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Cassandra

American petrol prices have increased by 36pc in the last month to surpass the threshold of $4 a US gallon – a damning contradiction to Donald Trump’s central election campaign promise to bring down prices from “day one”.

But the president thinks he’s found the solution. Asked how he would bring down rising oil and petrol prices, he replied: “All I have to do is leave Iran. And I will be doing that very soon.”

With the election approaching Trump has to act soon. Turning this ship will take time and he won’t want a high pump price come November, or even during the campaign – US voters are focussed on the hip pocket.

The price of Brent crude dropped to near $100 per barrel following the comments by Trump, dropping from a high of $119 reached on Tuesday.

But anyone hoping for a quick end to the global energy crisis faces disappointment. Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz, war damage to key infrastructure, high insurance premiums and the time it takes to restart trade mean we are likely to be stuck with $100 oil for a while.
It is a far cry from the $73 a barrel it was trading at before the US and Israel began their strikes – and means petrol and diesel prices will stay higher.

Some forecasts have Brent remaining at or above $100 for the rest of the year before gradually reducing to a new normal of $80. But there are all sorts of complications: restoring reserves, the summer demand for air conditioning etc, which all put pressure on supply.

NZ voters too? It defies belief that Labour could benefit from these American actions (and surely that applies in spades to Hipkins) but I guess democracy is a weird process.
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April 3, 2026 8:00am
- MCōs
  
  $US4/usgall equates to about $NZ2/lit, which must mean Americans pay far less fuel tax than we do so you’d think their gas prices would proportionately increase a lot more than ours.
  We bought some petrol yesterday and payed 40% more than pre war at the same outlet
  Are we being screwed by a plethora of middlemen?
  
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  April 3, 2026 8:54am
  - imalwaysright
    
    Send the bill to
    B Nettanyahu
    Jerusalem
    Israel
    
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    April 3, 2026 9:21am
    - MCōs
      
      He’s the leader of the self described ‘chosen people’, which means he would choose not to accept responsibility
      
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      April 3, 2026 10:10am
      - Wandering Star
        
        The Israelis are so lacking in agency and moral accountability, and so subject to outside forces, that everything they do is always someone else’s fault. They’re like a kosher version of Maori, in that sense.
        
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        April 3, 2026 10:38am
    - R
      
      Send the bill to the Western world nations, who stood by and watched Iran fall into the clutches of Russia mainly; and these nations chose to do nothing about Iran or Russia. All members of that August body, THE UNITED NATIONS, which appears to have forgotten its founding charter.
      
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      April 3, 2026 10:35am
      - AitchW
        
        The UN is corrupt and has no credibility. Look at UNRWA knowingly hiring Hamas fighters and letting Hamas use its facilities for weapons storage, to hide hostages and its school promoting jihad for gods sake.
        Guterres, along with all UN senior officials needs to be investigated for corruption and war crimes. And yes, I include Helen Clark.
        
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        April 3, 2026 2:55pm
    - Daisy
      
      You’re never right.
      
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      April 3, 2026 9:00pm
  - nz_aj
    
    Petrol was $2.49/L at our local Pak n Save on 28 Feb, and now its $3.38/L, a rise of 36%.
    This is still cheaper than 2022 when it hit $3.15/L, or $3.62/L in today’s dollars.
    High prices will result in alternative oil fields coming into production. Price will stabilise and fall at some point.
    It’s also driving demand for hybrids and EVs, which helps the demand side.
    Energy independance would be a good thing
    
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    April 3, 2026 9:42am
    - peterwn
      
      Green Party and Greenpeace make it difficult. Greenpeace needs to be defunded by abolishing its charitable, by legislation if need be.
      
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      April 3, 2026 2:12pm
  - wsk12345
    
    40%?
    
    A month ago I filled up with diesel at $1.44.
    
    Now it’s about $3.40.
    
    Well over 100% and it’s diesel price that will drive food and all other prices.
    
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    April 3, 2026 11:41am
  - grumpy
    
    US Gallon = 3.78litres. So at $US$4 a gallon = $NZ 1.65 per litre. Not bad at less than half our price. Difference probably our fuel tax and GST
    
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    April 3, 2026 1:42pm
    - Taieri
      
      Oil prices surged Thursday, threatening to further drive up the price of gas as hopes for a near-term resolution to the Iran war faded following President Donald Trump’s address to the nation.
      
      The cost of U.S. crude oil continued pushing higher to more than $111 per barrel, up nearly 12% since Wednesday, its biggest one-day price jump in six years. For the year, it’s now up 94%.
      
      https://www.nbcnews.com/business/markets/oil-prices-stock-market-iran-war-trump-rcna266351
      
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      April 3, 2026 2:05pm
    - MCōs
      
      Depending on which exchange rate you use, but whatever the stuff is vastly cheaper than here
      However
      If you’re an American you compare with what you previously payed, not thank your lucky stars you don’t live here
      
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      April 3, 2026 3:06pm
- pb
  
  Bypass the ZEI
  
  Iran has offered to sell oil directly to customers in YUAN for a $1 per barrel fee. Seems reasonable. Allying with US zombies comes with no guarantees.
  
  NZ bought $100M of fuel via Russia last year. Just amp it up.
  
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  April 3, 2026 10:28am
artemisia

Gavin Newsom’s Empire of Fraud

California – one small sentence from this long (and interesting) litany of fraud. … the state spends billions on welfare programs that never seem to lift anyone out of poverty.

Sounds familiar. There’ll be various reasons for similar here, but New Zealand does have its share of bad actors. The Integrity Institute suggests $10 Billion covid overpayments to businesses and concludes its long (and interesting) report thus …. Vastly more money has been lost than if a few individuals were involved in a fraud. The failure of public servants to act in the public interest and the lack of accountability and transparency has highlighted the need for the Public Service to have greatly improved objectives and standards.

There will always be bad actors. Two questions. Was it just covid or are ‘greatly improved’ processes working now? Are there any reports of percentage fraud in specific taxpayer funded programmes here (like the nearly 8% in California unemployment)?

https://www.city-journal.org/article/gavin-newsom-california-fraud

https://theintegrityinstitute.org.nz/10-billion-overpaid-to-businesses/
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April 3, 2026 8:05am
Damocles11

Trump has just fired Attorney General Pam Bondi. Another one of ‘the best people’ goes under the bus. “Dumb as a rock!”
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April 3, 2026 8:05am
- Wandering Star
  
  There’s a misconception among the “plan trusters” who insist Trump is a 5 D chess genius, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that Trump hires terrible people who he later throughs under the bus in response to some disaster or other. In other words, its a personnel problem, While this is true, the main problem with both Trump administrations has really been Trump himself.
  
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  April 3, 2026 10:22am
  - imalwaysright
    
    It could be that he considers the speedy resolution of the issues faced by his Departments to be more important than wasting time hoping that the incumbent will become competent and effective.
    
    The opposite of Trump’s methodology can be seen locally in the NZ Public Service and Government where low energy, low intellect, people are appointed in the hope that no one notices and everyone has a quiet day…
    
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    April 3, 2026 4:03pm
- David George
  
  She was let go because she failed to get the Epstein crims before the courts – despite assuring the president she was on to it. Fair enough.
  
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  April 3, 2026 11:59am
  - Damocles11
    
    She protected the ‘Epstein crim’, but failed to indict Trumps political enemies – which was why she was fired.
    
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    April 3, 2026 12:25pm
  - Dudley Quaffquaff
    
    So we can now expect to see lots of Epstein criminals being charged, right?
    
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    April 3, 2026 1:09pm
  - grumpy
    
    ….and she leaked to Swalwell that Kash Patel was going to release the Fang Fang documents…….
    
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    April 3, 2026 1:44pm
- Damocles11
  
  ‘General Randy George, the US army’s top officer, is stepping down from his role after the defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, reportedly requested that he retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed on Thursday that George, who had been serving as the army’s 41st chief of staff, was retiring.’
  
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  April 3, 2026 12:44pm
- Taieri
  
  Another one of ‘the best people’ goes under the bus
  ———–
  
  US Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George has been told to retire immediately by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
  
  https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/02/politics/hegseth-removes-randy-george-army-chief-of-staff
  
  The Revolution devours its children?
  
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  April 3, 2026 2:04pm
Damocles11

‘Several real estate agents, including award-winners and senior figures from the industry, wrote letters of support for former NZME executive Greg Hornblow ahead of his sentencing for paying an underage girl for sexual services.’

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360959799/real-estate-agents-wrote-letters-support-ahead-ex-one-roof-executives-sentening
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April 3, 2026 8:06am
- R
  
  Says a lot about the integrity, and morals of the Real Estate industry. Remember the ‘must learn te Rao’ edict from the RE licensing institute
  
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  April 3, 2026 10:40am
  - Ra Henare
    
    R.
    
    You obviously did NOT read any of the published letters!!!!!!!
    
    You also need to understand the difference of the RE Licencing Authority run by
    https://www.rea.govt.nz/about-rea/our-people/
    
    and the real Estate industry.
    
    In essence One Rood is a website in competition with Trademe.
    
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    April 3, 2026 1:49pm
- pb
  
  We have our own inbred depraved Epstein Class.
  
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  April 3, 2026 1:01pm
  - imalwaysright
    
    As an aside, did Jevon repay the money for the hotel rooms he rented to meet his girlfriend?
    
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    April 3, 2026 4:06pm
- Graeme Hall
  
  Another example of nominative determinism.
  
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  April 3, 2026 3:22pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

Doing an OE is an interesting experience. At what point does it stop being OE and become permanent?

Me, I spent several years away from NZ, but I was always clear in my own mind that I was a New Zealander and that I would return home. Whether my poor parents were as confident, I don’t know.

The question for young New Zealanders is, do you want to stop being a New Zealander? At some point you realise that home is no longer New Zealand. If you are defined by what you do, by where you live, where your kids go to school – effectively, you’re an Australian, or a Brit, or whatever.

It’s a hell of a price to pay.
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April 3, 2026 8:17am
- MCōs
  
  I went to Eden Park to watch India 🇮🇳 play NZ at cricket and there were Indian kids with Kiwi accents there with their Dad all dressed up in blue.
  I said to the kids You’re born here, you’re Kiwis, you should be supporting the Blackcaps
  The kids looked at their Dad. Yeah, Dad, we should be supporting the Blackcaps!
  He laughed, they laughed, we all laughed
  
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  April 3, 2026 9:34am
  - Wandering Star
    
    Being born in a stable does not make you a horse.
    
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    April 3, 2026 10:06am
    - Michael Johnston
      
      No, but being born in New Zealand does make you a New Zealander.
      
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      April 3, 2026 1:08pm
      - Wandering Star
        
        I suppose it depends on whether you think being a New Zealander (or being any nationality, for that matter) is a case of mere state decree and/or a clerical matter, or if you think it’s something much more biologically, historically and metaphysically fundamental than that. I believe it’s the latter.
        
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        April 3, 2026 4:57pm
    - peterwn
      
      Never thought the guy whose crucifixion anniversary is today was a horse.
      
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      April 3, 2026 2:17pm
  - Gary Benner
    
    But just ask any Kiwi living in the UK which rugby team they support when the AB’s come to play England, and I guaarantee they will say the ABs fro sure.
    
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    April 3, 2026 5:00pm
- Simon
  
  Best of NZ is mostly, happy, overseas. If in doubt just look at the utter rubbish that is NZs biggest political party by current polling. Mid tier waste. They will be government at some point soon.
  
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  April 3, 2026 9:57am
- R
  
  or whatever…..just an unattached expatriate!
  
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  April 3, 2026 10:42am
- rouppe
  
  Dual nationality, or another residency is the key.
  
  It’s good to have options, as circumstances change.
  
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  April 3, 2026 11:26am
  - Wandering Star
    
    Having “options” also means you lack commitment to one or another nation. If you’ve got back-up wife somewhere, are you going to be truly committed to your wife here and now? Probably not.
    
    On the same principle, it’s at all unreasonable for that, as a condition of NZ citizenship, you must renounce any other national citizenship. Best way to ensure we only get genuine people, and if you disagree, then see you later.
    
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    April 3, 2026 12:31pm
    - Ra Henare
      
      See you later.
      You seem to ignore the Principle of Freedom of Choice.
      
      I have met a number of Kiwis who have lived overseas for decades, but still call themselves Kiwis.
      
      An interesting Side Note.
      Russel Crowe, has lived in Australia for over 50 years. He calls it home but travels on a NZ passport (and supports the All Blacks)
      
      He was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and is of Māori descent. Ngāti Porou.
      
      Yea I know, not directly on topic, but an indicator of how complex the subject is.
      
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      April 3, 2026 2:03pm
    - rouppe
      
      Depends if I’ve got a back up wife because the original wife is using me like an ATM and treating me with disdain.
      
      And yes, that is a euphemism for the country.
      
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      April 3, 2026 4:01pm
- wsk12345
  
  I have lived in NZ my whole life (I have travelled but not lived overseas). I don’t identify as a New Zealanders anymore. Not sure what I am but I know I don’t fit in here.
  
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  April 3, 2026 11:45am
  - Michael Johnston
    
    I know exactly how you feel. I haven’t left the country, but I feel as if the country has left me.
    
    “The past is a foreign country,” as L. P. Hartley put it, in the opening line of his novel, The Go-Between.
    
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    April 3, 2026 1:12pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      “They do things differently there”
      
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      April 3, 2026 6:36pm
  - peterwn
    
    There are USA citizens who do not identify as Americans, but IRS does not accept that line.
    
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    April 3, 2026 2:19pm
  - MCōs
    
    I’m a Kiwi. I was born here and I’ll die here.
    I’ve lived elsewhere for lengthy periods, but NZ is my home and I always identify myself as a NZer/Kiwi
    Conversely
    My wife is Thai She loves Thailand
    
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    April 3, 2026 3:25pm
Cassandra

The Integrity Institute report is a horror story. One of several, I think. The waste of money by the previous Labour government is appalling and shows, clearly, why it should never be in power while it’s currently MPs are in Parliament. Jacinda Ardern and Chris Hipkins should be in court, not parliament.
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April 3, 2026 8:18am
- Philview
  
  The Government closed down the country and businesses didn’t have a clue what was going to happen so grabbed the lifeline. As well as paying staff there was no let up in bills for bank interest, rates, rent, power etc. It later transpired that many businesses did ok but not so easy to have the cash flow to pay it back given the uncertain nature of events over a couple of years.
  
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  April 3, 2026 8:33am
- Cassandra
  
  “it’s currently MPs” should read “its current MPs”. Autocorrect is a nuisance sometimes.
  
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  April 3, 2026 8:40am
  - R
    
    Autocorrct, AND predictive text/ sentence completion are a pain in the AR…They waste a lot of my time correcting their errors. The arrogance of thinking that ‘it’ knows better than me what I want to write. Spell check is great though, for completed mis-spelt words.
    
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    April 3, 2026 9:15am
    - MCōs
      
      Turn it off
      
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      April 3, 2026 10:13am
- Inandout
  
  Cass, not forgetting the master juggler Robertson, the man who ‘wrote the cheques’. These 3 people were Labour to the core, spend and spend like a bad debtor until the money runs out, and then borrow more. In politics there appear to be no boundaries on wasteful spending.
  
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  April 3, 2026 8:47am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  That report is a shocker. So many business owners with no ethics. Senior management at MSD with no interest in ensuring public money is spent according to the rules.
  
  At the very least, names should be named. Let them sue, and be damned by their own words.
  
  Better, prosecution of high profile figures among both recipients and MSD officials should be pursued. And, recover the money, plus interest. An extra $10B would come in handy, eh.
  
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  April 3, 2026 8:57am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  And – the looting of the public treasury during Covid should put paid to any suggestion of wage subsidies for businesses impacted by the current fuel crisis. Nicola – don’t even think of it!
  
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  April 3, 2026 9:04am
- Simon
  
  Third world Labour Party. Mind you they faced no opposition from third National.
  
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  April 3, 2026 9:55am
- Gravelroad
  
  Can’t disagree with you @ Cassanadra, but- that was then, this is now.
  Many people are not that interested in what the Labour Party did or didn’t do when they were last in power. They did some good things for a select few and stuffed up the rest.
  What people want to know is what’s going to affect them now and in the near future.
  That requires clear and unambiguous leadership from someone.
  Some will say that Mr Peters and Mr Seymour are providing that fact-based leadership.
  I am hearing amongst family and friends clear concerns that Mr Luxon and the National Party are not even attempting to deliver what they said they would at the last election time.
  That is a real problem for them – out here in voter land.
  
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  April 3, 2026 11:10am
- peterwn
  
  But Parliament is the highest court.
  
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  April 3, 2026 2:20pm
AitchW

Over on X the tinfoil brigade is claiming that yesterday’s Artemis launch is a hoax.
And some of the more intelligent posters bemoan a rocket launch in a fuel crisis…..
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April 3, 2026 8:23am
- MCōs
  
  Personally I think it’s a waste of money at any time.
  If you’re interested in the Dark Side of the Moon just buy the record
  
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  April 3, 2026 9:45am
  - MCōs
    
    The Mt Vic tunnel is projected to cost about half of one of those moon missions — approaching four billion dollars
    Not as expensive as I thought. The moon mission that is!
    
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    April 3, 2026 10:22am
  - Albie
    
    You could say the same thing about countries building expensive sailing ships to see if there was anything over the horizon. Where would we be today if everyone had your attitude to adventure?
    
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    April 3, 2026 11:07am
    - MCōs
      
      James Cook’s Endeavor expedition cost peanuts, around twelve thousand pounds at the time, about seven million NZ dollars today’s money
      
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      April 3, 2026 3:41pm
  - Charlotte Wells
    
    If it was just to go to the moon I would agree on the waste.
    
    The Artemis is preperation and training for going to Mars. Depending on ones point of view it might still be a waste of money.
    
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    April 3, 2026 12:56pm
    - MCōs
      
      I can never understand the fascination with setting up some sort of settlement on Mars
      There are uninhabited areas in the middle of Australia that would be easier
      
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      April 3, 2026 7:04pm
- Ghost
  
  tell them to go learn what the fuel is that is being used.
  
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  April 3, 2026 9:59am
  - AitchW
    
    Way above their capacity to understand!
    
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    April 3, 2026 10:04am
  - imalwaysright
    
    91 ?
    Too cold for diesel…
    
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    April 3, 2026 10:49am
    - CJames
      
      Didn’t most space launches rely on liquid oxygen and kerosine? Highest power to weight but I believe the Musk rockets have a different oxidiser.
      
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      April 3, 2026 7:38pm
- R
  
  Aitch….., it has been a long time since NZ taught actual real science, and general knowledge, in our schools.
  
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  April 3, 2026 10:45am
Yvette

Rhys Hurley: MBIE paying staff for daily waiata sessions
Rhys Hurley is Investigations Coordinator for the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union

Earlier this year, it was revealed that Health New Zealand was holding compulsory “Karakia” sessions during work hours. Now, our own research has uncovered something even more absurd, this time at the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE).

While Kiwi businesses are facing economic uncertainty, the Ministry supposedly responsible for helping businesses has been spending our money on Workplace Waiata – i.e. staff singing sessions in their Wellington offices. And this isn’t just a one-off thing: At their swanky Wellington offices, MBIE were hosting 30 minute sessions every work day, every week!

MBIE employs 5,892 bureaucrats (it’s grown from 4,676 in 2020), literally being paid to sing, clap, poi, and recite Māori proverbs and hymns.
https://www.brashandmitchell.com/post/rhys-hurley-mbie-paying-staff-for-daily-waiata-sessions

Someone, more mathematically endowed than I, may work out if a 16th of each potential work day is spent on te Ao o Maori (the Maori religious overview of life) what that would be in diverted work for 5,892 staff a year. And for those staff who sense this is a misuse of payed hours daily, how much time is additionally spent in work detracting-resentment or discomfort, or even accruing to racial annoyance?

How much of this would disappear if a Government Regulation re-stated that New Zealand does have a secular Government, and nothing of a specific religious nature, especially which raises any religion – Aryan-like – above all others, will be countenanced by Government or any of New Zealand’s government departments or services?
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April 3, 2026 8:26am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Down in the comments section of that B&M post Gazza writes:
  
  So that’s 2.5 hours per staff member wasted every week, Based on the total MBIE staff that’s the equivalent of 368 full time staff members just to cover this BS.
  
  Do you really think the MBIE staff would be doing something productive if they stopped waiata singing?
  Would they just find another boondoggle with which to while away taxpayers’ $$$$?
  
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  April 3, 2026 9:36am
  - Yvette
    
    Aligning with internal averages roughly $80K–$116K this could amount to $29,460,000 – $42,688,000
    
    Second question Maggy, answer: no
    
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    April 3, 2026 9:51am
  - pdm
    
    Maggy waiata has replaced gathering round the water cooler for a bullshit session.
    
    Takes longer and produces less.
    
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    April 3, 2026 10:22am
    - Flossie
      
      Do you seriously think that the water cooler gatherings no longer happen!
      
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      April 3, 2026 10:39am
      - R
        
        One gets very thirsty singing waiata, or any other bar room song. About as useful as a bar song too.
        
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        April 3, 2026 10:48am
      - pdm
        
        Actually in my working days in an office (18 years in BNZ branches) there was never a water cooler in sight.
        
        The closest we got was having the Kava Bowl come out occasionally in Suva.
        
        The Bank of NSW there was better it had a bowl out every day and was only across the road more or less. The challenge was finding a reason to whip over there,
        
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        April 3, 2026 12:41pm
  - mandk
    
    Maggy, I think you should allow another 15 minutes per day beforehand for people to gather and chat excitedly, and then another 15 minutes, for people to talk about it afterwards before they go back to their desks.
    
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    April 3, 2026 10:44am
    - Paulus
      
      Some year ago in Welli9ngton the Company for whom I worked had a staff agreement by contract that time was a quiet time fom 8.30am until 10am.
      It worked almost all the time.
      Even phones did not often ring either.
      
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      April 3, 2026 2:10pm
  - Gravelroad
    
    Isn’t this just the sort of expensive race-based time wasting that the National Party said they were going to address?
    Have they?
    If they have and there is no result, perhaps it is time for them to say so and explain why.
    “We tried. We tried to install a better work ethic in a slimmed down public service but a number of state employees, their unions and managers saw fit to make no changes as required by the coalition government.”
    If that is the case, let us know.
    Just doing nothing is not acceptable anymore.
    
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    April 3, 2026 12:04pm
    - Paulus
      
      But Public Service has increased by 1.6% to 63,657 !
      You cannot change the overweight lady wailers they consider themselves to be the most important thing since white bread.
      And would report you to the Waitangi tribunal to be thinking like that.
      
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      April 3, 2026 2:14pm
      - septic skeptic
        
        Maybe after Labour NZF win this election National and ACT will have a wholesale clean out and get some people with the brains and guys to make meaningful changes. I’m moderately disappointed with ACT. Not so with National, sadly Luxon has fully met my expectations.
        
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        April 3, 2026 2:45pm
  - MCōs
    
    The minister in charge of that department is Nichola Willis. She should be cracking the whip
    
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    April 3, 2026 3:44pm
  - Scooter
    
    The new minister for Public Service Goldsmith will sort it out. Oops sorry I’m a bit late for an Apr Fools joke.
    
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    April 3, 2026 8:20pm
- imalwaysright
  
  “…work out if a 16th of each potential work day is spent on te Ao o Maori..”
  
  1/16 is generously optimistic Yvette.
  It would probably start around 10.30 when people are likely to be on site.
  They will all stop whatever they were doing, get their coffees, meet at the lift, drift into the boardroom, wait for the latecomers who pretend to have been on an urgent call, do the deed, finish their previous conversations, reverse course to the office via the coffee station or Starbucks, get to the desk and decide its not worth starting anything because its nearly lunchtime …
  
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  April 3, 2026 9:59am
  - David George
    
    After lunch they need to try and figure what their pronouns are. Then it’s afternoon smoko.
    
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    April 3, 2026 12:02pm
- kowtow
  
  I had to check the date on that story to make sure it wasn’t an April Fools.
  
  But it wasn’t and that’s how crazy our once secular , rational society has become.
  
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  April 3, 2026 10:36am
- RoboRob
  
  The coalition has made zero progress on this stuff. That can’t even remove treaty clauses from legislation, left along drive cultural change in their agencies.
  
  Contrast that with the USA where transgender craziness and woke practically disappeared overnight after trumps election. Before people chime in, the NZ government has far more power then the President.
  
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  April 3, 2026 10:50am
  - imalwaysright
    
    “They can’t even remove treaty clauses from legislation, let along drive cultural change in their agencies.”
    
    They can.
    They choose not to.
    They lied to us.
    
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    April 3, 2026 3:09pm
  - Ghost
    
    They said the legislation would be changed before the election, but you are too impatient to actually wait for the work to be done.
    
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    April 3, 2026 3:16pm
    - RoboRob
      
      If it gets passed before the election, there was no need to draw it out for three years. It’s not all that difficult. As I have said before, it’s really getting too close to the election to pass contentious legislation.
      
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      April 3, 2026 3:47pm
      - Ghost
        
        there has been more important things to pass. If we are honest, these are changes that it doesn’t matter if it is done in the first year or last
        
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        April 3, 2026 9:37pm
    - Scooter
      
      Ahh Ghost, full marks for coming to the govt’s defence yet again.
      
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      April 3, 2026 8:22pm
      - Ghost
        
        All I’m doing is stating what the plan between NZ first and National was, to have it all passed before the 2026 election. maybe you just don’t want to know what is gong on so you can join rob in a whinge that it isn’t being done, or not being done quick enough
        
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        April 3, 2026 8:43pm
- sungsamning
  
  Yes, imagine how angry the usual suspects would be if it was a compulsory Bible study session every day?The State should be secular, end of story.
  
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  April 3, 2026 11:55am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  As observed yesterday, MBIE management at least tried to reduce the singalongs to just twice a week, but were hit with a Union backlash.
  
  Good on them for at least trying. However, management with cojones would have called the Union’s bluff. Let MBIE staff go on strike. They may well find support for the inevitable march on parliament from the blue haired and pierced brigade, but not much from the wider country.
  
  I for one could lose their services for a month and not notice it.
  
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  April 3, 2026 12:10pm
  - Paulus
    
    MBIE has now 5,892 FTE up 1.5%
    
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    April 3, 2026 2:16pm
Quail

Was there an attempted coup on Luxon last week or not?
Seldom has an incumbent party needed a reboot as much as National does today!
Bishop may be no better but someone needs to try to get control of the monster that is New Zealand Bureaucracy! Now!
Clearly Luxon won’t !
So who will?
Please not Hipkins,
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April 3, 2026 9:00am
- RoboRob
  
  I’m actually not sure National can recover from this term. They have lost all trust. Perhaps the only way forward is for MPs to split off into a ‘new national ‘ party.
  
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  April 3, 2026 9:36am
  - R
    
    Yes of little faith; or maybe little comprehension of what is really happening in the MSM driven agenda
    
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    April 3, 2026 10:50am
    - RoboRob
      
      Yes it’s always the MSM or the Jews and their space lasers.
      
      Listen to the goldsmith’s interview from the other day, they didn’t force him to say that.
      
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      April 3, 2026 3:49pm
  - pdm
    
    But who?
    
    Would leaders like Brown, Stanford and Penk do it?
    
    Would you get say 10/12 backbenchers to follow?
    
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    April 3, 2026 12:46pm
    - RoboRob
      
      Penk, brown and maybe mark Mitchell. Not sure in Stanford, certainly a top performer but apparently pretty left , might be better in National. I would probably vote for that lineup.
      
      I’m not really sure about other non ministerial National MPs, just don’t know enough about them.
      
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      April 3, 2026 3:45pm
  - septic skeptic
    
    By no means too late. If anything too early. The logical move is to try a Jacinda 2-3 months out from the election. Obviously it’s too late to actually do anything and nobody with any brain would think National will actually change direction. But you could shift a lot of votes with a few platitudes and a pretty face.
    
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    April 3, 2026 2:55pm
- Damocles11
  
  A monster bureaucracy is the goal though. No way do National want to dismantle it in any meaningful way. It’s a grand way of funnelling our taxes and billions of dollars of borrowed money into the pockets of tens of thousands of people, and in bulk as well. The salaries in the public service are by-and-large markedly better than in the private sector. All this deliberate, targeted government spending on a multitude of bureaucrats props up the GDP numbers and the over-priced property market in our urban centres.
  
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  April 3, 2026 9:37am
  - Wandering Star
    
    I’m not going to repost it, but in the GD on 29 March I posted excerpts from “New Fabian Essays” which argued that “conservative” parties are not in any way an impediment to, but are in fact an essential structural element of, the Fabian socialist agenda.
    
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    April 3, 2026 10:45am
- pdm
  
  Quail – definitely not Goldsmith whom I believe now assumes that mantle.
  
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  April 3, 2026 10:24am
  - Quail
    
    PDM,
    Goldsmith appears to be a “ Prince of waffle ,” and a loyalist Luxonite.
    Have never understood why the bright light in opposition that was Melissa Lee was replaced by Goldsmith in the Media Portfolio.
    She had two or three cabinet papers about media reform rejected.
    Don’t know their content ,but now suspect that allowing the media to fail may have been a big part of it.
    Something that would be supported by many today .
    If so ,that is the true National don’t rock the boat electoral ideology.
    
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    April 3, 2026 10:53am
  - rouppe
    
    I don’t like Goldsmith. He stammers through his answers which looks like he’s being evasive, and his demeanor comes across as duplicitous.
    
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    April 3, 2026 11:02am
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Paul Goldsmith has a stammer. That’s an unfortunate affliction in a politician, but not all in the same category as the dross served up to the voting public by all of the parties of the Left.
      
      More pertinently, it’s not his stammer that drives our view of his performance in politics.
      
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      April 3, 2026 12:05pm
      - RoboRob
        
        I had honestly never even noticed he had a stammer. As you say it’s more about his performance and politics for me.
        
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        April 3, 2026 5:06pm
      - rouppe
        
        Paul Goldsmith does not have a diagnosed stammer or stutter that has been published.
        
        He does it when he’s under pressure, which usually happens when one is bullshitting.
        
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        April 3, 2026 6:38pm
Southern Raider

Is part of New Zealand’s lack lustre economic performance down to MBIE?

How can a beast of 6,000 based in Wellington drive economic growth and be working with industry at the coalface?

Seems to me that it should be split up and functions moved to the regions where those activities actually take place like Tourism to Rotorua or Cromwell and Manufacturing to Auckland or Hamilton
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April 3, 2026 9:10am
- Damocles11
  
  We will continue to pay the exorbitant salaries of all these thousands of people as that is what the Australian-owned retail banks and property industry want, so that is what National will do. This is excessive government spending in service of the property ponzi scheme. And what is MBIE doing about business, innovation, productivity, employment? What tangible gains are we making as these 6,000 people apparently ‘work’ on our behalf. We see businesses closing every day, we see productivity continuing to decrease, we see employment above 5% nationwide and above 6% in Auckland. Where is the innovation? What an absolute farce.
  
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  April 3, 2026 9:30am
  - Southern Raider
    
    Apart from a whole lot of university grads doing “policy” work what has MBIE ever achieved that’s fundamentally benefited NZ economy
    
    How can a millennial public servant in Wellington know what leavers will benefit tourism or manufacturing?
    
    How could the average citizen forecast that our manufacturing industry would be decimated by rapidly rising power and gas costs, but was oblivious to 6,000 MBIE employees?
    
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    April 3, 2026 10:45am
    - rouppe
      
      I agree.
      
      How can that 25 year old know anything about real life when:
      * they’ve never been punched in the face for no reason
      * never had a general anaesthetic (ie an “elective” surgery)
      * never had an injury requiring a hospital stay of a week or more
      * never been ripped off for thousands
      
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      April 3, 2026 4:10pm
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        I have to say that none of those things have happened to me.
        
        Just lucky, I guess.
        
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        April 3, 2026 6:41pm
      - rouppe
        
        Perhaps you are.
        
        ALL of those things have happened to me.
        
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        April 3, 2026 8:56pm
- kowtow
  
  All major parties are dedicated to ‘clean” energy /transition etc
  
  That’s killing the economy, and obviously jobs .
  
  The media , all persons into “net zero”/decarbonising are clearly comfortable with the mass layoffs , loss of efficency, inflation etc that goes along with this “energy transition” , yet the same people refuse to gut the public service of wasters , because “job losses” .
  
  None of this makes sense , unless you look at it through a post modernist ,”progressive” lens.
  
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  April 3, 2026 10:43am
- imalwaysright
  
  MBIE are to the economy what the Ministry of Education are to…education.
  
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  April 3, 2026 10:52am
  - Southern Raider
    
    At least with Education we have some metrics to measure them by eg attendance rates, NCEA pass rates etc
    
    Doesn’t seem to be anything used by MBIE at all. Maybe they should be measured on GDP per Capita growth and if they miss targets they cut headcount
    
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    April 3, 2026 2:24pm
- sungsamning
  
  It doesn’t ned to be split up. It needs to be eliminated. along with any racially oriented departments. The Climate change commission, the Department of Women’s Affairs, etc. Tax cuts are not a good idea. Shrinking the size of government is. Its permanent. And harder to reverse.
  
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  April 3, 2026 11:58am
Yvette

Treaty, again
“The Buddha advised: Don’t believe something just because it’s been passed down, written in scripture, agreed upon by others, or spoken by a respected teacher. Instead, trust what you’ve come to know directly, what leads to clarity, peace, and goodness when practiced. Let that be your guide.”

When this is applied to the Treaty of Waitangi, my view is it was an agreement which allowed Maori and the “Crown” to live in the same land, protecting property rights until one wanted to sell to the other, and that all Maori would be British subjects, with the one Monarch. And that is all it was.

For other guidance as to my rights and responsibilities as a New Zealander, I have to seek answers elsewhere as they are not mentioned in the Treaty, which was an agreement between Maori and the Crown, with the implication one necessity of the Treaty being to curb certain undesired pioneer behaviour, and I am more likely relegated to their descendants – an object of the Treaty rather than a subject, and left seeking any grounding in a founding document, like a truffle pig in a library (with a bloody great poem, of complaint at the failure of the Treaty – “trust what you’ve come to know directly” – running up three floors deep on one wall)
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April 3, 2026 9:33am
- MCōs
  
  New Zealanders including Maori and governor’s general who are NZ citizens stopped being automatically British subjects in 1983
  The crown didn’t protect Maori land rights, as we all know; causing endless strife to this day.
  
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  April 3, 2026 10:04am
  - Yvette
    
    New Zealand citizens, including Māori and those holding high office like the Governor-General, officially ceased to be British subjects on January 1, 1983. This change resulted from the UK’s British Nationality Act 1981, which took effect on that date, replacing the “British subject” status with “Commonwealth citizen”
    
    Current Status: While no longer British subjects, New Zealanders remain Commonwealth citizens and maintain rights to vote and hold public office in the UK.
    
    Not many people know that – Michael Caine
    
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    April 3, 2026 10:40am
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Of course, nowadays those holding high office and also being Maori are not unlikely to be one and the same. QV the Governor General and the leaders of 4 of the 6 parties represented in parliament.
      
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      April 3, 2026 12:14pm
  - Jigsaw
    
    Here in Taupo we now have a fast growing number of shanties and shacks on Maori land that borders the town. They build shacks without permits and the land covered with weeds has no sewage or running water and is right on the lake edge. I would dispute your assertion that the crown didn’t protect Maori land rights – this mythology has promoted the current attitude amongst Maori radicals that all their land was stolen – something that I have been told to my face while standing on a public walkway.
    
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    April 3, 2026 11:05am
    - Ghost
      
      where abouts?
      
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      April 3, 2026 11:19am
      - Ghost
        
        Wow, 4 people so precious your cannot even ask where in Taupo this is happening
        
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        April 3, 2026 3:30pm
      - imalwaysright
        
        I’ve seen areas like this between town and Acacia Bay.
        Prime real estate.
        Up to them what they do with it, but it is about 500m wide by about 2km long lakefront .
        
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        April 3, 2026 7:00pm
      - Ghost
        
        When did they start doing this? I’ve been back a few times since leaving Taupo, but not in the last 20 years. Last time I was there it just didn’t feel like home.
        
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        April 3, 2026 7:18pm
      - CJames
        
        The main shanty area is in the block of land between Wharewaka Point and 5 Mile Bay. This includes what used to be a road access to the beach. There is still the walk/ cycleway along the lake edge, but from that to the top of the scarp reverted to Maori ownership. Land was returned to them about 2022 by the Crown. No public notification or anything else. First sign people knew about it was the barricades went up. Lot of shanties there with long drop toilets and like. Must be a real fire risk with all the broom and long grass.
        
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        April 3, 2026 7:27pm
      - Ghost
        
        I wondered if it was around there. I remember back in high school when we’d go around five mile bay for a swim we’d get harassed going there. So they’ve taken it over now.
        
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        April 3, 2026 7:38pm
    - rouppe
      
      I’ve been told (online) my very presence in the country of my birth is evidence I have stolen land.
      
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      April 3, 2026 4:13pm
    - CJames
      
      You can see the shacks on Google Earth.
      Every now and then, a faction of the local tribe try to take over the road reserve between 5 Mile Bay and Waitahanui. They usually last until first spell of bad weather.
      
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      April 3, 2026 7:42pm
  - Quail
    
    Mcos,
    And non Maori land use rights are not exactly protected in recent times !( ie RMA , rampant local body regulation etc )
    Is that OK or can we now expect “endless strife “ in the future?
    
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    April 3, 2026 11:11am
  - Quail
    
    Mcos,
    And in that decade the trade agreements from pre WW 1 right through to the 80 s got thrown out when the “mother “ country Britain joined the EU.
    No longer were the “ commonwealth “ trade agreements worth sustaining. The EU was everything , they even had a “lake of milk”
    NZ was out on its own in a rapacious world.
    It had to grow up ,and it did!
    
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    April 3, 2026 8:18pm
- Paulus
  
  What do you think would happen to Maori if as looking likely, if not a short while away, that the British Monarchy changes so much, that it would have no application to Maori any more ?
  Unless we had a Maori as our new President with suitable total legal changes.
  We could have the Tainui Queen as our new head with Tuku advising her.
  There are many both around the world, and in the UK especially, that are being taken to task to change severely the Monarchy.
  Randy Andy is being used as a media leader in this movement.
  Some, the media particularly, are saying now that it finished with the passing of Queen Elizabeth.
  Socialism and envy will win in the end.
  Did in Russia remember.
  
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  April 3, 2026 2:31pm
  - Quail
    
    Paulus
    One country, one people , one law for all must be the goal all NZ aspires to.
    Otherwise unrest will inevitably ruin this peaceful nation.
    ACT and David Seymour started the discussion as to how this could look.
    But National and NZ First did not trust voters enough to even allow a referendum on those issues!
    Why ?
    
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    April 3, 2026 6:26pm
RoboRob

Re BSA issue.

I see Luxon is now denying he said he had Plunkets back. Sorry but I can’t see why Plunkets would make that up. Could Luxon dig a bigger hole?
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April 3, 2026 9:34am
- MCōs
  
  Should be simple enough for Plunket to come up with the evidence, Luxon obviously can’t
  
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  April 3, 2026 9:54am
  - imalwaysright
    
    MCos,
    It was a private chat in the foyer after the post cabinet presser.
    Plunket called out to the PM, who stopped. Plunket thanked him for his comments on the matter during the presser.
    That’s when Luxon said “I’ve got your back” or similar.
    I believe Plunket. He’s not a storyteller.
    
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    April 3, 2026 10:22am
    - Inandout
      
      ima, Parliament is brimming with CCTV but I suspect they don’t keep pedestrian footage like this for months.
      
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      April 3, 2026 12:13pm
    - MCōs
      
      So he might’ve said something similar
      Tell that to the judge
      
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      April 3, 2026 2:25pm
- Ghost
  
  what do you want Luxon to say if he never said what Plunket claims he did? where is the evidence to back up Plunket claims he did. Plunket isn’t exactly a journalist that Luxon interacts with very often
  
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  April 3, 2026 10:22am
  - RoboRob
    
    8mths ago when this hit the fan Plunkets was angry. The PM held a press conference where he said something along the lines of ‘this sounds like an overreach’. After the conference Plunket calmed down. Plunket claims he spoke to the PM as he left and the PM said don’t worry, I’ve got your back. Now we only have Plunkets word for that part of the story. But do you think the PMs ‘sounds like overreach’ would have calmed Plunket as much ? Plunkets story sounds believable and we can verify some of it with events surrounding it.
    
    If the PM really thinks that Plunket is a liar he could have come out much stronger, he didn’t. He used the ‘i don’t recall, I have lots of conversations but it doesn’t sound like something I would say ‘. Does that sound like someone angry about a lie or does it sound like BS political speech with a ton of wriggle room?
    
    Really, all I am saying is the PM should have shut up either way. There was nothing to be gained by calling Plunket a liar. Thus my comment about digging a hole.
    
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    April 3, 2026 10:45am
    - Ghost
      
      right, if he came out stronger, you’d be complaining about that. its a no win situation, if he shut up you’d still be here having your little whinge that he didn’t comment. Plunket is an internet journalist who only survives if he can create controversy to pull in listeners.
      
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      April 3, 2026 10:48am
      - Ghost
        
        here is the kiwiblog post, luxon had sympathy for him
        
        https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2025/10/goldsmith_vs_luxon.html
        
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        April 3, 2026 10:57am
      - RoboRob
        
        Nope. If he shut his trap I would have been happy. That would have been smart politics. No whinge required.
        
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        April 3, 2026 11:16am
      - RoboRob
        
        @ghost
        
        Plunket claims it was a private conversation.
        
        Also note the date on the link. So much time has passed and zero action.
        
        Oh and if Luxon had sympathy for him you might think he would have done something.
        
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        April 3, 2026 11:18am
      - Ghost
        
        I wouldn’t put any faith in Plunket being honest. You can, but he has history. heck, there are still some gullible people that push out his lie that Ngāi Tahu help fund stuff.
        
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        April 3, 2026 11:26am
      - Jack5
        
        Publicity helps keep the Plunket “webcast” viable, and good luck to it and to webcaster Plunket.
        
        But endless nitpicking of Luxon is tiresome. MMP’s given us coalition governments (with rare exceptions). The nitpicking is pointless as well as useless.
        
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        April 3, 2026 11:39am
    - keepcalmcarryon
      
      Sounds like he’s the CEO or something.
      
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      April 3, 2026 11:19am
    - Paulus
      
      Can’t wit to find out whom will,lead our new Government after November – will not be a National person if they have any MPs left.
      
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      April 3, 2026 2:33pm
Ghost

“I’ve been briefed by just about every alphabet agency there is, and I’ll just tell you this, if they would release the things that I’ve seen, you would stay up at — you’d be up at night worrying about or — thinking about this stuff,” Burchett told Newsmax host Rob Finnerty on his show.

“We just need to disclose it all. I’m sick of it, you’re — ah, well, — I was briefed, I will just tell you this, I was briefed last week on an issue — or excuse me, two weeks ago — and it would’ve set the earth on — this country would’ve come unglued, I think, if they would’ve heard all that I’d heard.”

Article

‘I’m not suicidal’: Burchett can’t find words to describe alien revelations, discusses UFO files

Finnerty is right, Trump wants to be the president known for releasing this
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April 3, 2026 10:15am
All Bound For Mumu Land

The metric of “Preferred PM” attempts to compare someone doing one job to someone doing a quite different one – i.e. the actual PM versus leader of the opposition versus something else again. It’s really a popularity metric lacking practical objectivity.

“Job approval”, on the other hand, makes sense for all roles.
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April 3, 2026 11:38am
Swifty

Waatea staff and supporters desperately campaigning for continued taxpayer funding of their politically-partisan pro-Willie Jackson, pro-Labour, pro-MUMA propaganda unit:

https://www.facebook.com/share/1AYEiigV1B

All under the guise of saving Te Reo of course.

Oh and connecting isolated rural communities – from the heart of densely populated South Auckland!
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April 3, 2026 12:03pm
Scott

Well, I will say it. Happy Easter everyone ✝️

I hope you have a good Good Friday.
There is one MP who has met this week with some Anglican ministers and reflecting quite well about Easter being upon us.
Who is that MP you might ask?

Well it is none other than Julie Ann Genter. Well knock me down with a feather!

I think that’s very nice and good on her. I’d like to hear more on Easter from our National MPs and also King Charles.

But hey you can’t have everything. 😎
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April 3, 2026 12:04pm
Scott

I stand corrected. Simeon Brown just posted John 3:16 ✝️
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April 3, 2026 12:07pm
Yvette

Ngarewa-Packer said whānau in the region should begin their rationing fuel on their own.
“We should be applying our own manāki, our own rangatiratanga and mana motuhake in how we do this.
“I’m seeing it already, our kura and our sports are using vans to pick up everyone. I’m seeing some of our local iwi are now set up ability to work in different pods and offices within their own communities so they don’t need to travel. I’m seeing thinking and planning being done to be able to identify vulnerable people, including our kaumātua, to be able to get their groceries and things.
“That’s really easing in and understanding it and starting that community thinking. When you live collectively and you think collectively, you plan differently. I don’t think the government is doing that.”
… “What’s really concerning is that this is a government that hasn’t had a great relationship with Māori, with our communities, and has created some real harm.
“What it would look like is an inclusive response and that’s what we’re really pushing for and just get over each other’s politics and actually think about our communities that are going to be hurt the most.”
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/591399/debbie-ngarewa-packer-says-the-fuel-crisis-is-causing-anxiety-among-maori-communities

This is a vast improvement on the sense of ‘tikanga’ as displayed by Ngarewa-Packer’s boss – John Tamihere.
But do not let that detract from Ngarewa-Packer’s attitude here.
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April 3, 2026 12:11pm
- PurplePen
  
  Oddly enough all the things Packer advises are uniquely human, not uniquely maori.
  
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  April 3, 2026 1:47pm
- trout
  
  I wonder if Ngarewa-Packer will cut back on her own excessive travel taken at taxpayer expense? No, I didn’t think so.
  
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  April 3, 2026 6:13pm
- rouppe
  
  How can they possibly do that when they’re so oppressed? When all their agency has been taken away? When they have no self determination?
  
  Yes, sarc…
  
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  April 3, 2026 6:45pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360959450/mayor-be-mentored-after-councillors-dig-heels
Pity, he sounds like a sensible chap.
And no doubt he was voted-in as mayor because he held strong views on maorification.
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April 3, 2026 12:16pm
- MCōs
  
  He didn’t mention the subject in this short campaign blurb before the election stating why he should be mayor
  https://youtu.be/ZrvF5O77kFU?feature=shared
  Taken from an introduction to candidates by the Napier City Council
  
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  April 3, 2026 2:44pm
  - greybeard
    
    Do you think it possible that he may have said a lot more NOT on “youtube” before the election ? On radio, in pamphlets, at live meetings, etc etc ?
    Believe it or not, the world does not revolve around “youtube”.
    
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    April 3, 2026 6:42pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

Pete Hegseth has fired another US military leader, this time Army Chief of Staff Randy George.

Since becoming Secretary for War, Hegseth has fired more than a dozen senior military officers, including the Chief of Naval Operations and the Air Force’s Vice Chief of Staff.

This is banana republic stuff, and smacks of a politician appointing people with the right political outlook rather than focusing on competence.

http://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8d63v058zo
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April 3, 2026 1:04pm
- Gary Benner
  
  I suspect it is called “draining the swamp“.
  
  And who said Randy George was “competent”?
  
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  April 3, 2026 5:08pm
  - MCōs
    
    Hegseth sounds like that Iranian news military newsreader
    
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    April 3, 2026 9:25pm
- OlderChas
  
  Hegseth is showing all the signs of PWP. (Pi”” With Power)
  
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  April 4, 2026 9:49am
Damocles11

‘Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi has said that Washington’s recent strikes on civilian infrastructure will not force Tehran to back down, adding that such actions “convey the defeat and moral collapse of an enemy in disarray”.
“Striking civilian structures, including unfinished bridges, will not compel Iranians to surrender,” Araghchi said in a post on X. “It only conveys the defeat and moral collapse of an enemy in disarray. Every bridge and building will be built back stronger. What will never recover: damage to America’s standing.”’
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April 3, 2026 2:08pm
Ghost

I doubt many kids will want to read it.

Jacinda Ardern “couldn’t be more excited” to release a version of her recent memoir adapted for a younger audience.

Set to hit local and international shelves on June 4, What If You Could has been adapted for children from her 2025 book A Different Kind of Power.

Article

Hmmm

What if you could, financially ruin a country for decades

What if you could destroy the health system

What if you could make child poverty worse

What if you could put out to the world an image of who you are that is a complete lie

What if you could make a country hate you so much you have to live overseas
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April 3, 2026 4:53pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  What if you could force children to be “vaccinated” for a disease, where medical opinion was that the risk to children was higher from the vaccine than the disease?
  
  I bet that’s not in Jacinda’s book for children.
  
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  April 3, 2026 6:45pm
Ghost

Didn’t think Alex Jones would turn on trump yet

https://youtube.com/shorts/pwsaNvSiBD0?si=Ix4I1_X8U0kNYDQG
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April 3, 2026 5:53pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360960269/watch-australian-tv-reporter-injured-massive-crab-live-air
Australians: what can you say?
Always giving someone the finger, or the crabs.
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