of Professional Responsibility. Teachers are obligated under their schools policy to report the abuse. you can keep trying to get around that any way you want, but they are obligated under the child protection policy that they legally have to have to report abuse
        
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      - imalwaysright
        
        Literally, a rabbit hole….
        
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  - Paulus
    
    Are our Teachers any longer part of a normal society any more ?
    
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    February 26, 2026 1:33pm
- Observer of Life
  
  And why do they think it’s cool to name these kids like this. Are they stoned when they do it? Rickah’Shae??!!
  
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  February 26, 2026 10:05am
  - Swifty
    
    Feral underclass.
    
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    February 26, 2026 10:53am
  - kowtow
    
    How does a name like that get past the registrar .
    
    Talk about red flags .
    
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    February 26, 2026 12:50pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      In fact, such a name being registered should see the child’s and the family’s details forwarded from DIA to OT.
      
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      February 26, 2026 3:41pm
sungsamning

In this Horn Lens broadcast-grade documentary, we reveal the under-the-radar moves shaping global maritime power and regional influence. From sustainable fisheries and hydrogen-powered shipping to European economic leverage and Ethiopia-facing trade corridors. [Expanded access is a good idea. The hydrogen thing will likely disappoint due to the resalities of science. Will Norway be the next country to recognize Somaliland?]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN2KeHAnWNo
Why Norway Is Quietly Betting on Somaliland’s Red Sea Coast in 2026.
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February 26, 2026 8:49am
sungsamning

For decades, we have been told that America needs foreign labor to “do the jobs Americans won’t do.” For Democrats and the left, that usually translates to illegal immigrants. But in the wake of President Donald Trump’s closing of the southern border and the deportation of hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants, it turns out that there are plenty of jobs that Americans are willing to do. [If a lot of the illegals had been doctors, lawyers, ‘consultants, and accountants; the uniparty would have fixed the border decades ago. As it turns out, if people are paid market wages, they will do the work. Employers have little choice when the supply of illegals dries up.]
https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2026/02/24/americans-appear-to-be-doing-jobs-we-were-told-they-wouldnt-do-reliance-on-foreign-labor-down-in-texas-n2199536
Americans Appear to Be Doing Jobs We Were Told They Wouldn’t Do – Reliance on Foreign Labor Down in Texas.
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February 26, 2026 8:49am
- KKNZ2025
  
  NZ population increased approx a million / 25% since 2000 because both Labour & National play similar immigration games to raise headline GDP & keep wages low (recall the loud moaning from farmers & employers when Labour attempted to restrict this to push them to employ NZdrs)
  
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  February 26, 2026 9:15am
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    The loud moaning was because there are piss all New Zealanders who are willing and able to do the work that farming requires.
    
    Early starts, long days, drug free, and actual hard work; we would employ these kiwi’s if they existed.
    
    It’s about getting staff who will do the work for as long as it needs to be done.
    
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    February 26, 2026 4:49pm
- Paulus
  
  Foreign labour is cheaper !
  
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  February 26, 2026 1:34pm
  - Burtland
    
    theres no net taxpayers in the cheap labour market
    
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    February 26, 2026 2:40pm
  - artemisia
    
    Foreign labour can well be cheaper if it is cash in hand. No paperwork, no minimum wage, no tax to pay. What’s not to like?
    
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    February 26, 2026 2:43pm
Chuck Bird

The NZ economy is very well thanks to our farmers. That should make it very hard for a Labour led government to be elected. I am voting for Act.
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February 26, 2026 9:15am
- R
  
  Playing into the hands of a Labour coalition of DISASTER again !
  
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  February 26, 2026 10:04am
  - RoboRob
    
    How so? Please explain how voting for a right wing party helps Labour?
    
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    February 26, 2026 11:39am
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      We don’t have any right wing parties.
      
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      February 26, 2026 1:02pm
      - RoboRob
        
        Perhaps I sould have said, how does voting for a party that will only coalesce with the National party or NZF, help the Labour party.
        
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        February 26, 2026 4:19pm
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        I don’t think you need to, it was a stupid reply. A vote for nz first could be a vote for labour, but not a vote for act
        
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        February 26, 2026 4:47pm
- leoj
  
  Me too. Not perfect but every other party is pathetic.
  
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  February 26, 2026 10:19am
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Are there any perfect parties or politicians?
    
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    February 27, 2026 6:46pm
- kowtow
  
  Problem is the vast majority of votes are in towns and cities and there’ll be 100’s of 1000’s more voters who live off the tax payer tit than farm or are directly related to farming activity.
  
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  February 26, 2026 12:52pm
Observant Octagenarian

So if Andrew Little can go swimming in Lyall Bay then Wellington’s Council doesn’t have to spend any more money on sewers.
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February 26, 2026 9:52am
- Gravelroad
  
  That’s the way the Green councillors will be spinning it, for sure.
  “We deserve and demand more cycleways.”
  
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  February 26, 2026 10:05am
- Burtland
  
  Ill believe that when the green women of wellington go swimming in the crud
  
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  February 26, 2026 2:44pm
imalwaysright

Wellington has had THREE summers this season.
One of them was yesterday.
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February 26, 2026 10:11am
- MCōs
  
  You must be new in the capital if you find that remarkable
  
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  February 26, 2026 10:59am
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    Been here a while, the summers have been much better.
    
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    February 26, 2026 1:03pm
Swifty

Crazy scenes at Trump’s SOTN yesterday:

https://x.com/pbdspodcast/status/2026696747591020713?s=46

Heh.
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February 26, 2026 10:51am
MCōs

I watched the first half hour or so of President Trump’s speech yesterday. His blatant exaggerations of the marvelousness of the situation in America have long since worn thin for me and I turned it off.
Those perfunctory standing ovations at these things are just a bit tedious.
Much more thrilling was the Blackcaps win this morning!
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February 26, 2026 11:15am
- Ian
  
  Perfunctory standing ovations sounds a bit like North Korea…
  
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  February 26, 2026 11:20am
  - Wandering Star
    
    Trump is second only to Netanyahu in terms of the standing ovations he receives at joint sessions of Congress, in much the same way as Trump lags behind Bibi in the amount of legislation he pushes through Congress.
    
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    February 26, 2026 1:37pm
  - Charlotte Wells
    
    Both sides do it.
    
    It’s not just a Trump thing.
    
    Watch Biden with Pelosi being a jack-in-the-box after every 5th word.
    
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    February 26, 2026 4:53pm
    - MCōs
      
      And every other State of the Nation speech I’ve ever seen excerpts from.
      The clapping isn’t as enthusiastic as North Korea and the functionaries don’t burst into tears
      
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      February 26, 2026 9:21pm
- imalwaysright
  
  There is no man more thrilling, nor motivational, than a Black Caps captain…
  
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  February 26, 2026 11:39am
- mogg
  
  No exaggeration needed, the US economy is in good hands. Bell weather AI stock Nvidia has just posted another record earnings of $68 billion for fourth quarter. This will silence the naysayers like you,
  world markets will rise overnight.
  It’s safe to look at your KiwiSaver account again.
  
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  February 26, 2026 11:57am
Ian

“Further job losses could be on the cards as the University of Otago fights to find $16 million in permanent savings this year.” Maybe they could look at Grant Robertson’s salary first…
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February 26, 2026 11:28am
- R
  
  Surely Grant took his money printing press to Otago, when the electors fired him from government
  
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  February 26, 2026 2:55pm
cmm

Aotearoavlot posts a $60M half-year loss…

Maybe you’re not doing something right? Thank goodness it’s only taxpayers’ money!

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/360943727/air-new-zealand-posts-59-million-first-half-loss-flags-strategic-reset
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February 26, 2026 11:31am
- RoboRob
  
  This is especially poor when you consider that world wide the aviation industry is booming and many airlines are reporting strong growth.
  
  Its not that AirNZ is skimping on the fare prices, so why they loss? Clearly there are major issues in other parts of the airline, if so thats a management problem right?
  
  p.s. I recently travelled AirNZ internationally, for the first time in some years. The service was excellent and the stewards were amazing. Easily up there with other airlines I have flown.
  
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  February 26, 2026 11:38am
  - imalwaysright
    
    The Ardern regime may have been replaced, but the direction seems to remain the same.
    NZ is going down the toilet.
    
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    February 26, 2026 11:49am
  - Ghost
    
    the grounding of planes due to the engine issues are a main part
    
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    February 26, 2026 12:16pm
    - RoboRob
      
      Which surely effects many overseas airlines too?
      
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      February 26, 2026 1:11pm
      - Ghost
        
        it will be. there are still over 800 aircraft grounded globally, 20% of air NZ jet fleet grounded.
        
        Spirit Airlines filed for bankruptcy because of the engine problems
        
        Wizz Air’s profit was down 61% last year.
        
        Air NZ have said they got $55 million in compensation for the engine problems, but if those planes had been operating, they estimated it would make an additional $90 million. They are still negotiating further compensation.
        
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        February 26, 2026 2:20pm
  - Paulus
    
    Awaiting replacement engines now well late !
    
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    February 26, 2026 1:36pm
  - rouppe
    
    I’ve recently booked nz-amsterdam-bangkok-nz.
    
    Most on Cathay Pacific. Substantially less than air NZ. Money talks.
    
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    February 26, 2026 1:59pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I’ve got a solution…..
  
  *charge more…..
  *cancel provincial flights
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  February 26, 2026 11:48am
  - imalwaysright
    
    The NZ education model… if only we could get rid of the passengers.
    
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    February 26, 2026 1:06pm
  - Burtland
    
    they need to behave like a monopoly like the power companies or banks
    
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    February 26, 2026 2:49pm
- Beach Haven expat
  
  The decision to cut the route through to Heathrow was moronic, impounded by then scuttling back to the UK market and only being able to secure space at Gatwick.
  We recently came home for a fortnight and Air NZ wasn’t a consideration. Singapore a much more attractive option.
  
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  February 27, 2026 2:36am
Albie

cmm, I had no luck using AI searches to find out how much Air NZ are spending on the new uniform roll out. It’s confidential at present. However, they spend about $1m pa on existing uniform maintenance and new hires for their 6000 staff.
I would shudder to think what this totally unnecessary new uniform will be costing them(us).
Much like St Johns rebranding, organisations spending money that could be put to much better use wasted.
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February 26, 2026 11:46am
- Ghost
  
  its 15 years since the last uniform was rolled out. an industry that is very image based in how they look needs updating. Even our hospitals had a new look uniform rolled out a few years ago. compared to the grounded planes because of the engine issues, uniforms are nothing.
  
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  February 26, 2026 12:45pm
  - Albie
    
    Ghost- So what if the last uniform was rolled out 15 years ago? I don’t recall Emirates, Singapore changing their uniforms. You are missing the point. We are still talking millions of dollars. A few million here, a few million there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money you don’t have after the latest financial result for the year.
    As for image, reports are it’s so unpopular with the trial staff it’s being sent back for a redesign.
    
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    February 26, 2026 1:01pm
    - Ghost
      
      don’t you, emirates changed their uniform a few years before Air NZ last change in 2008, which was the same time Singapore airlines changed their mens uniform. Qantas was 2014 with their new uniform to roll out next year. it is a minor expense, the planes being grounded, the domestic airports increasing their fees, the increase on fuel costs are what is responsible for their loss, the new uniform designing started back in 2023 and has been ongoing through those profitable years, but they have had a bad year due to the ongoing engine problems, due to inflation, due to rising airport fees. those grounded planes are due to start re-entering service throughout this year, they will be back to profit next year, so do you want them to pause the last few years work on the uniforms, the production orders until then?
      
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      February 26, 2026 1:41pm
    - MCōs
      
      For what’s it’s worth Singapore are extremely image conscious with regard to the female cabin staff re body shape, age etc according to something I read.
      I also came upon a an old National Geographic from the sixties or seventies with a Singapore Air ad and the women’s uniform doesn’t appear to have changed in in the interim
      
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      February 26, 2026 1:52pm
      - Ian Boag
        
        FWIW Air NZ carries something like 16m pax per year. Obviously many of them fly more than once. So if they canned the uniform thing to save money they could reduce every ticket by maybe as much as $1. Every little helps of course but who would notice?
        
        Perspective and all that ….
        
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        February 26, 2026 1:56pm
      - MCōs
        
        Personally I don’t care too much about the uniforms as long as the staff are efficient and friendly.
        I noticed a very efficient Thai Air crew member in action once when a Thai chap seemed to think he could ignore a woman of lower social standing when she asked him in English to turn off his phone.
        She leaned in a bit closer, gave him a death stare, lowered her voice and repeated the instructions once in Thai in front of his family.
        That cleared that up.
        
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        February 26, 2026 2:33pm
      - alwyn.a
        
        I’ve been flying on Singapore Airlines for over 50 years and I don’t think the female crews uniform has really changed at all.
        The service still remains absolutely top-notch as well.
        
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        February 26, 2026 2:53pm
  - imalwaysright
    
    Yes, correct.
    Whenever I book a flight I Google the staff uniform before I commit…
    
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    February 26, 2026 1:08pm
Ghost

NASA has shed more light on last month’s early end to SpaceX’s Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station (ISS), at the request of the astronaut who experienced the medical issue that caused their return.

NASA astronaut Mike Fincke, Crew-11 pilot and commander of the ISS’ Expedition 74, has revealed that it was his medical issue that prompted the evacuation of the four Crew-11 astronauts from the space station in January.

article

You just know that it’s the female, and for why? Because if it was one of the men, NASA would tell you.
Kiwiblog

I guess not….
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February 26, 2026 12:11pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  The exception that proves the rule!
  
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  February 26, 2026 5:30pm
  - Ghost
    
    there have only been 3 cases where space missions were cut short due to medical events. All 3 times involved males. NASA treat the medical history of their astronauts as private. NASA never disclose astronauts who have medical issues in space, you don’t know about them unless that astronaut talks or writes about. So no, your rule is just a stupid idea you have created.
    
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    February 26, 2026 6:13pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Talk to me about the male – female ratio among astronauts
      
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      February 26, 2026 8:08pm
      - Ghost
        
        out of the current active astronauts 23 are male, 14 are female. out of the 2025 intake 4 are male, 6 are female. doesn’t change the fact, that as you often do, you made shit up instead of waiting for the facts. it also doesn’t change the fact that NASA do not disclose their astronauts medical information despite you making up bullshit to try and make out it was because it was the female astronaut.
        
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        February 26, 2026 8:55pm
burt

The report from the second Covid whitewash is out today.

Anyone got any idea when the government plan to release the report that tells us how the people too frightened to turn up for a public inquiry did the best they could and that the response was world leading?
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February 26, 2026 12:21pm
- Ghost
  
  Brooke van Velden is meant to be releasing a statement later today on when it will be released
  
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  February 26, 2026 12:48pm
  - burt
    
    An announcement of an announcement – nice.
    
    It will be glorious comrade.
    
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    February 26, 2026 2:02pm
    - kowtow
      
      See MW’s 808 am post .
      
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      February 26, 2026 2:26pm
    - Ghost
      
      no, an announcement that the report will be made public on march the 10th when the report is presented to parliament
      
      https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/government-receives-final-covid-inquiry-report
      
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      February 26, 2026 2:27pm
- imalwaysright
  
  Burt,
  Strange that these Ardernist regime characters swore blind that they were the podium of truth from which the river of life would flow, yet the same bastards do a runner when they are asked to justify.
  
  By the way, how strong is the Pfizer-NZ Government contract that it is still secret?
  Why?
  
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  February 26, 2026 1:18pm
Rumblestrip

Oh my, I see Jacinda is moving to Australia.

What is the old joke… “she is raising the average IQ of both countries.”
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February 26, 2026 4:45pm
- cmm
  
  In what world can she generate enough free-market value to afford to pay a mortgage on a $4M house?
  
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  February 26, 2026 5:10pm
  - Ghost
    
    $1.5 million advance for the book, between $100,000 and $300,000 per speaking event, between NZD $210,000–$420,000 for the Oxford fellowship. $62,500 annual annuity from the nz taxpayers.
    
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    February 26, 2026 5:42pm
    - [email protected]
      
      Only politicians can create law that allow themselves to be so well cared for financially.
      
      New Zealand really REALLY need to get public referendums to become binding.
      
      Next election please start telling all the candidates that you will only vote for them if they agree to make referendums binding.
      
      Warn them that if they do not agree you will vote for the most likely candidate that could defeat them.
      
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      February 26, 2026 7:02pm
      - Ian Boag
        
        Government by referendum is bullshit. So much depends on the exact nature of the question ….
        
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        February 26, 2026 7:21pm
      - Ghost
        
        Binding referendums don’t have the power most think they have. For a binding referendum to hold any weight there has to be a law prior to that referendum passed by parliament, if there is no law the government aren’t required to create one because of the referendum. Also if there is a law that the binding referendum would activate, there is nothing stopping parliament from changing it latter on.
        
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        February 26, 2026 7:23pm
- greybeard
  
  The very sight of that face gives me the creeps. What an appalling person.
  
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  February 26, 2026 6:48pm
  - greybeard
    
    Wow ! 3 Jacinda devotees already !
    
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    February 26, 2026 7:18pm
  - Ian Boag
    
    I didn’t used to like Muldoon either but there wasn’t a blog where I could share that view with a group of people who all felt the same 🙂 and give me upticks
    
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    February 26, 2026 7:19pm
- imalwaysright
  
  I thought she would settle in Rotherham or Birmingham.
  
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  February 26, 2026 6:48pm
- Scooter
  
  Gee she really can’t live in NZ. What job is she doing there that she has to be living there? Or is it just that she can’t live in NZ and just wants to be close enough to fly in every now and then.
  
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  February 26, 2026 7:48pm
Swifty

The first of the ISIS brides arrives in Sydney:

https://x.com/bergermeister23/status/2026781192880796102?s=46
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February 26, 2026 6:24pm
- Ghost
  
  a future 501 deportee?
  
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  February 26, 2026 6:52pm
  - Ghost
    
    Good luck in your new career Jacinda.
    
    https://gemini.google.com/share/ef58af201c58
    
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    February 26, 2026 7:30pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      I declined to “accept” the weasel-words permission to have my privacy invaded.
      
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      February 27, 2026 6:54pm
- imalwaysright
  
  Swifty,
  Please include a health warning for this type of content….
  
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  February 26, 2026 6:57pm
Swifty

A Haast kiwi telling us about his day.

https://x.com/amazlngnature/status/2026722892055032140?s=46
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February 26, 2026 6:48pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360944095/council-has-bigger-fish-fry-naming-iconic-rakaia-salmon-statue

The 12-metre fibreglass salmon won’t be getting a name but just completed a $300,000 refurbishment by its original sculptor Phil Price.

Phil Price! Surely that should be “Phil Grossly Over-Priced” !
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February 26, 2026 7:18pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360944101/hospitals-across-auckland-and-northland-hit-second-it-outage-less-month
This is nothing to do with “underfunding”, as immediately mentioned by the opposition.
It will be due to some untested software changes made by wet-behind-the-ears 12-year old IT twit.
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February 26, 2026 7:33pm
- Ghost
  
  “This is 2026 – our health system should not be grinding to a halt because of preventable IT failures.”
  
  I expect we will see more failures and outages, welcome to technology and the ~~era~~ error of the cloud. It’s interesting how often my gp’s cloud based systems go down
  
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  February 26, 2026 7:45pm
  - Rumblestrip
    
    Our IT team is often reminding colleagues that “cloud” isn’t a magic word that solves all your IT challenges.
    
    It is just putting your data, and trust, onto someone else’s hardware!
    
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